Summer 2021 | Academic year 2021-22 | Academic year 2023-24
Academic year 2022-23
Convenors
Miles Taylor (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Timing
Wednesdays, about monthly, mostly 2.00-3.30 pm (UK time: GMT/UTC+0 or BST/UTC+1), online via Zoom
Contact email
historyofuniversities@gmail.com
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5 October 2022
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
Modern Historiography in the Making: Teaching and Research at German Universities, 1700-1900
Kaspar Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University) | Abstract
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2 November 2022
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
Eureka! Gold Rushes, Universities, and Globalisation in the British World, 1840-1910
Caitlin Harvey (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) | Abstract
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7 December 2022
2 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
An Era of Austerity? Universities and the Irish State, 1932-1945
John Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) | Abstract
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8 February 2023
3 pm (GMT/UTC+0)
Dealing with Medical Uncertainty in the European Research University around 1900
Pieter Dhondt (University of Eastern Finland) | Abstract
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18 April 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
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3 May 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
Lecture Hall Life: The Practice of the Lecture in 18th Century German Universities
Marian Füssel (University of Göttingen) | Abstract
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17 May 2023
2 pm (BST/UTC+1)
University as a Space to Experiment with Ideologies: Kenkoku University in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, 1938-1945
Yuka Kishida (Bridgewater College) | Abstract
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7 June 2023
10 am (BST/UTC+1)
Should We or Should We Not Speak of Medieval “Intellectuals”?
Frank Rexroth (University of Göttingen) | Abstract
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5 July 2023
11 am (BST/UTC+1)