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Home  >  Symposium on the Global University
19
May

Symposium on the Global University

LIB 011 and Lecture Hall B, Main Building
May 19, 2013 - May 20, 2013
00:00 - 00:00
Free

The two-day Symposium on the Global University at AUS aims to bring in scholars from both the region and the wider-world to discuss the changing nature of the university, and the emergence of the global university. The conference will feature keynote papers from established scholars in the field, and papers from young scholars, and aims to serve as the beginning of a multi-year research project on the origin and future of the Global University and its role in the Gulf. 

For more information please contact [email protected] or [email protected].Schedule

All sessions will be held in LIB 011, except the Plenary Sessions, which will be held in Lecture Hall B.

Day One: Sunday, May 19

9:00 - 10:30 Conference Opening and Session 1:

Opening Panel Discussion: Perspective on Universities in the Gulf

Dr. Thomas Hochstettler, Acting Chancellor, AUS

Dr. Ivan Szelenyi, Provost, NYUAD

Dr. Mark Rush, Dean of Arts and Sciences, AUS (Chair)

10:45 - 12:15 Session 2

Keynote: The Emergence of a Global University System and the GCC (John Willoughby, Professor, American University)

13:45 - 15:15 Session 3

The Challenges Posed by Language and Culture

Transplanting "Western" University Education: Long-Term Risks on the Cultural and Language Landscapes of the Arabian Gulf (Fatima Badry, Professor, AUS)

Science at Universities of the Muslim World: A Preliminary Review (Nidhal Guessoum, Professor, AUS)

15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: New Directions

The Global World of Management, and Learning Technology in Management Education in the Gulf (Lindsay Kemp, Assistant Professor, AUS)

Global Thinking in the Global University (Anatoliy Kharkhurin, Associate Professor, AUS)

 

Day Two: Monday, May 20

9:00 - 10:30 Session 5: Financialization, Innovation and the Global University

The Triple Helix Model and Pathologies of Higher Education (Kevin Gray, Assistant Professor, AUS)

The Future of the Humanities in Today's Financial Markets (David Lea, Assistant Professor, AUS)

"Globalization's Redefinition of the University: Academic Freedom and Academic Governance" (Mark Rush, AUS)

10:45 - 12:15 Session 6

Keynote: Title TBA (Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, GUST)

13:45 - 15:15 Session 7: New Models of Universities in the Arabian Gulf

A Liberal Arts Experiment "Noble in Purpose": The American University of Kuwait (Chris Ohan, Associate Professor, American University of Kuwait)

The Global University: Establishing US Campuses and Programs in the Gulf (John Battenburg, AUS)

15:30 - 17:00 Session 8: Postcolonial Problems: Towards a History of the Global University

The Case for Recovering the Colonial University (Stephen Keck, Associate Professor, AUS)

Rethinking the Colonial University (Ravindran, Sriramachandran, Assistant Professor, AUS)

Designing a Liberal Core for Postcolonial Pakistan (Nauman Naqvi, Provost, Habibi University)

17:15-18:00 Roundtable (Chair, Fatima Badry, AUS)

 

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