教育学院系列讲座
国家主义、全球主义与美国大学的起源1780-1840
"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University, 1780-1840"
主讲嘉宾： Adam R. Nelson教授（美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校）
讲座时间：2013年11月4日 下午3:00
讲座地点：国学馆 109教室
讲座内容
Conventional interpretations of the emergence of the American research university stress the United States' appropriation of German models after the Civil War. Professor Nelson's lecture will revise this interpretation by looking back to the early American republic (1780-1840) and placing the organization of scholarship in an international context. Drawing examples from the fields of botany and geology, he asks: in a period when many saw new scientific institutions as the key to U.S. competitiveness in a global knowledge economy, how did Americans balance a professed ideal of "enlightened cosmopolitanism" with an equally powerful sense of "service to the national state"?
主讲嘉宾介绍
Adam R. Nelson is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University. His publications include Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 (2001); The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools (2005); Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America, co-edited with John L. Rudolph (2010); and The Global University: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, co-edited with Ian P. Wei (forthcoming, 2012). He is currently writing a book titled Empire of Knowledge: Nationalism, Internationalism, and American Scholarship, 1780-1830. His research has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard, the Advanced Studies Fellowship Program at Brown, and the Vilas Associate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-directs the “Ideas and Universities” project of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
