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Creative analogies and the reading of rankings

Creative analogies and the reading of rankings. Peodair Leihy University of Melbourne. What is the X of Y?. The Harvard of the Middle East The Harvard of the South A Cambridge for the New World An American Balliol. Ob-platte heraldry. Oxford. Cambridge. Sydney. Ob-platte Latin.

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Creative analogies and the reading of rankings

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  1. Creative analogies and the reading of rankings PeodairLeihy University of Melbourne

  2. What is the X of Y? • The Harvard of the Middle East • The Harvard of the South • A Cambridge for the New World • An American Balliol

  3. Ob-platte heraldry Oxford Cambridge Sydney

  4. Ob-platte Latin Literal translation: ‘With changed sky, the same mind’ Clive James translation: ‘Sydney University is really Oxford or Cambridge laterally displaced some 12 000 miles’ 悉尼大学=牛津或剑桥 （12000英里东南）

  5. Analogical algebra • If Z = the X of Y • Is Y a handicap? • Is Z necessarily somehow < Z?

  6. Analogical mapping and retrieval Mapping: matching things ‘present in their entireties before one’s eyes’ Retrieval: matching things ‘largely dormant in memory’ (Douglas Hofstadter, 1995)

  7. The Harvard of the World?

  8. League tables • Being ‘in the same league’ • Promotion and relegation

  9. Third tier of English football Close to promotion to second tier Mid-table: comfortably third tier Close to relegation to fourth tier

  10. Formal leagues • Ivy League (Northeastern US) • Russell Group (UK) • Group of Eight (Australia) • C-9 (China)

  11. ‘Ivy League’ - lost in translation? • From the Ivy League to ‘the Ivy league of…’ (Germany, China)

  12. Status and substance • Not beyond status, but alongside and around it

  13. Elite league and whole-system development • A non-Chinese perspective on C-9: ‘Let some universities get rich first’ (让一部份大学先富起来)?

  14. The MIT of the East • Jiatong as ‘the MIT of the East • MIT-ness • What is the East?

  15. Reading rankings for the MIT of the East

  16. The MIT of the East continued…

  17. The MIT of the East continued…

  18. What are we retrieving? • MIT-ness or Harvard-ness? • Something else?

  19. Some conclusions • Usefulness and limitations of analogies • A normative slipstream: a metaphor • Analogies never decisive, but insightful

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