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- Ideal for studies of individual societies, regional and cross-cultural comparisons
- Over 700 searchable subjects on all aspects of cultural and social life
- Subjects include family, child-rearing, political behavior, economy, arts, and religion
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- Western and non-Western cultures, ethnic minorities, indigenous people, and archaeological traditions

‘Writing childhood’: Inaugural meeting of the CCWW cross-cultural seminar

The first meeting of this seminar series develops the topic of the CCWW - Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing launch event, held on 16 October 2009, when three authors (from Austria, Italy and Portugal) came to London to read from and discuss their work on 'writing childhood'.

Programme available at:  http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=471

Registrations are still most welcome for the below cross-cultural seminar at IGRS. Bookings and Catering numbers are needed by end of this month. There is no charge for attendance. Refreshments and lunch will be provided, so we would be grateful if participants could register by emailing igrs@sas.ac.uk.

CFP: Family Policies in International Perspectives

Journal of Child and Family Studies 

Guest Editor: Mihaela Robila, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Family Studies, Queens College,

City University of New York 

The Journal of Child and Family Studies is organizing a Special Issue on “Family Policies in International Perspectives”.  The purpose of this special issue is to provide a comprehensive coverage of family policy issues of international importance and develop a collection of articles that explore the different types of explicit and implicit family policies around the world, with a wide geographical representation, addressing policy development, implementation and evaluation. 
Potential contributors are invited to submit their papers by October 15, 2010.
More info: http://www.editorialmanager.com/jcfs.
For inquires please contact Mihaela Robila, the Guest Editor at Mihaela.Robila@qc.cuny.edu

CFP: ECSR/TransEurope/QMSS II Conference - Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence

September 30-October 2nd 2010, Bamberg, Germany

The European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) Social Science Networking Programmes "TransEurope - Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequalities" and "Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) 2" will join forces to organise a three-day conference to be held in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bamberg, Germany.

The conference, entitled "Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence" aims to bring together researchers in the area of internationally comparative research on socio-economic change from all across Europe and beyond to present and discuss their recent methodological approaches and empirical findings.

Deadline for a submission of paper abstracts no longer than 200 words is 31st March, 2010.

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Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives

Chamada para Artigos
This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from a cross-cultural perspective. Although the collection will primarily focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological, archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork, welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum, including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based) submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical submissions are also welcome. Ler mais...