Wednesday 5 March 2014
4-5.30pm, Harrington Building room 338
A Story of Failure: The mirroring of social and psychic exclusion among young men in a provincial English inner city
Presented by Simon Newitt, Chief Executive, Off the Record
The seminar is free and refreshments are provided. Seminars usually finish by 5.30pm and are followed by an informal meeting of The Centre, at which all are welcome.
To reserve a place go to EventBrite at http:http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL IDENTITY IN AFRICA:
Forthcoming Events Organised by
The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth &
The Centre for Gender Research
The University of Sheffield
The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY) and the Centre for Gender Research are pleased to announce the visit, to Sheffield, of Professor Mansah Prah of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
This visit is part of a British Academy International Partnership and Mobility project which seeks to explore, through capacity building workshops, seminars and a research study, the construction of sexual identities amongst children and young adults in Ghana and the implications this has for, not only their experience of sexual violence and power and oppression in relationships, but also for their own understanding and meaning-making of these issues.
During her stay in Sheffield Professor Prah will be sharing her work with students, academics and practitioners. Specifically, she will:
1. Present a researcher paper at a seminar entitled: Tune your Mind to Something Else: Insights from a Comparative Study of Ghanaian and Burkinabe Female Students’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Schooling
Abstract of Presentation:
This seminar will report on the research process and findings from the above study. The frustrations involved in conducting a comparative study of two countries that are culturally similar but divided by language will be discussed. The findings from the main clusters of questions the participants discussed (girls’ educational dreams; how schooling shapes girls’ sexuality; intimate relationships and sexuality; how girls react and act on their desires and sexual impulses; and their conception of what constitutes good/safe sex and bad/dangerous sex) will be presented. All this will be located in a discussion of the official and hidden discourses on sex and sexuality found in the schools. Finally, comparisons between Ghana and Burkina Faso and the recommendations that came out of the research will be presented.
Date: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Time: 12.30-3.30 including lunch.
Venue: Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP
All our welcome to attend this seminar.
2. Facilitate a one-day workshop entitled Researching Sexual Identities and Sexual Violence in Africa: Challenges and Issues.
Workshop Abstract
This will be an interactive workshop that will present and discuss key issues that may crop up in researching sexual identity and sexual violence in an African context. It will begin by addressing the need to consider research in other cultural contexts. Then it will examine methodological approaches that are suitable in contexts where discussing sexual matters is considered very private and even a taboo, as well as ethical issues and effects of the research process on the researcher and the participants. The cultural assumptions that underlie and dominate attitudes towards general violence, and sexual and gender-based violence will be presented and discussed. Excerpts from a film will be utilised to show how tradition is invoked to perpetrate violence of all kinds, and questions regarding how the researcher navigates such issues discussed.
Date: Thursday 13th March 2014 Time: 10-4pm Venue: Conference Room, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS), 219 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP Please note that this workshop is specifically aimed at postgraduate research students and early career academics. Places are limited so bookings will be accepted on a first come basis.
Please RSVP by Tuesday 4th March 2014 (for both events) to:
Mrs. Dawn Lessels, Administrator of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk)
If you would like more information about these events or about Professor Prah’s visit please contact Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh at the University of Sheffield
(a.twum-danso@sheffield.ac.uk)
Profile of Professor Mansah Prah Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Mansah Prah received a German government scholarship which took her to the University of Heidelberg in 1973 to study Sociology and Anthropology. There, she experienced the tail end of the student protest movement, which greatly influenced her world view, introducing her to feminism and other paradigms. She graduated in 1977 with an MA in Sociology and continued her studies at the University of Frankfurt, graduating with a Ph. D in 1984. She returned to Ghana in 1985 and joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Cape Coast. Over the years, Prah has taught a wide range of courses, including Sociology of Religion, Witchcraft, Magic and Religion, Gender and Society, Gender and Sexuality, and Gender and Development. Mansah Prah was twice a Fulbright Scholar and has taught and researched in a number of US colleges including Randolph College, the College of Wooster, and the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women. She has also taught at the National University of Lesotho and has served as External Examiner for graduate programmes in Gender Studies at the Kigali Institute for Education (Rwanda) and the University of Botswana. She has been an Associate of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, and is now a Professor at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She is the author of ‘Ghana’s Feminist Movement: Aspirations, Challenges, Achievements’ (2007) and is the editor of ‘Insights into Gender Equity, Equality and Power Relations in Sub-SaharanAfrica”(2013).
These events are funded by the British Academy
Please find details below (and poster attached) of The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation (www.uclan.ac.uk/cypp) seminar series 2014: Children and Social Justice, part 2. The seminars start at 4pm and usually finish around 5.30pm. Following each seminar there is usually an informal network meeting, to which all are invited. Seminars are free, including refreshments. To reserve a place please go to the Eventbrite link for that event (reservation will assist us with ordering refreshments and notifying you of late changes). Regards Lorna
5 March, 4-5.30pm, Harrington Building, Room 338
A Story of Failure: The mirroring of social and psychic exclusion among young men in a provincial English inner city
Simon Newitt
(Off the Record, Bristol)
Eventbrite link: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
26 March 4-5.30pm, 4-5.30pm, Harrington Building, Room 223
‘We’re tired of talking to you, when will you do something?’
Karen Stuart
(Brathay Trust)
Eventbrite link: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
8 May, 4-5.30pm, Brook Building, Room 105
Youth Participation in France: Current initiatives and challenges
Patricia Loncle
(French School of Public Health)
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
12 May, 4-5.30pm, Harrington Building, Room 337
Embedding children and young people’s participation in health and social care
Louca-Mai Brady (University of the West of England)
Using research led by young people to create change in the NHS
Dan Moxon (People, Dialogue and Change)
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Wednesday 19 March
3-4.30pm
Brook building, room 9
School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire
“Engaging parents in child protection”
Presented by Brigid Featherstone, Professor of Social Care, Faculty of Health and Social Care: The Open University
The seminar is free and refreshments are provided
To reserve a place please go to EventBrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Currently there is widespread philosophical interest in children’s rights, parental rights and duties, and wider issues concerning good parenting and the social organisation of childrearing. Yet, to fully address these topics one needs to assume an answer to the question of ‘What is a child?’ To know who owes what to children in any detail, we need to know what distinguishes childhood from adulthood, and to answer questions about the relative value of childhood and adulthood in the overall life of a human being.
This conference brings together philosophers interested in a cluster of questions that have not been sufficiently discussed so far, but which are starting to draw philosophical attention: What is childhood? Is childhood good intrinsically, or only as preparation for adulthood? If it is intrinsically good, does it have special value – would it be a loss, from the perspective of an entire human life, if one missed out on childhood? Are there any ‘intrinsic goods of childhood’, and what are they? Do we owe children things that are different in nature from the things owed to adults?
Papers:
Monika Betzler (Berne) ‘Good childhood and the good life’
Samantha Brennan (Western Ontario) ‘Trust, time, and play: Three intrinsic goods of childhood’
Matthew Clayton (Warwick) ‘Dignity as an ideal for children’
Jurgen De Wispelaere (McGill) ‘Political rights for Rugrats: Children in the democratic state’
Timothy Fowler (Bristol) ‘Variety is the spice of life?: On the possible significance of their being intrinsic goods of childhood’
Colin Macleod (Victoria) ‘Just schools and good fun: Non-preparatory dimensions of educational justice’
Serena Olsaretti (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra) ‘Egoism, altruism and the special duties of parents’
Lindsey Porter (Lancaster) ‘Paternalism: why is it bad to be treated like a child?’
Norvin Richards (Alabama) ‘The intrinsic goods of childhood’
Judith Suissa (London) ‘Narrativity, childhood and parenting’
Patrick Tomlin (Reading) ‘Saplings or caterpillars?: Trying to understand children”
Daniel Weinstock (McGill) ‘On the complementarity of the ages of life: Why we wouldn’t want adulthood without childhood, or childhood without adulthood’
The conference will take place on the 16th and 17th of May 2014 at the University of Sheffield, Jessops West Exhibition Space.
Registration fees: 10 GBP for one day or 20 GBP for both days cover coffee and lunch. Registration and full program will be available soon. For more details get in touch with the organisers: Anca Gheaus (a.gheaus@sheffield.ac.uk) or Lindsey Porter (l.porter@lancaster.ac.uk)
The conference is sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy, The Mind Association and The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
This is to draw your attention to an exciting conference being organised by our colleagues in UCLan’s School of Education and Social Science and The Freire Institute. Details at http://www.uclan.ac.uk/
Each session will briefly outline main ideas in critical realism. Then we will review how they can apply to research about childhood, and children’s rights, and research ethics. Please bring ideas and questions from your reading and research.
Tuesday 21st January 2014, 5.30-7.30, Room 736, IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London
Critical realism examines the basic living reality (being) of children, and how that differs from ways in which children are perceived and understood (knowing). Another critical realist theme is the four planes of social being: bodies and nature; interpersonal relations; social structures; and the good life. How can all four planes inform research with children? Can methods in natural science apply to social science?
Tuesday 25th February, 5.30-7.30, Room 736, IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London
Do universal rights really exist, or are rights simply local ideas that vary in time and place? When do ‘human’ rights begin in life? Do they gradually develop up towards adulthood, or can babies have human rights and be citizens? How can critical realist concepts of being and knowing, and of the four planes of social being, inform research about rights and citizenship?
Thursday 13th March, 5.30-7.30, Room 736, IOE, 20 Bedford Way, London
Are justice, respect and avoiding harm universal concepts, or are they simply local ideas that vary in time and place? How can critical realist concepts of being and knowing, and of the four planes of social being, inform research ethics and how they are applied? How do ethics in natural science and in social science research overlap or differ?
Although the seminars are planned for MA students, others are very welcome to attend one or more sessions. For those wanting more advanced sessions on critical realism, these are held by Professor Roy Bhaskar at the Institute of Education on alternate Monday evenings.
Power point files and background reading will be sent out before the sessions, and the format will mainly be discussion. If you would like to know more before you decide whether to attend, the main themes are set out in Priscilla Alderson’s book Childhoods Real and Imagined: An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies (Routledge 2013) Chapters 1-3, IOE library Ral Bad ALD.
To register and for more information contact Rachel Rosen: r.rosen@ioe.ac.uk.
2014 ACYIG Conference Will be Held in Charleston, South Carolina, February 12th-15th
The ACYIG Board cordially invites ACYIG members to join scholars from the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Division of International Psychology (Division 52) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) at next year’s Fifth Annual Meeting of ACYIG.
The conference will be held from February 12 to February 15, 2014 at the historic Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, SC. Some may remember that ACYIG held its joint meetings with SCCR in Charleston in 2011—it was an extremely popular conference, and we look forward to returning to this wonderful venue.
Submitting Abstracts:
Anyone who would like to have work considered for inclusion within an ACYIG poster session, paper session, symposium, panel discussion, or conversation hour at the conference may submit an abstract of the work (200 words maximum) by Monday, December 2, 2013. Please note that if you wish to submit any abstracts for consideration by the SCCR, the deadline is earlier—November 11, 2013.
A link to descriptions of the five possible presentation formats as well as submission forms are available at the SCCR 2014 conference page: http://www.sccr.org/sccr2014/
Registration Information:
Conference registration rates are:
Members: $130 by 13 January 2014, $140 after 13 January 2014
Non-members: $140 by 13 January 2014, $150 after 13 January 2014
Retirees: $80 by 13 January 2014, $85 after 13 January 2014
Students: $50 by 13 January 2014, $60 after 13 January 2014
Banquet (all are invited): $55
The conference hotel, which is conveniently located within walking distance of boutiques, eateries, and historic landmarks, has a block of rooms for conference attendees at the rate of $154/night that you may access online via:
https://reservations.
You should not need a login code but may use “SCCR” without quotation marks if necessary. You may also call (843) 722-0600 or (877) 756-2121 and mention “SCCR” if you prefer.
Please feel free to share information about the 2014 conference with interested others and to contact Elisa Sobo (esobo@mail.sdsu.edu) or Rachael Stryker (rachael.stryker@csueastbay.
We look forward to seeing many of you in Charleston!