2024 - Histories of Education Summer School

• Call for Applications
• Application Form
• Dates: 6–8 June 2024
• Venue: Danish School of Education, Campus Emdrup in Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Application deadline: 31 December 2023

This conference invites applications from postgraduate students in the history of education with an interest in the histories of educational spaces and discourses and new ways of working with images, artefacts, and archives. Leading international historians of education will give lectures and workshops, and offer advice concerning the research process. There will be opportunities for students to discuss their dissertation projects with fellow doctoral candidates and receive comments from prominent scholars in the field.

The summer school started as an EERA pilot project and is the fouteenth conference in a series of successful events that started in Ghent in 2010 and was followed by meetings in Birmingham 2011, Lisbon 2012, Hamburg 2013, Umeå 2014, Luxembourg 2015, Groningen 2016, Porto Conte 2017, Riga 2018, Liverpool 2019, Lyon 2021, Madrid 2022 and Zürich 2023. This session of the summer school is organized by the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University and will be held at Campus Emdrup in Copenhagen. The conference is supported by:

• Stichting Paedagogica Historica
• History of Education Society, UK
• European Educational Research Association (EERA)
• International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)
• Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
• The Centre for Danish Educational History, Aarhus University

The number of participants is limited to 25 students. The conference language is English. Participation in the conference is free of charge. Accommodation and meals will be provided, but delegates will have to cover the cost for their travel to Copenhagen. ISCHE travel bursaries are available to students from low-GDP countries. For more information, please check the application form.

Tutors: Ian Grosvenor and Siân Roberts (University of Birmingham, UK), Angelo Van Gorp (RPTU-University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany), Björn Norlin (Umeå University, Sweden) and Sue Anderson-Faithful (University of Winchester/History of Education Society, UK).

Local organisers: Lisa Rosén Rasmussen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Ning de Coninck-Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark), Christian Sandbjerg Hansen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Hanne Knudsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Victoria Percy-Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark), Pernille Svarre Nygaard (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Application form

The Application form should be sent to history-of-ed-ss-2024(at)eera-ecer.de

Closing date for applications is 31 December 2023. Applicants will be notified in February 2024.

Contact:history-of-ed-ss-2024(at)eera-ecer.de for queries regarding application, eligibility and selection criteria; Lisa Rosén Rasmussen (lisa@edu.au.dk) for queries on practical issues, e.g. regarding travel, accommodation and venue.