Conference Announcement
International Conference
Sex Education of the Young in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural History
16th to 17th April, 2005 at Collingwood College, University of Durham
Deadline for registration: 13 December 2004
Conveners: Dr Lutz Sauerteig (Centre for the History of Medicine and
Disease, University of Durham) and Professor Roger Davidson (School of
History and Classics, University of Edinburgh)
Supported by the Wolfson Research Institute (University of Durham), the
School of History and Classics (University of Edinburgh), and the
Society for Social History of Medicine
This international conference will bring together researchers from a
range of fields such as the history of medicine, the history of
education, and the history of sexuality as well as from sociology and
law, to discuss the cultural history of sex education within a
comparative perspective.
Sex education will be treated in the broadest sense to incorporate all
aspects of the formal and informal transmission of sexual knowledge and
awareness to children and adolescents. It will, therefore, not only
address officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered
within the school system, but also sex education obtained within the
private sphere of the family, and from peer groups and the media
(including youth magazines, films, and TV). More specifically, the
conference will approach the history of sex education from three
different directions, namely the social politics of sex education, the
content of sex education, and how sex education was experienced by the
young.
For the full programme and registration details, please visit our
website at http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/events/sexeducation.htm
Student Members of the Society of the Social History of Medicine can
apply to the Treasurer of the Society for bursary.
Deadline for registration is 13 December 2004
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Dr Lutz Sauerteig
University of Durham, Queen's Campus
Wolfson Research Institute
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
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