More News from the Field

Exibitions:

For an interesting look objects designed for children around the world and over time, from seventeenth-century New England to Papua New Guinea in the modern era, check out the current exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, "kid size: The Material World of Childhood."  The exhibition runs from April 30 to September 11, 2005; more details can be found at http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/exhibit.asp

The International Cultural Research Network is holding its next Congress in Greece from July 10-15.  The topics include: Children and Youth; Education; Indigenous Issues; and Terror and Terrorism.  More details will be available in September.  For more information, send an email to icrn@telusplanet.net.

Teen Chicago continues through December 4, 2005 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Chicago. This exhibition examines Chicago's influence on teen life and the imprint teens make on the city; it is part of three-year project sponsored by the Chicago Historical Society.  More information as well as an online version of the exhibition can be found at http://www.teenchicago.org.

The Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) Karlsruhe is featuring an exhibition on today's youth cultures and kids' ways of coming to terms with questions of identity in a consumer culture.  Please refer to www.coolhunters.net for more information.

Though already past, members may be interested to know that on August 20, 2005, the Peter Wentz Farmstead in Pennsylvania hosted an interactive event on 'Colonial Childhood.'  Participants experienced childhood in the 18th and 19th centuries as demonstrated by the site's youth apprentices and learned about period clothing, games and colonial life.  More information about this and future events can be found on http://www.montcopa.org/historicsites/peter%20wentz%20narrative.htm

The Maastricht public library in Maastricht, Netherlands has a photographic exhibit of schools and children from the past 100 years in that city.

Forthcoming Conferences:

Swiss Museums Association AMS and ICOM Switzerland are preparing a meeting with the theme "Kinder im Museum" (in German).  More information can be found on http://www.vms-ams.ch/fileadmin/vms-ams/docs/Kinder.pdf.  While the conference is completely overbooked, preparations are being made for another meeting with the same theme in the French speaking part of Switzerland.

The Florida Reggio Collaborative for the Rights of Children will be hosting a conference on "The Pedagogy of Listening" in Miami, FL on October 7-8.  For further information, please go to: http://www.floridacollaborative.org/.

On 12 December 2005 a conference entitled "Children, Youth and their Education in a Globalizing India" will commence at the Centre for Postcolonial Education, Varansi. Organizers invite paper-givers and attendees to explore local and global interactions Ôwith particular reference to children and youth' through discourses of history and other Ôsites' for investigation. For more information please see http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=145467&keyword=youth

A conference on Christian Youth Movements: Their History and Significance is scheduled to take place under the aegis of the Royal Historical Society in February 2006. The venue for the conference is likely to be Birmingham, UK, and the themes up for discussion include class, networks, gender and sexuality; youth, and age; nationalism, and internationalism; formation, education and citizenship; ecumenism, spirituality, personality; muscular Christianity, and sports; internationalism, and war; Euro-Americanism, imperialism, and colonialism; development and the rural/urban divide. Further information is available from the Executive Secretary, Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, e-mail: royalhistsoc@ucl.ac.uk.

Call for Papers: 

"Children's Literature at the Edge: New Texts, New Technologies, New Readings, New Readers" 7th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) Melbourne, Australia 13-14 July 2006.  We welcome abstracts which address the theme. Papers can address, but are not limited to, the following: