The Struggle over Global Higher Education: European Perspectives - A Lunch Talk by Niilo Kauppi

This talk will focus on the major changes in the European higher education landscape since the beginning of the 2000s. These transformations include a stratification of national higher education systems and increasingly powerful supranational public policies in higher education and research. Educational globalization provides the backdrop for these developments.

A political sociologist, Niilo Kauppi is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He teaches at Sciences Po Strasbourg and the universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg. Kauppi is a former President of the Finnish Political Science Association and vice-chair of ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), and president of the jury of its Mattei Dogan Prize in Political Sociology. With David Swartz (Boston University), he is convenor of the ECPR Standing Group in Political Sociology. Kauppi is the author and editor of 11 books and over 70 articles in political sociology, European politics, social theory and intellectual history. His current research interests include higher education policies and knowledge governance.

Lunch available. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu