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Registration Is Open for Urban Childhoods, NYIT Interdisciplinary Conference, NYC, March 6, 2009
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2009-03-06 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-02-19 |
| Announcement ID: |
167081 |
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The New York Institute of Technology announces its fifth interdisciplinary conference, “Urban Childhoods,” to be held Friday, March 6 on the Manhattan campus. Registration is free but limited. Please email Jennifer Griffiths jgriff02@nyit.edu for details.
Schedule (Tentative)
9:30 a.m. Welcome. Registration. Coffee.
10:00 a.m. Panel: Race, Identity, and the Urban Child
Dr. Sharron Greaves, Bronx Community College – “Black Sinner, White Saint?: Differing Screen Standards for Portrayals of Ethnic Inner City-Youth”
Shamika Ann Mitchell, Temple University, “Urban Childhoods: Disappointment and Disenchantment in Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner”
Dr. Erin Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Learning Race, Learning Place: African American Children in Detroit”
11:30 a.m. Panel: Learning and Play Spaces
Dr. Stephen Charbonneau, Florida Atlantic University, “Observation/Action: Young Expressivity, Critical Literacy, and the Educational Video Center”
Dr. Alan Feigenberg, City College, CUNY. “The City for Children: Critical Learning Through the Built Environment”
Dr. Jennifer Griffiths, “From Crayons to Perfume: Critical Pedagogy and Urban Classrooms as Transformative Space in Popular Culture"
1 p.m. Lunch (provided by NYIT)/Keynote Address
“What Kind of City? What Kind of Childhood? Charitable Landscapes, Children, and Women in American Cities”
Marta Gutman, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Architecture (History and Theory)
School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture
The City College of New York/CUNY
Licensed Architect
2:30 p.m. Panel: Children and Urban Policy: Past, Present, and Future
Dr. Christina Stern, SUNY-Rockland Community College, “Arenas of Cruelty and Compassion: Humane Movements and Industrial Cities from Past to Present”
Dr. Itai Sneh, John Jay College, CUNY, “New York City Kids: The Next Green Revolution”
Dr. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, NYIT, "Swarms of Children" in the Projects: New York and the Reinvention of Urban Childhood
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