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Venues: Provost’s House, 35 Hillhouse Avenue (Thursday)
Slifka Chapel, Slifka Center for Jewish Life, 80 Wall Street (Thursday keynote, Friday)
Day 1 – Thursday, February 21
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | Provost’s House (35 Hillhouse Avenue) |
| 9:00-9:15am | Introduction | Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Yale) |
| 9:15-10:30am | Panel I | What is learning? What is education? |
| Chair: | Yingqi (Ariel) Tang (Yale) | |
| Jeffrey Guhin (UCLA)
Samuel Rocha (British Columbia) Milton Gaither (Messiah College) Stephanie Almeida Nevin (Yale) |
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| 10:30-10:45am | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45am-12:00pm | Panel II | The Origins of the American Research University |
| Chair: | George Levesque (Yale) | |
| Adam Nelson (Wisconsin-Madison)
Stuart Leslie (Johns Hopkins) Emily Levine (North Carolina-Greensboro) Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Yale) |
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| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:00pm | Panel III | The History of Graduate School, the Divisions of Knowledge, and the Spread of the Research Paradigm |
| Chair: | Travis Ross (Yale) | |
| Kristine Haugen (Caltech)
Emily Rutherford (Columbia) John Langbein (Yale) Jamila Elnashef (Yale) |
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| 3:00-4:30pm | Break | |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Reception | Slifka Chapel, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life (80 Wall Street) |
| 5:00pm | Keynote | Anthony T. Grafton (Princeton) “Education in Another Century: A Memoir with Morals” |
| 6:45pm | Conference Dinner (participants only) | Sitar Indian Restaurant (45 Grove Street) |
Day 2 – Friday, February 22
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | Slifka Chapel, Slifka Center for Jewish Life (80 Wall Street) |
| 9:30-10:45am | Panel IV | What is Research? Research Before, Alongside, and Outside the University |
| Chair: | Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale) | |
| Micha Perry (Yale)
Travis Ross Kelsey Kaufmann |
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| 10:45-11:00am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Roundtable | |
| Chair: | Anthony T. Grafton | |
| Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern)
Leonard Cassuto (Fordham) |