This programme was co-sponsored by the the Worldwide Universities Network and the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
| Monday 22 January 2007 | 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 |
| Monday 5 February 2007 | Ian Wei (University of Bristol) The University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century and the Institutionalization of Scholarly Ideas |
| Friday 16 March 2007 | 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 (PDF, 1,467kB) |
| Monday 30 April 2007 | Professor Wang (Zhejiang University) China's Higher Education in Transition: Analysis of Recent Dramatic Enrolment Expansion Download abstract (PDF, 45kB) |
| Monday 14 May 2007 | Dr Roberta Basset (University of Southampton) International organizations: An examination of their historical and current influence on global higher education policy Download abstract (PDF, 8kB) |
| Friday 25 May 2007 | Professor Michael Peters (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Reimagining the University in the Global Era |
| Friday 8 June 2007 | Dr Stuart Jones (University of Manchester) The Vocation of the Academic: Some Nineteenth-Century Perspectives |
