Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek at Cambridge
The workshop series International Dialogue on Education Berlin is a joint initiative of the British Council Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Australian Group of Eight and the Canadian Bureau for International Education in Berlin.
Through the contributions of international participants the series aims to enrich the debate on science, research and higher education policy in Germany, to place German perspectives in a global context and to learn from positive examples from other countries.
Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, Director of CRASSH, the Cambridge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Director of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has published on many aspects of Greek literature and culture; he also has published on nineteenth-century opera, art and fiction. Professor Goldhill directed the King's College Research Centre for six years before taking over at the Cambridge Research Centre, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work.
He has also directed a five year 14 person project on Victorian culture. He has lectured all over the world and is a regular broadcaster on radio and television in Britain and elsewhere. Professor Goldhill was educated in Cambridge, and has taught at Princeton, Chicago and the EHESS, Paris.
Currently, CRASSH organizes around 300 events a year, and hosts 40 visiting fellows, as well as running several major lecture series - sponsoring interdisciplinary research.
