Education & Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
PROGRAMME
Thursday September 8, 2005REGISTRATION 11:00-12:00
LUNCH 12:00-13:00
Keynote Address 13:00-14:00
Michèle Cohen
Professor of Humanities
Richmond University, the American International University in London
Strand A:
Context: Children's Culture, Science, and Civility
Strand B:
Questions of Theory and Piety: National, Public, and Private Education
Thursday September 8, 2005
SESSION 1-A 14:15-16:15
Barnita Bagchi, Human Sciences, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata University
Education, Female Utopias, and Civil Society: Some Eighteenth-Century British Women's Narratives from the Perspective of Development Studies
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Jane Girdham, Department of Music, Saginaw Valley State University
Musical Education: as Accomplishment and Recreation
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Morag Styles, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge & Evelyn Arzipe, Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow
Learning to Read the Word and the World in the Eighteenth Century: the Johnson Family Archives
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Chair: Susan Skedd, English Heritage
SESSION I-B 14:15-16:15
Norman Diffey, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
Theologian or Physician? An Eighteenth-Century Teacher Educator's Construct of the Ideal Pedagogue
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Daniel Tröhler, Pestalozzian Institute, University of Zurich
Ideas in Context: Pestalozzi's Educational Republicanism
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Maurice Whitehead, Department of History, University of Wales, Swansea
From Revolution to Reform: English Jesuit Education and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Chair: Peter Cunningham, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
AFTERNOON TEA 16:15-16:45
SESSION 2-A 16:45-18:45
Jonathan Bengtson, St. Michael's College Library, University of Toronto
Instruction for the Young Student in the Art of Physicke
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Kirkpatrick, Robert
Before Tom Brown-the Birth and Development of the Boys' School Story
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Jennifer Mori, Department of History, University of Toronto
Hosting the Grand Tour: Civility, Enlightenment and Culture, 1740-1790
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Chair: Andrea Immel, Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University
SESSION 2-B 16:45-18:45
G. Matthew Adkins, Department of History, University of Dayton
The Coming of the Tenth Epoch: the Marquis de Condorcet and the Education of Democracy
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Joanna Innes, Somerville College, University of Oxford
The Idea of 'National Education' in England, c.1765-1807
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Sophia Woodley, Balliol College, University of Oxford
'Oh Miserable and Most Ruinous Measure!': the Debate between Private and Public Education in Britain, 1760-1800
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Chair: Julia Swindells, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
DRINKS 19:30
DINNER 20:00
Demonstration of the Jane Johnson website 21:00
Elizabeth Johnson, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington
Friday September 9, 2005
SESSION 3-A 9:00-11:00
Jean-Guy Caumeil, Centre IUFM de Saint-Etienne
Image and Pedagogy: the Historical Relationship Starting at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
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Cynthia J. Koepp, Department of History, Wells College
Dialogues and Dramas for Children: The Enlightened Pedagogy of Louis-François Jauffret
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Cornelia Lambert, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma
'I Should Like to Know all about these Curious Things': Locke, Linnaeus and the British Child, 1790-1825
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Chair: Clarissa Campbell Orr, Anglia Polytechnic University
SESSION 3-B 9:00-11:00
Janet Bottoms, Faculty of Education, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
The Rise of the Juvenile Libraries
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Emma Major, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Nature, Nation and Denomination: Writing for Children, 1775-1800
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Deirdre Raftery, Faculty of Education, University College, Dublin
'Strictures and Vindications': Eighteenth-Century English Print Culture and Education in Ireland
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Chair: Mary Hilton, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
COFFEE 11:00-11:30
SESSION 4-A 11:30-13:30
Carol Percy, Department of English, University of Toronto
Teaching Grammar, Performing Authority
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L.J. Smith, School of English, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
'A Path of Her Own': Mary Wollstonecraft's literature for Children, Rousseauvian Connections and the Reading Subject
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David Stoker, Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
The Re-invention of Mrs Teachwell as Mrs Lovechild
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Chair: Matthew Grenby, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University
SESSION 4-B 11:30-13:30
John Broad, History, London Metropolitan University
Charity Schools in Context: Schooling for the Poor from the Thames to the Humber in 1710
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Tony Fairman
'Sir, this Wheskett I Add Given Me': Schooling the Poor, 1795-1834
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Joyce Goodman, Faculty of Education, University College, Winchester
Constructing educational authority: economics, morality and patriotism in women's educational leadership in early nineteenth century England
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Chair: Peter Cunningham, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
LUNCH 13:30-14:15
SESSION 5-A 14:15-16:15
Emma Laws, Victoria & Albert Museum
Miniature Libraries; or, a Practical Education
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Adrian Seville, City University
Taming the Goose: How the Game of Goose Became Fit for the Education and Amusement of Children during the Long Eighteenth Century
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Jill Shefrin, Trinity College, University of Toronto
'Prints for Infant Schools': The Print Trades and the Material Culture of Innovative Education as Reflected in the Early Years of the Darton Firms (1787-1840)
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Chair: Morag Styles, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
SESSION 5-B 14:15-16:15
Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Department of Political Science, University of Maryland
Philosopher-Statesmen and the Creation of the Guardian-Squire: the American Founders
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Ingrid Lohmann, Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg & Christine Mayer, Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg
Origins of Eighteenth-Century Educational Theory and Practice in Rhetoric and Gender Anthropology
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S.-J. Savonius, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
John Locke's educational radicalism
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Chair: Mary Hilton, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
AFTERNOON TEA 16:15-16:45
SESSION 6-A 16:45-18:45
Matthew Grenby, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University
Delightful Instruction? The Rhetoric and Reality of Children's Book Use
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Leslie McGrath, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library
Robinson and the Rival Crusoes
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Celestina Wroth, Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Kidnapped Fairy Tale: the Cultural Program of Eighteenth-Century Didactic Fiction
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Chair: Andrea Immel, Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University
SESSION 6-B 16:45-18:45
Stephen Bygrave, Department of English, University of Southampton
'Without us all Labour is Vain': Class and Masculinity in Chesterfield's Polite Education
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Donald Leinster-Mackay
Daniel Defoe: an Eighteenth-Century Precursor of the Nineteenth-Century English Public School Tradition?
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Julia Swindells, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Satiric Comedy and the Figure of the Pedant
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Chair: David Whitley, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
CONFERENCE DINNER 20:00
Saturday September 10, 2005
SESSION 7-A 9:00-11:00
Sam George, Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield
Cultivating the Botanical Woman: Rousseau, Wakefield and the Instruction of Ladies in Botany
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Camilla Leach, King Alfred's College, Winchester
Religion and Rationality: Quaker Women and Science Education, 1790-1840
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Ruth Watts, History of Education, University of Birmingham
Education as a Science: the Educational Ideas of Jane Marcet
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Chair: Cynthia J. Koepp, Department of History, Wells College
COFFEE 11:00-11:30
SESSION 8-A 11:30-13:30
Anne Bloomfield
The Significance of the Dancing Master in Creating a Civilized Society
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Gisela Miller-Kipp, Educate-scientific Institut, Heinrich Heine Universitaet, Duesseldorf
Shaftesbury: Enlightenment and Self-Culture
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Barbara Mooney, Department of Art History, University of Iowa
The Colonial Virginia Gentry and the Problem of Architectural Literacy
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Chair: Julia Swindells, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
SESSION 8-B 11:30-13:30
Mary-Clare Martin, School of Education and Training, University of Greenwich
'Family', Friends and Education: Methodism, Community and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Spence Brooks O'Neill, Wake Forest University
'No Less Precious in the Eye of the Omniscient': Elizabeth Hamilton and the Religious Argument for Female Education
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Anne Stott, Open University
Evangelicalism and Enlightenment: the Educational Agenda of Hannah More
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Chair: Jennifer Mori, Department of History, University of Toronto
LUNCH 13:30-14:15
WORKSHOP 14:30-15:00
Steven Cowan
Changing Technologies of Writing in the late
Eighteenth Century and its impact upon ideas of
reading, writing and schooling
Conference Administrator:
Jan Oram (E-mail: jo221@cam.ac.uk
Conference Organisers:
Mary Hilton, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Jill Shefrin, Trinity College, University of Toronto