NEWSLETTER
Society for the History of Children and Youth
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No. 9 |
Winter 2007 |
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Recent Calls for Submissions
~~~ REQUEST FOR SYLLABI: CONFERENCE: Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belonging(s) First Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for this international and interdisciplinary conference exploring childhood and migration. Confirmed plenary speakers include Jill Rutter (Institute for Public Policy Research, IPPR), and Katy Gardner and Kanwal Mand (University of Sussex). An open forum on meeting the needs of migrant children will also be included. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st October 2007. Expressions of interest and offers of papers/posters are welcome prior to the deadline. While a wealth of research exists in the broad area of migration and childhood from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds, there are few opportunities to bring this together in an integrated forum. This conference aims to provide such a forum by focusing on the intersection of these research and policy areas, focusing on children's own experiences and perspectives of migration, diaspora and transnationalism. One of the main aims of the event is to facilitate a dialogue between academic, practitioner and policy-maker perspectives. It is hoped the conference will also be an opportunity to bring together related but distinct areas of research/policy, for example national dynamics of integration with transnational processes, and, children's experiences of migration with the experiences of children and youth in ethnic minorities. Therefore we welcome papers which explore all aspects of children's migrations, transnational childhoods, diasporic childhood/youth, including internal and international migration, traveller and nomadic lifestyles, and return migration. Papers using qualitative, quantitative and/or mixed methods approaches are welcome, particularly those using new participatory methodologies with children. We welcome papers including the following and other related topics: The conference is supported by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant and is hosted by the Marie Curie Migrant Children Research Team, Department of Geography, University College Cork. A limited number of bursaries for postgraduate students, unwaged and contract researchers will be made available. Abstracts, expressions of interest and enquiries should be sent to: Caitríona Ní Laoire, Migrant Children Research Team, Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Email: c.nilaoire@ucc.ie ~~~ CONFERENCE: European Social Science History Conference, Education and Childhood Network The Network on Education & Childhood of the European Social Science History Conference invites papers for the Seventh Conference, which will take place from in Lisbon, Portugal. The deadline for paper/panel proposals and pre-registration is April 1, 2007. The Network is interested in proposals concerning childhood and education in all periods and focused on various issues in the domain. In order, however, to stimulate and continue debates in the field of the history of education and childhood, we especially welcome papers (and panels) on the following themes, which also build on conferences such as those taking place during 2007 in Norrköping (Sweden), organized by the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY), and in Hamburg (Germany), organized by the International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE). Furthermore, the aim is to plan sessions in collaboration with other networks within the ESSHC.
Individuals interested in organizing panels on one of these themes may contact the network chairs of Education and Childhood. In arranging panels on these themes, the possibility to coordinate sessions with other networks will be explored. To propose a panel or a paper it is necessary to follow procedures formulated at the ESSHC website: http:// www.iisg.nl/esshc. Network coordination: ~~~ ESSAY COLLECTION: Broken Blossoms: Child Death in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British and American Visual Culture We invite proposals for scholarly essays, possibly to be published in a collection titled Broken Blossoms: Child Death in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British and American Visual Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press). For many British and American families during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the death of a child was the hardest death to bear. Death was understood to be the natural end of the life-cycle, not something that should happen to an innocent who barely had time to draw breath. Despite advances in public sanitation, hygiene, and medicine, physicians could do little to halt the course of many infectious diseases. It is little wonder that child death became a national preoccupation in both countries, as a variety of texts, from mourning manuals, and governmental blue-books to academic painting and photography attempted to frame and make sense of this event. This collection will investigate the ways in which visual culture specifically addressed the dead and dying child, and its effect on these two emerging industrialized nations. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: the practice of taking and displaying post mortem photographs; gravestone and cemetery sculpture; domestic sculpture and ornament; children's book/magazine illustrations; children's fate in the afterlife; popular prints and postcards; or newspaper/magazine illustrations. Particularly welcome are essays that take an interdisciplinary approach to art and visual culture by linking them to other forms of discourse. Please send your 250-500-word proposal and a CV as electronic attachments in MS-word or RTF format to: Lauren Lessing, llessing@nelson-atkins.org, or Terri Sabatos, Terri.Sabatos@usma.edu, by April 1, 2007.
~~~ JOURNAL: History of the Family; An International Quarterly For the next volume (12), we still have some space left and we encourage those interested to submit draft articles as soon as possible. We also invite suggestions for new special issues at the intersection of youth, life course and family history. More information on the journal's scientific mission is given below.
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