The Religious Studies Research Forum presents
The McCosh Lecture 2023

James McCosh and the Idea of a University

by Professor David Livingstone FBA
of Queen's University Belfast

on Wednesday, 17 May 2023, at 2pm - 4pm
in the Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast

When James McCosh left Queen’s College Belfast in 1868, it was to take up the Presidency of the College of New Jersey in the United States. There he transformed the College into one of the world’s leading institutions of higher learning – Princeton University. In an era of religious revival, Darwinian evolutionism and the professionalisation of science, McCosh navigated his own distinctive path through the challenges of a rapidly changing intellectual culture drawing on his earlier experience in Belfast. In this lecture, we revisit McCosh’s educational philosophy and its religious underpinnings, and pause to consider what relevance, if any, it has to current debates about the nature and purpose of the modern university.

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