The draft conference programme is now online here (PDF)! Registration is open here — the Early Bird fee ends this Friday.
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Category Archives: Announcements
New book – Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India
In Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call “style” anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. Continue reading New book – Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India Research Seminar – Playwork: Law and Lore
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
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