Show threadbsmall2Feb 26

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> ... that we think like historians, that we remember the past: The tie between university and science was a temporary dalliance, a characteristic of just one short epoch in the long history of a venerable institution. I propose that we celebrate our ability to outgrow the crippling trap of scientific productivity, which now threatens to reduce the pursuit of higher learning to some form of communication.

#UniversityAndScience #UniversityHistory

Leif HammerDec 6

Read my review of Johan Östling's recent book on university history. It's a shame his book's only available in Swedish, but I've tried to give a summary on this excellent intro to university history

https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf210

#university #universityhistory #history #historians #histodons

Show threadWerkstattGeschichteSep 28

NEU: #WerkstattGeschichte 92 »prekäres wissenschaften«!
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Prekäre akademische Besoldungsverhältnisse der #Frühneuzeit behandelt Christina Stehling am Beispiel eines Medizinprofessors, der viele Jahre ohne Bezahlung an der #UniMarburg lehrte; sie verrät auch, wie der ehem. Barbier doch noch eine bezahlte akademische Karriere erreichte:
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-92-christina-stehling

@histodons

#Histodons #Unigeschichte #FNZ #Marburg #Prekarität #Professur #EarlyModern #HigherEd #UniversityHistory

WerkstattGeschichteJul 14, 2025

Mit einem Artikel in der katholischen Kölnischen Volkszeitung beginnt heute vor 95 Jahren die antisemitische Hetzkampagne gegen die Berufung des Staatsrechtlers #HansKelsen an die @UniKoeln. Zum Kontext:

▶ Nicola Wenge, »Arm in Arm mit Hitler«? #Katholizismus und #Antisemitismus in der sozialen Praxis #Köln​s der #1920er Jahre, #WerkstattGeschichte 38/2004, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-38-nicola-wenge/

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #Unigeschichte #Cologne #UniversityHistory #Antisemitism

Nr. 38 | Nicola Wenge - WerkstattGeschichte

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N-gated Hacker NewsJul 10, 2025
🎓🚀 Oh, Clara Collier, enlighten us mere mortals with your groundbreaking revelation that universities once weren't research hubs! Who would have thought that the 19th century Germans had a hand in turning medieval Hogwarts into actual laboratories of learning? 🙄 Now excuse us while we ponder this epochal revelation with utmost #irony. 📚✨
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-origin-of-the-research-university #HackerNews #UniversityHistory #ResearchRevolution #19thCentury #HackerNews #ngated
The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk

Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?

Columbus - FeedsMar 18, 2025
From sunrise to sunset: The history of Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion - Brie Blevins
From sunrise to sunset: The history of Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion was founded in 1970, following more than a year of protests against racial discrimination on the university’s campus.  Nearly 55 years later, it was shut down.  Along with the Office of Student Life’s Center for Belonging and Social Change, the university discontinued ODI, a department dedicated to promoting […]

The Lantern
Georg WamhofDec 1, 2023

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum
Roundtable #Review 15-16 on:
Emily J. Levine, Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

H-Net https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20012704/h-diplorjissf-roundtable-review-15-16-levine-allies-and-rivals

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #UniversityHistory #histknow

H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ | H-Net

H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 15-16 Emily J. Levine. Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780226341811

Maria SimonsenNov 13, 2022

My current project: Knowledge for the World is on the history of universities.

In 2024, Aalborg University celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The purpose is to tell the history of the university. I am particularly interested in telling a democratic history about the everyday life: the students, the researchers, and the administrative staff: the changing pedagogy & the teaching methods, the researchers' collaboration with the companies & cultural institutions.

#universityhistory #histknow