BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Before and Beyond Collegiality: The Long History of University Gov ernance DTSTART:20220531T133000 DTEND:20220531T153000 DTSTAMP:20260505T021310Z UID:dc2770f8a9029a8faa2e6348841bdc44f7312c22e68077ce5735be27 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Christine Musselin\, Sylvain Piron\nThe College of Humanities and the Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology are pleased t o invite you to the eight and last session of Pierre Mounier’s monthly s eminar on Governing Digital Knowledge Infrastructures.\n\nTue. 31 May 2022 \, 1.30pm-3.30pm CEST\nEPFL\, INN 128 (registration compulsory here)\nOnli ne (email simon.dumasprimbault@epfl.ch to get the Zoom link)\n\nThe tradit ional view on the governance of academia is that of a collegial organizati on. Collegiality would be a form of self-governance striving to reach cons ensus within a community of peers–a body of scholars sharing a certain e thos–whose representatives in higher deliberative assemblies are elected –primi inter pares.\n    Historically\, this ideal could only be rea lized in very specific\, somewhat paradoxical\, conditions. In the Medieva l university\, collegial practices were restricted to small “bubbles” within specific faculties\, under the authority of theology\, and put to t he service of a highly hierarchical order dedicated to the construction of the centralized Roman Church. Notably by censoring deviant opinion\, coll egiality was therefore an important tool for the sustainability of such a hierarchy. Still\, oblivious of its history\, some academics nowadays mobi lize the collegial ideal as an argument to resist governance changes.\n     Indeed\, over the past decades\, academia has undergone dramatic cha nges\, notably due to the New Public Management reforms\, that have largel y reconfigured its modes of governance. Due to the expansion and complexif ication of universities\, bureaucratic characteristics embedded in managem ent tools—such as performance metrics—and managerial practices—broug ht about by the professionalization of administration—have started to su bstitute\, complement\, or merge with collegial practices\, generally resu lting in an increase in control and hierarchy.\n    At the heart of th is seminar\, this kind of hybridization of multifarious governance practic es is salient among knowledge infrastructures in the digital era. Increasi ngly digital and interconnected on a macro scale\, as well as in relations hips with other types of institutions\, how do universities—as knowledge infrastructures—negotiate multiple\, sometimes exogenous or hostile\, g overnance practices?\n\nFor this session\, we invite two scholars to discu ss with us: \n    Christine Musselin is Directrice de recherche CNRS at the Centre de sociologie des organisations in Sciences Po Paris. She wo rks on the transformations of Higher Education and research in a comparati ve perspective (notably France\, Germany\, US)\, more particularly in the most recent changes in university governance.\n    Sylvain Piron is Di recteur d’études EHESS at the Centre de recherches historiques. His res earch focuses on the intellectual history from 12th to 14th century\, and more particularly on a longue durée history of the medieval roots of cont emporary economic thought. He is also editorial responsible for the recent publishing house Vues de l’esprit.\n\nReadings:\n\n Christine Musselin\ , “University Governance in Meso and Macro Perspective”\, Annual Revie w of Sociology\, vol. 47\, 2021\, pp. 305-345. https://hal.archives-ouvert es.fr/hal-03367341/document\n Alexander Gieysztor\, “Management and Reso urces”\, in Walter Rüegg and H. De Ridder-Symoens (eds.)\, A History of the University in Europe\, Volume 1 Universities in the Middle Ages\, Cam bridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2003 [1992]\, pp. 108-143. (Pdf avail able on demand.)\n\n\nTue. 31 May 2022\, 1.30pm-3.30pm CEST\nHybrid setup: EPFL\, INN 128 (registration compulsory here) and online (email simon.dum asprimbault@epfl.ch to get the Zoom link) LOCATION:INN 128 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INN%20128 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR