ACYIG has a new Social Media Coordinator! Patrick Alexander will be managing our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and keeping us apprised of children and youth in the news as well as ACYIG announcements and events of interest to our members. Use the icons to the left to follow our social media accounts!
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Date: June 24-26th, 2015
Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 1, 2014
Description: “In Relation: Children, Youth, and Belonging”
The Program Committee invites proposals for panels, papers, roundtables or workshops that explore histories of children and youth from any place and in any era. We will, however, give particular attention to proposals with a strong historical emphasis and that bear on the theme of this year’s conference.
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Childhood and Pethood: Representation, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Power
Abstracts (500 words) due November 1, 2014
Articles (7,000 words) due July 1, 2015
While scholars of children’s literature and childhood studies frequently discuss representations of animals in children’s texts, there is little discussion of the often parallel ways in which these texts construct animal and child subjectivity. At the same time, while critics in the field of animal studies have remarked upon the cultural tendency to think of pets as children, there is little scholarly work on the larger implications of understanding pets as children and vice versa. Even though children and pets are similarly constructed, represented, and dominated in Western culture and society, scholars have largely neglected to interrogate childhood and pethood together. Continue reading CFP: Childhood and Pethood (edited collection)
Call for papers: “History of Childhood and Youth”, a special volume of Revista Angelus Novus, an electronic journal of graduate students in Economic History and Social History of University of São Paulo, Brazil. Continue reading CFP: History of Childhood & Youth
SHCY Eighth Biennial Conference
“Relationality and the global circulation of children’s literature and culture”
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he Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS) at the University of Lethbridge is pleased to announce its second Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood conference for May8-10 , 2015. The website for the conference is https://www.uleth.ca/conreg/
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Applications now being sought for Ph.D. and MA programs. Ph.D. application deadline: January 5, 2015. Funding available.
http://childhood.camden.
Continue reading Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden, now accepting applications for grad study
Those of you in the Washington DC area may be interested in attending the launch of Susan Shepler’s new book, Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone.
