by Lauren Heidbrink & Michele Statz
In the past few weeks, New Mexico’s Artesia Family Residential Center has become the most recent flashpoint in the media coverage of child migration. Continue reading Widening the Frame: Unaccompanied Youth
Yearly Archives: 2014
Missing and trafficked children in Nepal, Bangladesh and India: A technological solution?
Professor Edward Halpin
Leeds Metropolitan University
Seminar Series 2014: Children and Social Justice
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CFP: Child Rights in the Caribbean
Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Deadline for Submissions: January 15th 2015 Continue reading CFP: Child Rights in the Caribbean
ACYIG Member Survey
Earlier this year, ACYIG surveyed our members to learn more about their interests and involvement with the group.
The full results can be downloaded here: ACYIG Survey Results
What is wrong with disciplining children? Battle of Ideas 2014
Oct 18-19, 2014 at The Barbican London
http://www.battleofideas.org.
The Kent Centre for Parenting Culture Studies is a session partner for a discussion, What is wrong with disciplining children? 5.30-6.45pm, Saturday 18th October. Convened by Jan Macvarish.
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Call for contributions: American Childhood Culture in 25 Artifacts
The Children and Childhood Studies are of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) is soliciting contributions for an online archive titled “American Childhood Culture in 25 Artifacts.”
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Introducing our new Social Media Coordinator
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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CFP: Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference
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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