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.

This conference is free and open to the public. But space is limited and pre-registration is required. If you have questions about the conference, please contact Professor Adam R Nelson.

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, United Kingdom, and Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, United States

Rosemary Deem, Dean of History and Social Sciences, Royal-Holloway-London, United Kingdom

John Taylor, Director, Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Fazal Rizvi, Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States

Gilles Bousquet, Dean, Division of International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

Adam R. Nelson, Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

More complete biographies of the speakers are available here.

Links of Interest

WUN Ideas and Universities Initiative
Includes links to the project's annual Spring Videoseminar Series.

Conference @ Zhejiang University (April 3-4, 2007)
Conference & Workshop, London (November 14-15, 2007)

Travel Information (from the Fluno Center @ UW-Madison; conference venue)
Information on local hotels (pdf format)

Global Studies in Higher Education @ University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sponsors

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