[H-verkko] Helsinki, The Political Child: Children, Education and the State

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The Political Child: Children, Education and the State
Helsinki 15.05.2009 klo 13:15 - 15.05.2009 klo 17:30

The Political Child: Children, Education and the State

Friday 15 May 2009, at 13.15-17.30, University of Helsinki Main
Building, lecture hall/luentosali 12 (Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki) 


Public lectures:


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 

http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/rahikain/political_child.htm

INVITED SPEAKERS 

Prof. Colin Heywood (Head of the School of History, University of
Nottingham) will act as the invited keynote speaker. 

Colin Heywood is the author of:
Growing up in France from the Ancien Regime 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 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). 

For enquiries, please contact the organizers: 

Prof. Marjatta Rahikainen
Department of Social Science History
University of Helsinki
marjatta.rahikainen at helsinki.fi 

Dr. Saara Tuomaala
Department of History
University of Helsinki
saara.tuomaala at 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. 



http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/rahikain/political_child.htm

Tiedustelut:
Marjatta Rahikainen <marjatta.rahikainen at helsinki.fi> puh. 09
19124953 

Ilmoitus lähetetty: 6.5.2009 20:28

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