Ideas and Universities Conference 2010

5-6 February 2010, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Global University: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives is a two-day conference to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 5 and 6, 2010. Following up on earlier meetings in China and the United Kingdom, this will be the third international conference of the "Ideas and Universities" project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).

The "Ideas and Universities" project brings together leading higher-education scholars from China, Australia, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to discuss (a) the roles that universities have played—and continue to play—in the global knowledge economy, and (b) the evolving identity of university teacher-researchers and their changing roles in institutions of higher learning.

Speakers

• Ka Ho Mok, Associate Vice President (External Relations), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Hong Kong Institute of Education, CHINA
• Chen Hongjie, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Peking University, CHINA
• Xu Xiaozhou, Dean and Professor, School of Education, Zhejiang University, CHINA
• Tony Welch, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• Peter Maassen, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, NORWAY
• Ivar Bleiklie, Chair, Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, NORWAY
• Glen Jones, Ontario Research Chair, Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement, University of Toronto, CANADA
• Ian Wei, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Bristol, UK, and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
• Rosemary Deem, Dean of History and Social Sciences, Royal-Holloway-London, UK
• John Taylor, Director, Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy, University of Southampton, UK
• Fazal Rizvi, Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Adam R. Nelson, Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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Sponsors

• The Worldwide Universities Network;
• The University of Bristol;
• The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and Department of Educational Policy Studies.