University Jubilees and University History Writing

A Challenging Relationship
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-21696-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

Researching and writing its history has always been one of the tasks of the university, particularly on the occasion of anniversary celebrations. Through case studies of Prague (1848, 1948), Oslo (1911), Cluj (from 1919), Leipzig (2009) and Trondheim (2010), this book shows the continuity of the close relationship between jubilees and university historiography and the impact of this interaction on the jubilee publications and academic heritage. Up to today, historians are faced with the challenge of finding a balance between an engaged, celebratory approach and a more distant, academically critical one. In its third part, the book aims to go beyond the jubilee and presents three other ways of writing university history, by focusing on the university as an educational institution.

Zielgruppe

All interested in university history, history of education, intellectual and cultural history, as well as anyone involved in academic heritage or in the public relations of universities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dhondt, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. University history writing: more than a history of jubilees?
Pieter DHONDT, University of Eastern Finland
PART I: UNIVERSITY HISTORY WRITING AS PART OF THE JUBILEE
2. Two great anniversaries, two lost opportunities: Charles University in Prague, 1848 and 1948
Marek DURCANSKÝ, Charles University in Prague and Pieter DHONDT, University of Eastern Finland
3. The Royal Frederick University in Kristiania in 1911. Intellectual beacon of the North or a North Germanic provincial University?
Jorunn Sem FURE, Telemark Museum
4. Commitment, reserve and self-assertion. The celebration of patriotic anniversaries in Russian and German universities 1912/13
Trude MAURER, University of Göttingen
5. Academic ceremonies and celebrations at the Romanian University of Cluj 1919-2009
Ana-Maria STAN, Babes-Bolyai University
PART II: UNIVERSITY HISTORY WRITING ON THE OCCASION OF A JUBILEE
6. 1968 as a turning point in Trondheim's university history
Thomas BRANDT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
7. University history research at the University of Leipzig
Jonas FLÖTER, University of Leipzig
PART III: UNIVERSITY HISTORY WRITING BEYOND THE JUBILEE
8. The Humboldtian tradition. The German university transformed, 1800-1945
Johan ÖSTLING, Lund University
9. French academia in a prosopographic perspective: a collaborative joint project
Emmanuelle PICARD, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
10. University history writing as part of the history of education
Pieter DHONDT, University of Eastern Finland
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Pieter Dhondt (1976), Ph.D. in History, K.U.Leuven, is Senior Lecturer in general history at the University of Eastern Finland. Among his recent books: Un double compromis. Enjeux et débats relatifs à l'enseignement universitaire en Belgique au XIXe siècle (Academia Press 2011) and as editor National, Nordic or European? Nineteenth-Century University Jubilees and Nordic Cooperation (Brill 2011).