The Political Child: Children, Education and the State
15 and 16 May 2009, University of Helsinki
Programme:
Friday 15 May 2009
Public lectures
University of Helsinki Main Building, lecture hall (luentosali) 12
address: Fabianinkatu 33 / Fabiansgatan 33, Helsinki (access also from the Senate Square, Unioninkatu 34 / Unionsgatan 34)
13.15–13.30 Opening words by Prof. Marjatta Rahikainen
13.30–14.15 Associate Prof. Karen Stanbridge, Absence of childhood in mainstream national theory
14.15–15.00 Docent Susanna Hedenborg, Children, sports politics and stable work in late twentieth-century Sweden
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15–16.00 Dr. Jane Gray, Lived experience, changing childhood and state formation in twentieth-century Ireland
16.00–16.45 Prof. Colin Heywood, Battles for the mind: the history of children in politics
16.45–17.30 Discussion and audience response with a panel of Heywood, Gray, Hedenborg and Stanbridge. Chair Dr. Saara Tuomaala
Saturday 16 May 2009
9.30–17.00
Workshop for paper presenters
University of Helsinki, Department of Social Science History
For enquiries, please contact the organizers:
Prof. Marjatta Rahikainen
Department of Social Science History
University of Helsinki
marjatta.rahikainen@helsinki.fi
Dr. Saara Tuomaala
Department of History
University of Helsinki
saara.tuomaala@helsinki.fi
The seminar is organized by Department of Social Science History and Department of History at the University of Helsinki, in collaboration with Suomen taloushistoriallinen yhdistys – Finnish Economic History Association, and Associate Prof. Karen Stanbridge, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Prof. Colin Heywood (Head of the School of History, University of Nottingham) will act as the as the invited keynote speaker and a commentator of workshop papers.
Colin Heywood is the author of:
Growing up in France from the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic (2007);
History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times (2001);
Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France: Work, Health and Education among the 'classes populaires' (1988).
Other invited speakers and commentators are Dr. Jane Gray (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland), Docent Susanna Hedenborg (Malmö University College, Sweden) and Associate Prof. Karen Stanbridge (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada).