Conference on Russian and Soviet education

[Polly Jones]

Dear all

Please find below the full program of an international conference to be held in May 2004 at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on the subject of Russian and
Soviet education. Further details for registration can be found at--

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~russeduc/home.htm

Queries can also be addressed to russian.education at wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Many thanks
Polly Jones

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Dr Polly Jones
Junior Research Fellow
Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB
Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.ac.uk; Phone: 01865 515744


"Study, study and Study! Theories and Practices of Education in Imperial and
Soviet Russia, 1861-1991"

May 14th-May 16th, 2004

Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Organisers: Polly Jones and Andy Byford

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 CONFERENCE DINNER (Freud Restaurant)



Saturday 15 May



9:00-9:30 MORNING COFFEE; REGISTRATION



9:30-11:00 PANEL 1 - CLASSROOMS AND IDENTITIES OF EMPIRE

Chair: Katya Andreyev, Oxford

Susan Larsen, Oberlin College

Pedagogy, Politics and the Girl Question in Late Imperial Russia: The Institute Girl and Her Critics after 1860

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



11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK



11:15-12:45 PANEL 2 - GENDER IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Chair: Irina Paperno, Berkeley (tbc)

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

E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech

Gender, Education, and Repression: Single-Sex and Coeducational Schools in Late Imperial Russia (1907-1917) and Late Stalinism (1943-1954)



12:45-2:00 LUNCH (Buttery)



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

Chair: Robert Service, Oxford (tbc)
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


3:30-4:00 AFTERNOON TEA

4:00-5:30 PANEL 4 - SOVIETIZING RUSSIA IN THE 1920S
Chair: Judith Pallot, Oxford
William Partlett, Oxford
Becoming Bolshevik in the Village

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


5:45-7:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Andy Byford, Oxford

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

7:15 DINNER (Buttery)


Sunday 16 May



9:30-10:00 MORNING COFFEE



10:00-11:30 PANEL 5 - THE 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

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

Scapegoats in Soviet History

Ann Livschiz, Stanford

Boys’ and Girls’ Schools in Post-War USSR



11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK



11:45-1:15 PANEL 6 - SCIENCE IN IMPERIAL AND SOVIET EDUCATION

Chair: Rosalind Marsh, Bath

Michael Gordin, Princeton

Modernization by Komandirovka:  The Russian Heidelbergers and the Reconstruction of Technical Education (1855-1880)

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



2:15-3:45 PANEL 7 - 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?

Anatolii Rahkochine, Bielefeld

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

John Ryder, SUNY

The Role of Ideology in Late Soviet Education



3:45-4:15 AFTERNOON TEA



4:15-5:30 CONCLUDING ADDRESS

Chair: Catriona Kelly, Oxford

Vitali Bezrogov, St Petersburg Pedagogical Academy
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 will be provided)









--
Dr Polly Jones
Junior Research Fellow
Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB
Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.ac.uk; Phone: 01865 515744

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