A transdisciplinary and transnational conference dedicated to new research on the history of educational globalization, school buildings and campus planning, with a focus on the Mediterranean region, from the 1850s to the present.

The conference aims to enhance the understanding of the process of educational globalization through an in-depth study of its apparition, in a comparative perspective, with reference to the nineteenth century missionary networks in a crucial part of the world: the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Bringing together a trans-disciplinary group of experts – architectural historians and historians of education – the sessions reflect on how the poetics and mechanics of infrastructure, that is conceptions of temporality and spatiality embedded in both institutions of learning and host societies, are a critical feature of the educational experience.