The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions presents:
“Education for What? The History of Education and the Rise of the (American) Research University.”
Day one of a two day conference.
Join us for two days of panel discussions on the history, philosophy, sociology, and politics of education, focusing especially on the origins, rise and influence of the American research university at the end of the nineteenth century. A full conference schedule and pre-circulated papers are available here.
Participants include: Ariel Tang (Yale), Jeffrey Guhin (UCLA), Samuel Rocha (British Columbia), Milton Gaither (Messiah College), Stephanie Almeida Nevin (Yale), George Levesque (Yale), Adam Nelson (Wisconsin-Madison), Stuart Leslie (Johns Hopkins), Emily Levine (North Carolina-Greensboro), Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Yale), Travis Ross (Yale), Kristine Haugen (Caltech), Emily Rutherford (Columbia), John Langbein (Yale), Jamila Elnashef (Yale)Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale), Micha Perry (Yale), Kelsey Kaufmann, Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern), and Leonard Cassuto (Fordham).
Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, will deliver a keynote address “Education in Another Century: A Memoir with Morals” on Thursday, February 21 at 5pm in Slifka Chapel (80 Wall Street, New Haven, CT).
Day 1 – Thursday, February 21
8:30-9:00am Breakfast, Provost’s House, 35 Hillhouse Avenue
9:00-9:15am Introduction: Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Yale)
9:15-10:30am Panel 1: What is learning? What is education?
Chair: Yingqi (Ariel) Tang (Yale)
Jeffrey Guhin (UCLA)
Samuel Rocha (British Columbia)
Milton Gaither (Messiah College)
Stephanie Almeida Nevin (Yale)
10:30-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-12:00pm Panel II: The Origins of the American Research University
Chair: George Levesque (Yale)
Adam Nelson (Wisconsin-Madison)
Stuart Leslie (Johns Hopkins)
Emily Levine (North Carolina-Greensboro)
Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Yale)
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Panel III: The History of Graduate School, the Divisions of Knowledge, and the Spread of the Research Paradigm
Chair: Travis Ross (Yale)
Kristine Haugen (Caltech)
Emily Rutherford (Columbia)
John Langbein (Yale)
Jamila Elnashef (Yale)
3:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:00pm Reception, Slifka Chapel, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, 80 Wall Street
5:00pm Keynote: Anthony T. Grafton (Princeton): “Education in Another Century: A Memoir with Morals”
For additional information, please contact our postdoctoral associate, Mordechai Levy-Eichel (mordechai.levy-eichel@yale.edu).