SHCY Bulletin

Society for the History of Children and Youth

Opportunities:  Calls for Papers and Journal Submissions

Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference

Proposals due: Oct. 31, 2009

New Journal: Red Feather Journal

Submissions for first issue due: Dec. 15, 2009

Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism:  EDUCATION and EMPIRE

Proposals due: Jan. 31, 2010

Tenth Annual Country School Association of America Conference

Proposals due: Mar. 1, 2010

Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference

Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden

The Department of Childhood Studies Graduate Student Organization at Rutgers University, Camden, invites submissions for paper presentations for their first formal graduate student conference to be held April 9, 2010 on the Camden, NJ campus. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals.

The field of childhood studies engages in both theoretical and empirical study of children and childhood within historical, contemporary, interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, state, national, and global contexts. The interdisciplinary nature of the field is one of its greatest strengths and the core of its remarkable potential for scholarly advancement, but also leaves the field open for exploration and interrogation, and its borders difficult, if not impossible, to define.

The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood Studies by "doing" childhood studies. We seek papers that investigate childhood as a construct, children as a category, or the child as a real living human as their central focus, providing critical thought and insight while locating them in different contexts, fields, and ideologies.

We invite proposals from all disciplines, including education, literature, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, history, criminology, philosophy, medicine, religion, film studies, and cultural studies as well as multi-disciplinary scholarly work. The range of possible topics includes: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, social constructions, theorizations and representations of children and childhood in all modes of fiction.

Submission: 250-word abstract plus cover letter with name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address tom_modica@vfcc.edu.  Include the words "conference abstract" in subject line, and include name on the cover letter only.

Deadline: October 31, 2009. Accepted presenters will receive notification by January 10, 2010.

Contact Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu or Anandini Dar at anandini@camden.rutgers.edu if you have questions about the conference, or visit http://crab.rutgers.edu/~bowman/conference/

Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here: http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/

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Call for submissions to the premier issue of Red Feather Journal, an online, international, interdisciplinary journal of children's media culture. The first issue will be published February 1, 2010.

Red Feather Journal facilitates an international dialogue among scholars and professionals of the intersections between the child image and the conception of childhood, children's material culture, children and politics, the child body, and any other conceptions of the child within local, national, and global contexts. The journal invites critical and/or theoretical examination of the child image to further our understanding of the consumption, circulation, and representation of the child throughout the world's visual mediums. The journal welcomes submissions that examine a broad range of medias: children's film, Hollywood film, international film, Television, the Internet, print resources, art, or any other visual medium.  Some sample topics include, but

are certainly not limited to:  studies of images of children of color; child as commodity; images of children in Africa, Asia, Middle East, South America, etc.; political uses of the child image; children in film; children in advertising; visual adaptations of children's literary works; child welfare images; children and war; or any other critical examination of the child image in a variety of visual mediums. 

Red Feather Journal is published twice a year, in February and September, and adheres to the MLA citation system. Authors are welcome to submit articles in other citations systems, with the understanding that, upon acceptance, conversion to MLA is a condition of publication.

Interested contributor's please submit the paper, an abstract, and a brief  biography as attachments in Word to debbieo@okstate.edu

Deadline for submissions for the premier issue is December 15th 2009.

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Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism:  EDUCATION and EMPIRE

24-26 June 2010

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore the role of education in shaping, promoting, and challenging imperial and colonial ideologies, institutions and processes throughout the modern world.  We invite papers that address the following themes:

• The role of educational institutions, ranging from primary schools to institutions of higher education in shaping imperial, colonial, and global processes
• The relationship between imperialism, colonialism and the development of modern knowledge systems The development of curriculum innovation to meet the needs of empire Educaton about imperial history (during and after empire)
• Education and imperial and (post-)colonial models of childhood Education and the creation of professional diasporas
• Types of knowledge transfer within the framework of empire, including publications and broadcasting relating to education, science, technology, health and government, both metropoles and colonies and within and between colonies
• The insecurities or failures of imperial and colonial education and knowledge practices, as well as of resistances to these practices
• Transitions in educational practice either from pre-colonial to colonial or colonial to post-colonial eras

Since this conference is being in part funded through a grant provided by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences to an inter-university group to explore the relationship between empire and higher education in Ireland, papers are especially invited for a strand exploring the particularity of Irish institutions of higher education in shaping the above processes, and of the role of higher education in shaping Ireland's ambiguous coloniality.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please submit an abstract, of not more than 300 words, to Fiona Bateman and Muireann O'Cinneide at www.conference.ie/ before 31 January 2010.

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Call for Papers:  Tenth Annual Country School Association of America Conference June 21-23, 2010 Chickasha, Oklahoma

Blazing the Trail: Education Among the Earliest Americans

The 2010 CSAA Conference will take place on the campus of The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma on June 21-22 with an optional bus tour to several one-room schools in the Oklahoma City area on June 23. Visit a fully restored African American one room school in Chickasha, Oklahoma. You are cordially invited to participate in and/or lead a panel discussion, present a research paper, conduct a workshop, present a play, organize a symposium, or give a demonstration on country schooling. Decide which topic most interests you and submit a brief proposal. The following topics may spark your creativity:

• Preservation: Envisioning the restored country school, raising money, recruiting and managing volunteers, promoting the project, collecting artifacts, preserving a restored school, preparing for and/or recovering from a natural disaster, etc.
• Research: Native American and African American one-room schooling, teachers and the rural community, the process of digging up the history of a school, oral history-making, the architectural significance of one-room schools, the supervision of one-room schools, teacher training for one-room schoolteachers, the consolidation movement, educational methods (maps, music education, nature study, reading charts), etc.
• Programs: Stories, camp, holiday celebrations, music schools, musical instruments, dramatic reenactment or living history programs, etc. Videotapes and other resources are welcome.
• Memory Makers: Come and share your memories, photographs, artifacts, books, facts and fiction related to country schooling, etc. Presentations related to the conference theme will be noted in the program.

Proposal Formats

Proposals should not exceed three double-spaced, printed pages. Add a cover sheet with title of the proposal, names and affiliations (if any) of participants, and the address, email address, and phone number of each participant. If you want to discuss your topic before submitting a proposal, contact CSAA Executive Director Lucy Townsend (815-753-1236 or ltownsend@niu.edu).   Proposals are due March 1, 2010.

E-mail your cover sheet & proposal to: Loretta Jackson lyjackson1@suddenlink.net and Richard Lewis richard.lewis@nasa.gov Or send 2 copies of your proposal and two self-addressed, stamped envelopes to Loretta Jackson, P.O. Box 2044, Chickasha, OK 73023. For updates on the conference, visit our website at: www.countryschoolassociation.org

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