【主讲】柯伟林（William C. Kirby）
美国哈佛大学中国研究教授（T. M. Chang 讲席）
哈佛大学商学院史宾格勒家族工商管理学教授
哈佛大学杰出贡献教授
哈佛大学费正清研究中心主任
哈佛中国基金会主席
【主题】The Chinese Century? Universities and Liberal Education in the 21st Century
【语言】英语
【时间】2012年5月31日（星期四）14:00-16:00
【地点】清华大学经济管理学院伟伦报告厅
柯伟林教授（William C. Kirby）简介
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.
哈佛大学中国研究教授（T. M. Chang讲席）和哈佛大学商学院史宾格勒家族工商管理学教授。哈佛大学杰出贡献教授，哈佛大学费正清研究中心主任，哈佛中国基金会主席。作为现代中国的史学家，柯伟林教授的著作在国际背景下探讨了中国的商业、经济和政治发展状况。他的著作涉及现代中国商业发展（国有和私营企业）、中国公司法和公司结构、中国自由史、20世纪50年代国际社会主义经济、台湾海峡两岸关系以及中国与欧美关系。目前的研究课题包括当代中国商业的案例研究和中美高等教育的比较研究。他是北京大学、南京大学、重庆大学和复旦大学的客座教授，同时还是海德堡大学和柏林自由大学的客座教授。1992年去哈佛大学任教之前，曾是密苏里州圣路易斯华盛顿大学的历史学教授、亚洲研究中心主任和大学学院院长。在哈佛执教期间，历任历史系系主任、亚洲研究中心主任及文理学院院长一职。从2002年到2006年，作为哈佛大学的学院规模最大的院长，柯伟林教授在哈佛学院对本科生教育进行了重大改革，提高了哈佛大学在国内外开展国际研究的实力和水平，导致对哈佛学院和文理研究生院的财务资助显著增加。他支持工程与应用科学部（现为工程与应用科学学院）的发展，监督生命科学、工程和艺术专业的主要建筑的建造工作。在他的任期内，文理学院以20世纪60年代以来最快的发展速度迅速成长。柯伟林教授分别从达特茅斯学院及哈佛大学获得学位，拥有柏林自由大学荣誉博士学位。还是美国人文科学研究学会会员。
