The metamorphosis of university governance at the beginning of the 21st century

The CEU Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education cordially invites you to the

Conference

“The metamorphosis of university governance at the beginning of the 21st century”

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 9:30am to Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 4:00pm

CEU, Popper room

and

book launch

Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper:  “The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age”

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 4:30pm

Conference:

The conference is the fourth of a series of yearly events on higher education dedicated to the memory of Yehuda Elkana, CEU’s former Rector and President. The series included a workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism, September 2013), a workshop organized by the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover (What is Intellectual Quality in the Humanities? September 2014), and a third event in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in September 2015 (Curricula and Humanistic Scholarship: Between Tacit Knowledge and Public Discourse).

The theme of the conference draws from Elkana’s last book (to be published posthumous by CEU Press in August 2016 – and to be launched on the first day of the conference), entitled “The University in the Twenty-first Century. Teaching the New Enlightenment in the Digital Age,” and co-authored with Hannes Klopper. Invited scholars will focus their presentations and initiate discussions on contemporary changes and challenges in university governance, covering a wide range of related topics such as governing innovation in natural and social sciences and humanities, managing inter-disciplinarity and diversity, new models of curriculum.

Presenters will represent a large variety of higher education systems (Europe, US, India), and different disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.