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REMINDER: Call for Contributions for the October 2014 ACYIG Newsletter

ACYIG is now soliciting contributions for theOctober 2014 issue. Please note that we have changed the submission deadline dates. We will now accept submissions on a rolling basis between Friday, August 15, 2014 and Friday, September 5, 2014. The final deadline for submission is Friday, September 5th, 2014.

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Atelier Epistemology of the sciences of childhood, 07/04 (Kinship and Parenthood) et 5/5 (Politics)‏ + website

We are glad to inform you that our group « Sciences de l’enfance, enfants des sciences » (SEES) is now officially on the net.

Our website, http://sciences-enfances.org/ is now open! Please feel free to have a look at it and don’t hesitate to send us informations for the blog!

 

Meanwhile, SEES is pleased to invite you to the 2nd and 3rd workshops of the Ateliers Campus Condorcet, a cycle of seminars on “Epistemology, methods, and history of the sciences of childhood.”

The next workshops will be held on March 27 (“Feelings and Emotions“) and April 7 (“Kinship and Parenthood“), at theEHESS from 14h to 17h, at the bâtiment Le France, 190 av de France 75013, Paris, room 638.

Registration is required (sciencenfance@gmail.com)

 7 April 2014, 14h – 17h

« Kinship and Parenthood »

Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud (Institut Universitaire Européen)  

« Enfance et séparation conjugales. La question des parents non gardiens et de leurs enfants »

Yann Favier (Université Rennes 2)

« Réflexions sur le dualisme parenté/parentalité et sa traduction juridique »

Francesca Nicola (Università di Milano Bicocca)

« Politics of parenting in a post-welfare era. The case of parents of kids with ADHD in the USA »

Discutantes : Natacha Collomb et Gladys Chicharro

 5 May 2014, 14h – 17h

« Politics »

Isabelle Konuma (Centre d’Etudes Japonaises)

« Comment définir l’ “intérêt de l’enfant” en droit japonais ? Les acteurs dans l’énoncé du bien-être de l’enfant. »

David Lancy (Utah State University)  

« Children as a Reserve Labor Force »

Damien Boone (Ceraps), « La politique racontée aux enfants : des apprentissages pris dans des dispositifs entre consensus et conflit. Une étude des sentiers de la (dé)politisation des enfants »

Discutante : Alice Sophie Sarcinelli (EHESS/Iris)

 

 

 

 

Final Reminder – AAA Panel Proposals seeking ACYIG sponsorship – April 1 deadline

If you are organizing an AAA session and would like ACYIG sponsorship for your session, please alert ACYIG by midnight on Tuesday April 1. Please email, as one document or pdf file, the following (send it toesobo@mail.sdsu.edu):

a.       Session organizer names, affiliations, and contact information

b.      Session title

c.       Session abstract (250 words or less)

d.      Names/affiliations of confirmed participants & their paper titles

The organizers of selected sessions will be notified regarding the status of their submission within a week.

Regards,

ACYIG

 

Presentation April 8, The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation

Finding Our Way, What one Child-Led Research Program is doing for children, citizenship and service provision

Presented by Samia Michail, Principal Researcher
UnitingCare Children, Young People and Families, Australia

Greenbank Building, room 357
Tuesday 8 April
3-4.30pm

The seminar is free and refreshments are provided.  The seminar will be followed by an informal meeting of The Centre, at which all are welcome.  To reserve a place go to EventBrite at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-centre-seminar-finding-our-way-tickets-10892496751 this will assist with ordering refreshments and notifying you of late changes.

ACYIG Social Media Coordinator Needed

ACYIG is in need of a Social Media Coordinator to manage our Facebook page, LinkedIn page, and listserv. The Social Media Coordinator will work closely with the ACYIG Communications Coordinator, as well as the Newsletter and Website Editors, to advertise current content. Familiarity with blogs and social media channels preferred. If you are interested in volunteering for the position, please email asinervo@ucsc.edu.

CFP: Special Childhood Issue of Romanian Journal of Population Studies

Romanian Journal of Population Studies, a biannual pier-reviewed
publication, is looking for manuscripts about childhood in former European
communist countries for a special number scheduled to be printed in December
2014. The guest editor Luminita Dumanescu is looking for authors focused on
childhood in Hungary, Germany, former Czechoslovacia and former Yugoslavia.
Scholars from Russia, Poland, Albania and Romania announced their
participation in this editorial project.  The deadline for sending papers:
September 1st.
See our submission guidelines, current issue and back issues at:
http://centre.ubbcluj.ro/csp/rjps.html
Please contact Luminita Dumanescu (luminita_dumanescu@yahoo.com) for further
information.