Simposi sulla storia delle università

Cinque incontri sulla storia delle università: sono quelli organizzati dalla prof.ssa Giuliana Gemelli del dipertimento di discipline storiche, ogni lunedi dalle ore 14 alle ore 16 nell'aula del priore di San Giovanni in Monte (Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2) Bologna. Ecco il programma. 10 February: The Rise of the University in Modern Europe 17 February: The English University Idea: Centre and Periphery 24 February: The Ideals of 'Liberal Education' in America 03 March: Universities and Modernization in France and Germany 10 March: The Rise of the American Research University 10 February 2003: The University in Early Modern Europe What factors affected the development of universities in early modern society, especially in relation to humanism, courtly society and the 'scientific revolution'?   How do you explain their impact? Essential Reading: Lisa Jardine and Anthony T. Grafton, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986; London: Duckworth, 1987), Chapter 1. John Gascoigne, 'A Reappraisal of the Role of the Universities in the Scientific Revolution', in D. Lindberg and R. Westman (eds), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution  (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1990) 207-60. Benjamin G. Kohl, 'Humanism and Education', in Albert Rabil (ed.), Renaissance Humanism, Foundations, Forms and Legacy (3 vols, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pr., 1988) III ch.27, 5-22,   Recommended Reading: J. M. Fletcher, 'Change and Resistance to Change: A Consideration of the Development of English and German Universities in 16th Century', History of Universities , 1 (1981),1-36.  Anthony Grafton, Defenders of the Text: the Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991). Peter Sharrat, 'Peter Ramus and the Reform of the University: The Divorce of Philosophy and Eloquence?', in P. Sharrat (ed.), French Renaissance Studies, 1540-1570 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1976), 4-20. William T. Costello, The Scholastic Curriculum at early Seventeenth Century Cambridge (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958). Bruce A. Kimball, Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (New York, 1986). Mordechai Feingold, The Mathematicians' Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Karin Maag, Seminar or University? The Genevan Academia and Reformed Higher Education 1560-1620 (Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press 1995) John Gascoigne, 'The Universities and the Scientific Revolution: The Case of Newton and Restoration Cambridge,' History of Science, 23 (1985), 391-434.  D.R. Leader, 'Professorships and Academic Reform at Cambridge, 1488-1520', Sixteenth Century Journal, XIV (2), (1983), 215-227.  J. Looney, 'Undergraduate Education at early Stuart Cambridge', History of Education, X (1), (March 1981), 9-19.                      Hilde Ridder-Symeons (ed.), A History of the University in Europe II : Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500- 1800), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992). John F.D'Amico, Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), ch.4. E. Eisenstein,The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). A. Goodman and A.MacKay (eds), The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe (London: Longman, 1990).  17 February: The English Universities: Centre and Periphery Essential Reading: William J. Bouwsma, 'Models of the Educated Man', The American Scholar, 44 (Spring, 1975), 204-212. Andrew Ahlgren and Carol M. Boyer, 'Visceral Priorities, Roots of Confusion in Liberal Education', Journal of Higher Education, 52 (1981), 173-80.  Sheldon Rothblatt, 'The Student Sub-culture and the Examination System in early 19th Century Oxbridge,' in Lawrence Stone (ed.), The University in Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), vol. 1, 247-304. Arthur J. Engel, 'The Emerging Concept of the Academic Profession at Oxford, 1800-1854,' in Lawrence Stone (ed.), The University in Society  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), vol I, 305-351.  Recommended Reading: V.H.H. Green, The Universities (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969).  John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Arthur J. Engel, From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth Century Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983). John William Adamson, English Education, 1789-1902 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930). Martha McMackin Garland, Cambridge Before Darwin: The Ideal of a Liberal  Education,1800-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). V.H.H. Green, A History of Oxford  University (London: Batsford, 1974). Anderson, C. Arnold and Miriam Schnaper, School and Society in England: Social Backgrounds of Oxford and Cambridge Students (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1952). John Gascoigne, 'Church and State Allied: The Failure of Parliamentary Reform of the English Universities,' in L. Beier, D. Cannadine and J. Rosenheim (eds), The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 401-429. Robert G. McPherson, Theory of Higher Education in Nineteenth-Century England, (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1959). Sheldon Rothblatt, The Revolution of the Dons: Cambridge and Society in Victorian England (London: Faber, 1968; Cambridge, 1981). Christopher Brooke and Roger Highfield, Oxford and Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). E.G.W. Bill, University Reform in Nineteenth-Century Oxford: A Study of Henry Halford Vaughan, 1811-1885 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973). Rita McWilliams-Tullberg, 'Women and Degrees at Cambridge University, 1862-1897,' in Martha Vicinus (ed.), A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977), 117-l45. D.A Winstanley, Later Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947). Keith Thomas, 'College Life, 1945-1970,' in Brian Harrison (ed.), The History of the University of Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), vol. VIII, 189-216.              24 February 2003: Liberal Education in America To what extent did the qualities of 'English liberal education' serve America best? What were the defining characteristics of American liberal education? Have they been relevant to changing American society? Essential Reading: James McLachlan, 'The Choice of Hercules: American Student Societies in the Early Nineteenth Century', in Lawrence Stone (ed.), The University in Society  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, vol. 2, 449-94.          Ernest L. Boyer, College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), Chapter 1.    William S. Knickerbocker, 'Victorian Education and the Idea of Culture,' in Joseph E. Baker (ed.), The Reinterpretation of Victorian Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950), 97-129. Recommended Reading George Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). George Marsden, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Daniel Bell, The Reforming of General Education: The Columbia College Experience in its National Setting (New York, Columbia University Press, 1966). Joseph J. Schwab, Science, Curriculum and Liberal Education: Selected Essays, ed. Ian Westbury and Neil J. Wikof (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978). Helen Letkowitz Horowitz, Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's (New York: Knopf, 1984). Laurence Veysey, 'The Plural Organised Worlds of the Humanities', in The Organisation of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979). 51-106.  03 March 2003: Universities and Modernisation in France and Germany What role—rhetorical or otherwise—did European universities play in the modernisation of Europe? How did European universities differ from their British counterparts? How did each meet the new demands of research in the humanities and the sciences? Essential Reading R. Steven Turner, 'The Growth of Professorial Research in Prussia, 1818-1848: Causes and Context', Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 3 (1971), 137-182.             Sven-Eric Liedman, 'In Search of Isis: General Education in Germany and Sweden', in Sheldon Rothblatt and Björn Wittrock (eds), The European and American University since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 74-108. Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini, 'Classical Values and Useful Knowledge: The Problem of Access to Technical Careers in Modern Europe', Daedalus, 116 (Fall, 1987), 160-171.    Recommended Reading Abraham Flexner, Universities: American-English-German (New York: Oxford University Press, 1930). Geroge Weisz, The Emergence of Modern Universities in France, 1863-1914 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.) Fritz Ringer, The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1969). Charles E. McClelland, State, Society and University in Germany, 1700-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). Mitchell G. Ash, German Universities, Past and Future, Crisis or Renewal? (Providence: Berghahn, 1997).   Charles E. McClelland, The German Experience of Professionalisation: Modern Learned Professions and their Organisations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Michael Argyles, From South Kensington to Robbins (London: Longmans, 1964).    Konrad H. Jarausch, The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860-1930 (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983). 10 March 2003: The Rise of the American Research University What are the defining features of the 'research university'? What factors led to its establishment in the United States? To what extent does its survival depend upon the continued existence of a military-government-industrial complex? To what extent can its models be usefully followed outside the United States? Essential Reading: Stuart W. Leslie, 'Playing the Education Game to Win: The Military and Interdisciplinary Research at Stanford', Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 18 (1), (1987), 55-58.           Daniel Kevles, 'Immobile Democracy: Foundations, Universities and Trends in Support for the Physical and Bilogical Sciences, 1900-1992', Daedalus, 121 (4), (Fall, 1992), 195-235.              Roger Geiger, 'Research, Graduate Education, and the Ecology of American Universities: An Interpretive History', in Sheldon Rothblatt and Björn Wittrock (eds), The European and American University since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 234-262.        Recommended Reading: Stuart W. Leslie, The Cold War and American Science : The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford (New York : Columbia University Press, 1993). Stuart W. Leslie, 'Profit and Loss: The Military and MIT in the Postwar Era', Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 21 (1990), 59-85.                Christopher Simpson, Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War (New York: Norton, 1998).           André Schiffran et al The Cold War and the Universiity (New York: New Press, 1997).           Burton J. Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1976).           Roger Geiger, To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Roger, Geiger, Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).                      *         *         *         *         *         *         *         For further and current reading on European university history: you may wish to follow the Website called STUDIUM, which is the Nieuwsbrief Universiteitsgeschiedenis (Lettre d'information sur l'histoire des universités), edited by the 'Werkgroep Universiteitsgeschiedenis', otherwise known as the'Studium generale (Contactgroep Universiteitsgeschiedenis/ Groupe de contact pour l'histoire des universités') which has been underway in Brussels since 1996. Their Newsletter can be found at: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/archief/studgen/nbr/jaren.htm