Boarding schools and regimes of repression in comparative perspective: A research symposium

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215 Humphrey School (Wilkins Room) 

Boarding schools and regimes of repression in comparative perspective: A research symposium

Boarding schools have served various types of regimes and were established with a range of aims and target populations of children in mind. There are good reasons for bringing important new research about the histories and legacies of these institutions into the wider discussion of the history of childhood and youth, and into comparative conversations among scholars of boarding schools in different geographic, temporal and political contexts. This session will center on presentations by early-career scholars who are investigating the history of boarding schools in the US, Spain, and Turkey. There will be comments and discussion by University of Minnesota scholars from different disciplinary perspectives.

RSVP required by November 6 

This event was organized by the ICGC Research Circle “Subjects, Objects, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” 

Thanks to our sponsors: 

  • The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
  • The Center for German and European Studies
  • The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • The Department of History
  • The Humphrey School of Public Affairs 

About the Speaker

Presentations by:

  • Tibisay Navarro-Mana (University of Minnesota) on boarding schools in Francoist Spain
  • Sedagül Yavuz (University of Lund) on Turkish girls’ boarding schools for Kurds and Alevis

  • Matt Villeneuve (University of Wisconsin) on the Morris, Minnesota, Indian Industrial School

    Comments will be provided by:

  • Alice Lovejoy, Cultural Studies in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
  • Brenda Child, American Studies & American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
  • Zozan Pehlivan, History, University of Minnesota

 

Moderated by: MJ Maynes, History, University of Minnesota