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Summer 2021
Convenors
Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)
Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, UK)
Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Timing
Wednesdays, fortnightly, 2.00-3.30 pm (BST/UTC+1), online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom
Contact email
historyofuniversities@gmail.com
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2 June
The university: a material history
William Whyte (St John’s College Oxford) | Abstract
Chaired by Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)
With a welcome address by Steve Rothberg (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Loughborough University)
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16 June
Universities and slavery: a roundtable discussion
Moderated by Miles Taylor (University of York) | Abstracts
Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Report: on paper and in practice
Françoise Hamlin (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Slavery and the foundation of the University of Bristol
Richard Stone (University of Bristol)
Slavery and the University of Glasgow: assessing financial legacies in an Atlantic frame
Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow)
Comment
Sabine Cadeau (Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge)
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30 June
Muslim universities as agents of national integration in post-partition India
Laurence Gautier (O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi) | Abstract
Chaired by Kevin Chang (Academia Sinica Taiwan)
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14 July
Universities in years of pandemic: 1665, 1918, 2020: a roundtable discussion
Moderated by Miles Taylor (University of York) | Abstracts
Plague and the University of Cambridge
Evelyn Lord (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
How US HEIs responded to the influenza pandemic of 1918
James W. Thomas & Holly Ann Foster (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg)
The place of the university
Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores University)