I was making a little list of conferences on the university and I thought, for quick historical reference, it might be good to post them here. When I try to make a list – and I’m sure this is a very incomplete one – it turns out that there’s a pretty continuous flow of scholarly interest in the topic. (And this is all ignoring the work of ASHE and other education research groups that I don’t know.)
- University of Minnesota: 2008, Rethinking the University Conference.
- NYU: 2008, University Spaces, Academic Bodies: New Approaches to the Corporate University.
- University of Binghamton: 2008, Knowledge, Violence, Discipline: (Re)Thinking Politics and the University.
- University of Chicago: 2003-06, New Perspectives on the Disciplines, a 3-year Mellon project.
- University of Chicago: 2000-01, Idea of the University Colloquium.
- American Council of Learned Societies: 2004, Ideas and Ideals of the University Panel
- Cornell University: 2002-06, Social Science & Higher Education Network.
- Cornell University: 2002, Conference on the Idea of the University.
- Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association:
- 2005, The Ethnography of Academic Life
- 2006, Images in and of the university: The clash of American academic ideals and strategies
- 2007, Playing in your own backyard: Ethnography of Higher Education; Beyond Access: Difference, (In)equality and Justice in Higher Education; Managing Knowledge: Universities, Knowledge Production and the Global Economy