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9th HISTORY OF EDUCATION (DOCTORAL) SUMMER SCHOOL
University of Latvia, Riga, 7-9 June 2018

This conference invites applications from postgraduate students in the history of Education with an interest in the histories of educational spaces and discourses and new ways of working with images, artefacts, and archives. Leading international historians of education will give lectures and workshops, and offer advice concerning the research process. There will be opportunities for students to discuss their dissertation projects with fellow doctoral candidates and receive comments from prominent scholars in the field. The summer school started as an initiative of EERA’s Network 17,“Histories of Education,” and is the ninth conference in a series of successful events that started in Ghent in 2010 and was followed by meetings in Birmingham 2011, Lisbon 2012, Hamburg 2013, Umeå 2014, Luxembourg 2015, Groningen 2016 and Porto Conte 2017.
This edition of the summer school is organised by the University of Latvia in Riga. The conference is supported by

• Stichting Paedagogica Historica
• History of Education Society, UK
• European Educational Research Association (EERA)
• International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)
• University of Latvia

Travel bursaries are available to students from low-GDP countries. For more information please check the application form.