Second Call for Papers

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION

Annual Conference of the History of Education Society (UK)

Liverpool Hope University

20th-22nd November 2015

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Ruth Watts, Emeritus Professor of History of Education, University of Birmingham

Dr Claire Jones, Teacher and Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool

Jonathan Reinarz, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham

Too often the history of science and technology and the history of education have been written at a remove from each other despite being intimately connected. It is an important aim of this conference to bring these two significant and related areas of historiography into closer dialogue with one another. While we welcome papers which examine theoretical, methodological and historiographical aspects of the relationship between science, technologies and education, we are equally keen for speakers to focus on the interplay of these key themes in specific historical and material settings. Papers focusing on the artefacts and material culture of science, technology and education are especially welcome.

We welcome papers (from members and non-members of the Society) which focus on one, two or all of the conference’s thematic areas, (science, technologies, material culture). Possible topics for papers may include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

Historiography of science, technology and education

Science and technology in the curriculum -Scientists as public intellectuals

Medical education -Technologies of the self

Science and identity formation - Science, technology and class

Science, technology and gender - Materialities of teaching and learning

Books, equipment, technology and the transfer of ideas

Scientific and technological networks - Scientific internationalism Science, technology and empire

School and university architecture - Education for the scientific professions

Popular science - Scientific and technological elites - Scientific societies

Science as popular education/entertainment - Science and education in the home

Subject and disciplinary formation - Medical humanities

Educational artefacts - Museums as educational spaces

Abstracts (250 words max) should be sent to Heather Ellis at ellish@hope.ac.uk

Deadline: 6th September 2015

Conference host: Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University

Conference venue: Liverpool Hope University (Cornerstone Campus)/Feathers Best Western Hotel, Liverpool