Keynote speaker: Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Oxford
With the right-wing turn in European national politics and a global rise of nativism and resulting securitisation of cross-boarder research, this event will explore the relationship between the state and the universities. What do the latest political trends mean for the internationalisation of higher education in Europe? Is there a future for international higher education within an increasingly protectionist political environment?
The event will consist of a keynote speech by the invited speaker, followed by a student-led panel discussion with guests and a Q&A session, and will be rounded off with a reception.
The event is part of CEU Higher Education Research Group's event series entitled University in the spotlight.
About the event series "University in the spotlight"
The purpose of this event series co-organised by the student-led Higher Education Research Group and the Yehuda Elkana Centre for Teaching, Learning and Higher Education Research is to initiate a wide-ranging discussion among CEU community members with invited national and international guests on current topics gripping higher education in the world today. The topics are selected based on the particular significance they bear to the activities of CEU and other Austrian universities at this particular point in time. The thematic focus of the events is therefore based around topics that affect the role that CEU and its constituents play in a context of a politically polarised world and in their new location in Austria.
Bio of the keynote speaker: Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and a Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and until 30 April he is Director of the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE). Simon is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK, and a member of Academia Europaea. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, higher education in East Asia, global science, and higher education and the common good.
Austrian speaker: Attila Pausits is a Full Professor for Higher Education Research and Development and Head of the Department for Higher Education Research at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. He is the academic director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme “Research and Innovation in Higher Education, MSc”, spokesman of the “Austrian Higher Education Researchers Network, member of the European Commission’s expert group on “quality investment in education and training” as well as editor-in-chief of the journal Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (Journal for Higher Education Development). His research interests include higher education governance, organisational and career development, the third mission of higher education institutions and academic continuing education with reference to lifelong learning.