Final registration deadline for conference on the history of Russian education, Oxford University

[Polly Jones]

Dear all
Please note that the final deadline to register to attend the conference
'Study, study and Study': Theories and Practices of Education in Imperial and
Soviet Russia, 1861-1991' to be held at Oxford University, May 14th-May 16th, is APRIL 30th.
Please visit the conference website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~russeduc/home.htm
for information regarding registration arrangements. The full program is also included below. Please contact russian.education at wolfson.ox.ac.uk with any
questions.
Many thanks
Polly Jones

--
Dr Polly Jones
Junior Research Fellow
Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB
Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.ac.uk



Programme



Registration and Opening Address on Friday 14 May will take place in Room 2, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, OX1 3NA.

All Panels and Lectures on Saturday 15 May and Sunday 16 May will take place in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD.



Friday 14 May



4:00-5:00 REGISTRATION (Room 2, Taylor Institution)



5:00-6:30 OPENING ADDRESS (Room 2, Taylor Institution)

Chair: Polly Jones, Oxford

Larry Holmes, University of Southern Alabama

At the Back of the Class: The History of Education and the Academic Community



7:00 DINNER (Freud Restaurant)





Saturday 15 May



10:00-10:30 MORNING COFFEE; REGISTRATION



10:30-12:15 PANEL 1 - CLASSROOMS AND IDENTITIES OF EMPIRE

Chair: Katya Andreyev, Oxford

Marina Loskutova, European University of St Petersburg

Discovering Motherland: Educational Tourism and Geography in Russian

Schools, 1860s-1914

Michel Tissier, Université Paris 1

Popularizing Law in Late Tsarist Russia: The Ambiguities of Civic Pedagogy

Amol Kahlon, Oxford

Schooling Russian Girls: The Possibilities and Limits of Reforming the Girls' School in the 1880s

Michelle Denbeste, California-State, Fresno

The Pursuit of a Degree: Educating Female Physicians in Late Imperial Russia



12:15-1:30 LUNCH



1:30-3:00 PANEL 2 - REVOLUTION AND REFORM

Chair: Irina Paperno, Berkeley

Ekaterina Bojilina, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

The Reform Projects of the Russian Educational System in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv

Dress Rehearsal for Cultural Revolution: Bolshevik Policy towards Teachers and Education in February – October 1917

Michael Kaser, Oxford

Resources for Education in the Tsarist and Soviet Economies




3:00-3:30 AFTERNOON TEA



3:30-5:00 PANEL 3 - SOVIETIZING RUSSIA IN THE 1920S

Chair: Judith Pallot, Oxford
William Partlett, Oxford
Breaching Cultural Worlds with the Village School: Educational Visions, Local Initiative, and Rural Experience at S. T. Shatsky’s Kaluga School System, 1919-1931

Alexandre Sumpf, Toulouse
Political Education in the RSFSR during the 1920s: Social and Cultural Practices of the Peasant Population

Elizabeth Waters, University College London

About Religion or Against Religion: Tensions between Enlightenment and Propaganda in Adult Education in Soviet Russia in the 1920s



5:00-5:30 DRINKS



5:30-7:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Andy Byford, Oxford

Ben Eklof, Indiana
The Culture of the Classroom (Material and Interactive) in Imperial Russia

7:00 DINNER (Buttery)


Sunday 16 May



9:30-9:45 MORNING COFFEE



9:45-11:30 PANEL 4 - STALINIST SCHOOL BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR

Chair: David Priestland, Oxford

Lyubov Bugaeva, St Petersburg State University

Cultural Transition: Soviet Education in the 1920s and 1930s

E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech (in absentia; paper read by Larry Holmes)

Non-Russian Soviet Schools in the 1930s

Sergei Kudryashov, Istochnik, Moscow & Tony Kemp-Welch, University of East Anglia

Scapegoats in Soviet History: Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev

Ann Livschiz, Stanford

Gender and Citizenship in Postwar Soviet Schools



11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK



11:45-1:15 PANEL 5 - SCIENCE IN SOVIET EDUCATION

Chair: Rosalind Marsh, Bath

Karl Hall, Central European University

Remedies against the Entropy of Human Thought: Physics and Iconoclasm in the Early Soviet University

William Lambert, Columbia

The Pedagogy of Utopia: Michurin, Lysenko, and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature

Michael Froggatt, Oxford

The Ideological Struggle in the Microworld: Science in Schools under Khrushchev



1:15-2:15 LUNCH



2:15-4:00 PANEL 6 - POST-STALINISM - CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES

Chair:  Stephen Lovell, King's College London

Jeremy Smith, CREES, Birmingham

Khrushchev and the Path to Modernization through Education

Laurent Coumel, Sorbonne

Resistance to the 1958 Reform in Higher Education: Corporatism or Intellectual Opposition?

Anatoli Rakhkochkine, Bielefeld

Ideological and Educational Critique of the Western Concepts of Open Education or Informal Teaching in the Soviet Comparative Education between 1970 and 1990

John Ryder, SUNY

The Role of Ideology in Late Soviet Education



4:00-4:15 AFTERNOON TEA



4:15-5:30 CONCLUDING ADDRESS

Chair: Catriona Kelly, Oxford

Vitaly Bezrogov, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow
Mezhdu Stalinym i Khristom: Religioznaya sotsializatsiya detei v sovetskoi i post-sovetskoi Rossii (Between Stalin and Christ: The Religious Socialisation of Children in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia)

(Lecture in Russian; English translation provided)



--
Dr Polly Jones
Junior Research Fellow
Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB
Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.ac.uk

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