Preliminary Programme

Showing: Education and Childhood (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
N-1 EDU02 Child Saving - Institutions and Moral Judgements
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Mona Gleason
Organizers: - Discussant: Mona Gleason
Daniela Marza : The Child between the State, the Church and the Family – the Case of Transylvania (1850-1918)
Nicoleta Roman : Shaping Orphan Lives in Wallachia: Customs, Laws and Institutions (1800–1860)
Shurlee Swain : Florence and Rosamond Davenport Hill and the Development of Boarding out in England and Australia: A Study in Cultural Transmission



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
D-2 CRI06 A Century of Belgian Child Protection: Keeping up Appearances?
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre D
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Heather Shore
Organizer: Els Dumortier Discussant: Pamela Cox
Jenneke Christiaens, Tinne Geluyckens : On the Dark Side of the Moon: The Detention of Youngsters in Belgium
Els Dumortier, Aurore François : Belgian Magdalenes? History of an Aborted Scandal…
Kevin Goris, Sofie De Bus : The ‘Problem Child’ in Belgian Youth Justice
David Niget : From Criminal Justice to the Social Clinic. Belgium's Juvenile Justice System and the Circulation of Transnational Models, 1912-1965


N-2 EDU01 Border-crossing in Education: From Networks Building to Local Implementation
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Zoe Moody
Organizer: Joelle Droux Discussants: -
Joelle Droux, Damiano Matasci : Tackling Youth Unemployment, Raising Educational Standards: Transnational Educational Actors and Projects at the ILO in the 1930’s
Valeska Huber : The Role of International Networks in the Shaping of University Reform in the Middle East, 1850-1950
Ivan Jablonka : The Globalisation of Child Welfare in Europe and North America (19th-20th c.)
Nora Natchkova, Rita Hofstetter : The Evolution of International Bureau of Education (IBE) : a Field of Institutionalisation of International Relationships in Education (1925-1946)



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
P-3 EDU08 The Decorated School
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Ian Grosvenor
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Grosvenor
Catherine Burke : The Decorated School: Defining the Subject
Peter Cunningham : Public art and the Primary School 1920-1960
Jeremy Howard : Painted, Sculpted, Stitched, Tiled, Metallic, Glazed and Landscaped Schools as Learning Topoi
Shona Kallestrup : Asger Jorn’s School Decoration in Århus Statsgymnasium, Denmark, 1959-61



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
N-4 EDU03 Children and Rights
Main Building: Senate
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Joelle Droux
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria del Mar Del Pozo Andres
Frédéric Darbellay, Zoe Moody : Education and Children’s Rights: an Interdisciplinary and Historical Analysis at the Crossroads
Margot Hillel : ‘“ Maybe Help Make the World a Better Place to Live in”’: Young People as Redemptive Conscience in Australian Books for Young Adults
Ines Meier, J.W. Whitlow, Jr. : The Rational Child: How the Age of Reason Shaped Children’s Status as Persons
Victoria Shadrina : Philosophy for Children as a Way to Individuality
Ingrid van der Bij : Claiming to Protect the Child.



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
F-5 EDU04 Childhood and (trans-)national philanthropy in 20th century Europe
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács
Organizers: - Discussant: Joelle Droux
Stefania Bernini : Exporting Solidarity and Norms: Children and UNRRA Workers in Post-war Europe
Christophe Declercq : Spoiled Pets, the Strange Case of Charity and Belgian Refugee Children in Britain during WW1
Helene Laurent : The Role of International Relief Organizations in Post-war Finland in the Fight against Tuberculosis in Children
Jennifer Morris : Vagabond Children, Destitute Mothers and Masses of Milk: UNICEF's Post World War II Food Aid Programs for Children and Mothers
Eszter Varsa : “The Solution of the Gypsy-question?”: Intersections of Gender and “Race”/Ethnicity in Child Protection in Early State Socialist Hungary



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
Z-9 EDU07 State, Education and Childhood Recovery from 18th to 20th Centuries, the Case of Southern Italy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Paola Avallone
Organizer: Paola Avallone Discussant: Bengt Sandin
Giuliana Boccadamo : Education and employment of women in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th century
Anna Gargano : Schools in the “Real Albergo dei Poveri” in Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Lupo Maurizio : The Recovery of Social Marginality through Education in the Kingdom of Naples between the 18th and 19th Century: A General View.
Rossano Pazzagli : Agricultural Education in the Kingdom of Naples (18th-19th Centuries)
Raffaella Salvemini : Marginality and Maritime Education in Southern Italy between the 18th and 19th Century.
Maria Antonietta Selvaggio : From Urchins to Little Sailors: The Case Study of the Training Ship "Caracciolo", Naples 1913-1928



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
P-10 EDU11 War & Children / Childhood
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Margot Hillel
Organizers: - Discussant: Margot Hillel
Carolyn Kay : War Propaganda for the Young: Children’s Literature in Germany during The First World War
Orna Naftali : Embattled Childhoods: Children, Gender and Violence in China of the “Cultural Revolution” Period (1966-76)
Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde : A School Trip Down Memory Lane - Catholic Education, Pupil’s Memory and World War II in Belgium


Z-10 EDU09 Theory and Youth/Children as a Social Phenomenon
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Annemieke Van Drenth
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Hilda Amsing : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: The Case of the Dutch Socialist Youth Movement (1930s)
Sjaak Braster : Facebook without Internet. The Hidden Functions of Homework Planners in the Classroom (1950-1990)
Mandy Talhout : Membership of Youth Organizations: Historical or Structural? A Case Study
Greetje Timmerman : Youth as a Social Phenomenon: Theory



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
Z-11 EDU10 Voices of Child Saving
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizers: - Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Claire Gallagher : In the “Schools” on Ellis Island: The Children, Their Classrooms and Experience
Nell Musgrove : Imagining Foster Mothers – Historical Perspectives
Daniel Nilsson Ranta : Acting Child In Distress – on Philanthropy, Child Care and Societal Saving Eagerness
Karen Robbins : Discipline and Polish: Creating Identity through Space at Girls' Reforms Schools in 19th Century America
Andrew Sanders, Val Wood : One Hundred Voices



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
M-13 EDU05 Health, Welfare and Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Catherine Burke
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Mona Gleason : Children, Sexual Health, and Identity in Canada, 1900 to 1950
Anna Larsson : Enhancing the Social and Psychological Health of Swedish School Children 1940–1980: Children’s Needs and Expert’s Competences
Bengt Sandin, Mathilda Hallberg : Visualizing Children´s Bodies in the Welfare State



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
M-14 EDU06 Special Children
Main Building: Melville
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Greetje Timmerman
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jeanette Normanton Erry : ‘Excellence is merely a matter of opportunity.’ The role of physical education in schools for the blind in England and Wales in the mid-twentieth century.
Annemieke Van Drenth : Nineteenth Century Perceptions of Mental Retardation and Child Pathology in the Dutch Context
Pieter Verstraete : Deaf Sports and the Politics of Identity. The Development of Sport Associations for deaf People in Belgium, 1880-1945
Bart Vranckx, Pieter Fannes : Creativity in Crisis: A Conceptual Approach of an Educational Discussion


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