【主講】柯偉林（William C. Kirby）

美國哈佛大學中國研究教授（T. M. Chang 講席）

哈佛大學商學院史賓格勒家族工商管理學教授

哈佛大學傑出貢獻教授

哈佛大學費正清研究中心主任

哈佛中國基金會主席

【主題】The Chinese Century? Universities and Liberal Education in the 21st Century

【語言】英語

【時間】2012年5月31日（星期四）14:00-16:00

【地點】beat365偉倫報告廳

柯偉林教授（William C. Kirby）簡介

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.

A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950s; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China’s relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China and the United States.

Before coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of History, Director of Asian Studies, and Dean of University College at Washington University in St. Louis. At Harvard, he has served as Chair of the History Department, Director of the Asia Center, and most recently, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As Dean, he led Harvard's largest school, with 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty members, 2,500 staff, and an annual budget of $1 billion.

As Dean he initiated major reforms in undergraduate education in Harvard College; enhanced Harvard's international studies at home and abroad; increased substantially financial aid in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; supported the growth of the Division (now School) of Engineering and Applied Sciences; and oversaw the construction of major new buildings in the Life Sciences, Engineering, and the Arts. During his tenure the Faculty expanded at its most rapid rate since the 1960s.

Professor Kirby holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and (Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa) from the Free University of Berlin and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is Honorary Professor at Fudan University, Chongqing University, Peking University, Nanjing University, and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has held appointments also as Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

哈佛大學中國研究教授（T. M. Chang講席）和哈佛大學商學院史賓格勒家族工商管理學教授。哈佛大學傑出貢獻教授，哈佛大學費正清研究中心主任，哈佛中國基金會主席。作為現代中國的史學家，柯偉林教授的著作在國際背景下探讨了中國的商業、經濟和政治發展狀況。他的著作涉及現代中國商業發展（國有和私營企業）、中國公司法和公司結構、中國自由史、20世紀50年代國際社會主義經濟、台灣海峽兩岸關系以及中國與歐美關系。目前的研究課題包括當代中國商業的案例研究和中美高等教育的比較研究。他是北京大學、南京大學、重慶大學和複旦大學的客座教授，同時還是海德堡大學和柏林自由大學的客座教授。1992年去哈佛大學任教之前，曾是密蘇裡州聖路易斯華盛頓大學的曆史學教授、亞洲研究中心主任和大學學院院長。在哈佛執教期間，曆任曆史系系主任、亞洲研究中心主任及文理學院院長一職。從2002年到2006年，作為哈佛大學的學院規模最大的院長，柯偉林教授在哈佛學院對本科生教育進行了重大改革，提高了哈佛大學在國内外開展國際研究的實力和水平，導緻對哈佛學院和文理研究生院的财務資助顯著增加。他支持工程與應用科學部（現為工程與應用科學學院）的發展，監督生命科學、工程和藝術專業的主要建築的建造工作。在他的任期内，文理學院以20世紀60年代以來最快的發展速度迅速成長。柯偉林教授分别從達特茅斯學院及哈佛大學獲得學位，擁有柏林自由大學榮譽博士學位。還是美國人文科學研究學會會員。