“Books vs. ipads in suitcases. Past and future of universities in the era of globalization” is the title of the panel discussion, which will today be celebrated at Aula Magna of the Cultural Centre La Nau, 19th May at 19h. This debate is a complement of the exhibition titled “books in suitcases: university students abroad (1945-79)”, produced by the Universitat and which could be visited at La Nau until the past month of April.
The exhibition will show the experiences of young university students who, from the mid 40’s until the end of the 70’s, emigrated in order to train themselves in other countries and when they would come back they would incorporate themselves at Universitat de València as professors.
At the debate, some of those young students who were involved in the exhibition will precisely participate. Today, professors of the Universitat: full university professors Juan Viña and Joan Oleza, as well as the two superintendents of this exhibition, Mª Ángeles Casabó and Sara Joana Reig.
The exhibition showed the renovation which, for the Spanish university, meant the stay in foreign countries of those university students. In their return, the students brought international contacts and experiences from other countries. Besides the academic exchange, those students lived major events as the one in May 1968 in France or the protests against the war of Vietnam in USA.
The scene has changed at the universities of the XXI century. Many of those causes, which justified the migrations of the students, have been improved. Concurrently, the appearance of the Internet allows the access to the sources and to researchers all over the world. In this new scene, the debate will try to answer up to which point the stays abroad of young professors are necessary. Should university professors, trainers of trainers, continue preparing themselves at other global world universities?
Last update: 19 de may de 2015 08:00.
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