Liberal Education and Scholarship in Historical Perspective

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