What Have the Humanities to Teach the Modern University?

Part of the Humanities and the Public Good series Universities are
associations of researchers, teachers and students who see
themselves as inclusive and outward-looking, proactive, creative,
and restless in the pursuit of excellence. They are also
institutions which are often seen as exclusive, inward-looking,
conservative and complacent. This seminar explores the relationship
between the association and the institution, arguing that it is
much more than a matter of insider/outsider perspective, and
discusses what the Humanities have to contribute to the evolving
philosophy and ethics of the institution, its processes of debate
and decision making, and its interaction with the wider world. Part
of the Humanities and the Public Good
(www.torch.ox.ac.uk/publicgood) series. Presenter: Dr. Teresa
Morgan, Lecturer in Ancient History and Associate Head of
Humanities (Undergraduates), University of Oxford Respondents:
Professor Stephen Whitefield, Professor of Politics, University of
Oxford David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge
University and Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme Chair: Sir
Jonathan Phillips, Warden, Keble College Oxford