Topic: What is or should be the relationship between a democratic polity and its educational institutions and places of higher learning? Contemporary discussions of curricula place great stress on utility, on the value of learning skills as they apply not just to the employability of students, but to the economic and political well-being of a state or nation. Learn more

The roundtable brings together experts in higher education researching US-American, British, and Swiss ways and goals of broadening the range of institutions of higher education in recent years. They will discuss different forms of government involvement, sponsorship, and the value of developing non-traditional and applied course and degree offerings in higher education. Learn more and welcome the speakers

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Among the speakers are:

John Brewer, Eli and Edith Broad Professor of the Humanities emeritus, California Institute of Technology, and Associate at Harvard University, Department of History

Cristiano Casalini, Associate Professor and Endowed Chair in Jesuit Pedagogy and Educational History and a Research Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College

Anja-Silvia Goeing, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University/Professor at University of Zurich, Early Modern History and History of Education

Philipp Gonon, Professor of Vocational Education, Head of Department, Institute of Education, University of Zurich

Myles Jackson, Professor of History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ

Lynda Pickbourn, Assistant Professor of Economics and Chair, Five College African Studies Council, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College

Travis E. Ross, PhD; Yale University, Department of History