Núcleo de Estudos da Infância e Juventude

Workshop “O Tráfico de Seres Humanos e a Exploração de Menores”

2012-01-26T04:07:00.000-08:00

O Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais (IEEI) vai organizar um workshop “O Tráfico de Seres Humanos e a Exploração de Menores”, que terá lugar no dia 2 de Fevereiro, entre as 9h30 e as 18h00, no Auditório do Instituto Português da Juventude, em Castelo Branco.

O workshop integra-se num projeto desenvolvido pelo IEEI que cruza as perspetivas da promoção de direitos humanos, da segurança e da política de imigração, com o objetivo de contribuir para um combate mais eficaz ao tráfico de seres humanos em Portugal e no contexto europeu. A iniciativa contará com a participação de diversos oradores, nacionais e estrangeiros.

Para participar, basta enviar os seguintes dados para pmf@ieei.pt
Nome; Instituição; Morada; Código Postal; Telefone; Fax; E-mail.

Entrada gratuita.
Fonte: Amnistia Internacional

The Child: A Persons Project

2011-12-14T12:55:00.000-08:00

2nd Global Conference The Child: A Persons Project

Saturday 7th July 2012 – Monday 9th July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

CFP: After a hiatus of one year, the Childhood Project is returning. This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore all aspects of childhood. The period of life prior to adulthood is one of dramatic change and development of physical, intellectual, psychological, and many other types of characteristics. The nature of childhood and its significance as a
separate phase of life, however, is viewed quite differently in different cultures and in different historical eras. This conference will look at all aspects of the experience of childhood as well as the social and cultural perceptions of children and childhood.
Deadline: 13th January 2012
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Seminário 'O CENTENÁRIO DA PROTECÇÃO À INFÂNCIA - A protecção dos direitos da criança e a criança imigrante em Portugal'

2011-12-13T14:31:00.000-08:00

15 de Dezembro de 2011
Local: Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro (CCDRC)

No âmbito da efeméride do Centenário da Protecção Judicial à Infância em Portugal (primeiro com a Lei de 1 de Janeiro de 1911, que criou a primeira Comissão de Protecção de Menores em Portugal e, depois, com a Lei de Protecção à Infância (LPI) de 14 de Junho de 1911), a CPCJ de Coimbra e o ISMT propõem-se debater os problemas actuais, debater os problemas actuais que trazem alguma complexidade acrescida aos Processos de Promoção e Protecção de crianças e jovens em perigo, especificamente os que dizem respeito a crianças filhas de imigrantes.

PROGRAMA

Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A Compendium of Good Practice

2011-12-09T13:00:00.000-08:00

Designed for primary and secondary schools, teacher training institutions and other learning settings, the new tool, which collects 101 exemplary practices from Central Asia, Europe and North America, is a valuable resource for teachers and education policymakers.
It provides resource materials relevant to key elements for successful human rights education, including 1) laws, guidelines and standards; 2) learning environment; 3) teaching and learning tools; 4) professional development for educators, and 5) evaluation.

Free download EN
Free download FR

Sugar and Spice: Global Girlhood in the Cinema/Global Cinema and the Girl

2011-12-09T12:51:00.000-08:00

Call for articles

The figure of the girl is an intriguing one for cinema specialists. The focus of angst as possible victim of processes of 'sexualisation', the symbol of (imagined) childhood innocence, a metaphor for the uncertain and precarious nature of subjectivity, the site of intrigue and nostalgia for adults, the figure of the girls speaks to many strands of film theory and history: feminist questions of representation of female subjects, historical accounts of childhood and girlhood in the cinema, and philosophical engagements with the possibilities of the subject in film. Although recent work in sociology and film studies has addressed girlhood in Hollywood cinema as part of interest in post-feminist representations, we seek to complicate this reading through employing a comparative lens in terms of history and geography. This edited collection aims to explore the figure of the girl across time and space in the cinema. We are therefore interested in accounts from different movements and moments in global cinemas on the inflections of this figure. At this stage, we are looking to attract provisional expressions of interest that we will collate and put together as a proposal for a collection with a major publisher.

Deadline: 20th May 2012

For more information please contact Dr Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter (f.j.handyside@ex.ac.uk) or Dr Kate E Taylor0Jones, Bangor University (k.taylor@bangor.ac.uk)

Jornada "À Roda da Brincadeira"

2011-12-09T09:20:00.000-08:00

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Chamada para Artigos: Lúdicamente

2011-12-09T06:47:00.000-08:00

Estimados colegas,

Los invitamos a enviar sus contribuciones a Lúdicamente, una revista de investigación sobre juego desde las ciencias sociales.

Convocatoria abierta a contribuciones para el N°1 “Juego y vida cotidiana”, hasta el 29 de febrero de 2012.

Instrucciones a los autores

Se encuentran en la página las dos convocatorias vigentes. Para cualquier consulta o duda no duden en consultar la página www.ludicamente.com.ar y enviarnos un mail desde alli.

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY

2011-12-09T06:40:00.000-08:00

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY
9TH-11TH JULY 2012.

To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University, (CSCY) this conference addresses the theme of diversity in the lives of children and young people.

Those wishing to organise small symposia around a specific theme are also invited to submit a proposal.
Abstracts: Abstracts of no more than 200 words (for papers) 400 words (for symposia) should be sent to the conference administrator, Dawn Lessels, by January 31st 2012. E-mail: d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk.
conference page: http://www.cscy.group.shef.ac.uk/activities/conferences/index.htm

CFP ESA Research Network 4. Sociology of Children and Childhood

2011-12-09T06:16:00.000-08:00

ESA Research Network 4. Sociology of Children and Childhood
Mid-term Symposium
June 18-20, 2012
University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Call for Papers
Sociology of Childhood – Theorising Childhood
The Research Network, Sociology of Children and Childhood hereby announces the mid-term symposium which will take place in Jyväskylä (Finland) from 18th to 20th June, 2012. The organisation of the symposium will be undertaken at the University of Jyväskylä.

Instructions
The abstracts must be written in English, be at most 400 words, and include 3-5 keywords. Please submit your abstract and full contact details as electronic files no later than the 28th February 2012. Send the abstract to Tom Cockburn (t.d.cockburn@bradford.ac.uk).
The deadline for notification for abstracts is 31st March 2012.

For further details on the symposium please contact Tom Cockburn (t.d.cockburn@bradford.ac.uk) on +44 1274 233517.

Building Capacity for Ethical Research with Children & Young People (report)

2011-12-08T02:57:00.000-08:00

The project has drawn on and enriched the existing knowledge base about ethical research within the Childwatch Network, and capitalised on the information shared at the Child Participatory Research Roundtable at the 2009 Childrens Rights at a Crossroads Conference in Addis Ababa. It has provided useful information about the ethical issues and challenges facing researchers undertaking research with children.
Existing resources and publications that provide guidelines to researchers have been identified and collated. The information can be used to expand the discussion on appropriate Child Research Methodologies, interface with the work of the Childwatch Training Courses for Young Researchers to build research capacity.

Published Mar 17, 2011

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CRINMAIL 1253 - 30 nov 2011

2011-12-01T08:47:00.000-08:00

In this issue:
Latest news and report: Calls for accountabilit; Petitioning for right; Returning children to a war zon; Children left to die in prison; Governments urged to take bigger step; Hearing children out in parliamen; CRC call for submissions; New online library on educatio.

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Oficinas de Sociologia da Infância

2011-11-29T23:30:00.000-08:00

The New Portuguese (video)

2011-11-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

PLURAL+ Paley Center for Media Education Award

Os Direitos das Crianças na Actualidade

2011-11-17T06:19:00.000-08:00

Seminário Internacional "Os Direitos das Crianças na Actualidade"

A Amnistia Internacional Portugal organiza um Seminário internacional no dia 19 de Novembro de 2011, no âmbito da celebração de mais um aniversário de dois importantes instrumentos internacionais que protegem os direitos dos mais jovens: a Declaração dos Direitos da Criança e a Convenção Internacional sobre os Direitos da Criança.
O seminário irá ter lugar no Porto, no auditório da Biblioteca Almeida Garrett e decorre durante todo o dia.
A participação é gratuita mas está sujeita a inscrição prévia (aiportugal@amnistia-internacional.pt) e condicionada à lotação do Auditório, pelo que serão confirmadas as inscrições respeitando a ordem da data da sua recepção

Programa

”Minimising Differences – Celebrating Diversity” in Danish Schools

2011-10-27T02:58:00.000-07:00

Anthropology of Children Seminar
Tuesday 15 November, 14.00-15.30
VU University, Amsterdam

”Minimising Differences – Celebrating Diversity” in Danish Schools
Ditte Strunge Sass, Brunel University

More info:

www.anthropologyofchildren.net

CFP International Conference on Learning

2011-10-25T02:53:00.000-07:00

CFP: International Conference on Learning and The International
Journal of Learning

On behalf of the Advisory Board, we would like to inform you of the:

NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING

Institute of Education, University of London, London, United Kingdom

14 - 16 August 2012
http://www.LearningConference.com

Juventudes no contexto transnacional dos países da CPLP

2011-10-22T02:11:00.000-07:00

Processos de identificação, expressões culturais e mediações

25 de Outubro de 2011 no ISCTE-IUL, Lisboa, sala B102, a partir das 14h

No âmbito do projecto missões exploratórias sobre juventudes no contexto transnacional dos países da CPLP: processos de identificação, expressões culturais e mediações aprovado no âmbito do programa de cooperação em matéria de ciências sociais para a Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa – PCS/CPLP, e apoiado pela CNPq sob o nº 490278/2010-8, coordenado pelo Professor Doutor Frank Marcon da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, vai se realizar um encontro aberto ao público de apresentação do projecto e de debate relacionado com o tema, organizado por Lorenzo Bordonaro (CRIA-IUL)

Mais info

4th Paris International Conference on Education, Economy and Society

2011-10-17T13:56:00.001-07:00

ANALYTRICS CONFERENCES

Call for Contributions and Reviewers
4th Paris International Conference on Education, Economy and Society
23-28 July 2012, Hotel Concorde La Fayette, Paris (France)
Contributions in all areas of educational research are invited
Deadline for submission: 30 October 2011

More here. URL of Conference website: http://education-conferences.org/default.aspx

CFP: Contemporary Youth Resistance Culture: Viability, Relevancy, and Pragmatism

2011-10-05T03:12:00.000-07:00

Critical Arts Journal

Theme Editor: Clive W. Kronenberg
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Mowbray Campus, Cape Town

(...) This Call for Papers is concerned predominantly, though not exclusively, with the theoretical substructures that inform and underpin this prevailing universal 'youth resistance culture'. The fact that youths from different parts of the world, on arguably all continents, and almost simultaneously, find themselves entangled in their own, idiosyncratic 'mode of contestation', does suggest the presence of a common set of problems and aspirations, one which traverses human, social, cultural, political, and territorial boundaries. (...)

Deadlines for Abstracts (200 words): 20 January 2012

Deadline for Submissions: 20 June 2012

Submissions, including Abstract, Biographical Note, Key Words, End Notes, and References, in MS Word Format, to be sent via email to The Guest Editor: Critical Arts: Dr Clive W. Kronenberg (kronenbergc@cput.ac.za); Research Fellow: Critical Thinking Group, Education & Social Sciences Faculty, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Mowbray Campus, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

Seminar on Violence in Adolescence and Youth in Developing Countries

2011-10-05T02:51:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers
Asunción, Paraguay, May 2012
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Young People’s Life Course in Developing Countries, in collaboration with the Centro Paraguayo de Estudios de Población and sponsored by the Asociación Paraguaya de Estudios de Población.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 November 2011

A full announcement and description of this seminar is available at:
http://www.iussp.org/Activities/ypdc/call11.php.

CFP: Celebrating Childhood Diversity

2011-09-29T02:09:00.000-07:00

4th International Conference:

Celebrating Childhood Diversity

Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th July 2012
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University, (CSCY) this conference addresses the theme of diversity in the lives of children and young people.

Those wishing to organise small symposia around a specific theme are also invited to submit a proposal.

Speakers: Jo Boyden; Alan France; Allison James; Peter Moss

See complete CFP here

North African children’s play and toy cultures

2011-09-29T01:39:00.000-07:00

Anthropology of Children Seminar
Monday 10 October, 13.00-14.30:

North African children’s play and toy cultures: recent development in research

Jean-Pierre Rossie (associated researcher)
Musée du Jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne, France

www.anthropologyofchildren.net

Famílias no plural: alargar o conceito, largar o preconceito

2011-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

Acesso dos alunos portugueses às TIC tem vindo a aumentar

2011-09-28T14:42:00.000-07:00

A percentagem de alunos portugueses que, em 2009, tinham acesso ao computador e à Internet é das mais elevadas num universo de mais de 60 países, analisados num relatório recentemente publicado pela OCDE. Em casa, 97,6% e 91,6% dos alunos portugueses tinham acesso ao computador e à Internet, respectivamente; na escola, esses valores são de 91,7% e de 96,5%. A percentagem de alunos portugueses que dispõe de computador e de Internet em casa conheceu uma evolução bastante pronunciada desde 2000: nessa data apenas 56,9% dos alunos com idades entre os 15/16 anos dispunham de computador em casa e 24,3% de Internet.
LEIA MAIS AQUI

Crianças e Jovens em Risco

2011-09-20T01:55:00.000-07:00

VII Jornada de Pesquisa e Intercâmbio do Nipiac

2011-09-19T04:09:00.000-07:00

Anthropology of Children Seminar

2011-09-09T07:11:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 20 September, 10.30-12.00, VU University, Amsterdam:

The role of children in the French system of child protection: Perspectives of staff and students of Le Collège Coopératif Rhône-Alpes

Confirm your participation in the 20 September seminar to childrenseminar@hotmail.com

More info at www.anthropologyofchildren.net

Chamada para artigos: revista Poiésis

2011-09-09T07:04:00.000-07:00

Revista POIÉSIS V.4, Nº 8

Organizadora: Elena Colonna
(Instituto de Educação, Universidade do Minho-Portugal)
Tema: Estudos com Crianças e Jovens em África, Europa e América Latina.
Envio de Colaboração Até 30 de Outubro de 2011.

Resumo sobre o tema:
O dossier pretende apresentar artigos de pequisadores que têm realizado investigações a respeito de crianças e jovens de diferentes contextos (Portugal, Itália, Alemanha, Cabo Verde, Moçambique e Brasil).

http://www.portaldeperiodicos.unisul.br/index.php/Poiesis

Pesquisa e Infância: desafios que as crianças lançam à etnografia

2011-09-02T03:40:00.000-07:00

Seminário Internacional

3- 4 Nov. 2011

FPCE / UP

Deadline:

30 de Setembro

Keynote speaker:

Pia Christensen

CFP (resumido): Com base na análise da produção científica que hoje em dia faz uso da Etnografia nos vários campos disciplinares a proposta deste Seminário tem a intenção de i) perceber o lugar que as crianças e a infância ocupam nestes estudos e alguns dos paradoxos inerentes ao impacto e tensões que sofrem num espaço-tempo crescentemente globalizado; ii) partilhar e analisar reflexivamente a vivência de dificuldades no nosso próprio fazer etnográfico, em campos disciplinares e contextos de investigação diferentes.

CFP completo: http://www.fpce.up.pt/ciie/infancia/

Organização: Sofia Silva (CIIE-FPCE/UP), Manuela Ferreira (CIIE-FPCE/UP) e Ângela Nunes (CRIA-FCSH/UNL)

Rede europeia sobre a educação das crianças e dos jovens oriundos da imigração

2011-09-01T14:56:00.000-07:00

CONVITE À APRESENTAÇÃO DE CANDIDATURAS — EAC/01/11

Prazo: até 14.10.2011

O presente convite à apresentação de candidaturas tem por finalidade reforçar a colaboração à escala europeia entre os decisores ao mais alto nível, os académicos e os profissionais em matéria educativa, com vista a aumentar o nível de instrução das crianças e dos jovens oriundos da imigração. Para esse efeito, o convite pretende apoiar o estabelecimento de uma rede europeia destinada a analisar, desenvolver e a partilhar políticas e práticas neste domínio.

LEIA MAIS AQUI

CFP 2012 ACYIC Third Annual Meeting

2011-08-27T01:44:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
2012 ACYIC Third Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
February 22-25, 2012
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The ACYIG (American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group) will hold its third annual meeting from February 22-25, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ACYIG 2012 meeting will be held in collaboration with the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) and the Society for Anthropological Science (SASci). The conference website can be accessed via the SCCR Website http://www.sccr.org.

If you are interested in organizing a panel or a session, please send your ideas as soon as possible to David Rosen (rosen@fdu.edu). The deadline for final submissions to SCCR is November 30, 2011.

Call for Panel Papers: Migrant Children’s Cultures and the Culture of Migrant Childhoods

2011-08-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

“Children and Youth in a Changing World”
2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Bhubaneswar, India during November 26-30, 2012

Immigrant children’s cultures have been re-created across time periods and through various spatial, racial, institutional, and ideological practices. These cultures offer insight into the diverse cultures of children and their societies, and function as sites for analyzing constructions of childhoods. This panel looks at the cultures of migrant children, and engages with the conceptions, contestations, and negotiations of immigrant childhood cultures in their varied possibilities: production, consumption, performance, and embodiment. Migrant children employ various urban spaces, services for their support, along with institutional and familial ideologies, to further deploy new cultural practices in popular culture, food, dress, language, peer groups, writings, and other material, spatial, and literary forms. This panel aims to look at the ways in which migration gives rise to diverse childhood cultures – lived and ideological – across international immigration movements of children and youth. Diverse approaches and methods of exploration of these cultures, in varied texts, and across historical time periods and regions, are especially welcome on this panel.

Please send a 300 word abstract by August 28, 2011 to Anandini Dar: anandini@camden.rutgers.edu.

For more about the conference please visit the conference website: http://www.kiit.ac.in/iuaes2012about.html.

Adolescent Ambassadors

2011-07-20T23:54:00.000-07:00

March 23 - 24, 2012
Workshop at the GHI

German Historical Institute

Washington DC

Adolescent Ambassadors
20th Century Youth Organizations and International Relations

This workshop seeks to add to the burgeoning historiography on non-state actors in international relations by focusing on youth and youth organizations. Parallel to the proliferation of inter- and transnational organizations around the turn of the century, Western scientists invented the concept of adolescence to demarcate an intermediate period between childhood and adulthood. The contention that adolescence was an unstable life phase, a developmental stage marked by extreme vitality and insecurity, persuaded policymakers across borders to establish domestic institutions designed to shape, educate, and improve an allegedly erratic youth. But...

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International Conference: Child Labour in the Past

2011-07-20T04:08:00.000-07:00

The 2011 Fifth International Conference of theSociety for the Study of Childhood in the Past
Child Labour in the Past Children as economic contributors and consumers

University of Cambridge
Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October 2011

The 2011 Autumn conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past will be held in the University of Cambridge from Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October, when the theme will be Child Labour in the Past. As in previous years, the conference will include sessions addressing the conference and on other aspect of recent research into of children and childhood in the past.

In 2011, the themed sessions will bring together scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines including History, Archaeology, Literature, Sociology and Anthropology to consider different aspects of children and work in the past, including children as economic contributors, children as consumers, the impact on children and society of working in childhood, and changing attitudes to working children. The aim will be to advance cross-cultural knowledge and understanding of childhood and children in the past, and in particular on the nature and impact of work performed by, or for, children in the past.

Speakers are attending from three continents and papers will range across the world from prehistory to the modern day, with a particular focus on the nineteenth century.

In providing this opportunity for scholars of childhood to present their work to an international, interdisciplinary audience, the SSCIP Conference aims to widen knowledge and generate new perspectives on existing knowledge about childhood in the past and to stimulate new avenues for future research.

To find out more and to register for the conference, visit www.sscip.org.uk or contact Dr Carenza Lewis at crl29@cam.ac.uk : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3ER

CFP: Special Issue African Identities: Contemporary Youth Cultures in Africa

2011-07-20T04:03:00.000-07:00

Late Modernity, Locality and Agency: Contemporary Youth Cultures in Africa

More than a decade and half ago, Donal Cruise-O’Brien (1996) had declared that the African youth were ‘a lost generation.’ This fatalistic summation of the fate of the African youth was perhaps for good reason. The enormous socio-economic and cultural forces surrounding the lives of young people in Africa were [and still are] simply daunting. And at the very core of this seemingly insurmountable socio-economic atmosphere are the pervasive unjust protocols of postcolonial regimes under which most African youth live. Indeed, more recent scholarship suggests that there is no respite yet for the African youth (See Abbink, Jon and Ineke Van Kessel 2005 & Alcinda Honwana and Filip De Boeck 2005). On account of the inclement socio-economic and political circumstances surrounding young people in the continent, what we are now witnessing across the entire continent is what Mamodou Douf (2003) describes as the “dramatic irruption of young people in both the domestic and public spheres,” putting young people at the very heart of the continent’s socio-economic and political imagination (Durham 2006).

But the challenges facing African youth are not peculiar to them. All over the world, the new sociology of youth points to a growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late modernity and general global social and economic restructuring for the lives and futures of young people. But amidst the lingering fears of the future of the young, scholars have also called for a deep reflection and rethinking of young people’s own resilience and agency in the midst of these turbulent times. This special issue of African Identities, tentatively entitled Late Modernity and Agency: Youth Cultures in Africa, seeks to reflect on the varied contours of youth responses to social change in Sub-Saharan Africa. While young people in Africa continue to face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, what are the unique ways in which they have reinvented their circumstances to keep afloat in the midst of seismic global social changes? Papers are solicited on a wide range of topics on the African youth that may unravel young people not only as victims but also as active social actors in the face of a shifting global modernity. The themes may include amongst others,

- African Youth and Globalization
- Late Modernity and Social Change
- Youth and Media—Film, Television, Video, Internet, etc
- Hip-hop, Club Cultures and other forms of Popular culture
- Mobility and Social Media
- Gender and New Economies of Youth
- Democracy, Power and Youth Activism
- Youth and Conflict in Africa
- New Subjectivities and Agency
- Neo-Pentecostalism as Subculture
- The Informal Economy and Invented Pathways
- Lifestyles and Identity Constructions
- New Spatial Politics in Public and Domestic Spaces

Abstracts of not more than 500 words (including name, position, institutional affiliation, and email contact) may be sent to P.UGor@bham.ac.uk no later than September 30th, 2011. This special issue of African Identities will be published in the summer of 2012.

Paul Ugor, PhD
Newton International Fellow
Centre of West African Studies
University of Birmingham, UK.
P.UGor@bham.ac.uk
Dr Paul Ugor
Centre of West African Studies
College of Arts and Law
University of Birmingham, UK
Email: p.ugor@bham.ac.uk

Education and International Development: Why research matters

2011-07-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

29 and 30 September, 2011

IS Academie research group on Education and International Development
University of Amsterdam

In this seminar on Education and International Development: Why research matters, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in the field of education and international development will get together to share and discuss current and ongoing research insights, to exchange evidence coming from the field and to build future research agendas. The seminar is oriented towards scholars, students, practitioners and policy-makers operating in the education and development field, but is also open to a broader audience. Please feel free to further distribute this invitation.
Please note that the deadline for subscriptions is August 26th 2011.

INFO and REGISTRATION FORM

CFP Postscript: special edition on Children in Theory

2011-07-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

To the degree that it is a social construction, childhood, as an idea, carries with it any number of assumptions and associations. Conversely, as a objective developmental period, childhood is interpreted in wildly different way within different contexts. Postscript: A Journal of Graduate Criticism and Theory invites articles for consideration for our Spring 2012 issue, a special edition on the theme "Children in Theory". This issue will examine childhood from a multitude of perspectives. We welcome submissions from any humanities discipline on any aspect of children and childhood. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

-literature or art for children
-representations of children
-care and discipline of children
-the education or instruction of children
-violence toward children
-the perspectives of children themselves
-the displacement of children
-childhood and class
-childhood and gender
-childhood and race

Articles should be between 3000 and 5000 words, reviews should be approximately 1000 words. Please send a Word file, with no identifying details, to the editor at postscript@mun.ca. Please also include on a separate document a brief (300 word) abstract, as well asyour contact information.
The deadline for consideration in this issue is November 1, 2011.

Colóquio - Investigação Participativa com Crianças

2011-06-28T14:27:00.000-07:00

Instituto de Educação - Univ. do Minho,
Sala 0020 - Entrada livre
Sábado, 02-07-2011

Contacto: Doutora Natália Fernandes
Mais informação aqui

Este colóquio destina-se, preferencialmente, a alunos de mestrado que estejam na fase de elaboração dos seus projectos de investigação, sendo no entanto, aberto ao público em geral, e tem como objectivo a promoção de uma troca de saberes com base em trabalhos de investigação já desenvolvidos a partir desta abordagem metodológica.

10 EMES JOURNEES DE SOCIOLOGIE DE L’ENFANCE - ICS - Lisboa

2011-06-24T01:38:00.000-07:00

LISBOA, INSTITUTO CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS – UNIVERSIDADE LISBOA

27-28 JUIN 2011

LA SOCIOLOGIE DE L’ENFANCE

A L’EPREUVE DE SES NOUVEAUX OBJETS

10 EMES JOURNEES DE SOCIOLOGIE DE L’ENFANCE

http://www.ics.ul.pt/instituto/

Infancias y juventudes en América Latina

2011-06-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

Red de Posgrados en Infancia y Juventud – Red INJU
CONVOCATORIA PARA PARTICIPACIÓN Y BECAS DE MOVILIDAD
ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE POSGRADO
'Infancias y juventudes en América Latina: democracia, derechos humanos y
ciudadanía'

Cartagena, Colombia, del 29 de agosto al 2 de septiembre de 2011

INFORMAÇÃO COMPLETA

Trauma & Transformation

2011-06-14T09:17:00.000-07:00

The Catholic Church and the Sexual Abuse Crisis

October 14-15, 2011,
CREOR / Centre for Research on Religion

Montreal, CANADA

Complete CFP

Sexual abuse remains a deep-seated, but largely concealed, problem within human societies. For a variety of reasons the Catholic Church has emerged as the critical "case study" for the sexual abuse of minors and children within institutional settings. As this crisis unfolds, a wealth of data as well as psychological, ethical, legal, historical, and sociological analysis has been generated. The focus of this conference is to capture for the Church, from a wide variety of perspectives, the lessons we have learned from this crisis and to identify some of the way forward.

Child mobility and rural vulnerability in Senegal

2011-06-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

Climate change and the role of children in household risk management strategies in rural Senegal
Final project report
June 2010
TFESSD
World Bank Task Managers: Maurizia Tovo, AFTH2, and Junko Saito, WBI
Study conducted by the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies (Fafo AIS), Oslo, in collaboration with l’École nationale d’économie appliquée (ENEA), Dakar

The fact that so many children leave their parents has been a rising preoccupation among child protection agencies in West Africa over the past decade. Detected cases of abuse and exploitation of these children have caused concern and raised suspicions of organized child trafficking. Yet, in many cases the relocation of children is an important strategy to protect them and enhance their opportunities, and also to help families manage the many risks to which they are exposed. READ COMPLETE REPORT.

Special Issues: Global Studies of Childhood (CFP)

2011-06-14T07:27:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS - special issue:
Bridging Theory and Practice:
partnerships and collaboration in childhood services
- view details (PDF)

CALL FOR PAPERS - special issue:
Childhood in Literature, Media & Popular Culture
- view details (PDF)

Children affected by war

2011-06-09T08:13:00.000-07:00

ESRC Seminar Series
Violence and Childhood: International Perspectives

Seminar 5:
Children affected by war (with a focus on 'child soldiers')

Thursday 30 June 2011, 10am - 4.30pm
B20 & B04
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX

This seminar focuses on the impact of war on children and childhood, looking specifically at child soldiers. Although young soldiers are not a new phenomenon, the extreme brutality and brutalising of child soldiers in recent conflicts has made the abolition of the use of children as soldiers a core demand of many international non-governmental organisations and child rights practitioners.

To register for this free event please email Karen Wells (k.wells@bbk.ac.uk)

You can find out more about the whole series at
www.internationalchildhoodstudies.org

Escola e Comunidade / CIED

2011-06-07T00:45:00.000-07:00

V Encontro do CIED - Escola e Comunidade
Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa (ESELx).
18 e 19 de Novembro de 2011

Os resumos deverão ser enviados até dia 15 de Julho de 2011 para o email:
vencontrocied@gmail.com

Toda a informação sobre o Encontro encontra-se em
http://www.eselx.ipl.pt/cied/eventos/index_v_encontro_pt.html

CFP: Schooling in Anthropology: Learning the “Modern Way”

2011-06-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

5th – 6th December 2011
Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (C-FAR),
Brunel University, London,UK

The two-day workshop is intended to be a forum where we can explore and compare the common themes and contextual variations, theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches in relation to the specific processes and implications that this form of institutional organisation has for children, young people and society more generally. In addition, it is hoped we can consider the place of schooling within the research field of the Anthropology of Education, as well as the benefits of increased dialogue between ethnographic school
researchers in different disciplines, and the actual and potential contribution that the study of schooling can make to, for example, the anthropology of youth, political anthropology and the anthropology of personhood.

Complete CFP

Materialist Readings of Children’s Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays

2011-06-02T12:36:00.000-07:00

Call for papers for an edited collection tentatively titled Materialist Readings of Children’s Literature and Culture: Classic and Contemporary Essays. This collection will consist primarily of new analyses, but will also include previously published essays in order to chart the development of materialist criticism of children’s literature, culture, and film.

Angela Hubler/Kansas State University

contact email: ahubler@ksu.edu

Complete CFP
Deadline: 18.09.2011

Global / Local Youth – New Civic Cultures, Rights and Responsibilities

2011-06-02T04:04:00.000-07:00

The Finnish Youth Research Society is pleased to announce that the 11th NYRIS symposium Global / Local Youth – New Civic Culture, Rights and Responsibilities will take place at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland, 13–15 June 2011.

http://nyris11.com/

Aula aberta sobre “Crianças Soldado”

2011-05-30T13:57:00.000-07:00

31 de maio
ISCSP - 17 horas - Sala 4 - Piso 1

Ana Monteiro, da Amnistia Internacional - Secção Portuguesa sobre o Controlo de Armas e as Crianças Soldado, é a oradora convidada da próxima aula aberta a ter lugar no ISCSP. A iniciativa decorre no âmbito da unidade curricular de Protecção Internacional dos Direitos Humanos.
A aula é organizada pelas docentes da cadeira, Maria Francisca Saraiva e Isabel Cabrita.
Entrada livre.

Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas (revista)

2011-05-26T04:02:00.000-07:00

O n.º 65 da revista Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas tem vários artigos sobre crianças, infância e juventude.

VER ÍNDICE E RESUMOS

Rumor, fama e espaço vivido: uma etnografia com famílias ciganas do Algarve

2011-05-24T14:47:00.000-07:00

Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness of Contemporary Africa

2011-05-23T10:35:00.000-07:00

Social scientists examining contemporary Africa take considerable pains to resist portraying Africa as nothing more than a land of victims unable to escape historical cycles of war, exploitation and tyranny. However, children are still frequently conceptualised as passive actors, mere extensions of adult societies and receptors of culture. The authors in this volume argue that children are dynamic contributors to the shaping of contemporary Africa. Through novel and unorthodox ethnographic research methods, each chapter provides insights into children’s perspectives on kinship, work, caring, health, migration and conflict, shedding light on children’s views and the vital roles they play in the emerging Africa of tomorrow.
More info here

5th Summer University around the topic of CR - this edition is on "CR and the media"

2011-05-20T00:58:00.000-07:00

Venue: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Date: 4-8 July 2011

Registrations until: 30 May 2011
www.lecide.be

Objective: Sensibilize participants to a general culture of CR. A scientific committee of international experts defines a key topic on CR that the participants will work on during 5 consecutive days. Interdisciplinary approach and intercultural dimension (students from different disciplines, members of international institutions and experts working in the field: all who have considerable experience in the area of "media"). Course includes theoretical interventions as well as case studies, debates and practical activities.

MA in Children, Youth and International Development

2011-05-19T23:56:00.000-07:00

This course is designed to equip you with the conceptual understanding and breadth of empirical knowledge that will enable you to critically evaluate policy and practice in the area of children, youth and development and give you the skills necessary to design and undertake research relating to children, youth and development. It is available full time or part time and can incorporate a short placement.
Further details: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/children,-youth-and-international-development-ma.
Download course inofrmation (PDF)
For further information: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk

Colóquio Olhares sobre os Jovens em Portugal

2011-05-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Instituto de Ciências Sociais/UL

2-3 Junho, 2011

Tendo como pretexto o Ano Internacional da Juventude, o colóquio Olhares sobre os jovens em Portugal: saberes, políticas, acções pretende não apenas fazer um estado da arte da produção científica nacional mais relevante sobre a juventude, mas aproveitar também esse momento internacionalmente simbólico para mapear, reflectir e debater sobre as políticas públicas mais recentes e as modalidades de intervenção social destinadas aos mais jovens e/ou empreendidas pelos próprios.

Público-alvo: Investigadores e estudantes de pós-graduação, decisores políticos, técnicos da administração, dirigentes associativos e técnicos de intervenção social.
VER PROGRAMA COMPLETO

CFP: ‘Youth in Motion: Spatializing Youth Movement(s) in the Social Sciences’

2011-05-18T06:31:00.000-07:00

UCL Youth Geographies Research Group (YGRG) Workshop – Thursday 16th June 2011
SEE OUR NEW BLOG FOR MORE INFO: http://youthinmotion.blogspot.com/

‘Youth in Motion: Spatializing Youth Movement(s) in the Social Sciences’

Social science research frequently implicates movement(s) when examining the nature, meaning and experience of space and place. Exploring movement(s) itself/themselves can be as revealing of human lives as the sites in and across which they are located. Focusing on the perspectives of youth, this workshop aims to explore the ways in which young people define, experience, initiate or resist movement(s), and the ways that we as social scientists understand/research them. Taking notions of movement, motion and mobility in their broadest senses and at a variety of scales, we extend the reach of the workshop to encompass discussion on themes such as;

young bodies and corporeality
spatial freedom and restriction
travel and migration
emotional and developmental transition
youth subjectivities and narratives in flux
socio-economic and cultural inequalities of participation and engagement
contested spaces of belonging and exclusion

Rather than structuring the workshop around paper sessions, we are keen to foster open discussion and critical engagement with key conceptual and methodological questions relating to research on youth movement(s). The day will include a keynote panel discussion and interactive sessions where all participants will be encouraged to share aspects of their work. We are therefore eliciting submissions in the form of short (five minute) position papers concisely outlining a personal research project, question, problem or theme, coupled with key questions to be discussed by workshop participants. Position paper submissions are not a prerequisite to attend, but we would encourage prospective participants to do so in the interest of generating vibrant discussion.

Position paper abstracts plus proposed discussion questions (totalling no more than 200 words) should be sent to Caitlin O’Neill Gutierrez at c.o’neill@ucl.ac.uk or James Esson at james.esson.09@ucl.ac.uk by 5pm on Monday 9th May.

This is a free event but places are limited and registration is required. The workshop will take place between 9.30am-5pm on Thursday 16th June in the Department of Geography, Pearson Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Lunch will be provided.

This workshop is organised by the UCL Youth Geographies Research Group based in the Department of Geography, University College London. We hope that the workshop will provide a platform for those working across the Social Sciences to network, share ideas and engage critically with a host of common ‘youth’ themes, whilst also contributing to a ‘mapping’ of where we stand together on youth research today.

CFP: International Congress Indigenous youth and the politics of the future in the Americas

2011-05-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

Indigenous youth and the politics of the future in the Americas

International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, 15-20 July 2012

Young indigenous people’s perspectives on the future are of great importance when, as is well known, the native societies of the Americas and elsewhere are undergoing continual change through their contact with world religions, state bureaucracies and modern technologies (in forms such as digital communication technology or biomedicine), and are affected by often dramatic environmental and demographic transformations. Few anthropologists have made detailed inquiries into the aspirations of indigenous people for the future, least of all into those of the youth. Anthropology has tended to focus on the past and the present, often maintaining a vestigial impulse towards ‘salvage’ ethnography. In doing so, it has naturally given more emphasis to the voices and perspectives of elderly and mature adults. Often the responses to contemporary changes among young people are markedly different from those of their elders. In some cases, they are more open to novelty, embracing it at home and traveling to the city to experience it further. Frequently, they express a sense of desperation, and bleak future prospects are blamed for alcoholism, drug addiction and even suicide, all of which are often most prevalent among young people. Such observations call for detailed ethnographic accounts that permit a fine-grained analysis. Recognizing the recurrence of similar features expressing attitudes towards the future among indigenous peoples across both continents, this panel seeks to foster a dialogue between anthropologists specializing in the different regions of the Americas, from Amazonia to Alaska, to compare and contrast case studies. In doing so, we expect to be able to contribute to knowledge of the common responses to change among Amerindian peoples. We hope that this focus on continuities will also allow us to build a bridge between the past and the future, allowing us better to understand the enduring features of indigenous youth. We invite contributions based on the ethnography of South, Central and North America, addressing the full range of questions raised by young indigenous people reflecting on the future. This may include (but is not restricted to) ethnographic accounts of: - Political engagement and youth activism - Narratives of and aspirations for the future - Health problems among young people, including addiction and suicide - Religion among young people, such as evangelical Christianity or shamanic revivalism - Cosmological or ontological perspectives, and, for instance, how they vary between generations - Parenthood, growing up and the 'moulding' of children for a changing world.

URL: http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/pre-approved-symposia/14.%20social%20and%20cultural%20Anthropology#877

Paper proposal submission guidelines: http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/how-to-submit-a-proposal/

Deadline for proposal submission: 31st August 2011

CFP: The child image in media

2011-05-18T06:18:00.000-07:00

Feather Journal (www.redfeatherjournal.org), an online, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of the child image, seeks submissions for the Fall 2011 issue (deadline July 15th, 2011). Red Feather Journal seeks well-written, critical articles on any aspect of the child image.

The journal welcomes submissions that examine a broad range of media: 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 international films; political uses of the child image; children in advertising; childhood as myth, visual adaptations of children’s literary works; child welfare images; images of children and/in war; the child image in video games; or any other critical examination of the child image, or childhood, in a variety of visual mediums.

Contact: debbieo@okstate.edu
URL: www.redfeatherjournal.org

Youth, Inequalities and the Future of Rio de Janeiro

2011-05-12T04:45:00.000-07:00

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

"YOUTH, INEQUALITIES AND THE FUTURE OF RIO DE JANEIRO"

Rio de Janeiro, June 6-8, 2011

Rio de Janeiro is known for its beauty, for the warmth of its people, for carnival and samba. But it is also known for its social and economic inequalities, its social and political problems, most especially poverty and social violence. After decades of economic decadence (the reasons of which are quite consensual in the literature), sheer social and political problems have accumulated, shortening the horizon of expectations of its inhabitants, increasing the chance that companies and individuals choose to leave the city, reducing the will to participate in the political process, feeding violence and a problematic sociability. The idea of a "problematic sociability", of course, has much to do with how young people live and relate to other social categories as they constantly test the boundaries of that very sociability while negotiating or affirming their social and political identities. Youth has always been at the center of concerns about what to do in a social environment characterized by strong inequalities of opportunities, possibilities and results.

Complete program

Conferência Internacional Jovens, Direitos e Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva

2011-05-11T05:07:00.000-07:00

Promovida pela APF
Conselho Nacional da Juventude
Instituto Português da Juventude
27 de Maio, instalações do IPJ, junto ao Parque das Nações, Lisboa.

O evento integra-se no projecto SAFE II – Sexual Awareness for Europe II – um projecto participado por 14 países e APFs da Europa, apoiado pela OMS e Comissão Europeia e que se centra nos Direitos e na Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva dos Jovens, abraçando nomedamente questões como a Educação Sexual nas Escolas, os serviços de saúde para jovens e o trabalho com jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade social.

Contacto: Dra. Sara Duarte, 213853993 ou saraduarte@apf.pt

Children and Youth in a Changing World

2011-05-09T07:54:00.000-07:00

Organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood
Bhubaneswar, India
November 26-30, 2012

The 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on “Children and Youth in a Changing World”. We will examine childhood cross-culturally and historically to gain the richest and best-informed perspective for looking at children in the present and moving forward. The principal aim of this congress is to bring anthropologists in academia, governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and agencies working on and with children from different parts of the world and offer them a common platform to address various emerging issues relating to children and childhood.

See CFP

Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration

2011-05-07T19:06:00.000-07:00

Day, L., Sutton, L. and Jenkins, S. (2011) Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration: A final report to the Ecorys Research Programme 2010-11. UK: Ecorys.

This report presents the findings from a research study carried out by Ecorys in partnership with Loughborough University, to examine the evidence for children and young people’s participation in planning and regeneration.

The main purpose of this report is to present the detailed findings from the research study. Our intention was to draw together into one place the very diverse range of academic and non-academic studies that have been undertaken in this field, and to reflect upon the lessons for policy and practice at the current point in time; when children and young people's participation is framed by challenging economic circumstances in the UK and internationally. Whilst the report has a particular focus on the UK situation, it also draws upon research literature and practice examples from Europe, South America, North America and Australasia to provide a comparison. The findings are set within the over-arching context of the 1989 UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Children’s Participation in French Child Protection

2011-05-04T04:05:00.000-07:00

Anthropology of Children Seminar
Friday 20 May 2011, 13.30 – 15.00

Children’s Participation in French Child Protection:
A Journey from Restricted to Full Citizenship

By Pierrine Robin

VU University is located at a 10-minutes’ walk from Amsterdam Zuid railway station. The
Metropolitan Building is located opposite the University’s main building, across the tramway. Tram stop ‘De Boelelaan / VU’ is served by tram lines 5 and 51.

More info at www.anthopologyofchildren.net

Confirm your participation at childrenseminar@hotmail.com

Anthropology and Youth

2011-04-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-26T09:38:00.000-07:00

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

Mais informações aqui

International Social Work Call for Submissions: Child Rights in Africa

2011-04-18T04:11:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-14T08:45:00.000-07:00

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)

2011-04-13T14:40:00.000-07:00

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.

Complete CFP

Seminário: Juventude, Cidadania e Consumo

2011-04-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

Free online access to Routledge Education Journals

2011-04-06T00:26:00.000-07:00

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

Click here to start browsing all Routledge Education journals!

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

2011-04-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

SSCIP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011

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

30 Sept - 2 Oct 2011

University of Cambridge, UK

Complete CFP

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

2011-04-05T09:11:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-01T06:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Law, policy and practice for children and young people: the role of social science research

2011-03-31T14:44:00.000-07:00

23 September, 2011

Teesside University
(Darlington Campus)

Middlesbrough, UK

Deadline: 6 May

This conference will critically examine the relationship between social science research and the design and implementation of law and policy concerning children and young people.

The conference will:
- explore the relationships and tensions between these objectives in a multi-disciplinary forum
- advance the role of social policy research within policy-making, practice and wider public debates.

Complete CFP

Ciclo de Cinema: Prevenção Maus Tratos na Infância

2011-03-30T05:08:00.000-07:00

Entrada livre!! Veja informações no cartaz!

“Estamos a espatifar a infância das crianças”

2011-03-21T04:33:00.000-07:00

Entrevista a Eduardo Sá: “Estamos a espatifar a infância das crianças”:

"Preocupa-me esta ideia complemente absurda de crescimento, que dá a entender que as crianças têm que ser jovens tecnocratas de fraldas antes dos seis, têm que ser jovens tecnocratas de mochila depois dos seis e têm que ser jovens tecnocratas de sucesso ao entrarem na universidade para que, finalmente – como se fosse uma linha de montagem –, saíssem todos mestres. Mestre é a designação mais vergonhosa que eu já vi para um título académico, porque é um título que reconhecemos aos sábios."

Leia a entrevista na íntegra

Olhares sobre os jovens em Portugal: Saberes, Políticas, Acções

2011-03-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

Colóquio Olhares sobre os jovens em Portugal: Saberes, Políticas, Acções
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - UL
Lisboa, Portugal
2-3 Junho 2011

Tendo como pretexto o Ano Internacional da Juventude, iniciativa declarada pelas Nações Unidas em Agosto de 2010, o colóquio Olhares sobre os jovens em Portugal: saberes, políticas, acções pretende não apenas fazer um estado da arte da produção científica nacional mais relevante sobre a juventude, mas aproveitar também esse momento internacionalmente simbólico para mapear, reflectir e debater sobre as políticas públicas mais recentes e as modalidades de intervenção social destinadas aos mais jovens e/ou empreendidas pelos próprios.

Deadline: 31 de Março de 2011
CFP completo

Participação das crianças na vida em sociedade (entrevista com o Professor Manuel Sarmento)

2011-03-05T14:41:00.000-08:00

As experiências que promovem a participação de crianças nas decisões políticas em diferentes espaços de suas vidas – cidades, escola, movimentos sociais – são cada vez frequentes. No entanto, embora o tema tenha ganhado importância nos últimos anos, o direito à participação de crianças em processos de elaboração de políticas públicas está longe de ser garantido.
Manuel Sarmento é diretor do Centro de Educação da Universidade do Minho, em Portugal.
Leia a entrevista na íntegra em: De Olho no Plano
Assista à entrevista no canal do YouTube
AGRADECEMOS aos colegas que conduziram e disponibilizaram a entrevista!

Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children

2011-02-11T02:41:00.000-08:00

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK DIVERSITY
AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FIELD

Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales

Université de Liège, BE

9- 11 mars 2011

Program & Registration
www.lasc.ulg.ac.be

Media, Crianças e Jovens

2011-02-09T12:51:00.000-08:00

Seminário de Mestrado (início: 8 de fevereiro 2011)
Professor responsável: Professora Doutora Cristina Ponte
Departamento: Ciências da Comunicação
Horas semanais: 4 / Língua de ensino: Português
Créditos ECTS: 10.0 / 16 sessões de 3 hrs

Objectivos: A influência dos media sobre crianças e jovens (0-18 anos) é um tema recorrente, frequentemente associada a relações de causalidade de difícil confirmação. Crianças e jovens têm uma presença crescente nas notícias enquanto lideram no uso de media digitais em países como Portugal, crescem as indústrias culturais direccionadas para consumos que lhes são destinados e as preocupações para com o seu presente e futuro. O presente Seminário irá ao encontro destas diversas perspectivas, trabalhando questões relacionadas com a representação de crianças e jovens nas notícias e noutros espaços dos media, bem como dimensões da sua própria experiência com os media, numa perspectiva histórica, do século XIX à contemporaneidade.
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Audição Pública sobre Políticas de Juventude

2011-01-26T04:57:00.000-08:00

A Comissão Parlamentar de Educação e Ciência vai promover no dia 14 de Fevereiro de 2011, na Sala do Senado da Assembleia da República, uma Audição Pública sobre Políticas de Juventude.

Sendo 2011 o Ano Europeu das Actividades de Voluntariado que Promovam uma Cidadania Activa e comemorando-se igualmente o Ano Internacional da Juventude das Nações Unidas, esta Comissão pretende desenvolver no âmbito da temática da Juventude as seguintes acções:

A Audição visa ouvir as entidades envolvidas e realizar um amplo debate sobre as seguintes temáticas:
- Execução do Programa Nacional do Ano Europeu do Voluntariado - 2011;
- Consequências da implementação do Pacto Europeu de Juventude;
- Consequências da implementação do Programa Nacional de Juventude.

As inscrições até ao dia 9 de Fevereiro em: http://app.parlamento.pt/InscriptionForm/form/Formulario8cecAPJ.aspx

Crianças e Infâncias Luso-Afro-Brasileiras: olhares transnacionais e diversidades em diálogo

2011-01-24T03:05:00.000-08:00

XI Congresso Luso Afro Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais

GT 38: Crianças e Infâncias Luso-Afro-Brasileiras: olhares transnacionais e diversidades em diálogo

Coordenadores:
Ângela Nunes, Flávia Ferreira Pires e Alcileide Cabral do Nascimento

Na crescente busca pelo alargamento e consolidação de laços científicos entre Portugal (e suas comunidades), Brasil e os países africanos de língua oficial portuguesa, e num momento em que se estabelecem acordos que procuram estreitar a cooperação, julgamos que seja oportuno lançar um olhar sobre as crianças destes países e, conjuntamente, encontrar um espaço de reflexão sobre a diversidade contida na multiplicidade das suas infâncias, no modo como entendem o mundo social que as rodeia e conforma as suas circunstâncias de vida, e, ainda, na capacidade e habilidade que demonstram para transformá-lo.

Informação completa sobre todos os GTs

Inscrições ainda não estão disponíveis

The Child as Citizen

2011-01-20T03:48:00.000-08:00

FREE ACCESS
The Child as Citizen
January 2011 issue of The ANNALS / American Academy of Political and Social Science: http://ann.sagepub.com/content/633/1.tocwhich.

The Right Stuff

2011-01-19T05:18:00.000-08:00

The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has launched a taster issue of "The Right Stuff" – the human rights magazine by and for children and young people.

You can read the magazine here: http://issuu.com/krishnacrae/docs/the_right_stuff_magazine

Funded by Mediabox, the magazine features stories of children who have suffered rights violations, as well as inspirational accounts of children taking action, interviews with human rights activists and a dedicated under 10s section. The Right Stuff magazine was designed and written by more than 30 under 18 year-olds from across England, with the aim of promoting young people’s interest in children’s human rights and encouraging them to take action to achieve change for children.

The magazine is available to download at www.crae.org.uk. Enquiries concerning the Right Stuff can be sent to Krishna Maroo at kmaroo@crae.org.uk

CFP: Social Relations in Turbulent Times

2011-01-17T10:17:00.000-08:00

ESA 10th Conference
7th to 10th September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

RN04 - Sociology of Children and Childhood

The Research Network aims to bring together scholars across Europe who are engaged in both theoretical and empirical work on children and childhood. We have organised successful Sociology of Childhood Streams at the last six ESA Conferences (1999-
2009). The general theme of the 2011 conference is ‘social relations in turbulent times’, and the various sessions will address children’s lives and social relations in the context of societal change. We invite abstracts on the following themes:

1. Children’s social relations and everyday lives
2. Children as victims, witnesses and perpetrators of crime and violence
3. Children and migration
4. Child poverty and child work
5. Children’s rights, citizenship and participation
6. Trust dynamics in children’s lives
7. Theoretical and methodological issues in researching childhood and children’s lives
8. Open theme

Crianças e Riscos Online / Conferência EU Kids Online 2

2011-01-13T12:45:00.000-08:00

Numa altura em que muito se fala dos riscos de crianças e jovens na internet em tom alarmista, o conhecimento real destas situações baseia-se frequentemente em casos isolados. Pais, professores e comunidade dividem-se entre a utilidade escolar e social dos meios digitais para os jovens e os perigos que aqueles lhes podem trazer.

No dia 4 de Fevereiro de 2010, o projecto EU Kids Online apresenta e discute publicamente os resultados do primeiro inquérito representativo a 1000 crianças e jovens (com 9 a 16 anos) portugueses, e um dos seus pais, sobre riscos e segurança na internet, integrado num estudo europeu a 25 países.

Os primeiros resultados demonstraram que Portugal é um dos países com menor incidência de riscos online entre crianças e jovens entre os países europeus inquiridos, considerando riscos como contacto com imagens de cariz sexual, bullying, encontro com desconhecidos ou conteúdos nocivos.

Nesta conferência, que acontece dias antes do Dia da Internet Segura, a equipa portuguesa do EU Kids Online pretende apresentar em pormenor os resultados deste inquérito. Consulte aqui o programa provisório.

A conferência destina-se ainda a envolver na discussão todos os agentes interessados no tema da segurança de crianças e jovens na internet, entre pais, professores, técnicos de acção social, académicos, entre outros. A conferência é gratuita, mas solicitamos a sua inscrição para uma melhor organização.

Participatory Ontologies and Youth Cultures

2010-12-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is pleased to announce that the 2010 Winter Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available! Issue 2.2 features the forum entitled "Participatory Ontologies and Youth Cultures." This forum contains pieces from Stuart Poyntz, Zoë Druick, Clare Bradford, and Darin Barney, and it is open access at http://jeunessejournal.ca <http://jeunessejournal.ca/> .

The editorial by Mavis Reimer and review essays are also open access.

Crianças Nordestinas (Brasil) / Pensando a infância do ponto de vista da antropologia

2010-12-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

(chamada para artigos)
Organizadoras: Emilene Sousa & Flávia Pires

Car@ Colega,

Depois de coordenar e participar de vários GT e ST em diversos eventos científicos nacionais que discutem a temática da antropologia da infância e da criança, detectamos uma carência em publicações de estudos antropológicos realizados com crianças Nordestinas. Ao mesmo tempo, descobrimos várias pesquisas em andamento ou recentemente concluídas que atestam a vitalidade do tema.
Gostaríamos, então, de convidá-lo a submeter um artigo para compor o livro CRIANÇAS NORDESTINAS, uma coletânea de artigos antropológicos. É preciso que o artigo problematize o que é ser criança no Nordeste, a partir de recortes locais: crianças indígenas, crianças urbanas, crianças camponesas, etc, com foco no trabalho de campo e na etnografia.

Especificações do artigo: Times New Roman, espaço 2, margens 2,5 (direita, esquerda, inferior, superior); 20-30 laudas; Prazo: Dezembro 2010.
Esperando poder contar com a sua valiosa contribuição,

Emilene Sousa (UFMA) & Flávia Pires (UFPB)
Emilene Sousa - emilenesousa@yahoo.com.br
Flávia Pires - ffp23279@gmail.com

Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Brasil) em revisão para não discriminar crianças indígenas

2010-11-29T09:32:00.000-08:00

Gilberto Costa
Repórter da Agência Brasil
O Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA) que completa 21 anos em 2011 poderá ser reformado para não discriminar práticas de socialização das crianças indígenas. Um diagnóstico sobre a violação de direitos e a atual situação de crianças e adolescentes indígenas apontam que há diferenças de visão sobre o que é considerado violência e agressão contra as crianças.
Notícia completa: Agência Brasil

Culturas Infantis e Culturas Juvenis: dos silêncios à sua polifonia

2010-11-22T09:04:00.000-08:00

O dossiê Culturas Infantis e Culturas Juvenis reúne artigos de pesquisadores engajados na superação de abordagens da infância e da juventude focadas somente em perspectivas cronológicas que normatizam suas etapas, idades,/ou fases da vida. Os autores focalizam crianças e jovens como agentes, potentes e capazes de transformar e criar novas relações nas instituições educativas (Prefácio).

Revista Momento / Diálogos em Educação

Vol. 19, No 1 (2010) Publicação online

LSE Research: Opportunities and Risks for Children Online

2010-11-15T14:24:00.000-08:00

Interview with researchers

With 65% of Europeans now online (source: ITU, 19/10/10), what effect is this having on children? What type of material are children exposed to through the internet? How do online risks compare to offline risks?

Funded by the EC's Safer Internet Programme, Professor Sonia Livingstone, head of LSE's department of Media and Communications, led a survey of 23,420 children and their parents in 23 European countries to systematically investigate the opportunities and the risks children are exposed to online. Their results are published in the EU Kids Online report, Risks and Safety on the Internet, available at:
www.eukidsonline.net

The rights of the child in the context of migration (report)

2010-11-09T14:10:00.000-08:00

Study of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on challenges and best practices in the implementation of the international framework for the protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration.
This report seeks to set out the specific standards and principles that inform the international framework of protection of the rights of the child in the context of migration. It examines challenges in the practical implementation of this framework, and notes some best practices in terms of legislation, jurisprudence and joint efforts at the bilateral, regional and international levels. The report ends with conclusions and recommendations which aim to strengthen the implementation of the international framework and better protect the rights of the child in the context of migration.
Complete report

Children's experience of the Children Act 1989

2010-11-08T02:51:00.000-08:00

By Roger Morgan,
Children's Rights Director for England.

FREE SAMPLE

This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. (...)

YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE

2010-10-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
COLLECTION VOL 1 - 3
30 POWERFUL FILMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Now Available for free on DVD to teachers worldwide for educational screenings

Armed with digital cameras and their own creativity - young people across the globe are bravely exposing human rights issues faced by themselves and their communities. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE is a program of short films created by filmmakers under the age of 19. Youth Producing Change is presented by Adobe Youth Voices in association with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Europe’s Future: citizenship in a changing world

2010-10-08T12:20:00.000-07:00

CiCe Annual Conference 2011
Dublin City University, Ireland
9 - 11 June 2011

The thirteenth annual conference of the CiCe Network has a particular focus on identity and citizenship in a changing world, and aims to give consideration to the experiences and understanding of young people, as well as to educational policy, practice or outcome in order to reflect on, or respond to, the opportunities and challenges that a future Europe may bring. The conference will bring together staff from higher education institutions who educate those in the education and social professions who work with children and young people. Papers at the conference will range from research findings to analysis of practice. We welcome all lecturers and researchers in universities and other higher education institutions with an interest in our themes, as well as those in NGOs and policy fields.

10 December 2010: Deadline for submission of all proposals. Please note that we will not be able to consider proposals received after 10 December

Info: http://cice.londonmet.ac.uk/conferences/main/main_home.cfm

CFP: Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives

2010-10-08T12:10:00.000-07:00

May 20-21, 2011

Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA

Sponsored by the Department of Childhood Studies of Rutgers-Camden (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/), the conference will convene scholars and practitioners from various fields to examine the questions and problems confronting childhoods today.

Keynote speakers: Professor Elizabeth Chin of Occidental College, USA, and Professor Judith Ennew of Swansea University, UK.

Scholars, practitioners and students interested in children and childhood studies are encouraged to attend.
The deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the program is November 15, 2010. For information, please visit the newly-revamped website http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/ <http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/

II Encontro de Sociologia da Educação

2010-10-07T12:08:00.000-07:00

Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR)

2010-10-07T01:13:00.000-07:00

The Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR) is a part-time international and interdisciplinary postgraduate programme on children's rights, which takes place over a two-year period. The Programme is organised conjointly by the University of Fribourg and the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB), both in Switzerland, and is designed for professionals who work with children’s rights issues, including lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, judges, social workers, government officials, staff of non-governmental organisations, academics and journalists.

The next cycle will start in March 2011.
More info: http://www.iukb.ch/index.php?id=63

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal

2010-10-06T04:27:00.000-07:00

DIME is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in diaspora, indigenous, and minority education – is dedicated to researching cultural sustainability in a world increasingly consolidating under national, transnational, and global organizations. It aims to draw attention to, and learn from, the many initiatives being conducted around the globe in support of diaspora, indigenous, and minority education, which might otherwise go unnoticed.

DIME invites research from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that emphasize the centrality of marginal voices and a peripheral gaze, and which draw attention to the complex interrelations between political, economic, historical, and social contexts, as well as the ways in which these various contexts shape educational policies, practices, curricula, and outcomes. The journal welcomes articles that ground theoretical reflections in specific empirical research and case studies of diverse locations and peoples as yet underrepresented within scholarly research and literature, as well as action or participatory research studies of exemplary or “best” practices.

More info: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HDIM

Submissions ACIG Newsletter, Oct 2010

2010-09-15T14:18:00.000-07:00

Desculpem... é um bocado em cima da hora, mas cá vai...

September 15th, is the deadline for all item submissions for consideration for the October, 2010 issue of the ACIG Newsletter. Please submit items online to editor, Rachael Stryker, at: rstryker@mills.edu We look forward to receiving any of the following items:
- Column Submissions (Methods and Ethics in the Anthropology of Childhood; Childhood & _______ ; Favorite Ethnographies of Childhood; My Experiences/Intersections with Interdisciplinary Research on Children)
- Letters to the Editor
- New Book Announcements
- Professional Opportunities and Upcoming Events
- Member News/Professional Updates
- Photos from Fieldwork
AAA Children and Childhood Interest Group