SCHEDULE

All sessions will be held in the Founder’s Room, Lovett Hall

Tue-26         

8:00 to 9:00 Breakfast           

9:00 to 9:40 Introductions     

9:40  to 10:50 Session 1 - Kin Chi Lau, " Asia, a Pedagogical Figure"           

10:50 to 12:00 Session 2 - Holly Shissler, "Area Studies, Identity Politics, and the 'Globalization' of Education"      

12:00 to 1:00 Lunch

1:00 to 2:10 Session 3- Alessandro Russo, "Destinies of the University"       

2:10 to 3:20 Session 4 - Mary E. John,"Is there a Feminist Question in the University Today? Historical Reflections from Postnational India"        

3:20 to 3:50 Coffee Break     

3:50 to 5:00 Session 5 - Valerio Romitelli, "The University: Communication Network or Thought Bazaar?"

5:00 to 6:10 Session 6 – Rosalind Morris, "Education for Critical Regionalism: Notes on the Past and Thoughts on Alternative Future Histories, with reference to Thailand"    

Wed-27

8:00 to 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 to 10:10 Session7- Ruri Ito, "Asia-based Gender and Migration Studies in a Neoliberal Era"

10:10 to 11:20 Session 8 - Neferti Tadiar, "Sentimental Globalization: Vicissitudes of Asian Loss and the Universal Communicability of Feeling Postcolonial"

11:20 to 12:30 Lunch   

12:30 to 1:40 Session 9 - Claudia Pozzana, "Modern Episteme, University and Politics: Notes on Cai Yuanpei, Li Dazhao and the New Culture"

1:40 to 2:20 Session 10 - Tiejun Wen, "'China Experience', 'Comparative Advantage' and the Involvement of University Students in the Rural Reconstruction Experiment"

2:50 to 3:20 Coffee Break

3:20 to 4:00 Session 11 - Tejaswini Niranjana, "Narratives of Decline? Higher Education in 21st century India".

4:30 to 5:30 - Wrap Up