Course Schedule
Sweden-Canada International Seminar in Childhood and Youth Studies
DAY 1 - Sunday May 7
Swedes Check-in to King's Housing approximately 6pm - The instructor will greet them, but he welcomes the Malmo 8 to join him at the northside parking lot - precise times will be specified via text on the day.
DAY 2 - Monday May 8 -
READING: T. May pgs. 1-23
9 AM Breakfast in the cafe
10 AM Student-Led Campus/Neighborhood Tour
12 Noon Welcome Luncheon - Vitali Lounge - Wemple Building
2-4 PM Seminar Discussion - T. May Chapter 1 - KC 119
DAY 3 - Tuesday May 9
READING: T. May pgs. 24-43; watch Althouse Interview of P. Ryan
9 AM - Breakfast in the cafe
10a-Noon Lecture - KC 119: P. Ryan, "Childhood and Discourse Analysis."
12:30 PM Lunch in the Cafe
2p-4PM Seminar Discussion - KC 119 - T. May first half of Chapter 2
DAY 4 - Wednesday May 10
READING: T. May, pgs. 44-60; P. Ryan "How New is the 'New' Social Studies of Childhood? The Myth of a Paradigm Shift," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 38, no. 4 (Spring, 2008): 553-576.
9 AM - Breakfast in the cafe
10a-Noon Lecture - KC 119 - P. Ryan, "The Landscape of Modern Childhood."
12:30 PM Lunch in the Cafe
2p - 4PM Seminar Discussion - DL 112 - T. May, second half of Chapter 2 and P. Ryan "How New?"
DAY 5 - Thursday May 11
READING: P. Ryan "The 'government of heroic women': childhood, discipline, and the discourse of poverty - 'Kontrolle durch heroische Frauen': Kindheit, Disziplin und der Armustsdiskurs," in Bildungsgeschichte – International Journal for the Historiography of Education vol. 7, no. 2 (2017): 173-190; N.T. Ellis, "A Texas Family Fought for Weeks to Regain Custody of their Newborn. Experts say...", Watch BBC - Our World "Norway: Parents Against the State," Apr. 2016, 22 mins.
9 AM - Breakfast in the cafe
10a-Noon Lecture - DL 112 - "Discursive practice, discipline, and population management."
12:30 PM Lunch in the cafe
2p-4PM Seminar Discussion - DL 112 - P. Ryan "government of heroic women..."
DAY 6-8 - Friday May 12/Sunday May 14
7:30 AM - Breakfast in the cafe
8:30a Departure from KUC
11a-1p Niagara Falls
3p-4:30p Toronto
7:30p Drop-off at KUC
DAY 9 - Sunday May 21
Canadians Arrive in Copenhagen from various flight-paths (communicate/meet-up as possible), take the train to Malmo, and walk a few blocks from the station to check in at the First Hotel Jörgen Kock.
DAY 10 - Monday May 22
READING: T. May Chapter 3, 61-85
10:15-12 PM - OR:D377 : – Welcome to Malmö – introduction to the second half of the course
12-1 PM - Lunch, Malmö University Café
2-3 PM - Seminar Discussion – OR:B338 - T. May, first half of Chapter 3
DAY 11 - Tuesday, May 23
READING: T. May Chapter 3, 85-95; J. Qvarsebo and T. Axelsson, "Are we constructing Lutherans, people with values, or US citizens?" in Foucault and a Politics of Confession in Education edited by Andreas Fejes and Katherine Nicoll (London: Routledge, 2015): 146-158.
10:15-12 PM - OR:A234 - Lecture T. Axelsson, “Childhood and the genealogy of values”
12-1 PM - Lunch, Malmö University Café
2-3 PM - OR:A234 - Seminar Discussion - T. May, second half of Chapter 3 and J. Qvarsebo & T. Axelsson
DAY 12 - Wednesday, May 24
READING: T. May Chapter 4, 96-109; J. Qvarsebo (2021), "The Moral Regime of Norm Critical Pedagogics - New Ways of Governing the Swedish Pre-School Child". Critical Studies in Education, 62:2, 164-178.
10:15-12 PM - OR:B404 - J. Qvarsebo, “Critique of ‘the good’ and critique of critique”
12-1 PM - Lunch, Malmö University Café
2-3 PM - OR:B338 - Seminar Discussion – T. May first half of Chapter 4 and J. Qvarsebo
DAY 13 - Thursday, May 25
READING: T. May Chapter 4, 109-125
9:15-12 PM - OR:D377 – Concluding seminar (student led) – T. May, second half of Chapter 4
12-1 PM - Lunch, Malmö University Café
DAY 14 - Friday, May 26
Social activities are extra curriculum. More info when in Sweden.