TORCH Network Rags to Riches is hosting a workshop on '‘Great Expectations? Childhood and Social Mobility’
Programme
9.30-10.00am Registration
Rector’s Lodgings - Lobby
10.00-11.00am Roundtable – Is childhood the key stage for social mobility?
Rector’s Lodgings – Drawing Room
Selina Todd, Department of History (University of Oxford)
Virginia Morrow, Department of International Development (University of Oxford)
Stanley Ulijaszek, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Oxford)
Chair: Christina de Bellaigue
11.00-11.30am Coffee Break
11.30-12.30pm Parallel Session
Panel 1: Parents and Social Mobility
Rector’s Lodgings – Drawing Room
Christina de Bellaigue, University of Oxford, ‘Reproduction and profit: family planning and social mobility in the industrial bourgeoisie in nineteenth-century France’
Rodolfo Maggio, University of Oxford, ‘Early intervention ethics: the impact of external notions of "good" mothering’
Chair: Laura Tisdall
Panel 2: Memories of Childhood Social Mobility
Rector’s Lodgings – Dining Room
Alison Baker, University of East London, ‘Early reading experiences of white working class trainee teachers’
Johanna Annola, University of Tampere, Finland, ‘The diary of a school boy: a window to the relationship between education and social mobility’
Chair: William Clement
12.30-1.30 Lunch
College Hall
1.30-2.30 Panel 3: Education and Social Mobility
Morris Room
Bálint-Ábel Bereményi, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Judit Durst, University College London, ‘High academic achievement and social mobility of Roma Youth: promises to be gained and prices to be paid’
Mary Hatfield, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Educating Bourgeois Irish Children: 1790-1860’
Martin Myrone, Tate Britain, ‘Childhood aspiration and the bio-politics of art education in early nineteenth-century London’
Chair: Bethany White
2.30-2.45 Break
2.45-3.45 Parallel Session
Panel 4: Social Immobility and Childhood
Morris Room
Laura Sefton, University of Birmingham, ‘“Rockefeller, Rothschild, and Me”: ideas of social mobility and inequality in children's financial education’
Madison Mainwaring, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique, France, ‘The work of the ballet girl: social mobility of female danseuses in France in the nineteenth century’
Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University, ‘From 'development' to 'rights': marginal children, education and social mobility in India’
Chair: Eve Worth
Panel 5: Representations of Childhood Social Mobility
Rector’s Lodgings – Dining Room
Sophie Melissa Smith, University of Southampton, ‘Dangerous readings? Social mobility and the socio-political ramifications of Victorian boy's periodicals’
Deniz Arzuk Kocadere, Bogazici University, Istanbul, ‘Who pays the piper calls the tune: media representations of social mobility and educational inequality in Turkey in the 1980s’
Chair: Catherine Sloan
3.45-4.15 Coffee Break
4.15-5.15 Policy Panel: Should promoting children's upward social mobility be a guiding principle in policy?
Rector’s Lodgings – Drawing Room
Naomi Eisenstadt, Department of Education (University of Oxford)
Karin Eli, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Oxford)
Chair: Selina Todd
5.15 Workshop Finish
Drinks Reception
Rector’s Lodgings – Drawing Room & Garden
Registration necessary. Please contact us for more information: ragstorichesoxford@gmail.com
Rags to Riches?: Experiences of Social Mobility since 1800
Contact name: William Clement
Contact email: ragstorichesoxford@gmail.com
Audience: Open to all
