Anthropology and Youth

Cultural Anthropology has just launched its first virtual issue of 2011: Anthropology and Youth, edited by Amanda Snellinger, Roseann Liu, and Elizabeth Lewis.
The issue, which includes five essays previously published in CA, will be freely available for sixty days through the Wiley-Blackwell website
Each of the five essays is supplemented with a webpage that provides digital material related to the essay (see links to webpage below). All five authors provide new commentary on their work, as well as the anthropology of youth. The issue is highlighted with commentary by Deborah Durham.
You can view the virtual issue homepage here: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/396
Author and discussant commentary are available here:
http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/398

CFP: Fifth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past

Call for Papers

The 2011 Fifth International Conference of the
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past

Child Labour in the Past
Children as economic contributors and consumers

McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Friday 30th September to Sunday 2nd October 2011

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International Social Work Call for Submissions: Child Rights in Africa

International Social Work Call for Submissions:
Special Edition: Child Rights in Africa

Coeditors: Professor Vishanthie Sewpaul and Professor Carmel Matthias
(University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa).

Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words and a brief one paragraph profile of yourself to Vishanthie Sewpaul at Sewpaul@ukzn.ac.za by 29 April 2011.

http://isw.sagepub.com/

CFP: Children's play and toys in non-western and non-industrial communities

At the “International Conference on Children and Youth in a Changing World” (http://www.kiit.ac.in/iuaes2012about.html), Jean-Pierre Rossie (Ghent (Belgium) – Sidi Ifni (Morocco) is organizing a panel on “Children's play and toys in non-western and non-industrial communities and its contribution to anthropology and ethnology”.

Questions and paper proposals (500 words) to sanatoyplay@gmail.com

CFP Network Education and Childhood (ESSHC)

For the 9th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 11-14 April, 2012

The Network on Education & Childhood of the European Social Science History Conference invites papers for the next conference, which will take place from 11-14 April 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The Education and Childhood Network is interested in proposals concerning the history of children, childhood and education from various perspectives, in different domains and in all historical periods. Both theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches are welcome.

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Seminário: Juventude, Cidadania e Consumo

Free online access to Routledge Education Journals

http://www.educationarena.com/effa/

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Free online access to Routledge Education Journals throughout April 2011.
228 journals in Education! Make the most of this unique opportunity now and start browsing all Routledge education journal titles by subject at:
www.educationarena.com/journals/

Free access will be available until 30th April 2011.

Child Labour in the Past: Children as econonic contributors and consumers

SSCIP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011

Child Labour in the Past: Children as econonic contributors and consumers

30 Sept - 2 Oct 2011

University of Cambridge, UK

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The aim of the themed papers will be to bring together scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines who are studying any aspect of children and work in the past - children as economic contributors, children as slaves, elite children taking on adult roles, children as carers, children as consumers, the impact of working in childhood on children and society.

GTs sobre Niñez y Juventud no X Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social

X Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social "La antropología interpelada: nuevas configuraciones político-culturales en América latina" que tendrá lugar en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires durante los días 29 de noviembre y 2 de diciembre de 2011 en la sede en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de  la Universidad de Buenos Aires

GT 05-La dimensión etaria desde la antropología: configuraciones de niñez, niñas/os, juventud y jóvenes

GT 06-Niñez y adolescencia. Políticas públicas, tramas cotidianas de intervención y protagonismo de las nuevas generaciones

GT 07-Educación y escolarización en contextos de diversidad y desigualdad social. 


... entre muitos outros! Ver CFP completo

Books on mothering / motherhood

Demeter Press is the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of mothering / motherhood and is a peer-reviewed scholarly press. The press is named in honour of the Goddess Demeter, herstory’s most celebrated empowered and outraged mother.

Demeter Press is the publishing arm of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). Click here to find out more about MIRCI.