Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

The Importance of Learning: Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective
5-­‐7 June 2013, Princeton University
1.1 Contemporary Themes in Liberal Education (I)
010 East Pyne
Chair: Daniel Garber
DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
11:00 – 12:00
105 Chancellor Green
INFORMAL MEETING
International Society for Intellectual History
1:30 – 2:15
Upper Hyphen
REGISTRATION
2:15 – 2:30
101 McCormick
WELCOMING ADDRESS
Daniel Garber (Princeton), Principal Organizer
2:30 – 4:00
101 McCormick
KEYNOTE
Anthony Grafton (Princeton): The Humanities and their Ecology at the Present Time
4:00 – 4:30
Upper Hyphen
COFFEE BREAK
4:30 – 6:00
SESSION 1
1.2 Education and Learning in Early Modern Europe
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: Richard A. Strier
Rosemarie Uy Griño (Lawyer, Mother and Author)
Back to Basics: Bringing Liberal Education at the Forefront of
Early Childhood Learning
Beatriz Domingues (Federal University of Juiz de Fora)
The Role of Literature in Comprehending History and Cultures: Richard Morse’s View
C. Earl Ramsey (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Are We Worried about Learning or Our Jobs?
Michael Carhart (Old Dominion University)
Historia Literaria as Western Civ.: The Humanist origins of
a perennial course in the modern curriculum
James A.T. Lancaster (Warburg Institute)
Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning
and the Superstitious Mind
Giuliana Di Biase (University G. d’Annunzio)
The idea of liberal education in John Locke’s Some Thoughts concerning Education
6:00 – 7:00
Chancellor Green Rotunda
RECEPTION

2.1 Forms of Knowledge, Scholarship and Liberal Education
010 East Pyne
Chair: Anton Matytsin
DAY TWO: THURSDAY, JUNE 6
9:00 – 10:30
SESSION 2
2.2 Liberal Education and Enlightenment
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: Daniel Garber
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University)
German Historical Scholarship and the Virtues of Liberal Education
Valentin Wendebourg (University of Göttingen)
The Debate about Johann Salomo Semlers’ Reform of the Study of Theology
Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)
The rise of a medical ‘science of man’ as a replacement for metaphysics and theology with
the closure of universities in the French Revolutionary period
Tom Cutterham (Oxford)
The Irrelevance of Liberal Education at the American Founding
3.1 Liberal Education and the New Sciences
010 East Pyne
Chair: Stephen Gaukroger
Mogens Laerke (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Partners in Invention: Leibniz and Encyclopedic Education
Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)
The Artifice of Human Nature: Hume, Rousseau, Herder
10:30 – 11:00
Upper Hyphen
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
SESSION 3
3.2 Liberal Education, the Arts and Intellectual History
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: James A.T. Lancaster
Caroline Fowler (Princeton)
From the Orbis Pictus to the Digital Textbook: Learning Things by Pictures
Stephen Broomer (Ryerson University)
Art to End All Art: Difficult Art in Fine Arts Education
Branko Mitrovic (Unitec Institute of Technology)
Educating Architects: Architectural History as Intellectual History
12:30 – 2:00
LUNCH

2:00 – 3:30
101 McCormick
KEYNOTE
Howard Hotson (Oxford): Homo economicus versus Homo sapiens sapiens: Intellectual History and the Defence of Academic Values
4.1 Liberal Education in Australia and New Zealand
010 East Pyne
Chair: James A.T. Lancaster
3:30 – 4:00
Upper Hyphen
COFFEE BREAK
4:00 – 5:30
SESSION 4
4.2 Liberal Education in the Mediterranean
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: Daniel Garber
Greg Melleuish (University of Wollongong)
Liberal Education in the Land of Utility
Michael Belgrave (Massey University)
Matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge) and the challenge
to liberal education in New Zealand
Luciano Boschiero (Campion College)
History and Philosophy of Science and a
Liberal Education in Australia
Stefano Zappoli (University of Bergamo)
Liberal Education in Fascist Italy: Giovanni Gentile’s Reform
and Benedetto Croce as its main Upholder
Hilmi Ozan Ozavci (İzmir University)
'For the people, despite the people’: The Humanist Project,
Liberal Education and Civic Identity in Turkey, 1938-­‐1941
5:30 – 5:45
Upper Hyphen
SHORT COFFEE BREAK
5:45 – 7:15
101 McCormick
KEYNOTE
William Clark (UCLA): Being Academic
7:30 – 10:00
Chancellor Green Rotunda
CONFERENCE BANQUET

5.1 Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy
in Historical Perspective
010 East Pyne
Chair: Ira Katznelson
Ewa Atanassow (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
Democracy, Liberal Education and Education
for Freedom in Tocqueville
Alan S. Kahan (Université de Versailles/St. Quentin)
Tocqueville and Liberal Education
Adam Davis (Center for Civic Reflection)
“A Nation of Supple Readers”? Whitman, Liberal
Education, and What Democracy is For
Thomas Bartscherer (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
With Friends Like Nietzsche:
The Vexations of Liberal Education
DAY THREE: FRIDAY, JUNE 7
9:00 – 11:00
SESSION 5
5.2 Liberal Education in East Asia
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: James A.T. Lancaster
Wen Yu (Harvard)
The Demise of “Discoursing on Learning”: Debates on
Learning (xue) between Moral Philosophers, Literary Men,
and Statecraft Scholars in Seventeenth Century China
Youngmin Kim (Seoul National University)
Neo-­‐Confucian liberation education and “public sphere”
in early modern East Asia
Michael Paton (University of Sydney)
Business Education or the Business of Education:
Can Historical Research into Fengshui tell us
anything about Business in China?
Andrew Hui (Yale-­‐NUS College)
Designing a Literature Humanities Sequence
at the New Yale-­‐NUS College
5.3 Education and the Enlightenment
111 East Pyne
Chair: Mogens Laerke
Anton Matytsin (University of Pennsylvania)
Anti-­‐Skeptical Pedagogy in the Early Enlightenment
Varad Mehta (Independent Scholar)
Sparta and the Education of the Eighteenth Century
Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
The Double Problem of Liberal Education in
Kant, Rousseau, and Montessori
6.1 Education in Early Modern England
111 East Pyne
Chair: Daniel Garber
Hilary Stroh (University of Kansas)
Not the Scholar but the Gentleman:
The Breadth of Liberal Education in early-­‐modern England
Richard A. Strier (University of Chicago)
Punishment versus Prudence:
The Tempest and the Humanist Tradition
11:00 – 11:30
Upper Hyphen
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 1:00
SESSION 6
6.2 Liberal Education and Values
010 East Pyne
Chair: Anton Matytsin
Esther Pedersen (Roskilde University)
From Research and Teaching as Vehicles for Cultivation of
Personhood and Society to Research and
Teaching as Production of Knowledge
Thomas Norgaard & Peter Hajnal (ECLA-­‐Bard University)
Value Studies as a Form of Liberal Education
6.3 Science, Technology and Liberal Pedagogy as
Practice: Three Episodes of Confrontation and Conflation
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: Thomas Bartscherer
Eric Brandom (Duke University)
Children in the Workshop of Revolution:
Georges Sorel’s Syndicalist Theory of Education
Eric Hounshell (UCLA/University of Konstanz)
Producing Subjects of Reliable Knowledge in Mid-­‐Century
America: The Pedagogical Vision of Paul F. Lazarsfeld

Toni Carey (Multiple Affiliations)
Useful Knowledge: Some Lessons from
Eighteenth-­‐Century Scotland
Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Humanizing the Machine: Theory and Pedagogy
in Science and Technology Studies, 1968-­‐1985
7.1 Liberal Education and the Divisions of Knowledge:
General Education Reform in Mid-­‐Twentieth Century United States
010 East Pyne
Chair: Dorothy Ross
Julie Reuben (Harvard)
General Education Reform in Mid-­‐Twentieth Century United States (Social Science)
1:00 – 2:30
LUNCH
2:30 – 4:00
SESSION 7
7.2 Contemporary Themes in Liberal Education (II)
105 Chancellor Green
Chair: C. Earl Ramsey
Michael Kithinji (University of Arkansas)
Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Debasement of Liberal Education in Africa:
the Case of Kenya
Bryan McAllister-­‐Grande (Harvard)
General Education Reform in Mid-­‐Twentieth Century United States (Humanities)
Rebecca B. Miller (Harvard)
General Education Reform in Mid-­‐Twentieth Century United States (Natural Science)
Tuomas Tiittala (University of Helsinki)
Law and Liberal Education:
A Finnish Perspective
Alhelí Alvarado (Columbia University)
From the Shadow of Erudition to the Light of Social Action: Ivan Illich and
Paulo Freire on Education as Political Empowerment
4:00 – 4:15
010 East Pyne
CLOSING REMARKS
Daniel Garber (Princeton)
4:15 – 5:15
105 Chancellor Green
GENERAL MEETING
International Society for Intellectual History