Competing for academic jobs: how staff-student dynamics changed with the emergence of European universities in the thirteenth century
- 2 Mar 2012
- 16:00 – 17:30 U.K. - England - London
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- Virtual | Room LGF1, Senate House, University of Bristol
- Speaker details
- Mr. Ian P. Wei, University of Bristol
- Event contact
- Edwina Thorn/Conny Lippert (ias-wun-intern@bristol.ac.uk) University of Bristol
- Lead technician
- Kevin Thomas (video-conferencing@bristol.ac.uk) University of Bristol
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Ian Wei will begin by exploring the twelfth-century schools of northern France, showing how students made their academic careers by attacking their teachers. When universities emerged in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, however, the staff-student dynamic changed: students competed with each other to be given academic jobs by their teachers. In the new universities academics also took on leadership and administration roles, and the forerunners of university administrators began to appear. It is hoped that this case-study will stimulate discussion about different forms of competition for academic jobs in a range of periods and cultures, and about how competition for jobs can shape staff-student dynamics. We might also reflect more generally on the role of competition within and between universities.