The Past and Futures of the University

Harvard FAS

This seminar is aimed at exploring the changing structure, aims, and impact of the university, from its medieval origins through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, into our contested present and possible futures. Each week we will explore a different facet of the university in its many forms, from the British, French and Italian monastic and seminary universities founded in the 11th through the 13th centuries (including Oxbridge, Bologna, Paris) through colonial new…