Juvenile Delinquency in 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons

Centre for British Studies (Room 105)

Panel chairs and commentators still to be arranged

Saturday 12 March

9.00-9.20 – Conference Registration and Coffee

9.20-9.30 – Welcome and opening words: Heather Ellis (Berlin)/ Lily Chang (Oxford)

9.30 - 11.00 - Panel 1: Conceptualising Juvenile Delinquency

a) Kate Bradley (University of Kent)
Becoming Delinquent in the Post-War Welfare State: Britain, 1945-1965

b) Lily Chang (University of Oxford)
The Emergence of the ‘Problem Child’ in Early Twentieth-Century China

c) Simon Heap (Plan International)
A Southern Comparative: Histories and Theories of Juvenile Delinquency in Nigeria

11.00-11.20 - Coffee break

11.20-12.50 - Panel 2: Schools and Delinquency

a) Howard Lupovitch (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
No Child left Behind?: Jewish Schools and the Challenge of Delinquent Children

b) Kristin Williams (Harvard University)
The ABCs for Mischievous Schoolboys in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan

c) Nicola Sheldon (Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London)
Truancy, the Raising of the School Leaving Age and the Emergence of Anti-Social Behaviour since 1945 in the UK

12.50 - 13.45 - Lunch

13.45-15.45 - Panel 3: Legal Constructions of Delinquency

a) Nazan Cizek (Ankara University)
The Delinquent Child, Children’s Courts and the Conception of Childhood in Turkey (1940-1980)

b) Juliane Brauer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Centre for the History of Emotions, Berlin)
Youth Subculture in the GDR: Between Nonconformity, Opposition and Delinquency

c) Yen-Chi Liu (University of California, Berkeley)
Legal Construction of Childhood in Taiwan: Its Formation and Meaning, 1895-Present

d) Sarah Bornhorst (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer)
Juvenile Delinquency during the First World War: A Micro-Study

15.45-16.00 - Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 - Panel 4: Family, Generation and Delinquency

a) Nina Mackert (Erfurt University)
All about Adults: Juvenile Delinquency and the Governmentality of Families in the USA of the 1940s to 1960s

b) Elizabeth White (University of Ulster)
Save the Children: Russian Émigré Children and Family Breakdown in Interwar Europe

c) Heather Ellis (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Generational Conflict and Student Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford

17.30 - 18.30 – Keynote Address: Barry Goldson (University of Liverpool)
Constructions and Reconstructions of 'Juvenile Delinquency' in the West: A Socio-Historical Survey

19.30 - Conference dinner

Sunday 13 March

9.00-10.30 - Panel 5: Racial and Colonial Constructions of Delinquency

a) Stephanie Olsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Centre for the History of Emotions, Berlin)
Adolescence and the Moral Empire: Dangerous Boys in Britain and India, c. 1880-1914

b) Anneliek Dirks (University of Leiden)
Juvenile Delinquency and State Re-education Policies in the Netherlands Indies, 1910-1942

c) Maureen Gallagher (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Racial and Gender Transgressions as Juvenile Delinquency in British and German Youth Literature

10.30-10.45 - Coffee Break

10.45 – 12.45 - Panel 6: Delinquency and Science

a) Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (University of California, Davis)
States of Delinquency: Youth, Race, and Science in California’s Early Juvenile Justice System, 1890s-1940s

b) Shilpi Rajpal (University of Delhi)
Madness, Race and Delinquency in Colonial North India

c) Pavel Vasilyev (Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
“There should be no child addicts in the Soviet State”: Medical Science, the State, and the Construction of the Juvenile Drug Addict in Early Soviet Russia

d) Katie Wright (University of Melbourne)
‘Treating delinquency at the source’: International Influences on the Establishment of Child Guidance Clinics in Interwar Australia

12.45-13.30 - Lunch

13.30-14.30 - Keynote Address: Barak Kushner (Cambridge University)
Empire's Little Helpers: Juvenile Crime and the State in East Asia, 1900-2000

14.30 – 16.00 - Panel 7: Communist Constructions of Delinquency

a) Caroline Fricke (University of Potsdam)
From Deviance to Delinquency – Juvenile Delinquency in the GDR

b) Gleb Tsipursky (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
A Soviet Moral Panic? Youth, Delinquency and the State, 1953-58

c) Leo Goretti (University of Reading)
Violent Teddy-Boys or Revolutionaries in Disguise? The Debate on Youth Delinquency in the Italian Communist Press in the 1950s

16.00 - 16.15 - Coffee break

16.15 - 17.45 - Panel 8: Youth Violence

a) Niall Whelehan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Youth and Collective Violence in Ireland in the Late Nineteenth Century

b) Dagmar Ellerbrock (University of Bielefeld)
Gun-Games: Between Adolescent Practices and Juvenile Delinquency

c) Susanne Hohler (University of Heidelberg)
“Slack reins make for hooligan slackers” Chinese and Russian Juvenile Delinquency in the Manchurian City of Harbin, 1930-1940

17.45-18.15 - Final (Plenary) Discussion and Closing Remarks
Summing up: Helen Schneider (University of Oxford)