Yearly Archives: 2015

Events

National Collection of Children’s Books (Ireland) One Day Symposium

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National Collection of Children’s Books (Ireland) One-Day Symposium

10am – 4:45pm
Friday 17th April 2015
Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

Registration is now open and there is no fee. Places are limited; so, early registration is advised. Register at NCCB@tcd.ie

The National Collection of Children’s Books (NCCB) is a major two-year interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project (Church of Ireland College of Education and Trinity College Dublin), funded by the Irish Research Council, which will examine children’s books collections in five libraries in Dublin: the Church of Ireland College of Education, the National Library, Pearse Street Library, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, and Trinity College Dublin. The research team comprises two principal investigators, Pádraic Whyte (TCD) and Keith O’Sullivan (CICE); two postdoctoral researchers, Ciara Boylan and Ciara Gallagher; and a catalogue and database developer, Paolo Defant.

For more information please visit www.nccb.tcd.ie or follow us:
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Keynote Speakers

Jill Shefrin, Senior Research Associate in Arts, Trinity College, University of Toronto
“Sometimes he thought…, “Why?” and sometimes he thought, “Wherefore?” and sometimes he thought, “Inasmuch as which?”: Context and the Study of Children’s Books

Prof Peter Hunt, Professor Emeritus, Cardiff University
Revolutionaries in the Library Vaults: Children’s Books Collections and the Re-Writing of Children’s Literature Studies

NCCB Research Team Speakers
Dr Keith O’Sullivan: Co-Principal Investigator, CICE
Dr Pádraic Whyte: Co-Principal Investigator, TCD
Dr Ciara Boylan: Postdoctoral Researcher, Education
Dr Ciara Gallagher: Postdoctoral Researcher, Literature
Mr Paolo Defant: Catalogue and Database Development

Panel
Dr Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin (Chair)
Dr Valerie Coghlan, Independent Scholar
Dr Lydia Ferguson, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Máire Kennedy, Pearse Street Library
Susan Parkes, Church of Ireland College of Education

Wine Reception: Long Room, Old Library, TCD

Calls for Papers: Conferences

Call for Papers Children and Childhood Network of the Social Science History Association (SSHA 2015)

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We invite you to participate in the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association by submitting a paper or session proposal to the Children and Childhood Network of the SSHA.  The conference will take place November 12-15, 2015 in Baltimore (MD).  For more information on the conference as well as the general call for proposals, please refer to the SSHA website: http://www.ssha.org. The deadline for full panel or individual paper proposals is February 14, 2015.  

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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Domesticating Geopolitics

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Second Call for Papers:
Domesticating geopolitics

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Exeter, UK, 2-4 September 2015

Convened by Dr. Tara Woodyer, Dr. Diana Martin (University of Portsmouth); Dr. Sean Carter, Dr. Philip Kirby (University of Exeter)

Co-sponsored by the Political Geography Research Group and the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

From the outset, critical geopolitics has emphasised approaches that question spatial distinctions between foreign/domestic politics and political distinctions between formal/popular geopolitics. More recently, feminist contributions to critical geopolitical debates have re-articulated the necessity of including the ‘everyday’ and the ‘ordinary’ into our accounts of the geopolitical, in part to work towards the dissolution of clear-cut distinctions between public and private, and towards the increasing realisation that different scales are not separate but intertwined. Continue reading CFP: Domesticating Geopolitics →

Job Postings

One-year Sessional Assistant Professor position in Children’s Studies at York University

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The Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, invites applications from qualified candidates for a one-year Sessional Assistant Professor position in Children’s Studies to commence July 1, 2015. Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or a related discipline in children’s, childhood, and youth studies. The successful candidate will demonstrate a vigorous research agenda on contemporary children’s and/or youth cultures, grounded in current theory, children’s rights, and research with children and/or youth. Applicants must demonstrate excellence or the promise of excellence in teaching and scholarly research and preference will be given to applicants with evidence of successful teaching at the university level in children’s, childhood, and youth studies.
The deadline for applications is February 27, 2015.
Please share widely. Although this is a one-year appointment there may be opportunities to extend.

http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumber=1511

Other opportunities

Call for Applications for Editor of Children, Youth and Environments

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The current editors are soliciting candidates for editor (or co-editors) of the journal Children, Youth and Environmentschilyoutenvi.24.issue-3.cover. The new editor will assume the position of editor-designate in the summer of 2015 and during the transition will begin working with the current editors Willem van Vliet, Louise Chawla and Fahriye Sancar to become familiar with journal operations and procedures. The editor-designate will assume lead responsibility for the journal beginning in the Spring of 2016, commencing with Volume 26.

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ACYIG Updates, Events

REMINDER: Time to register for the 2015 ACYIG Conference/Reduced hotel rates end after Feb. 2nd

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We are really pleased with the groundswell of interest in the 2015 ACYIG Conference to be held March 12-15 at California State University, Long Beach! With over 60 presenters on topics as varied as child/youth architectures of play to the value of using child- and youth-centered ethnography to train teachers, the conference is shaping up to be one of our very best. Conference organizers are hard at work; Please look for an email posting the Preliminary Program for the conference around February 15th.

In the meantime, this is a reminder to please book your room(s) soon at the designated conference hotel, the Ayres Seal Beach Hotel. block of rooms has been held for our participants for the special price of $139 per night until February 2nd. To receive this reduced rate, call (562) 596-8330 and mention the conference code ACYIG before then.

Staying at the Ayres Seal Beach hotel is advantageous, because a free shuttle bus will leave this hotel each morning and head back to the hotel in the evening, providing you with transportation to our conference location on the California State University campus (about an 8 or 9 minute shuttle ride away).

And registering for the 2015 conference is also a snap at: https://acyig2015.eventbrite.com! 

Thank you for registering for the Conference soon; the sooner folks register, the sooner we know how many will attend, and the better we can ensure space, food, and programming for all.

We look forward to seeing you soon,

Rachael Stryker
Convener, ACYIG

 

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP – 3rd International Conference: International Childhood and Youth Research Network

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Theory and Method in Child and Youth Research

June 10-12 , 2015
European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

We are pleased to announce the 3rd international conference of theInternational Childhood and Youth Research Network (ICYRNet) which isorganized by the Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, European University Cyprus.    

Confirmed keynote speakers:

  • Jo Boyden, Professor and Director of Young Lives, Oxford University
  • Dan Cook, Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University

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