Universities in Ages of Authoritarianism: Higher Education in the US and China

Join us on Monday, November 17, for a lecture by William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. The subject of the talk will by Kirby’s  recent book, released this year in paperback with a new preface, Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. 

Monday, November 17 • 5 to 6:15 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road

William C. Kirby is a University Distinguished Service Professor. He currently serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai. At Harvard he has served as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chairman of the History Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States. His recent books include Can China Lead? (Harvard Business Review Press) and China and Europe on the New Silk Road (Oxford University Press). His latest book, Empires of Ideas: Creating Modern Universities from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press), is now available.

A reception and book-signing will follow the talk. The first 25 BU affiliates (students, faculty, staff) to register for this event will receive a complimentary copy of Empires of Ideas. You must attend the event to receive your book.