Program of "Geographies of the University"
Wednesday, Sept. 03, 2014
Thursday, Sept. 04, 2014
Friday, Sept. 05, 2014
Saturday, Sept. 06, 2014
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Welcome Address (09:15)
Klaus Tschira, Klaus Tschira Stiftung gGmbH, Heidelberg (Germany)
Introduction to the Symposium (09:30)
Peter Meusburger, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Session 1: Universities and Regional Economies (10:00 - 12:30)
Chair: John Goddard, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University (UK)
The Entrepreneurial University Wave: Shaping a Triple Helix for Sustainable Innovation (10:00)
Henry Etzkowitz, International Triple Helix Institute, Palo Alto (USA) and University of London, Birkbeck (UK)
Coffee Break (11:00)
The Impact of Public Universities on the Regional Economy: A Case Study from Baden-Württemberg (11:30)
Johannes Glückler, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Lunch (12:30)
Session 2: Universities in Their Local Environments (13:30 - 16:00)
Mike Heffernan, School of Geography, University of Nottingham (UK)
The Campus of the Future is a City - Campus Planning becomes Urban Planning (13:30)
Alexandra den Heijer, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Coffee Break (14:30)
Studentification and New Town - Gown Relations (15:00)
Darren Smith, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
General Discussion about Heidelberg’s 10-year Project “Wissen-schafft-Stadt” (
Knowledge Based Urbanism) (16:00)
Michael Braum (Director) & Carl Zillich (Curatorial Director), Internationale Bauaustellung Heidelberg GmbH, Heidelberg (Germany)
Thursday, September 04, 2014
Session 3: Universities in Medieval Times (09:15 - 12:30)
Chair: Jane Knight, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada)
Space and Civilisation: Challenges of the University in Medieval Europe (09:15)
Martin Kintzinger, History Department, University of Münster (Germany)
The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) and the Geography of German Universities and Academics (1350-1550) (10:15)
Rainer C. Schwinges, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Coffee Break (11:15)
Age of Iron, Age of Gold: The Thirty Years War, the German Reformed Diaspora, and the Golden Age of the Dutch Universities (11:45)
Howard Hotson, Faculty of History, University of Oxford (UK)
Lunch (12:45)
Session 4: Universities and their Networks (13:30 - 17:00)
Chair: Jane Kenway, Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia)
Universities and their Spatial Locations (13:30)
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Department of Education (DPU), Aarhus University (Denmark)
Cambridge Academic Expertise and British Colonial Policy, 1886-1955 (14:30)
Heike Jöns, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
Coffee Break (15:30)
University-Industry Linkages in the Global South (16:00)
Daniel Schiller, Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW) (Germany)
Friday, September 05, 2014
Session 5: University and the City I (09:15 - 13:00)
Chair: Darren Smith, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
Spatializations of Knowledge and the University: Scale, Materiality and Metaphors (09:15)
Jennifer L. Croissant, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Arizona (USA)
Knowledge Environments in University Towns. A Conceptual Framework (10:15)
Peter Meusburger, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Coffee Break (11:15)
The Political Geography of British University Expansion in the 1960s (11:45)
Mike Heffernan, School of Geography, University of Nottingham (UK)
Lunch (13:00)
Session 6: University and the City II (14:00 - 17:30)
Chair: Johannes Glückler, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
The Civic University and the City (14:00)
John Goddard, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University (UK)
Coffee Break (15:00)
The University in its Place: Thinking in and beyond Globalisation (15:30)
Allan Cochrane, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University (UK)
General Discussion in the Garden (if the weather allows) (16:30)
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Session 7: Universities and the Future (09:15 - 13:00)
Chair: Heike Jöns, Department of Geography, Loughborough University (UK)
Mobile Students from Asia Decolonising Knowledge about Asia: Travels towards a Defiant Research Imagination (09:15)
Jane Kenway, Faculty of Education, Monash University (Australia)
Creating a New Knowledge Space? The Diverse Development of China-Asean Knowledge Networks (10:15)
Anthony R. Welch, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney (Australia)
Coffee Break (11:15)
International Education Hubs (11:45)
Jane Knight, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada)
Lunch (13:00)
Concluding Discussion (14:00 - 14:30)
Chair: Peter Meusburger, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
