The
Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study presents a lecture by
Bengt
Sandin
State
Building, Surveillance of Children, and the Rise of
Early
Modern Education
The speaker will
discuss the politics of education in the early modern era. He will
demonstrate how the politics of education was played out in cultural and
political conflicts over the control of religious traditions, the streets, in
burials, visual displays of power, and the proper place of children in society.
The character of everyday educational practices will also be discussed as a
consequence of the conflict between political elites and the children and
families that resisted them and took advantage of educational institutions for
their own purpose to provide for their children. Sandin will also suggest
the implications of the educational and political changes of the era for our
understanding of childhood and the state and also for the social basis of
educational institutions.
Bengt Sandin is Professor and
Chair in the Department of Child Studies, University of Linköping,
Sweden. He is a world-recognized authority on the history of children,
social welfare, state building, and childhood education in Sweden and in
Western Europe. While at the Institute as a Visiting Fellow, October 21-
November 2, he will collaborate with his primary sponsor, Professor Michael
Grossberg (History), on their project, “Comparing Children’s Rights Regimes:
Sweden and the United States in the Twentieth Century and into the
Twenty-First.” He will also will meet with faculty and students.
Wednesday,
October 24, 2012
12
noon
Persimmon
Room, Indiana Memorial Union
IU
Bloomington
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