Preliminary Programme

Showing: Education and Childhood (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
L-1 EDU01 Changing Border, Defining Identity. A European Perspective of Shaping Children's Role in Modern Society
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Stephen Lassonde
Organizer: Machteld Venken Discussants: -
Caroline Mezger : Deutsche bilden, Schwaben sein: National Education and the Donauschwaben Minority School, 1918-1944
Matthew Pauly : Abandoned on the Edge of Empire: Fin-de-siècle Children’s Welfare in Odessa
Machteld Venken : Growing Up in 20th-Century European Borderlands
Stephanie Zloch : Experiences of Refugees, Expellees and DP's in Post-war German Schools


U-1 SOC01 Childhood Inequality. Children and Social Inequality
Aula 17, Nivel 1E
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Jane Humphries
Organizer: Deborah Oxley Discussant: Jane Humphries
Vellore Arthi : The Influence of Infant Nutrition on Children's Growth and Mortality: Evidence from London's Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919
Sarah Campbell : Waists, Hips and Early Life Health Jeopardy: Validating the ‘Barker Hypothesis’ using Nineteenth Century Tailors’ Records
Mary Cox : The Economic History of Inequality: Childhood and the Fall of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Elisabeth Milne, Deborah Oxley : The Health of the Schoolchild before WW1



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
L-2 EDU02 Children, Youth and Education in the Age of the World Wars
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Anne Berg
Organizer: Esbjörn Larsson Discussants: -
Valentina Boretti : Toying with Defence: Playthings and War in 1930-1940s China
Ingrid Brühwiler : Citizenship Education in Swiss Public Schools Challenged by the First World War
Esbjörn Larsson : Children and Youth in Arms: Military Training at Swedish Schools during World War I and II
Fabiana Loparco : The “Warring Children” on the Pages of the Italian Magazine Corriere dei Piccoli during WWI: between Unreality and Sacrifice



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
L-3 EDU03 Children's Health and Wellbeing in Global Perspective from 1850-1975
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Mona Gleason
Organizer: Mary Clare Martin Discussants: -
Nelleke Bakker : Freudianism and the Conceptualization of Childhood Behavioral Problems in the Netherlands (c. 1945-1975)
Joel Danielsson Löw : Importing Ideas, Avoiding Pitfalls: International Comparison as a Measure in Constructing Child Welfare in Sweden 1901-1932
Helen Franklin : Stopping the Rot: the Establishment of Municipal Dental Provision for Schoolchildren in Edwardian London
Mary Clare Martin : International Perspectives on Children’s Experiences of Play, Recreation and Education in Hospital, 1850-1950: Acculturation, Opportunity or Imposition?



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
L-4 EDU04 Schooling and Childhood - Contested Territories. New Perspective
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Antonella Cagnolati
Organizer: Mona Gleason Discussants: -
Ramona Caramelea : An Instrument of Education: School Buildings in the Second Half of the 19th Century Romania
Ning de Coninck-Smith : The School at The Elbow – a Micro History of School Design and Children’s Geographies
Mona Gleason : Families Without Schools: Rurality, Remoteness, and the Promise of Schooling in Western Canada, 1930 to 1960
Tamara Myers : ‘Les policier-éducateurs,’ or Cops by any Other Name, in Schools: the History of a Quiet Invasion



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
L-5 EDU05 Evacuations of Children and Families in Europe before and during the Course of WWII (I): Humanitarian Concerns, Political Struggles, and Conflicts of Interest
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Lindsey Dodd
Organizers: Lindsey Dodd, Karin Zetterqvist Nelson Discussants: -
Célia Keren : The Evacuation of Spanish Children to France (1936-1939): the Theory and Practice of a Public-private Humanitarian Partnership
Julia Torrie : “The Ripping Apart of the Family”: Gender, Family Cohesion, and Civilian Evacuations in National Socialist Germany
Karin Zetterqvist Nelson : Pediatric experts, welfare politics and the Finnish War children


N-5 HEA15 Children and Mental Health in the 20th Century
Aula 11, Nivel 1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment Chair: Nelleke Bakker
Organizer: Nelleke Bakker Discussant: Ning de Coninck-Smith
Anna Larsson : Framing Mental Health Problems in 20th Century Swedish Schools
Christian Sandbjerg Hansen, Trine Øland : Inside the Child: the Institutionalization of Psychological Theories of Children and Education in Denmark, 1930s-1960s
Peter Skagius : Assembling the child: Child psychiatric and psychological expertise in a Swedish morning paper, 1968-2008



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
B-6 CRI19 Re-reading 'the Past' in Redress Schemes: International Approaches to Historical Child Abuse
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizer: Johanna Sköld Discussant: Shurlee Swain
Margaret Jacobs : Indigenous Children, Forced Removal and Institutionalization, and Redress in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Eoin O'Sullivan : Redress in Ireland: Shifting Financing Responsibility and the (re) Construction of History
Johanna Sköld, Johanna Schiratzki & Bengt Sandin : Re-interpreting Past Experience of Severe Child Abuse in Current Redress Processes: a Swedish Case Study


L-6 EDU06 Evacuations of Children and Families in Europe before and during the Course of WWII (II): Evacuated Children’s Bodily and Mental Health – Expertise, Examinations, and Experiences
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment Chair: Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
Organizers: Lindsey Dodd, Karin Zetterqvist Nelson Discussant: Heini Hakosalo
Lindsey Dodd : ‘No more Goodnights’: Health and Wellbeing in the Experiences of Evacuated Children France, 1940-1944
Marianne Junila : Finnish Children Evacuated to Sweden for Medical Treatment, 1942-1947
Helene Laurent : The evacuated children in Lapland during World War II: health, epidemics, immunizations.



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
L-7 EDU07 Failing Then - Succeeding Now?
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Johanna Sköld
Organizer: Shurlee Swain Discussant: Johanna Sköld
Agnès Arp : How Once-Institutionalized Children from the GDR Remember Their Daily Life in Children’s Homes
Louise Jackson : Social Historians and Public Inquiries into Child Sexual Abuse: the UK Context
Nell Musgrove : “She was sorry she had given him a beating”: Discipline, Punishment and Abuse in Historical Child Welfare Systems
Shurlee Swain : Both Victim and 'Perpetrator': Finding a Voice before Inquiries into Historical Abuse in Out-of-home Care



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
L-8 EDU08 Framing Historical Child Abuse: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Shurlee Swain
Organizer: Andrew Kendrick Discussant: Louise Jackson
Jeroen Dekker, Hans Grietens : The Dutch Inquiry into Historical Abuse of Children in Public Care. Why only Sexual Abuse?
Kjersti Ericsson : The Best Kind of Care: Foster Homes, Children's Homes or Something in between?
Frank Golding : Mismanaging Expectations: the Dominance of Sexual Abuse
Andrew Kendrick, Moyra Hawthorn : Framing Historical Child Abuse in the UK: Legacies of the Past, The Focus in the Present
Pirjo Markkola, Johanna Koivisto : ”I’m telling you my Story to make sure that no Child will ever be treated as I was”: Historical Inquiry on Child Abuse and Neglect in Child Protection Institutions and Foster Homes in Finland, 1937–1983



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
L-9 EDU13 Schooling, Politics and Nationbuilding
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Elin Laby
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Atacan Atakan : Interpellated 'Little Adults': Children and Creation of Subjects in the Late Ottoman Context (1908-1918)
Sofie Rosengaard : Daycare Education and Policy as an Expression of National Government
Victoria Schmidt : The Education for Disabled Children during the First Decades after the WWII in Czechoslovakia: in the Game of Big-time Politics



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
L-10 EDU10 The Emergence of Mass Schooling in the Nineteenth Century
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Esbjörn Larsson
Organizer: Johannes Westberg Discussant: David Mitch
Nancy Beadie : The Rise of National Educational Systems in North America: Toward a Transnational Comparative History
Barbara Caluori : Pestalozzi or Bell-Lancaster? Mass Schooling in the French Speaking Part of Switzerland at the Beginning of the Early Nineteenth Century
Åsa Karlsson-Sjögren : Girls en Masse – Gender, Poverty and Transformation of Town Schools in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden
Christian Larsen : The Danish School Acts of 1814 and the Emergence of Mass Schooling in Denmark
Johannes Westberg : Thrifty or Fair? The Economic Thinking of Swedish School Boards, 1840-1900
Gabriela Wuethrich : Education for the Bliss of Thousands: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of an Early Modern School System in North-eastern Switzerland



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
L-11 EDU11 Politics, Representations and Consumption
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Joel Danielsson Löw
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Margot Hillel : Reinforcing the Divide? Politics in Nineteenth-century Irish Children’s Literature
Elin Laby : Voice but no Future. Problematizing Differences and Changing Discourses about Children´s Pictures in Art Competitions for Children 1940s and 1970
Carmen Tagsorean : Between Manipulation, Propaganda and Education – the Activity of the Romanian Journals for Children during the Communist Regime



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
L-12 EDU12 Creating the Normal Child(hood)
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Cecilie Boge : Children’s Mental Health and the “Birth” of Bullying
Anne Koskela : Constructing a Problematic Student. Normalisation Discourse between Finnish Teachers and Experts in Child Guidance Clinic in 1968–1991
David Niget : Between Expertise and Care. Youth Confronting Medical and Psychological Expertise on Juvenile Delinquency in Post-WW2 Belgium and France



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
L-13 EDU14 Comparing Educational Reform in the Middle East and East Asia during the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski
Organizer: Klaus Dittrich Discussant: Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski
Klaus Dittrich : “With Tommy Tompkins in Korea” – Conceptualizing an American Missionary Childhood in East Asia around 1900
Andrew Hall : Japanese Education Policies in Korea, 1910-1919: Obedience First, Loyalty Later
Esther Möller : Building up a new Humanity: French and other foreign and local schools between competition and cooperation in early 20th century Beirut
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus : Serving God and the Emperor: The Korea Mission of Japanese Protestants
Karène Sanchez : Education, Languages and Power in Missionary Schools in Palestine (1905-1925)



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
L-14 EDU15 Governing and Reforming Education
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Dacil Juif
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Janne Holmén, Björn Furuhagen : Reforms of Teacher Education in Finland and Sweden
Johan Prytz : Explanations of the Failure of New Math
Johanna Ringarp : Who Governs the School – the State or the Municipality? A Study of How the Swedish Association of Local Authorities Dealt with the 1960 School Reforms during 1950s-1970s
Heli Valtonen, Matti Roitto, Aaron Goings : Historical Method and the Study of Education: Fin[n]ishing the Study of the History of Global Educational Policy Transfer
Alexandra Zhereb : Tsar’s Alexander II Liberal Reforms and the Change of Educational System in the Russian Empire



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
L-15 EDU16 In the Name of the Child? Protecting and Educating Children ‘at Risk’ throughout the 20th – 21st Centuries
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Networks: Criminal Justice , Education and Childhood Chair: Johanna Sköld
Organizers: Els Dumortier, Aurore François Discussant: Tamara Myers
Véronique Czáka, Joelle Droux : In their Best Interest ? The Social and Educational Policies towards Illegitimate Children in French-speaking Switzerland (1900-1970)
Aurore François, Els Dumortier : Saving Shame? Belgian Children’s Courts and Early Motherhood (1912-1965)
Ilse Luyten : Looking Back on Youth Protection Interventions, a “Mark” of Indelible Ink?
Laura Merla, Jacques Marquet : Putting the Notion of 'Best Interest of the Child' into Practice: what Place for Children's Own Voices in Family Matters?



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
L-16 EDU09 Testing, Guiding and Selecting: Governing Bodies and Souls in School and Workplace at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Aula 9, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Patrick Bühler
Organizer: Patrick Bühler Discussant: Patrick Bühler
Esther Berner : „The Right Man in the Right Place“: Concepts and Practices of Apprentice Selection and Training in the Early 20th Century
Lorenzo Bonoli : Between Promotion of Aptitudes and Social Reproduction. Vocational Guidance in Switzerland from 1900 to 1930
Michèle Hofmann, Patrick Bühler : Psychometric Tests in Swiss Schools since the Late 19th Century
Sabine Reh, Kathrin Berdelmann & Joachim Scholz : Writing and Testing: the German Essay at the Beginning of the 20th Century


R-16 EDU18 Scholarly Networks, Scholarly Identity. Connecting National and Global Perspectives
Aula 15, Nivel 1
Network: Education and Childhood Chair: Rebecca Clifford
Organizer: Simone Maria Müller Discussants: -
Tomás Irish : Scholarly Identities in War and Peace: the Paris Peace Conference and the Mobilization of Intellect
Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf : “Born in America, in Europe bred, in Africa travell'd and in Asia wed:” Elihu Yale, Material Culture and Actor Networks from the 17th to 21st Century


X-16 ORA16 Children, Trauma and Memory
Seminario F, Nivel 1E
Networks: Education and Childhood , Oral History Chair: Valerie Yow
Organizer: Shurlee Swain Discussants: -
Stine Gronbaek Jensen : Inconvenient Memories among Children and Adults Taken into Care in Denmark
Heidi Morrison : Memory, Agency and Palestinian Children of the Second Intifada
Michelle Mouton : Trauma Memories Differently Remembered: an Exploration of how Germans Remember the Second World War and its Aftermath
Shurlee Swain : “I Didn’t Have the Kind of Childhood Most Kids Have”: Recollections of Growing Up in American Orphanages in the 20th Century


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