Where we have been: Struggles and successes

Plenary session #1 -- Friday October 18 10-12 (Milbank Chapel)

It is often said that our sub-discipline started with the 1955 conference organized by George Spindler. While earlier anthropological work had addressed education, and while the conference might not have taken place without the active support of senior anthropologists of the time, it remains that it is only in the subsequent two decades that programs in anthropology and education staffed by disciplinary anthropologists started appearing in graduate schools of education. Thinking about this moment may help us understand where we are now, and what routes we may want to follow in the future.

Moderator: Hervé Varenne (Teachers College)

10:00 Introduction

• Greetings by President Susan Fuhrman, Provost Tom James and Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi (Teachers College, Columbia University)
• Hervé Varenne - Opening remarks

10:30-12 Keynote addresses and panel discussion

• Ed Gordon (Emeritus, Yale University and Teachers College, Columbia University)
• Scroggins & Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)
  • "Mead, Spindler, Kimball and Cremin: Notes towards tracing a cross-continental and trans-disciplinary conversation"
• Fred Erickson (Professor Emeritus, UCLA)