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Public Lecture: What's happening to universities? Historical and comparative perspectives
Date/Time: Thursday, 25 September 2014, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Reading Room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace Campus
Cost: Free event
The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice presents Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, Cambridge University.
Professor Collini is one of the most distinguished voices in public debates about the nature and place of universities in modern society.
The lecture will be chaired by Professor Emeritus Wilfred Prest.
In recent years, universities across the world have been experiencing dramatic changes in their forms of funding, assessment, and governance, leaving many (both inside and outside these institutions) alarmed and disoriented. In this lecture, Professor Stefan Collini attempts to place these changes in a comparative and historical perspective, examining some of the forms taken by the complex dialectical relation between universities and their host societies over the past 100 years or more. He then goes on to consider the assumptions underlying current policy and to ask what kinds of university we can expect to see develop in the 21st century.
Contact: Dr Dominique Wilson, Email: dominique.wilson@adelaide.edu.au, J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Business: +618 83138132
