{"id":46,"date":"2017-06-15T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/literacyculture\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T16:37:10","slug":"conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/literaryculture\/conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17-18 July, 2018 &#8211; University of Kent<\/p>\n<h3>Keynote Speakers:<\/h3>\n<p>Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford<br \/>\nProfessor Priscilla Wald, Duke University<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-image-133 size-feed\" src=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/literacyculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/2017\/06\/Literacy-Culture-conference-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Literary Culture, Meritocracy and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America, 1880-1920\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student in a dunce cap and a man on the steps of the Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1890. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Conference CFP<\/p>\n<p>This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850-1950. We welcome paper and panel proposals on any aspect of British or American literature, education and\/or the sciences of the mind broadly construed.<\/p>\n<p>This conference is part of Dr Sara Lyons\u2019 (PI), Dr Michael Collins\u2019 (Co-I) and Dr Fran Bigman\u2019s (Research Associate) AHRC-funded project, Literary Culture, Meritocracy, and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America, 1880-1920. The project is an investigation of how British and American novelists understood and represented intellectual ability in the period, with a particular focus on how they responded to the rise of intelligence testing and the associated concepts of I.Q. and meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p>Possible topics include literature and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teaching and Being Taught; pedagogical theory and practice<\/li>\n<li>Representations of Places of Learning<\/li>\n<li>Examinations, grades, scholarships, qualifications<\/li>\n<li>Inequality, Discrimination, and Exclusion in Education<\/li>\n<li>Academic Success and Failure<\/li>\n<li>Literacy and Illiteracy<\/li>\n<li>Intellectuals, Experts, Professionalism<\/li>\n<li>Autodidacticism, Informal Education<\/li>\n<li>Varieties of education: aesthetic, classical, moral, religious, scientific, technical<\/li>\n<li>Learning Styles and Types of Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Intellectual ability and disability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well as literature and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professionalisation\/ Institutionalisation of Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Social Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Developmental Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Psychometrics and personality testing<\/li>\n<li>Physiology and psychology<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Schools and Controversies<\/li>\n<li>Psychology and Philosophy<\/li>\n<li>Experimental Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Psychiatry<\/li>\n<li>Sexology<\/li>\n<li>Parapsychology<\/li>\n<li>Eugenics<\/li>\n<li>Language and Cognition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please submit an individual proposal of no more than 350 words or an outline for a 3 paper panel proposal to <a href=\"mailto:sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com\"><u>sciencesofthemindconference@gmail.com<\/u><\/a> by the 1 March, 2018. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Please include your name, a short bio, and email address in your proposal.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the conference programme here: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/literaryculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1970\/2019\/01\/conference-final-1.pdf\">Sciences of the Mind Programme<\/a>. The conference was reviewed by the British Association for American Studies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baas.ac.uk\/usso\/literature-education-and-the-sciences-of-the-mind-in-britain-and-america-1850-1950\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-18 July, 2018 &#8211; University of Kent Keynote Speakers: Professor Helen Small, Pembroke College, University of Oxford Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University Conference CFP This conference aims to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion about the interactions between British and American literature, education, and the sciences of the mind between 1850-1950. 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