NEWSLETTER
Society for the History of Children and Youth
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No. 13 |
Winter 2009 |
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF UPCOMING CONFERENCES
THE POLITICAL CHILD: CHILDREN, EDUCATION AND THE STATE We welcome scholars working within the fields of childhood history and history of education to a two- day seminar. Public lectures open to all will be held on Friday, 15 May, and workshop papers (for which we are now seeking abstracts) will be presented at the seminar on Saturday, 16 May 2009. The focus of the seminar "The Political Child" is children and childhood in a historical perspective, especially in relation to politics and institutions of education in a European context. The aim of the seminar is to probe the various ways in which children were affected by political processes and structures that were often dominated by the state and its regulatory practices and discourses. We wish to offer a discussion forum in order to create connections between historians, historically oriented social scientists and cultural researchers working in the fields of childhood research. Dr. Colin Heywood (Head of the School of History, University of Nottingham) will act as the as the invited keynote speaker and a commentator of workshop papers. Colin Heywood is the author of:
Other invited speakers are Dr. Jane Gray (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland), Docent Susanna Hedenborg (Malmö University College, Sweden) and Associate Prof. Karen Stanbridge (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). The aim of the seminar is to discuss empirical, methodological and theoretical aspects of childhood in history particularly as they pertain to the processes and structures of education and the state. We hope to come up with ideas for new perspectives based on participants' concrete analyses of their source materials and observations on childhood. The seminar is aimed to stimulate discussion among scholars interested in issues such as:
What connections and tensions are there between these themes and the fields of historical research they represent? What are the limitations and and the potential of studying children, education and nationalism from a historical perspective? How have children experienced the structures and processes of educational institutions? Have children's roles been represented in politics, culture- and nation-building, international relations, economics and labor market studies? And what new or reflected insights about history of children and children's political agency might be generated by them? The programme will be found on the websites of the Department of Social Science History and the Department of History, University of Helsinki. For enquiries, please contact the organizers:
THE HUMANITIES AND THE FAMILY: A CONFERENCE March 13-14, 2009 The conference will explore the contributions of the disciplines of the Humanities to debating and constructing ideas and representations of the family. Based on the premise that conceptions of the family are wide-ranging and continually transforming, the conference will ask what constitutes a family, examining this question from the perspective of history, literature, law, and ethics. Topics considered will include inheritance, marriage, work, religious and utopian communities, violence, children, the relation of the family to the community, the nation, and the state, and changing conceptions of genders and sexualities. Keynote Speakers: Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, and Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College. For additional information, including a complete conference schedule and registration form, see: http://www.uic.edu/depts/huminst/conferences.shtml The conference is free and open to the public. The conference is organized by the 2007-08 Institute for the Humanities Executive Committee: John D'Emilio, History and Gender and Women's Studies; Stephen Engelmann, Political Science; Leon Fink, History; Lisa Freeman, English; Norma Moruzzi, Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science; Mary Beth Rose, Institute for the Humanities, English Department; Katrin Schultheiss, History and Gender and Women's Studies; and Linda Vavra, Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Centre for the Study of the Child, the Family and the Law at the Liverpool Law School is delighted to announce that it will host a three-day international conference on children and the EU in April 2009. This will be the first event of its kind to bring together international, EU and domestic policy-makers, NGOs, practitioners, academics and young people in a joint endeavour to critically discuss the EU's emerging children's rights agenda. Further details, including registration information and a draft conference programme, are available on our website: www.liv.ac.uk/law/cscfl/children ~~~ CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MEMBERS
Brianne Grant (University of British Columbia) reports news of a conference at UBC on April 25th this year. The focus of the conference is on Radical Children's literature, and they hope to get a broad historical scope of the major changes that have happened in literature, media, or technology for children and youth. Here is the website link: http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/conference/index.htm.
Harvey Graff (Ohio
State University) sends news of the Expanding Literacy Studies international
interdisciplinary graduate student conference website (a number of sessions
touch on children and youth): http://literacystudies.osu.edu/initiatives/conference/yr2008/intconference/registration.cfm |