The Faculty of Education at Cambridge University is intending to host an international, interdisciplinary conference on the history, philosophy, literature, and practices of education during the eighteenth century. The conference will be held at Homerton College Cambridge from Thursday September 8th to Saturday September 10th, 2005. Themes will include:

• educational ideas and legacies of eighteenth-century philosophers and writers such as John Locke, J.J. Rousseau, Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, Richard and Maria Edgeworth, J.J. Pestalozzi, Hannah More;
• the practices of education for gentry boys and girls, polite culture, changing attitudes to schooling and accomplishments; education in court circles and for the aristocracy;
• schooling for the poor, Charity and Sunday schools, school teaching, tutors and governesses;
• educational artifacts, materials, and books; didactic literature for children;
• education and religion, natural philosophy, literature, Romanticism, political economy, gender, society;
• eighteenth-century constructions of and representations of childhood;
• past and present; eighteenth-century ideas, practices and issues still relevant today.

Abstracts of proposed papers to be sent by October 1st 2004 (acceptances to be advised by January 31st 2005) as electronic and hard copy to the address below.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:

MARY HILTON, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM
mhiltonhom@aol.com

JILL SHEFRIN, TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA
jshefrin@sympatico.ca