SCOUTING: A CENTENNIAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

FEBRUARY 15-16, 2008

Courtesy of ScoutingUK

Scouts at 1929 World Jamboree

Since the 1907 camp at Brownsea Island, the Scout movement has grown in strength and reputation to become the world’s largest voluntary service organization for young people.  This 2008 academic symposium will celebrate and analyze the development of Scouting, both for boys and girls, in the context of the historical developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  While members of the Scout movement are welcome to participate, the conference will appeal particularly to the international scholarly community.  The Conference is not affiliated with any international or national Scout or Guide organization.

The keynote speaker for the conference will be John R. Gillis, author of Youth and History and A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual and the Quest for Family Values. Scholars of Scouting and Guiding from around the world will be presenting their work, and the conference promises to be a lively conversation about the past, present, and even future of the Scout movement.

For more information, or if you have questions, please contact:  Tammy Proctor (tproctor@wittenberg.edu) or Nelson Block (nblock@winstead.com).

Organizers include:

· Matthew A. Crenson, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

· Tammy M. Proctor, Department of History, Wittenberg University

· Nelson R. Block, Author of A Thing of the Spirit:  The Life of E. Urner Goodman