We are pleased to announce the third Journal of Playwark Practice Research Seminar, Playwork: Law and Lore, to be held at the University of Buckingham on 5th November 2016. We have a great line-up of speakers and the event will also include playwork’s first SIG, which will explore how researchers and playwork practitioners can work together. Continue reading Research Seminar – Playwork: Law and Lore
Category Archives: Announcements
CFP: Transition, Transaction, & Transgression
The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden, New Jersey, USA is proudly sponsoring Society for the History of Children and Youth Ninth Biennial Conference on the theme Transition, Transaction, and Transgression, to be held June 21-23, 2017. Continue reading CFP: Transition, Transaction, & Transgression
New book: Children on the Move in Africa
Elodie Razy and Marie Rodet, eds.Table of Contents
Preface, by Benjamin N. Lawrance
Introduction – Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives, by Marie Rodet and Elodie Razy
Registration now open: Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Context
General registration is now open for the inaugural conference of the Children’s History Society. Hosted at King’s College London from 16-18 June inclusive, the theme is ‘Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts’.With keynotes from David Pomfret and the schoolchildren of Bethnal Green and Pimlico Academies, the conference features over 100 speakers from across the globe. Continue reading Registration now open: Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Context
Neos highlights – Discovering the Kid Researcher
Have you considered how prior relationships with your research participants influence their experience in the research process? Or how friendships between participants influence the research process? See how researcher Cynthia Maurer dealt with these issues in “Discovering the Kid Researcher,” pp. 8-9 of the February 2016 issue of Neos (https://acyig.americananthro.org/neos/current-issue/).
Last Opportunity for ACYIG Invited Session
There is still room for an ACYIG invited session at the AAA annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. This session will have “invited status” and increased promotion and exposure by ACYIG. Continue reading Last Opportunity for ACYIG Invited Session
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 Continue reading Contemporary Childhood Conference
Conference – Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future?
Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future?
26-27 May 2016
Liverpool, UK
The conference/symposium is being organized and hosted by the International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU) at the University of Liverpool in association with the British Society of Criminology (Youth Criminology/Youth Justice Network – BSC YC/YJN) and the European Society of Criminology (Thematic Working Group on Juvenile Justice – ESC TWGJJ). Continue reading Conference – Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future?