Seminar on Violence in Adolescence and Youth in Developing Countries

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.

Children affected by war

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

Ciclo de Cinema: Prevenção Maus Tratos na Infância

Entrada livre!! Veja informações no cartaz!

Violence and liminality: violent transitions from childhood to adulthood in a global context

June 18th

Seminar on Youth and Transition

Violence and liminality: violent transitions from childhood to adulthood in a global context

London

Moving from the beginning of childhood to the end of childhood, this seminar focuses on the role of violence in the transition to adulthood. The concept behind the seminar is "liminality" or the space between childhood and adulthood. As children or young people enter into this conceptual space, they are particularly vulnerable to being both perpetrators and victims of violence. For boys, especially, the peformance of violence or the ability to withstand violence or pain may be thought of as central mechanisms through which the transition to normative masculine adulthood is made. Through the exploration of these issues, the seminar considers how violence publicly marks boys' transition to hegemonic adult masculinity in the context of political violence

Speakers
Practitioners/policy: to be confirmed
Academics: Dr Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University; Professor Filip de Boeck, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Dr Margarita Palacious, Birkbeck College.
If you would like to come and you have not already registered please email Karen Wells k.wells@bbk.ac.uk to reserve a place.

http://www.internationalchildhoodstudies.org

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

Starlight and Shadows: Images of Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema

Seeking original articles for an edited collection about lost and “Othered” children in contemporary cinema (from 1980 to the present). In contrast to traditional portraits of sweetness and light, there is a large body of cinematic works that provide a counter note of darkness to the more common notion of the innocent and pure child. These films depict childhood as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and even madness. Starlight and Shadows [tentative title] explores this filmic imagining of the dark side of childhood.
Lost children are involuntary wanderers who are victimized, exploited, abandoned. Children who are “Othered” are forced to the fringes of childhood, are ostracized, ignored, victims of colonization, or part of Diasporas. These children navigate their way through the world living in the shadow of happy families, in murky or threatening environs, or living a form of placelessness. They must depend on their wits or, in some cases, on otherworldly influences. They negotiate a darkness that negates the Romantic view of childhood innocence.
Submissions to Starlight and Shadows can include, but are not limited to, depictions of children negotiating race, gender, class, mental illness, forced migration, superstitions, peer pressure, crime, or other social and material conditions in which the film constructs a child character positioned outside the romantic notion of the child. Essays that take a child-centric approach, interrogate the idea of the Western romanticized child, or that draw upon multi-disciplinary theoretical frameworks including psychology, film studies, literature, women studies, and queer studies are encouraged.  Contributions should be academic in nature and follow MLA documentation.

Contributors please send a 200-500 word abstract, or, if complete, the full essay, a short biography, and complete contact information to Debbie Olson, debbieo@okstate.edu
Deadline for abstracts is August 1, 2010. Full essays are due no later than December 31, 2010.

CFP: "The Spirituality of Children at War" International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, Volume (15) 2010

This issue will investigate children's spirituality in times of war. The focus will be upon the relationships between children's spirituality and their encounter with trauma, viciousness and atrocity. War will be understood in the widest sense and cover the full range of terrorist attacks, political and religious violence, mass traumatic events, the direct exposure to destruction, chaos, viciousness, atrocity in civil, political, social and cultural arenas and their environmental context.

Guest Editor: Dr Zehavit Gross of the School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel. Email: grossz@mail.biu.ac.il. Contributions should be submitted by email and can be emailed by May, 1 2010 directly to Zehavit or alternatively to Dr Cathy Ota, Editor, 31 Vale Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1GD, United Kingdom. Email: cathy@cathyota.com

Para pedir o texto completo do CFP: grossz@mail.biu.ac.il

CFP: Children’s development and violence: risks, consequences, and management

International Association for Child Right and Development IACRD cordially invites you to attend her 7th International conference with the theme, “Children’s development and violence: risks, consequences, and management’, to be held in USA and UK.
This conference will address the issue of Children Empowerment and rights: from the individual to the global community. More than ever before, Individuals, Youth Associations, Religious Groups, Environmental NGOs, Community Associations and Non profit Organizations are being called to operate transparently, and adhere to the highest code of ethical conduct of living in service to others for human development. The conference will explore new ways to enhance empowerment to make Children & women of our society viable to face challenges that confronts underdeveloped & developing countries. Read more...