Noah W. Sobe
Professor, History Department

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Recent Presentations and Podcasts Available On-Line

• Education in the Future on the Futures of Education podcast with Alex Battison and Nikita Khandwala, April 30, 2024

Prof. Sobe was also invited to appear on S1 E8 of this podcast to discuss a "Disruptive Idea" that could shape the futures of education in positive directions and he offered some suggestions on increased use of the practice of sortition or drawing by lots.  

• Peak Potential: Entangled Histories of Education Reform and Transformation. Keynote address, 44th Annual International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE), Budapest, Hungary, July 18, 2023

• Desired Childhoods, Adverse Childhoods and the Future of Early Childhood Education on AMI Podcasts (Association Montessori Internationale), March 8, 2023

• Transforming towards utopia: Redefining and repurposing change in global education.  Keynote address (with Prof. Aaron Benavot) US Summit on Transformative Education, February 24, 2023 

• UNESCO's Futures of Education Report with Noah Sobe, PhD, Breaking Boundaries: A podcast from Northwestern University's Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, September 29, 2022

• UNESCO's Futures of Education Project, FreshEd podcast #178, September 23, 2019

• The Slowing Global Order: Changing Contexts of Education and Comparative Research Lauwerys Keynote Lecture, Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE) June 1, 2018 (Nicosia, Cyprus)

• "The Datafication of Comparative Education" FreshEd Podcast & CIES Post-Foundational SIG Webinar with Nelli Piattoeva, Noah W. Sobe, and Ezekiel Dixon-Román, May 2018.