IICAS European Studies Presents:

IICAS European Studies Roundtable: “Remaking the Public University in the 21st Century”

The current international economic crisis, which has thrown into question free market-based economic and state policies, has paradoxically deepened trends in many regions to privatize state-funded universities and reconfigure their mission as a public service and good along the lines of market-oriented models. The roundtable will seek to explore these trends and their fallout in terms of access, curricula, and research in order to reach a transnational perspective on these developments whose roots go back several decades.

Presenters:

Marcel Henaff, UCSD Literature & Political Science - FRANCE

Christine Hunefeldt, UCSD History & CILAS - SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA

Ping-hui Liao, UCSD Literature - EAST ASIA

Isaac Martin, UCSD Sociology - UNITED STATES

Charles Thorpe, UCSD Sociology - UNITED KINGDOM

For more information: http://iicas.ucsd.edu/events/speakerseries/europeanstudies.php

To register, please email iicasintern@ucsd.edu.

The IICAS European Studies Speaker Series at UC San Diego is sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).  IICAS promotes interdisciplinary research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics.