Intellectual Forum Seminar
The use of objects in workshops with children: Perspectives from museum practice and academic research

Children and Land Grabs:
Development, Social Reproduction and the Future in a Nature Park in Senegal

Davide Cirillo, University of Padova & VU University Amsterdam.

Since 2008, the sharp raise of commodity prices resulted in an energy and food crisis, and pressure on market supply chains. International organizations reacted by placing agriculture, both for energy and food production, at the centre of their political agendas. The resulting development model is one that insists on private capital investment to fuel production on ‘underexploited’ and ‘potential arable’ land. Continue reading Monthly Seminar – “Children and Land Grabs” →

Information from Sweden – an upcoming workshop in March!

Refugee children as political and moral subjects – now and then:
Interdisciplinary crossings in studies of childhood, migration, and forced evacuations 

Tuesday March 3, 2015
9.00 AM – 4.30 PM
Linköping University, Sweden

The aim of the workshop is to address how contemporary research contribute to the historical study of refugee children and vice versa; how can historical research invigorate critical analysis of the contemporary study of refugee children. The workshop program includes presentations by researchers with both disciplinary backgrounds, such as history, sociology, geography, and interdisciplinary backgrounds, such as health studies and child studies. The majority of the speakers study refugee children and young people in a Nordic context. An important theme at the workshop is to approach children and youth as moral and political subjects, either in terms of agency (actions) or in terms of representations of children and youth (media, political documents, etc), or both. Continue reading Refugee children as political and moral subjects – now and then →

National Collection of Children’s Books (Ireland) One-Day Symposium

10am – 4:45pm
Friday 17th April 2015
Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

Registration is now open and there is no fee. Places are limited; so, early registration is advised. Register at NCCB@tcd.ie

The National Collection of Children’s Books (NCCB) is a major two-year interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project (Church of Ireland College of Education and Trinity College Dublin), funded by the Irish Research Council, which will examine children’s books collections in five libraries in Dublin: the Church of Ireland College of Education, the National Library, Pearse Street Library, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, and Trinity College Dublin. The research team comprises two principal investigators, Pádraic Whyte (TCD) and Keith O’Sullivan (CICE); two postdoctoral researchers, Ciara Boylan and Ciara Gallagher; and a catalogue and database developer, Paolo Defant.

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Keynote Speakers

Jill Shefrin, Senior Research Associate in Arts, Trinity College, University of Toronto
“Sometimes he thought…, “Why?” and sometimes he thought, “Wherefore?” and sometimes he thought, “Inasmuch as which?”: Context and the Study of Children’s Books

Prof Peter Hunt, Professor Emeritus, Cardiff University
Revolutionaries in the Library Vaults: Children’s Books Collections and the Re-Writing of Children’s Literature Studies

NCCB Research Team Speakers
Dr Keith O’Sullivan: Co-Principal Investigator, CICE
Dr Pádraic Whyte: Co-Principal Investigator, TCD
Dr Ciara Boylan: Postdoctoral Researcher, Education
Dr Ciara Gallagher: Postdoctoral Researcher, Literature
Mr Paolo Defant: Catalogue and Database Development

Panel
Dr Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin (Chair)
Dr Valerie Coghlan, Independent Scholar
Dr Lydia Ferguson, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Máire Kennedy, Pearse Street Library
Susan Parkes, Church of Ireland College of Education

Wine Reception: Long Room, Old Library, TCD