We’re delighted to be able to announce the programme for ‘Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skills & Knowledge in Practice’, to be held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 1st-2nd September 2016.
Registration is now open and will cost £55 for two days. It will close on August 1st. Please state your interest to John Gallagher and Jennifer Bishop at teachingandlearning2016@gmail.com – bear in mind we have a limited number of spaces, so don’t delay!
DAY 1: 1st September 2016
8.30 – 9.00: Registration and welcome
9.00 – 10.30: Embodied skills: bells, boats, & servants
Richard Blakemore (Oxford), ‘What belongs to a seaman’: learning maritime skills in early modern Britain’.
Katherine Hunt (Oxford), ‘If all the World were Paper: learning bell-ringing from printed notation’.
Robert Stearn (Birkbeck), ‘Boring servants’ ears: the shape of fidelity taught in early modern England’.
10.30 – 10.50: Coffee break
10.50 – 12.20: Practical literacies
Phil Withington (Sheffield), ‘Literacies and social practice in early modern England’.
Amanda Pullan (Lancaster), ‘Women, classical learning, and needlework in 17th-century Britain’.
Jennifer Bishop (Cambridge), ‘Everybody wants to be a clerk: becoming a professional writer in early modern London’.
12.20 – 1.10: Lunch
1.10 – 2.40: Knowledge that counts: numeracy, mathematics, and accounting (for oneself)
Becky Tomlin (Cambridge), ‘Teaching the ‘Exquisite Art’: books, book-keeping and the transmission of knowledge in 16th– and 17th-century London’.
Mordechai Levy-Eichel (Princeton), ‘‘Into the Mathematical Ocean’: Mathematics, Navigation, and Self-Education in the Early Modern Atlantic World’.
Lizzie Swann (Cambridge), ‘‘The Science of Living Blessedly’: Practical Theology & Craft Knowledge in Reformation England’.
2.40 – 3.00: Coffee break
3.00 – 4.30: Roundtable: Teach yourself; or, how to use a how-to book
Richard Oosterhoff (Cambridge), ‘From recipes to autodidacts? Self-help in 17th-century England’.
James Fisher (KCL), ‘How does a book learn? The appropriation and codification of agricultural knowledge’.
Barbara Crosbie (Durham), ‘Education made easy: learning and teaching in Newcastle-upon-Tyne’.
Sian Prosser (Royal Astronomical Society), ‘Using the library of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society as evidence of an informal learning network’.
Matthew Symonds (UCL), ‘‘Poco y bueno’: Gabriel Harvey’s language and other skills’.
4.30 – 4.45: Coffee break
4.45 – 6.15: Reimagining the schoolroom
Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), ‘‘Fully instructed by way of dialogue’: teaching skills in early modern England’.
Emily Hansen (York), ‘Understanding the usher in early modern English grammar schools’.
Anthony W. Johnson, Aleksi Mäkilähde and Tommi Alho (Academy of Finland, ‘Orationes’ Project), ‘Skills and knowledge in the Restoration schoolroom: exploring George Lovejoy’s speechbook’.
DAY 2: 2nd September 2016
9.00 – 10.30: New approaches to early modern education
Laura Gowing (KCL), ‘How girls learned: apprentices and mistresses in early modern London’.
Steph Coster (Leicester), ‘‘Conventicling schools’: educating nonconformists in the Restoration’.
John Gallagher (Cambridge), ‘Invisible teachers? Reconstructing the educational economy of later 17th-century London’.
10.30 – 10.50: Coffee break
10.50 – 12.20: Performance & Practice
Simon Smith (Oxford), ‘Judging the skills of the early modern actor’.
Michael Gale (Open University), ‘Recreational music-making in early modern Oxford and Cambridge university colleges’.
Andrew Keener (Northwestern University), ‘Trading in tongues: polygot manuals and William Haughton’s Englishmen for my money’.
12.20 – 1.00: Lunch
1.00 – 2.30: Skilful knowledge: crafts & trades
Judy Stephenson (Cambridge), ‘Masters & managers: apprenticeship & training in early modern London construction’.
Joe Lane (LSE), ‘Where have all the potters gone? Teaching & learning a craft trade outside of the guild system in North Staffordshire’.
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (Cambridge), ‘Saints in the guild hall: workshop role models and craft skill in post-Reformation England’.
2.30 – 3.00: Coffee break
3.00 – 4.30: Learning medicine and physic
Jonathan Barry (Exeter), ‘The education of medical practitioners in early modern England’.
Ismini Pells (Exeter), ‘‘To cure a Gun-shot’: learning medicine on the frontline during the British Civil Wars’.
Christine Griffiths (Bard Graduate Center), ‘‘Water it oft or it will grow little’: gardening on the margins in early modern England’.
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