The Government of Childhood:
Discourse, Power and Subjectivity
2014 – Palgrave Macmillan
Continue reading New Book: The Government of Childhood
“Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village”: Reading, Book Signing, and Reception with UMBC Anthropologist Bambi Chapin.
Continue reading Invitation to Book Reading – Wed. 10/22 at UMBC
Childhood Deployed:
Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
(NYU Press, 2014)
Continue reading Childhood Deployed brown bag at Barnard, Oct 20
Childhood Studies Colloquium
14 November 2014 9.30am – 4.30pm
Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland
Keynote address: Making a difference – connecting rights, research and policy
Emeritus Professor Anne B. Smith, University of Otago
Continue reading CFP: Childhood Studies Colloquium (Univ. of Auckland)
Literature for children and young adults is a rich source of material for the study of literary maps, one that has been largely overlooked, despite the growth in academic interest in this area of study. We are therefore seeking contributions for a proposed collection on maps in children’s literature that will bring together the best current thinking on the topic, which will become a resource for scholars, and provide a springboard for further study in this area, particularly in terms of interdisciplinary and international discourses. Continue reading CFP: Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature
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. Continue reading CFP: Childhood and Pethood
It is 25 years this November since the UNCRC was internationally agreed. Join us to celebrate and reflect upon the UNCRC, children’s rights, and higher education: Continue reading 25 years of the UNCRC