Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Après la chute de l’Empire hongrois en 1526, la principauté de Transylvanie devint vassale de l’empire ottoman. Les Transylvains, de confession luthérienne, qui voulaient poursuivre des études de philosophie puis de théologie ont donc dû émigrer vers des universités situées en terre protestante.
C’est ainsi qu’au cours du 17ème siècle, une centaine de migrants transylvains furent accueillis à Strasbourg, devenue ville universitaire de plein exercice en 1621 (après avoir été promue au rang d’Académie en 1566). Plus...
University has an obligation to tell former president’s full story
That side is the one who came to Orono in 1922 and helped grow the university, building Memorial Gym and Field House and Stevens Hall, and starting “Freshman Week” orientation, something copied by just about every college and university today. More...
Faire de la recherche sur les mondes islamiques médiévaux - Réunion d’information – 14 mai 2018
Réunion d’information – 14 mai 2018
Faire de la recherche sur les mondes islamiques médiévaux
Histoire, Histoire de l’art, Archéologie, Islamologie, Littérature, Linguistique
Vous vous intéressez aux mondes islamiques médiévaux, à leurs origines, à leur histoire, à leur patrimoine, à leur héritage, aux traces et aux influences qu’ils ont laissées dans le monde d’aujourd’hui ?
Vous réfléchissez à vous inscrire en master recherche ou en doctorat ? Venez rencontrer les enseignants-chercheurs d’Aix-Marseille Université spécialistes des mondes islamiques médiévaux et découvrir l’actualité et les perspectives de la recherche dans un champ en profond renouvellement.
Rendez-vous lundi 14 mai de 10h à 12h30 (Aix-en-Provence, site Schuman, salle A104). La discussion se prolongera au restaurant La Terrasse de Maxime (repas payant).
Pour s’inscrire, écrire à julien.loiseau@univ-amu.fr
Plus d’information : mohamed.ouerfelli@univ-amu.fr ou camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr
From the archive: the class of 1971 at Oxford University
Fresh-faced students have traversed the corridors of Oxford University since 1249, but how will the institution take to the class of 1971 and, more importantly, how will they take to Oxford? The Observer Magazine finds out. More...
Women who gave Bristol a university
Peter Malpass (Letters, 3 April) is right to highlight the fact that WD & HO Wills recruited many Bristolian women and girls to work in their Bedminster factories. My mother was one: she left education at 14 to work on a Wills production line at Ashton Gate stripping leaves of tobacco. She told me about the regimented existence: no speaking while working on the line and having to ask permission to use the toilet. My mother became politicised, was a staunch supporter of trade unions and joined the co-operative movement. My grandmother and great-aunt were also employees at Wills from the 1890s. More...
We hear too many white, male voices on history – let's have a wider range
A high-profile conference featuring only white, male speakers was nicknamed the “Stanford sausage fest”. It shows why history must improve its diversity. More...
Harvard sexual harassment case scars the institution as well as victims
Much of what you think you know about Linda Brown – a central figure in Brown v. Board of Education – is wrong
But the story behind the historic Supreme Court case, as I plan to show in my forthcoming book, “Blacks Against Brown: The Black Anti-Integration Movement in Topeka, Kansas, 1941-1954,” is much more complex than the highly inaccurate but often-repeated tale about the case. More...
The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland at 20 – The Anthill podcast
Classroom Learning and Career Preparation: Stronger Together
By Georgia Nugent. It’s a misconception to think that college study and career planning have ever been natural enemies.
Is the main purpose of education to acquire skills and prepare for the workplace? Or is the purpose more generally to expand the intellect and broaden the learner’s horizons? This dichotomy has confronted American higher education since at least the 19th century. It’s embedded in the Morrill Act of 1862, which, in providing for America’s land grant universities, also differentiated “scientific and classical studies” from “learning … related to agriculture and the mechanical arts.“ More...