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Calls for Papers: Conferences

Childhood Studies and Popular Culture conference

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The Children and Childhood Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association invites you to participate in the 25th annual MAPACA conference. Papers in this area examine the impact of popular culture on children and childhood, as well as the role of children and young adults as influencers and creators of popular and American culture.

We are interested in papers and presentations on any topic at the convergence of Popular Culture and American Childhood. In addition, in recognition of MAPACA’s 25 anniversary in 2014, we’d love to have papers or other presentations that deal with the concepts of “anniversaries” or “25” in relation to children and popular culture. These might include birthdays, aging or growing, “25 as the new 18,” contemplations on children’s pop culture over the past 25 years, thoughts on the academic field of the past 25 years, major anniversaries in children’s pop culture (child star birthdays, anniversaries of notable films, TV shows or toys…)

We will also be curating an online collection and pre-conference discussion titled “American Childhood in 25 Artifacts.” Keep an eye out for a separate Call for Contributions to this collection coming soon.

Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts. The deadline for submission is June 14, 2014. This year’s conference will be in Baltimore, MD, Nov. 6-8, 2014. For the complete call as well info on how to submit a proposal, please see http://mapaca.net/. Please direct any questions about the Children and Childhood Studies area to area co-chairs

MAPACA welcomes proposals on all aspects of popular and American Culture. For a list of MAPACA’s other areas and area chair contact information, visit Subject Areas http://mapaca.net/areas/. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net.

Thanks, and see you at the Harbor!

Patrick Cox and Brandi J. Venable

Area Co-Chairs, Children and Childhood Studies

Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: AAA Panel on Displaced Childhood

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Dear all,

I am thinking of organising a panel for the AAA [AAA is the American anthropological association and is being held this year in Washington DC from 3rd to 7th December] on the theme of displaced childhoods – children who were displaced from their birth families due to wars, social engineering practices and state led racial policies and international adoption is a central process that we seek to look at in this panel. I am writing to explore if any of the members of this listserve might be willing to present their research as part of this panel.

I am starting a bit late on this – so apologies for that. But I would really appreciate hearing back from you as soon as possible/latest by 11th April this Friday as that would be very helpful for me to decide about the panel. We all have to pay and register for the AAA by 15th April [next Tuesday] so I need to know soon about your intention to participate.

Look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Best wishes, Nayanika

Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee | Associate Professor/Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology |
Department of Anthropology | Durham University | Durham DH13LE | UK
email: nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/academic/?id=9355

 

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

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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

 

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CFP: Young people’s migration in Asia

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International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration

Workshop 2
Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions, Identities and Relationships 

Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014

York Centre for Asian Research and the Children’s Studies Program (Department of Humanities) York University, Toronto Canada

Call for papers: Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers – historical and contemporary- on children and young people’s emotional experiences of migration within and throughout Asia. Papers should focus on mixed feelings of (but not limited to) elation, loneliness, hope, frustration, confusion, relief, fear, freedom and disappointment in the migration process.

There is a preference for participant-centred research in South and Southeast Asia prioritizing the following themes:

  1. Migration for work and marriage in a historical context (especially in plantations and estates)
  2. Contemporary experiences of moving for work, marriage and school – managing mixed feelings  
  3. Left Behind – adjusting to absence and creating and maintaining relationships

Submission and Funding: Please submit contact details and paper abstract (maximum of 300 words) by April 4th 2014 to Dr. Kabita Chakrabortry kabitac@yorku.ca. 

Successful applicants will be notified by late-April and are required to send in a complete draft paper (6000 – 8000 words) by July 8, 2014. Partial or full funding will be granted to successful applicants. Participants are encouraged to seek alternate funds for travel from their home institutions

Webpage: http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration-asia/

 

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CFP: Kinship as Exclusion AAA Panel DUE March 21st

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2014 AAA Panel Call for Papers

Kinship as Exclusion

Deadline: March 21st 2014

Organizers:

Geoffrey Hughes (gfhughs@umich.edu)

Sandhya K. Narayanan (sandkn@umich.edu)

Discussants:

Janet Carsten

Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology

University of Edinburgh

Susan McKinnon

Professor and Chair of Anthropology

University of Virginia

           Discussions of kinship and family, both in popular culture and more scholarly accounts, tend to turn on themes of love, connection and the formation of new social bonds and support networks. This is reflected in anthropological definitions of kinship that emphasize “mutuality of being” or “shared substance.” However, kinship and family also have a darker side: violence, disconnection and the breaking of bonds. Take, for instance, the biblical account of kinship in which the first family (Adam and Eve) produces the first murder (Cain and Abel). What is lost in accounts of kinship when its inclusionary aspects become divorced from its exclusionary aspects? Clearly, it will not suffice to replace the tendency to view kinship as positive with a tendency to view it as negative, but how can research on kinship productively engage with its ambivalence as a social institution? How can we enrich ethnographic accounts of kinship by paying attention to the fact that, when kinship determines the distribution of labor, property and other resources, people may be forced to confront a zero-sum proposition? The provision of care to some people means less care for others; the provision of a share of inheritance may diminish the amount available to others; offers of mutual defense to some could mean the denial of that offer of mutual defense for others. In these situations, what are the factors that help or coerce people to make such divisive decisions? Who is excluded and what exactly are the categories of kin that emerge through kinship’s inclusionary and exclusionary dynamics?  This panel aims to answer these questions by borrowing heavily from both classical anthropological theorizations of kinship as well as new kinship studies, with its useful problematizing of categories like nature, the self and self-interest. We welcome submissions from scholars working across the globe on projects embracing a broad range of classical and contemporary theoretical commitments.

Please send an abstract of 250-300 words to Geoffrey (gfhugh@umich.edu) and Sandhya (sandkn@umich.edu) by March 21st 2014. We will respond to everyone by the 25th.

 

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CFP: The Emotions of Migration

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*International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration*

*Workshop 2*
Young People's Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions,
Identities and Relationships

Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014

Venue: York Centre for Asian Research and the Children' s Studies Program
(Department of Humanities) York University, Toronto Canada

*Call for papers*: Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers --
historical and contemporary -- on children and young people's
emotional experiences of migration within and throughout Asia.
Papers should focus on mixed feelings of (but not limited to)
elation, loneliness, hope, frustration, confusion, relief, fear,
freedom and disappointment in the migration process.

There is a preference for participant-centred research in
South and Southeast Asia prioritizing the following themes:

1. Migration for work and marriage in a historical context
(especially in plantations and estates)
2. Contemporary experiences of moving for work, marriage and
school --  managing mixed feelings
3. Left Behind -- adjusting to absence and creating and maintaining
relationships

*Submission and Funding: Please submit contact details and paper
abstract (maximum of 300 words) by April 4th 2014 to:
Dr. Kabita Chakrabortry kabitac@yorku.ca <mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca>.

Successful applicants will be notified by late-April and are required
to send in a complete draft paper (6000 - 8000 words) by July 8, 2014.
Partial or full funding will be granted to successful applicants.
Participants are encouraged to seek alternate funds for travel from
their home institutions

*Webpage*:
http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration-asia/

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions, Identities and Relationships

Gallery

*International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration*

*Workshop 2*
Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions,
Identities and Relationships

Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014

Venue: York Centre for Asian Research and the Children’ s Studies Program
(Department of Humanities) York University, Toronto Canada

*Call for papers*: Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers —
historical and contemporary — on children and young people’s
emotional experiences of migration within and throughout Asia.
Papers should focus on mixed feelings of (but not limited to)
elation, loneliness, hope, frustration, confusion, relief, fear,
freedom and disappointment in the migration process.

There is a preference for participant-centred research in
South and Southeast Asia prioritizing the following themes:

1. Migration for work and marriage in a historical context
(especially in plantations and estates)
2. Contemporary experiences of moving for work, marriage and
school —  managing mixed feelings
3. Left Behind — adjusting to absence and creating and maintaining
relationships

*Submission and Funding: Please submit contact details and paper
abstract (maximum of 300 words) by April 4th 2014 to:
Dr. Kabita Chakrabortry kabitac@yorku.ca <mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca
<mailto:kabitac@yorku.ca> >.

Successful applicants will be notified by late-April and are required
to send in a complete draft paper (6000 – 8000 words) by July 8, 2014.
Partial or full funding will be granted to successful applicants.
Participants are encouraged to seek alternate funds for travel from
their home institutions

*Webpage*:
http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration
-asia/
<http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research/programmes-projects/emotions-migration
-asia/>