Antropologia Special Issue Call for Articles
Growing up outside families: cultures, religions and politics in independent children’s process of identity
Due Date:
Paper submission (5,000-6,000 excluding footnotes) due January 30, 2017
Publication Date:
October 2017 Continue reading CFP – Growing up outside families: independent children’s process of identity
The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies is dedicated to increasing our understanding of children and childhoods throughout the world, reflecting a perspective that highlights cultural dimensions of the human experience. The books in this series are intended for students, scholars, practitioners, and those who formulate policies that affect children’s everyday lives and futures.
We are pleased to announce a call for book proposals for The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. Having long been under the careful stewardship of Founding Editor Myra Bluebond-Langner, the series will now be edited by Jill E. Korbin and EJ Sobo.
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A One-Day Conference
Rutgers University, Camden
March 31, 2017
Keynote speaker: Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2016
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the publication of The New Jim Crow in 2010, among other watershed moments, have stimulated renewed anger and attention to the legacies of slavery in the United States, more than a hundred and fifty years after emancipation. This one-day conference brings together research on the diversity of practices, identities, and institutions of unfreedom—in the past and present, in the United States and beyond—and how the ghosts of those diverse unfreedoms continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the present. Continue reading CFP – Diverse Unfreedoms and their Ghosts
Special Issue of Contemporary Social Science
Papers are invited that explore how citizens participate in society. What leads them to participate, and what are the consequences of their participation? These are important policy and practice relevant questions about political activism, defined as responding to matters of common concern. Many social science disciplines have explored these issues including social psychologists, political scientists, sociologists and social anthropologists. Central to these explorations is the question of how contemporary politics mark lives and how lives mark contemporary politics. This covers a range of concerns from health to education, environment to poverty, migration to domestic violence, gender identities to political conflict. In particular, we welcome studies that examine political activism across the life-course. Continue reading CFP – Political Activism Across the Life-Course
High Quality Culturally Responsive and Responsible Early Childhood Programs
Special Issue of Taboo: The Journal of Culture & EducationGuest Editors: Brian L. Wright, Zeynep Isik-Ercan, & Donna Y. Ford
Download the full call here (PDF): Taboo Special Issue Call for Papers
Registration now open
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th September 2016
Please join us for a special two-day event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Mildred Taylor’s classic children’s novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Continue reading Mildred Taylor symposium at Cambridge
Call for Papers – Edited Volume
Beyond Binaries: Exploring Children’s Lives Across Worlds
Download the call for papers here (PDF): Beyond Binaries
Editors: Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Professor Michael Bourdillon,, Sylvia Meischner and Dr. Fernanda Wanderley.
International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) 6th Conference
Children in a World of Opportunities: Innovations in Research, Policy and Practice
Montreal, Canada – June 28-30, 2017
This conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and child advocates from around the world to share and discuss innovations in research methods and the latest research findings on child indicators as well as implications for policy and practice. You can find out more about the conference and contact the Planning Committee at www.isci2017.org. Updated information on the program, travel and registration will be posted regularly.
The conference will include oral paper presentations, organized symposia and poster presentations. If you develop and use indicators to measure the status of child wellbeing at the local, national, regional, or international levels, we encourage you to join us! Online submission of abstracts will end on September 30th, 2016.
We would like to make this conference as widely known as possible, and are using as many channels as possible to spread the word. We apologize if you receive this notification more than once.
If you have any questions, please contact us at isci2017@mcgill.ca.