Reminder to ACYIG Members!The deadline for submitting proposals for the 114th AAA Annual Meeting is coming soon. The meetings will be held Nov. 18-22, in Denver, CO.This year, ACYIG may INVITE one session. This session will receive the “Invited by ACYIG” tagline in the AAA program. Continue reading ACYIG’s ‘invited’ session for the Annual Meetings: Will it be yours?
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Parent Education & Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Parent Education May Be a Risk Factor for Measles and other Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases
by Elisa (EJ) Sobo
We may not be able to legislate a shift in parenting style, or to mitigate the income gap that provides some with more privilege than others, including access to higher education. But we can build a strong national curriculum for information and scientific literacy into all bachelor’s programs. Doing so may be one of the soundest public health investments we can make.
“Nothing screams ‘privilege’ louder than ostentatiously refusing something that those less privileged wish to have.” So writes Dr. Amy Tuteur in a provocative piece regarding “anti-vaccine” parents.
Yet, the recent Disneyland measles outbreak wasn’t driven simply by “conspicuous non-consumption.” Privilege may be necessary to vaccine refusal or delay, but it isn’t sufficient. The minor trend toward non-vaccination among tiny subgroups of the elite that fueled it may actually be (in part) an artifact of exceptionally high self-confidence rather than simply privilege. Let me explain by telling you about two research projects.
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ACYIG Newsletter highlights—Taking your children to the field
Check out the column “Accompanied Fieldwork with an Exceptional Child” in our newest ACYIG Newsletter (p. 9-10) for suggestions on how to do fieldwork with a son or daughter who has autism: http://www.aaanet.org/
Interested in sharing your own experience? You can find the submission guidelines at http://www.aaanet.org/
CFP: Children’s Experiences with Global Health
Call for papers – Panel at the 2015 MAGic Conference
Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy, and Practice
Sussex, UK – September 9-11, 2015
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CSCY Postgraduate Summer School 15-16 July
5th International CSCY Summer School for Postgraduate Students
Wednesday 15 – Thursday 16 July 2015
ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, UK
This exciting two day international summer school is for post-graduate students working in the area of childhood and youth. The workshops and networking sessions will be of interest for students about to embark on research and for those who are preparing their dissertations.
Plenaries
Professor Allison James, Sociology: ‘Personalising children’s lives: reflections on childhood research’
Professor Kate Pahl, Education: ‘Co-production in practice: the processes and practices of research without a map’ Continue reading CSCY Postgraduate Summer School 15-16 July
Intellectual Forum Seminare at the V&A Museum of Childhood (London, UK): The use of objects in workshops with children: Perspectives from museum practice and academic research
Intellectual Forum Seminar
The use of objects in workshops with children: Perspectives from museum practice and academic research
Thursday 26th March
5pm – 6.30pm
The Summerly Room at The V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA, United Kingdom
London E2 9PA, United Kingdom
– Dr Tessa Whitehouse (QMUL School of English& Drama) will talk about the use of objects in her current Creativeworks funded research project ‘Making Friends’. The project is in partnership with Codasign and Stoke Newington School. Tessa’s workshops include the use of creative technologies in object-exploration and object-making with children in participatory research.
– Dr Carolyn Bloore (Formal Learning Officer, V&A Museum of Childhood) and Madeleine Hoare (Schools Officer, V&A Museum of Childhood) will talk about their use of objects in the primary school teaching sessions that are offered to school groups visiting the museum. They will focus on puppetry.
Do join us to consider these practices and perhaps to share your own experiences of using objects in workshops with children. Please rsvp to: l.almubarak@qmul.ac.uk
The museum is hosting this discussion as part of its AHRC funded ‘Child in the World’ programme in collaboration with The School of Geography at Queen Mary, The University of London. The evening will be chaired by Lamees Al Mubarak, Collaborative Doctoral Award Researcher.
More information: http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Field School on “NGO Networks and Perspectives on Child Migration: Examining Perceptions of Root Causes”
Call for Students! Placements available in the NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala, June 1-26, 2015.
Positions are available for anthropology, public health, and clinical students interested in building research skills! More information and the application can be found at www.napaotguatemala.org. Admission on a rolling basis with an April 1 deadline. Email hall-clifford@napaotguatemala.org with questions.
NGO Networks and Perspectives on Child Migration: Examining Perceptions of Root Causes
The NGO Networks group will work to explore occupational perspectives on child migration and its causes drawing from among diverse sectors of Guatemalan society. The project will be developed in collaboration with local NGOs to investigate views of precipitating factors for the migration of Guatemalan children, with particular focus on programming strategies to improve educational and future employment opportunities. The NGO Networks group will explore legal and policy approaches to migration used within Guatemala. By bringing together community, NGO, and legal perspectives, the group will consider human rights and occupational outcomes for Guatemalan migrant children.
CFP AAA 2015 – Making Parents
Call for Papers: American Anthropological Association Meetings
Denver, CO, USA November 18-22nd 2015
Making parents:
Assisted reproduction and parenting culture in contemporary society
Organisers: Dr Charlotte Faircloth (University of Roehampton) and Dr Zeynep Gurtin (University of Cambridge)
Panel Discussant: Professor Marcia Inhorn (Yale University)
Whilst ‘Parenting Culture’ and ‘Assisted Reproductive Technologies’ are now well-established subfields of anthropological scholarship, so far, the common threads between these two bodies of work have not been significantly explored. Taking ‘reproduction’ as the locus of this comparison, this panel will showcase novel contributions from scholars working in either field who are interested in creating such connections. In particular, we seek papers exploring the ways contemporary cultures of parenthood create an appetite for these technologies, just as technologies simultaneously contribute to shaping those very cultures. Continue reading CFP AAA 2015 – Making Parents