RUNDOWN:
5:45pm     Registration
6:00pm     Opening Remarks
6:05pm     Presentation
6:30pm     Moderated Q&A
6:55pm     Closing Remarks
7:00pm     End

ASHK Members and Ohio State University Alumni: HKD 60
Non-Members: HKD 80

Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to host a discussion with Professor David Horn, Dean of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University on Why the Liberal Arts Matter, on the ongoing importance of the liberal arts to American public education in the 21st century.

Using as an example the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University, one of the largest and most comprehensive colleges of its kind in the United States, Dean Horn will explore the ongoing importance of the liberal arts to the mission of public education.  After providing a brief history of the liberal arts, which emerged in medieval Europe, and of the American “land-grant” university, which took shape at the end of the 19th-century, Dean Horn will argue that the breadth and depth of a liberal arts education have never mattered more: for imagining solutions to urgent challenges, for developing future workforces, and for partnering with communities and organizations around the world. How might we reimagine the liberal arts for the 21st century, and what role can the American land-grant university play in this global conversation?

David Horn is an expert in cultural and historical studies of science and technology, with a focus on the European human sciences (anthropology, criminology, and psychiatry). He currently serves as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Horn joined Ohio State’s Department of Comparative Studies in 1990 and served as chair of the department from 1999 to 2008. He holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Anthropology, French and Italian, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Horn has had leadership positions in the University Senate and from 2011 to 2014 served as the Secretary of the University Board of Trustees. Most recently, Horn was the Associate Executive Dean for Undergraduate Education in Arts and Sciences. He has won fellowships for his research and awards for his teaching and service to the university.

Horn is the author of two books: Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity (Princeton University Press) and The Criminal Body: Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance (Routledge).  He is completing a collection of essays on automatism, writing, and the human sciences.  Horn received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, a master’s from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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