Contemporary Childhood Conference

The School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, is pleased to host its second Contemporary Childhood Conference on the 2nd and 3rd September 2016.  The theme of the conference is:

Young Citizens and Society: Fostering Civic Participation
We invite proposals for academic papers/symposia from across disciplines and nations to address the conference theme.  We welcome both empirical and conceptual papers.

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted electronically by the deadline of Friday 29th April 2016.

Abstracts should also note the author, the author’s affiliated institution, the paper’s title and up to five key words.  Invitations to present will be sent by 13th May.

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Laura Lundy from the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University, Belfast.

For more details on the call and to submit a proposal or to register please go to the following link: http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/schoolofeducation/newsevents/contemporarychildhoodconference2016/