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"Childhood and the State--The State of Childhood" The Society for the History of
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Plenary Talk featuring Dr. Michael Grossberg on Friday evening, June 27th.
Thursday, Session 1 – 4.00-6.00 p.m.
1) “Child Health and Social Progress in Early-Twentieth-Century America”
Commons Room 318
chair – Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
Cynthia Anne Connolly, Yale University
“Prevention Through Detention: The Early-Twentieth-Century Pediatric Tuberculosis Preventorium Movement”
Laura Lovett, Dartmouth College
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“From Better Babies to Fitter Families: Children’s Health Contests and Agrarian Pronatalism in the United States, 1915-1935” |
Carita Constable Huang, University of Pennsylvania
“Making Children ‘Fit for Democracy’: The Child Health Organization and the Normal Child, 1918-1923”
2) “Children of the Republic: Political Ideology and Child-Centered Reform in the United States, 1789-1896”
Commons Room 327
chair – Peter Bardaglio, Ithaca College
Cheryl Thurber, Independent Scholar
"The American
Sunday School Union and the Expansion of National Culture from the
1820s-1850s"
Rachel Hope Cleves, University of California, Berkeley
“The Politics of Public Schools in the Early American Republic”
Ann Kirson Swersky, Tel Aviv University
“Noblesse Oblige or Self-Interest? The philosophy behind the care of dependent children in nineteenth-century Massachusetts”
3) “Adolescent Sexuality, Morality, and Social Order”
Commons Room 331
chair – Leslie Paris, University of British Columbia
Ilana Nash, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center
“Saluting Virgins: Imagining The Teenage Girl In Wartime”
David Pomfret, University of Hong Kong
"A Muse for the Masses": Adolescence, Spectacle and the Female Body
in France,
Fin-de-Siècle
Carolyn Cocca, SUNY Old Westbury
“Teenagency: Adolescent Sexuality, Morality Policymaking, and the Role of the Researcher”
Breakfast Meeting of the SHCY Executive Committee, 8.00- 9.30 am, Physics Room 201
Friday, Session 2 – 9.30-11.30 a.m.
1) “The Mass Production of American Youth Psychology: Advertising, High Schooling, and the Welfare State”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – James Reed, Rutgers University
Patrick J. Ryan, University of Texas at Dallas
“The Competency Within: Modern Childhood and the Cultural Foundation of Welfare Services in America”
Susan Ferentinos, Indiana University
“‘Puppy Love Can Be Serious Business’: Advertisers’ Assumptions about Adolescence, 1930-1950”
John C. Spurlock, Seton Hill University
“What Happened to Girls’ Romantic Friendships?”
2) “Twentieth-Century European Nationalism and Youth”
Physics Room 401
chair – Katharine Norris, American University
Jacqueline Olich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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“A First Five-Year Plan for Children’s Books?” Russian Children’s Literature, 1927-1933” |
Richard Jobs, Pacific University
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“The Maisons des jeunes et de la culture and the Rejuvenation of National Identity in post-WWII France” |
John Edward Kuykendall, Newberry College
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“Die Kriegsbücherei der deutschen Jugend: A Case Study in Nazi Indoctrination, 1939-1942” |
3) “Black Childhood and the Making of Race in Early-Twentieth-Century America”
Physics Room 201
chair - Lisa L. Ossian, Southwestern (Iowa) Community College
Michelle Scott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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“Somebody’s Angel Child: Black Childhood and Street Performance in the Urban South” |
Stacey Pamela Patton, Rutgers University
“How Sociology Colored the History of African-American Childhood”
Moira Hinderer, University of Chicago
“Childhood and Race-Making in
Everyday Chicago, 1919”
Friday, Buffet Lunch
for all conference registrants, 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.
A. O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor
Friday, Session 3 – 1.15 – 3.15 p.m.
1) “Child-Rearing Literature, Citizenship, and Respectability in America”
Physics Room 401
chair - Melissa Klapper, Rowan University
Pat Pflieger, West Chester University
“Principles of Good Government in Some Early American Children’s Magazines”
Sandra Pryor, University of Delaware
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“Childhood, Gender, Ethnicity, and Respectability in Nineteenth-Century Catholic Novels” |
Rick Anderson, Ithaca College
"Boy-Heroes in Pinstripes, Shoulder Pads, and U.S. Keds: Sports, Chip Hilton,
and the Renewal of the American Success Story for American Children"
2) “Childhood and Social Thought”
Physics Room 201
chair – Katharine Kittredge, Ithaca College
Anne Christina Rose, Johns Hopkins University
“Educational Experiments and Radical Politics in 1790s England”
James Block, DePaul University
“G.S. Hall and the Origins of the American Study of Childhood”
Crista DeLuzio, Southern Methodist University
“The ‘Budding Girl’: G. Stanley Hall’s Psychology of Female – and ‘Feminized’ – Adolescence”
3) “Child Labor”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Vincent DiGirolamo, Baruch College
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“The Newsboys’ New Deal: Child Labor Reform and Imagery in the Great Depression” |
Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
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“Ambivalence and Abuse: The State of Babysitting and Babysitters and the State” |
James Schmidt, Northern Illinois University
“Rights to Recover: Constructing Child Labor in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
Friday, Session 4 – 3.30 – 5.30 p.m.
1) “European Youth, Welfare, and War”
Physics Room 401
chair – James Marten, Marquette University
Valentina Tikoff, DePaul University
“Warfare and the Wards of Seville’s San Telmo Maritime Orphanage in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
Brian Els, University of Portland
“Child Welfare, Municipal Relief, and the First World War in Berlin”
Lydia Murdoch, Vassar College
“Childlren and Soldiers: The Effects of the First World War on London Child Welfare Institutions”
2) “Conceptions of Childhood: Research and Methodologies”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Steven Mintz, University of Houston
Jeanine Graham, University of Waikato
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“Towards a history of New Zealand childhoods” |
Afua Twum-Danso, University of Birmingham
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“Unitary Versus Multiple: Concept or Conceptions of Childhood Across Time and Space” |
April Brayfield, Tulane University
“What is Childhood? The Depiction of Children in Family Scholarship”
3) “Exercising Youth: Bodily and Societal Fitness”
Physics Room 201
chair – Diane North, University of Maryland, University College
Luke Springman, Bloomsburg University
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“Girls in the Machine: Sports and Ideology in German Literature for Girls during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)” |
Shelly McKenzie, George Washington University
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“Mass Movements: A Cultural History of Exercise and Physical Fitness, 1956-1990” |
Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
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“Saying No, Saying Yes: The State, Christian Youth Ministries, and the Adolescent Body in America, 1930-1999” |
Friday, Plenary Talk and Dinner, 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, Session 5 – 9.15-11.15 a.m.
1) cancelled
2) “Nineteenth-Century Orphans and Bound-Out Youths”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Harvey Graff, University Of Texas, San Antonio
Margaret McNay, University of Western Ontario
“Children In the Service of the Empire: The British Child Emigration Movement”
Susan Porter, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
“‘Farming or Any Other Laudable Business’: Working-Class Boys and Self-Sufficiency in Antebellum America”
Nancy Zey, University of Texas at Austin
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“The Persistence of Benevolence: A Look at Early Nineteenth-Century Charitable Societies for Poor and Orphaned Children and Their Descendant Agencies” |
3) “Regulating Children’s Bodies”
Physics Room 401
chair – Sonya Michel, University of Maryland, College Park
Amanda Brian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Children Embodied: Physical Vulnerability in German Schools”
Katharine Bullard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Rights of American Children: The Children’s Bureau, Empire, and the Ambiguities of Welfare”
Rachel Shulman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Colonization of Working-Class Children and the 1904 Report on Physical Deterioration”
Saturday, Lunch
for all conference registrants, 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Physics Building, Lobby
Roundtable discussion, 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Physics Lecture Hall 6
“Beyond the Century of the Child”: Collaborations between Historians and Developmental Psychologists
Michael Zuckerman (University of Pennsylvania), Willem Koops (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Steve Schlossman (Carnegie Mellon University), Jay Mechling (University of California, Davis), Emily Cahan (Wheelock College)
Saturday, Session 6 – 1.00 – 3.00 p.m.
1) “From Nation-State to Market-State: American Civil Institutions and a Century of Childhood”
Physics Room 401
chair – Joe Austin, Bowling Green State University
Joan Menefee, University of Wisconsin-Stout
“Statehood and Childhood: John Dewey and American Identity in the Nineteenth Century”
Thea Petchler, University of Minnesota
“Childhood Creativity and Civil Unrest”
Mike Willard, Oklahoma State University
“The Do-It-Yourself Market-State: Skate, Punk and the Regulation of Youth Cultural Formation in a Stateless World”
2) “Serving the Nation and Coming of Age”
Physics Room 201
chair - Birgitte Soland, Ohio State University
Todd Alexander Postol, independent scholar
“Marketing Boyhood on the Homefront: The Newspaper Boy War Stamp Program of WWII”
Brian Bunk, Central Connecticut State University
“Aida Lafuente and Adolescent Women at War”
Emily Mieras, Stetson University
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“‘We are All Pretty Much the Same:’ Progressive-Era College Students and the Service Ethic” |
3) “Gendered Play and Child Rearing”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Julia Grant, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Brian Ganaway, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Dolls and the Debate Over Female Identity in Imperial Germany, 1900-1918”
Caroline Hinkle McCamant, University of California at Berkeley
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“Shaping the Boy: Father Involvement in the Rearing of Sons in the United States, 1880-1920” |
Sarah Anne Carter, University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
“Charity Begins in the Dollhouse: 1875-1900”
Saturday, Session 7 – 3.15 – 5.15 p.m.
1) “Statehood, Parenthood, and Childhood”
Physics Room 401
chair – Dewar Macleod, William Patterson University
Jessica Elfenbein, University of Baltimore
“The Children’s Fresh Air Fund”
Iris Agmon, Ben-Gurion University
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“Orphan Properties and the Construction of the Muslim Family in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Late Ottoman Palestine” |
Beatrice McKenzie, University of Oregon
“Birthright and Citizenship and the Nation”
Isabella Cosse, University of Buenos Aires/University of
San Andrés (Isabella Cosse is unable to attend the conference
but copies of
her paper will be available to attendees)
“Social justice and illegitimate children: childhood, family and state in Argentina (1946-1954)”
2) “The Child at Risk/The Child as Criminal”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair/comment – Paula Fass, University of California, Berkeley
comment - Kathleen Alaimo, Saint Xavier University
Carlo Corea, City University Of New York Graduate Center
“State-Sanctioned Delinquency, 1917-1932”
Janet McShane Galley, Temple University
“Portraying the Child Victim: Murder, Accusations, and the Creation of Public Sympathy”
Simon Baatz, National Institutes of Health
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“The Bobby Franks Murder: Leopold-Loeb and the Making of American Psychiatry” |
Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia
“From ‘Disgraceful Carelessness’ to ‘Intelligent Precaution’: Doctors, Parents, and the Accidental Child in English-Canada, 1990 to 1950”
3) “Contested Child Rearing”
Physics Room 201
chair – Priscilla Clement, Penn State University
Richard Kimball, Brigham Young University
“‘Language adapted to their capacities’: Teaching Children How to Live in the Early Republic”
Amanda Bruce, SUNY, Stony Brook
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“The Boundaries of Childhood: Children’s Radio and Parental Authority” |
Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University
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“Child-Rearing Gone Bad: Family Permissiveness and National Economic Decline in the 1970s” |
Saturday, 5.30 – 6.30 – General
Membership Meeting
Physics Building Lecture Hall 6
Complimentary Shuttle Buses to
Baltimore's Inner Harbor leave campus at 6:45 pm.
Buses will return to UMBC from the Inner Harbor at 10:30 pm
Sunday, Session 8 – 8.30-10.30 a.m.
Physics Room 107
1) “Social Policy and Children’s Rights: Children’s
Learning from Nursery School through High School”
Physics Room 107
chair - Joe Hawes, University Of Memphis
John Cornell, Butler University
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“Young Germany, 1789-1848: Experts and Experiments in Early Childhood” |
Charles Dorn, University of California, Berkeley
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“The Wartime Nexus in Early Childhood Education: Nursery Schooling in Richmond, California, between 1942 and 1945” |
Gael Graham, Western Carolina University
“Students’ Rights, Student Power: Dissident High School Students in the 1960s”
2) “Racial Politics and the Image of the Child in America”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Molly Mitchell, University of New Orleans
Rebecca de Schweinitz, University of Virginia
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“Childhood as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis: Images and Evidence from the Civil Rights Movement” |
Holly Blackford, Rutgers University
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“The White Child’s Gaze upon the Drama of African-American Manhood: Positioning The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird in Trajectories of American Literature, the History of Race, and Contemporary Theory” |
Susan Bragg, University of Washington
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“Real, Live Moving Children”: The Cultural Politics of Childhood in NAACP Literature, 1910-1934” |
3) “Ideology and Images of Childhood”
Physics Room 201
chair – Gary Cross, Penn State University
Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson, independent scholars
“Telling Images: Visual Clues to the History of Children in America”
Mawuena Logan, University of Botswana
“British Juvenile Literature”
Kristen Hatch, University of California at Los Angeles
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“America’s Sweetheart: Shirley Temple and the Consumption of Innocence” |
Sunday, Session 9 – 10.45 a.m. – 12.45 p.m.
1) “Late-Twentieth-Century Child Welfare”
Physics Room 107
chair – David Macleod, Central Michigan University
Clementine Fujimura, U.S. Naval Academy
“Russia’s Abandoned Children: Having a Voice”
Mary Jean O’Sullivan, Seton Hall University
“The Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York and the Evolution of Child Advocacy, 1945-1972”
Ethan Sribnick, University of Virginia
“Justine Wise Polier and the Transformation of Child Welfare, 1945-1972”
2) “Nationalism, Commemoration, and Education”
Physics Room 201
chair – Robert Cohen, New York University
Thomas Cardoza, University of California, San Diego
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“From Soldiers to Students: The Shift in Enfant de troupe Education from Barracks to Classroom: 1885-1886” |
Mary Conley, College of the Holy Cross
“Duty, Heroism, and the Nation: the Wartime Commemoration of Jack Cornwell, 1916-1917”
Julie deGraffenried, University of Texas at Austin
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“‘All for the Motherland!’: A Study of the Radio Program ‘Pioneer Dawn’ in the Soviet Union During the Great Patriot War” |
3) “Juvenile Delinquency and Sexual Policing in the United States”
Physics Lecture Hall 6
chair – Janet Golden, Rutgers University-Camden
Ann Kordas, Community College of Rhode Island
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“‘Dangerous Dungaree Dolls’: Fears of Female Juvenile Delinquency in Post-World-War-II America” |
Tamara Myers, University of Winnipeg
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“Boyish Badness: Juvenile Justice and the Unexplored Sexual Nature of Male Delinquency” |
Lee Polansky, independent scholar
“Juvenile Delinquent Girls in Atlanta, Georgia, 1914-1930”
