The Child: A Persons Project

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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CFP: Juvenile Delinquency in the 19th and 20th Centuries: East-West Comparisons

12th and 13th March 2011
Centre for British Studies
Humboldt University, Berlin

Abstract deadline: 15th October 2010

The history of juvenile delinquency has too often been written from an exclusively national perspective with little in the way of comparative or transnational studies. Particularly lacking are comparisons between the construction and understanding of juvenile delinquency in the cultural fields of East and West. How have attempts to define and problematise child and youth behaviours differed between Eastern and Western cultures? Have children and childhood been imagined differently in East and West? How have cultural constructions of the young affected the ways in which the behaviour of children and young people has been classified and understood in different societies? Is juvenile delinquency a peculiarly western idea?
This two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars at all levels working in a variety of fields including history, sociology, literary studies, geography, anthropology and ethnography, to discuss these and related questions. It is hoped that such discussions will lead to a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which concepts of childhood, youth and delinquency have been shaped by particular cultural contexts.

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Global Studies of Childhood (new online research journal)

Global Studies of Childhood (GSC) is a peer-reviewed, internationally focused, online research journal. Its first issue will be published in March 2011. The journal provides an opportunity for researchers, university and college students and professionals who are interested in issues associated with childhood in education, family, and community contexts from a global perspective to present, share and discuss their work. GSC aims to present opportunities for scholars and emerging researchers to interrogate the ways in which globalization and new global perspectives impact on children’s life experiences.

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CFP: XI Congress of AEPEC "From Exclusion to excellence: Organizational pathways for Education Quality", 16-18 September 2010 - University of Évora

The XI Congress of AEPEC (Association of Multidimensional Education and Cultural School) will be held in Évora, Portugal, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of September, with the central theme: From Exclusion to excellence: Organizational pathways for Education Quality.

We invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in this congress which seeks to give wide expression to the research that has been produced in order to understand the phenomena of exclusion – regarded as their multiple expressions – as well as the political and organizational solutions that have been proposed lately.

The deadline for abstract submission is 31st May 2010.

Abstract submission and Registration: http://www.xiaepec.uevora.pt/

International conference: "Children and War: Past and Present"

University of Salzburg (Austria) from Sept. 30th to Oct. 2nd 2010

The aim is to bring together scholars from various academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions and the media, who are engaged in research on any topic and theme on ‘Children and War’, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, relief and rehabilitation work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, abuse and prostitution, trauma and amnesia, the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, to remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology.
Further information: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/childrenandwar

CFP: International Conference 'The doors of perception: Viewing anthropology through the eyes of children'

30 September & 1 October 2010 - VU University Amsterdam

This conference aims to bring together anthropologists who work with children as well as researchers from other disciplines to provide a platform for intellectual discussion, exchange of ideas, networking, and to offer opportunities for collaboration. The primary goal of the conference is to examine current developments in the study of children and to develop perspectives on how research with children can contribute to anthropological epistemology and theory. Central questions to such a reflection are:
1) What can child-oriented research offer to current epistemological debates and theory in anthropology?
2) How can anthropological research with children benefit from insights from other disciplines?
3) How can an anthropological, child-oriented approach contribute to the research of children in other disciplines?
The conference welcomes proposals not merely from anthropologists but also from scholars representing other disciplines (including but not limited to geography, psychology, sociology, history, and education). We invite such scholars to reflect on the possible cross-fertilization that does or can take place in these interdisciplinary encounters.
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CFP: Diversidade e Gênero no Universo Infanto-Juvenil

Fazendo Género 9: Diásporas, Diversidades, Deslocamentos
Universidade de Santa Catarina
Florianópolis, SC, Brasil
23 a 26 de Agosto de 2010
Inscrições: até 28 de fevereiro de 2010.

ST 18: Diversidade e Gênero no Universo Infanto-Juvenil
Coordenação: Alcileide Cabral do Nascimento e Flávia Ferreria Pires

Nos últimos encontros do Fazendo Gênero os simpósios temáticos propostos sobre a infância, adolescência e juventude, revelaram-se espaços importantes na interlocução entre pesquisador@s de várias regiões do país e de outros países, oportunizando olhares, histórias e saberes interdisciplinares sobre o universo infanto-juvenil ao reunir pesquisas de diferentes áreas de conhecimento.
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CFP: Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines

University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand
17 - 19 November 2010
Deadline for Abstract Submission 16 April 2010
This quadrennial ethnography conference and hui welcomes all forms of engagement in ethnographic disciplinary practice, and aims to stimulate rich intellectual discourse. Researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines of law, anthropology, education, health, management, business, psychology, sociology, cultural, and gender studies - and any other discipline where ethnography advances our understanding of the way groups and individuals interact and live their lives into being - are invited to submit papers. Contributors will be invited to experiment with traditional ethnography, as well as new methodologies and with new presentational formats such as drama, performance, poetry, autoethnography, and fiction. Presenters’ papers will be considered for a peer-reviewed compilation of four to five presentations per thread.
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