Conference "Shared Governance or Mixed Government?," Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 8-9 September 2017

The organizers’ purpose was two-fold: first, to let sophisticated practitioners of university governance see their experience in a new light, and second, to enable scholars well-versed in the classical republican tradition to stimulate their own thinking by testing their theoretical concerns against patterns of life they themselves know best in practice—i.e., university governance, in which all of them are almost always inexorably involved. However, apart from recasting the familiar experiences in novel terms (which might have an eye-opening effect sometimes), the workshop also intended to contribute to our thinking on how to improve the university governance in top research universities across the world.