Programme of the Conference

The programme of the conference as well as the abstracts of the paper presentations are available for download.

Thursday, 11 April, 2019

Venue: Room 2001, Main Building (Budapest, Fővám tér 8.)

13.00-14.00	Registration
14.00-14.10	Welcome Gergely KOVÁTS (Director, Center for International Higher Education Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest)
	Opening addresses
14.10-14.20	Lajos SZABÓ (Vice-Rector, Corvinus University of Budapest)
14.20-14.30	Plenary Session I. Chair: Mátyás SZABÓ (Senior Manager, CEU Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
14.30-15.00	Keynote speech: Privatizing and Merging: The Making of Aalto University in Finland Janne TIENARI (Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland)
15.00-15.20	Discussion
15.20-15.50	Coffee Break
15.10-16.20	Keynote speech: Quality Assurance in Higher Education: where do we go from here? Susan HARRIS-HÜMMERT (Post-doc Research Fellow, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany)
16.20-16.40	Discussion
16.40-17.10	Keynote speech: The Deeply Divided Academic Profession, or Multi-Level Policy Implications of Social Stratification in Higher Education Marek KWIEK (Professor and Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies, University of Poznan, Poland)
17.10-17.30	Discussion
18.30	Gala dinner Academy Club, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Széchenyi István tér 9)

Friday, 12 April, 2019

Venue: Central European University, (Budapest, Nádor u. 15, 1051), room 103 (1st floor)

9.00-9.20	Registration (Nádor u. 15 building, 1st floor, room 103)
9.20-9.30	CEU Welcome Mátyás SZABÓ (Senior Manager, CEU Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
	Plenary Session II. Chair: Gergely KOVÁTS (Corvinus University of Budapest)
9.30-10.00	Keynote speech: The Transformation of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet countries: a Comparative Analysis Anna SMOLENTSEVA (Senior Researcher, Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
10.00-10.20	Discussion
10.20-10.50	Keynote Speech: Re-exploring Higher Education Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Re-Convergence after Divergence? Michael DOBBINS (Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany)
10.50 – 11.10	Discussion
11.10 –11.30	Coffee break
11.30 –12.30	Roundtable discussion with keynote speakers Moderator: Gergely KOVÁTS (Corvinus University of Budapest)
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13.30-15.00	PARALLEL SESSIONS I.
15.00-15.20	Coffee Break
15.20-16.50	PARALLEL SESSIONS II.
16.50-17.00	Concluding remarks Gergely KOVÁTS and Mátyás SZABÓ