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Soliciting Applications for two open ACYIG Board Positions

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Dear ACYIG Members,

At the end of this year, three of our respected colleagues — Jill Korbin, David Rosen, and Tom Weisner — will be finishing their terms on the ACYIG Board. This was a planned rotation, and I would like to publicly thank them all for helping make ACYIG the organization it is today. From liaising with the AAA to conference organizing, to representing the Anthropology of Children and Youth both within and outside the field, we could not have asked for better colleagues to start and grow ACYIG. Many thanks to Jill, David, and Tom!

I am also very happy to announce that the ACYIG Board has appointed Dr. Heather Rae-Espinoza (CSU Long Beach) to one of these three open positions. We look forward to working with her in the coming year.

However, this still leaves two open Board positions to be filled! In the past, ACYIG has conducted open Board appointments whenever possible. Board appointments are considered to be two-year positions on our six-person Board and typically require attendance at the annual meeting of the AAA and the annual ACYIG joint conference during one’s tenure. ACYIG Board member duties include: maintaining official interest group status with AAA; optimizing professional opportunities for members available via AAA; overseeing and growing professional presence within and outside AAA; and organizing the annual ACYIG joint conference.

If you would like to be considered for one of the two open positions on the ACYIG Board, please email one to two paragraphs to Dr. Rachael Stryker at rachael.stryker@csueastbay.edu by Sunday, December 15, 2013 stating why you would like to become a Board member and what you feel you can bring to ACYIG. Please be sure to include your name, title, affiliation (academic or otherwise) and email/phone number so that we can respond to you. The ACYIG Board will make decisions by January 15, 2014, and notify you soon after. Your duties as an ACYIG Board Member begin on February 1, 2014, and your appointment will be confirmed at the ACYIG business meeting in Charleston, SC later that month when you are formally introduced to the membership.

If you have any questions about ACYIG Board member duties or this open Board appointment process, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am happy to answer them.

Sincerely,

Rachael Stryker
Convener, ACYIG

Events

EASA Anthropology of Children and Youth Network – Nov. 15

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Self and other at home and at school: children with a migration background in Dutch education

Anna van der Meulen, PhD student
Department of Educational Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Friday 15 November, 13.00-14.30, room Z-113

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.

Feel free to communicate information of this seminar to other people who might be interested. Could you confirm your participation in the 15 November seminar to us? childrenseminar@hotmail.com

www.anthropologyofchildren.net

 

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Teaching Persepolis: A Roundtable Discussion (ChLA 2014)

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Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Annual Convention, “Diverging Diversities: Plurality in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Then and Now,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,June 19-21, 2014

In March 2013, Chicago Public School officials generated controversy when they removed Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, from inclusion in 7th grade curriculum and classrooms. Over the past decade, however, Persepolis has increasingly appeared in college-level courses, such as freshman composition, religious studies, women’s and gender studies, and children’s/YA literature, among others. For the upcoming ChLA conference, I am interested in forming an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion on different pedagogical approaches to teaching Persepolis in the undergraduate classroom; I also welcome submissions about the inclusion and/or exclusion of Satrapi’s novel from secondary school curriculum and related controversies. I encourage submissions from scholars and educators across a variety of disciplines and fields, including English, children’s/YA literature, world literature, secondary education, women’s and gender studies, rhetoric and composition, and others. Presenters will offer short papers and contribute to a discussion about the role of Persepolis in the classroom. Please send a 250-word abstract and a short bio or CV to Kristen Proehl, Assistant Professor of English, SUNY-Brockport,kproehl_at_brockport.edu, by Dec. 15, 2013.

Resources

Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies

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OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES | Childhood Studies
Your Best Research Starts Here
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Oxford Bibliographies as a whole continues to grow, adding both new subject modules (with three dozen now published) and new articles to our existing subject areas. We also continue to draw more users and currently see on average more than 100,000 visits per month.

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Resources

Announcement: Release of Ethical Research Involving Children Charter, Compendium and Interactive Website

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Research is vital to understanding how we can improve children’s lives and create a better future for all. Methods of research involving children are expanding rapidly and changing the way we think about children and what they have to tell us about issues relevant to their lives. But how can we ensure these research approaches are ethically sound, children are respected and their views and perspectives gathered and reported with integrity? Faced with dilemmas and challenges, researchers often struggle to find adequate guidance and strategies.

While a range of guidance materials on research involving children is available, it was considered timely and important to bring together the best thinking internationally about key ethical issues and how these might be addressed in different research contexts. This extensive evidence is underpinned by an explicit emphasis on the important role of reflexivity, rights and relationships in progressing ethical research.

The Ethical Research Involving Children Project is intended to provide both guidance and a forum for discussion offering advice and possible solutions. A joint initiative by the UNICEF Office of Research, the Childwatch International Research Network, the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University and the Children’s Issues Centre at the University of Otago, the Ethical Research Involving Children Project avoids a prescribed approach and encourages greater consideration of ethical issues as part of a reflective process between researchers, children and other stakeholders.

Nearly 400 members of the international research and NGO communities have contributed to this project that has developed a range of resources to provide clear guidance on ethical issues and concerns that can be applied in multiple research contexts. The resources include:

  • An International Charter for Ethical Research Involving Children;
  • A Compendium on ethical issues and challenges, including a collection of over 20 case studies as well as structured questions to guide ethical research involving children (called ‘Getting Started’);
  • A website www.childethics.com specifically designed to provide a rich repository of evidence-based information, resources and links to journal articles to guide and improve research involving children and to provide a platform for further critical reflection and dialogue.

We hope that these resources will support you and your organisation to further develop, enrich and sustain high quality, ethical research that will contribute to improving the lives of children. Please join us in this effort and share your ideas and experience on www.childethics.com.

 

Events

Child in the World seminar: Conflict and Migration in Museums (3 December 2013)

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Conflict and Migration in Museums

Is there a danger, when migration becomes a contentious topic of political debate, that museums retreat from dealing with the inevitable conflicts that arise in developing relationships with migrant communities and representing their lives? This seminar, drawing on lessons learnt in the UK, France and Australia, opens up debate on how to use conflict constructively.

Date: 3 Dec 2013
Time: 17.30 – 19.00
Place: V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA

17.30 – 17.50 Museum as Conflict Zone: A ‘social justice’ approach, where the museum is seen as a site for dialogue and debate is being adopted by museums across the world. Undoubtedly such democratic processes create new spheres of conflict and resistance. Citizens, formerly kept quiet under hidden linkages of domination, inevitably become animated. Based upon recent work Object: Working through Conflict in Museums, Dr Bernadette Lynch explores the implications of building relationships with migrant communities with whom embracing conflict becomes a necessity.

17.50 – 18.10 Neo-colonialist representations, silencing and re-appropriations in National Museum of the History of Immigration, France: Dr. Sophia Labadi charts the conflicting processes and decisions at play in the translation of the aims of the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris (CNHI) into the museography and interpretation of the collections. She critiques the usages made of this heritage space, particularly its unauthorised occupation by illegal workers for four months from October 2010 to January 2011. The CNHI is the only national museum dedicated to celebrating the positive contributions of migrants to France.

18.10 – 18.30 Migration, politics and museum audience: Representing ‘boat people’ in Australia: Dr Eureka Henrich focuses on the representation of refugees who arrive by boat, a highly politicized issue in Australia. Museums are under pressure to attract a wide audience, develop relationships with migrant communities and present ‘plain facts’ – tasks which may be incompatible with each other and with curators’ desires to challenge dominant representations of migrants. Henrich explores the implications of how curators and others have negotiated these conflicts through reference to Australia’s rich history of migration exhibitions including how children’s objects and drawings have been used to elicit empathy.

18.30 – 19.00 Panel discussion

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Dr. Bernadette Lynch lectures and publishes widely, advising internationally on democratic practice and public participation in museums. She has worked on high-profile action research projects across the UK. These include publishing the influential report Whose Cake is it Anyway? on the impact of engagement and participation and heading a museum partnership project/ publication on working through issues of conflict as central to democratic engagement in the cultural sector.

Dr. Sophia Labadi is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies, Director of the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent and a consultant for international organizations. She previously worked for UNESCO and the 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention and participated in the strategic planning and drafting of the 2009 UNESCO World Report on Cultural Diversity. Her latest publication is ‘UNESCO, Cultural Heritage and Outstanding Universal Value’ published in 2013 by AltaMira.

Dr Eureka Henrich is an early career historian at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College, London. Her doctoral research, presently being converted into a book, tracked how migration histories have been exhibited in Australian museums. This covered the period from the establishment of the first museum of migration in the world in Adelaide in 1986 to the present day. Her article, ‘Museums, history and migration in Australia’ was published by History Compass, Oct 2013.

This seminar is part of the AHRC Collaborative Award Programme, The Child in the World: Empire, Diaspora and Global Citizenship involving Queen Mary University of London and the V&A Museum of Childhood.

To book a free place please email: mocbookings@vam.ac.uk or ring 020 8983 5205

For further details email Eithne Nightingale on e.nightingale@qmul.ac.uk

Job Postings

Children’s Literature Position at Rowan University

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Position:  Assistant Professor, Specialist in Children’s Literature
Department: English

Description:
The English Department at Rowan University has a tenure-track position for an Assistant Professor of children’s literature.  We are seeking broadly trained candidates prepared to teach courses in children’s literature and young adult literature as well as a foundation course for English majors, survey courses in U.S. literature and/or British literature, and seminars in area(s) of expertise.  A 3/3 teaching load is guaranteed for the first two years and can be renewed annually with evidence of continuing scholarship.  Course load will sometimes be split between the Glassboro and Camden campuses.  No Composition.  Departmental and university service is expected.  Initial interviews will be conducted at MLA.   The position begins September 1, 2014.

Qualifications:
1)   Ph.D. in English, completed by September 1, 2014
2)   Evidence of excellence in teaching
3)   An active research agenda

Contact:

Candidates should submit a letter of application and acurriculum vitae to the Chair, Joseph L. Coulombe, using the Technomedia Applicant Tracking System:

http://rowanuniversity.hodesiq.com/jobs/assistant-professor-specialist-in-children%E2%80%99s-literature-glassboro-new-jersey-job-3942992

The deadline is November 4, 2013.  Dossiers should be submitted only upon request.

General Information:
Rowan University is a comprehensive public institution that values high-quality teaching, scholarship, and service.  While our current enrollment is more than 11,000 students, our classes are small (20-30 students).  Research is supported by the university through travel support, internal grants, and load adjustment, although faculty are expected to pursue external funding as well.  Salary is competitive, and faculty positions fall under the State of New Jersey & AFT Collective Bargaining agreement.  Rowan University ranks in the top tier of universities in the region.  Less than 20 miles from Philadelphia, the area offers a variety of attractive urban, suburban, and rural living options.  For more information about Rowan University and the English Department, please visit http://www.rowan.edu.  All positions are contingent upon budget appropriations.

Rowan University values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity.

Calls for Papers: Conferences

Global Summit on Childhood CFP

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2014 Global Summit on Childhood

There’s still time to submit your proposal!

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Proposals now due
5 November 2013

 
The Association for Childhood Education International’s upcoming Global Summit on Childhood (10-13 April 2014 – Vancouver, Canada), will explore diverse perspectives on childhood from different cultural, historical, social, and economic contexts, in order to advance our understanding of the childhood experience.

Do you have any stories, research, recommendations, or experiences you would like to share with a passionate and engaged audience of fellow researchers, educators, practitioners, and advocates who support children and childhood? If so, please submit your proposal today! 

The Global Summit on Childhood seeks to feature sessions from a variety of subject areas, including:

  • Worldviews on Childhood
  • Childhood in Your Country or Community
  • Child Perspectives on Childhood
  • Childhood in a Changing World
  • Childhood From Perspectives of Identity and Ability

DEADLINE EXTENDED! We have recently extended the deadline for proposals to Tuesday, the 5th of November. You have only a few more weeks to submit your proposal.

Download Proposal Form 

To attend the Global Summit on Childhood, register here. We try to keep registration rates as reasonable as possible. We hope this facilitates your attendance. Please be sure to check out our special student and team rates. 

For more information, contact Yvette Murphy at globalsummit@acei.org