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Seminar archive

2007 Programme

‘The Purpose of Universities: Ideals and Realities’

The project is co-sponsored by the Worldwide Universities Network and by Bristol’s Institute for Advanced Studies.

The seminars take will begin at: 2.00 pm (UK), 9:00 pm (China) and 8:00 am (US).

2007 Programme Series Podcasts



Monday 22 January	Professor Rosemary Deem and Professor KaHo Mok, University of Bristol

	Transforming higher education in whose image? Exploring the concept of the “world-class” university in Europe and Asia View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player



Monday 5 February	Ian Wei, University of Bristol

	The University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century and the Institutionalization of Scholarly Ideals View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player



Friday 16 March	Dr Adam Nelson, University of Wisconsin - Madison

	'Nationalist Science and International Academic Travel in the Early Nineteenth Century: Geological Surveys and Global Economics, 1800-1840' download paper (1.4mb pdf) download presentation (1.8mb pdf) View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player



Monday 30 April	Professor Wang, Zhejiang University

	China's Higher Education in Transition: Analysis of Recent Dramatic Enrolment Expansion download abstract download presentation (261 kb pdf) View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player



Monday 14 May	Dr Roberta Bassett, University of Southampton

	International organizations: An examination of their historical and current influence on global higher education policy download abstract download presentation (399 kb pdf) View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player Please note that this presentation has no video - it is audio and slides only.



Friday 25 May	Professor Michael Peters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

	Reimagining the University in the Global Era download presentation (399 kb pdf) Reimagining the University in the Global Era View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player



Friday 8 June	Dr Stuart Jones, University of Manchester

	The Vocation of the Academic: Some Nineteenth-Century Perspectives download abstract View archived seminar in Quicktime View archived seminar in Windows Media Player Player

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