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Review Essay: The Europeanisation of the Universities : An Emerging Topic of Historical Research

Haikola, Karl LU and Östling, Johan LU orcid (2025) In History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society 2025(4). p.237-258
Abstract
In this review essay, the authors discuss new scholarly literature on the Europeanisation of the universities. This field has recently started to attract increasing
interest among historians, partly as a new way of writing the history of
the European integration and the so-called knowledge society. The authors review
five books that approach these questions by means of different methods and perspectives. An important insight is that the Europeanisation of the universities is
both a fairly recent phenomenon (with the 1980s serving as a kind of turning
point) and a profound process altering the conditions for research and higher education in Europe. At the same time, the field is still young, and the authors call
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In this review essay, the authors discuss new scholarly literature on the Europeanisation of the universities. This field has recently started to attract increasing
interest among historians, partly as a new way of writing the history of
the European integration and the so-called knowledge society. The authors review
five books that approach these questions by means of different methods and perspectives. An important insight is that the Europeanisation of the universities is
both a fairly recent phenomenon (with the 1980s serving as a kind of turning
point) and a profound process altering the conditions for research and higher education in Europe. At the same time, the field is still young, and the authors call
for more comparative studies and bottom-up approaches. (Less)
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Europeanisation, university, history of universities, history of knowledge
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History of Intellectual Culture 4/2025 : Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production after the Holocaust. A Postwar Republic of Letters? - Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production after the Holocaust. A Postwar Republic of Letters?
series title
History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society
editor
Lerg, Charlotte A. ; Östling, Johan and Weiß, Jana
volume
2025
issue
4
pages
237 - 258
publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
ISSN
2747-6774
2747-6766
ISBN
9783111636726
9783111636603
DOI
10.1515/9783111636726-011
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Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge
The Europeanisation of the Universities: Transforming Knowledge Institutions from within, c. 1985–2010
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English
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yes
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2073f114-45de-4b13-9135-d02f7eb50a36
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  author       = {{Haikola, Karl and Östling, Johan}},
  booktitle    = {{History of Intellectual Culture 4/2025 : Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production after the Holocaust. A Postwar Republic of Letters?}},
  editor       = {{Lerg, Charlotte A. and Östling, Johan and Weiß, Jana}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  pages        = {{237--258}},
  publisher    = {{De Gruyter Oldenbourg}},
  series       = {{History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society}},
  title        = {{Review Essay: The Europeanisation of the Universities : An Emerging Topic of Historical Research}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783111636726-011}},
  doi          = {{10.1515/9783111636726-011}},
  volume       = {{2025}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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