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Strandgut aus dem Jahre 2020

Im Forum Artikel werden Lehrstuhl-Entscheidungen in Verbindung mit der Nation-Branding Initiative der luxemburgischen Regierung gebracht.

In der letzten Forum Ausgabe stellt Michel Pauly folgende Frage: “Keine Luxemburger Geschichte mehr an der Uni?” Darauf kann man sehr einfach antworten: Doch. Oder um es Forum-artig zu machen, als Strandgut-Rubrik.

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Benoit Majerus

Since January 2011, I am working as an historian at the University of Luxembourg. I have written my PhD on the occupation of Belgium during World War One and World Two. In 2013 I published a social history of psychiatry in the 20th century from below. I am also co-editor of h-madness.

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Happy birthday uni.lu

Next year, @uni.lu will move to Belval, in the south of Luxembourg

This year, the University of Luxembourg will “celebrate” its tenth anniversary – the official birthday will be August, 13th. The historians were asked to organise something: difficult to limit ourselves to the short story of our university. With Michel Pauly and Daniel Tröhler, we decided to offer a a series of conferences devoted to the creation of universities from the Middle Ages to today, entitled “Serving…”. Who created the university? What were there motivations?

The conferences will take place during the second semester, every Thursday from 11h45 to 13h15 at the Audimax (Campus Walferdange)

21/2/2013 Paris Jacques Verger La fondation de l’université de Paris au Moyen Âge : la théologie savante au service de la foi orthodoxe
28/2/2013 Luxembourg Morgan Meyer La construction de l’Université du Luxembourg: histoire, politique, controverses
07/3/13 Berlin FU, Maribor, Trondheim, Patras Anne Rohstock Offspring of the Cold War. The Rearing of European Universities from West-Berlin to Maribor and from Patras to Trondheim
21/3/2013 Paris Vincennes Annick Ohayon Une université expérimentale issue du mouvement étudiant de mai 1968: Vincennes
28/3/2013 Prag Martin Kintzinger Herrschaftsrepräsentation durch Wissenschaft? Die Gründung der Universität Prag zwischen Territorialpolitik und europäischen Horizonten
11/4/13 CEU Budapest Laszlo Kontler Central European University in the context of the post-1989 changes: a case study of promoting open society through educational-institutional experiment
18/4/2013 Berlin Heinz-Elmar Tenorth Universität zu Berlin – eine Gründung zwischen Krieg und Krise,
Philosophie und Politik
25/4/2013 Madison Adam Nelson Empire of Knowledge: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University, 1770-1830
02/5/13 Manchester John Pickstone Creating the ‘civic university’ in nineteenth century Britain: the Manchester model
16/5/2013 Tokio Konrad Osterwalder United Nations University: a model for the future?
23/5/13 Lodz Rafal Stobiecki Searching for its Promised Land. The Communist-made University in the Proletarian City of Lodz
30/5/2013 Trier Konrad Müller Entstehungsprozess und bauliches Konzept der Universität Trier als Sonderfall des Gründungsbooms der Nachkriegszeit

Benoit Majerus

Since January 2011, I am working as an historian at the University of Luxembourg. I have written my PhD on the occupation of Belgium during World War One and World Two. In 2013 I published a social history of psychiatry in the 20th century from below. I am also co-editor of h-madness.

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