The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University—Camden, New Jersey,  USA, http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/  is excited to welcome three new full-time faculty members to the program, beginning in Fall 2015, who will build upon and extend an already vibrant program in the interdisciplinary study of childhood and children’s lives http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/2014/03/24/new-faculty-members/.

·        Sarada Balagopalan, PhD International Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University. Dr. Balagopalan joins the department as Associate Professor from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi. Her work on postcolonial childhoods foregrounds the tension between children’s work and schooling as a key site where discourses of colonial modernity, the ‘developmental’ nation-state, late capitalism and current transnational efforts around children’s rights play out. One of the founding editors of  contemporary Education Dialogue, Dr. Balagopalan has published widely on pedagogy, ethnography, globalisation and feminism. Her book,Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India(Palgrave), is forthcoming in 2014.
·        Meredith Bak, PhD in Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Bak examines the relationship between children and new media from the nineteenth century to the present. She is at work on a book manuscript examining the role of pre-cinematic visual media in cultivating children as modern media spectators, Her work has been published in Early Popular Visual Culture and is forthcoming in Theory of Science. She joins the department as Assistant Professor from Franklin & Marshall College. Before completing her PhD, Dr. Bak worked in museum education and as a teaching artist in New York City public schools.
·        Kate Cairns, PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto. Dr. Cairns joins the department as an Assistant Professor after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the interplay between discursive constructions of youth and childhood and young people’s subjectivity formation focusing on the way that children and youth are constructed as the promise of collective futures. Combining insights from education, feminist theory, cultural studies, and cultural geography, Dr. Cairns has published widely on schooling, arts education, food and consumption in venues such as Ethnography and Education, Journal of Consumer Culture, Gender and Education.

Child Labour in Global Society, by Paul Close
Bingley: Emerald Group
June 2014 (ISBN 978-1-78350-779-5);

http://books.emeraldinsight.com/

Child Labour in Global Society is a critical response to the modern
educational regime, compulsory schooling and the ‘slavery industry’ in a
globalizing world; to evolving and exploitative notions of ‘slavery’; to
definitions of ‘slavery’ in international law; to approaches to ‘educational
labour’, including in international human rights law; and to cultural,
common-sense and professional perspectives on ‘slavery’ and ‘educational
labour’, in the light of which it is arguable that children’s ‘slave labour’
in modern and modernizing societies is grossly under-estimated and otherwise
greatly, if conveniently, misrepresented.

“Play, Toys, War and Conflict”
Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation,
University of Greenwich
with the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past
May 16th 2014, 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Old Royal Naval College, SE10, 9LS, Queen Anne 075 and 080

This one-day conference relates the ongoing commemoration of the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and any aspect of war and conflict, to the themes of the  Centre , and the associated “Multi-Cultural Toys” project. Themes include play and national and political identity, children’s competition over playthings, to war games, the psychological value or otherwise of enacting conflicts, and play as a survival strategy in war time. Stereotypes of gender and race, sexuality and disability will be considered.

Draft Programme

9.30 a.m. Registration and coffee Queen Anne 075

10 a.m.  Welcome and Introductions

10.10 a.m. Dr Kathryn Gleadle (University of Oxford) “Playing at soldiers and doll volunteers: British loyalism and juvenile identities”

10.55.a.m. Dr Adrian Seville (Independent) “Changing Attitudes to War – the Evidence of Printed Board Games from France”

11.30 a.m. tea and coffee

11.50 a.m. Dr Jeff Bowersox (University of Worcester) “War Games, Colonialism, and Progressive Pedagogy in Germany before the First World War”

12.30 p.m. . Dr Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich) ,”War and Empire: Children’s materials and experiences, 1898-1919”

1p.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch

2 p.m. Alice Kirke (Institute of Education) “ Leisure, education and rural regeneration in the Young Farmers’ Club Movement, 1920-1940”

2.30 p.m. Anne Daniels (University of Virginia) “Why We Speak of War to You”: Coverage of World War II in Brazilian Children’s Periodicals

3.00 p.m. Panel: Toys, Play and Memory: Grimsby, Lebanon and Poland post-1945
Dr John Smith (University of Greenwich) Education and Play in Post-War Grimsby
Rania Hafez (University of Greenwich) Playing on the boundary: a childhood across cultures and borders
Dr Ewa Sidorenko (University of Greenwich) Play: Making Do without consumerism in Cold War Poland

4.15 p.m. tea and coffee

4.30 p.m.
Piotr Czosnyka, (Anglia Ruskin University) “A Toy Soldier in Britain 1945 to 1972: A Cultural History”, followed by:
Round Table discussion on toys, war, memory, and the future of play materials.

The conference will be followed by a networking event from 5.30 p.m. to which ALL are welcome.

To book a place at the conference, and/or networking event, or for any other queries, please e-mail playandrecreation@gre.ac.uk

ACYIG is in need of a Social Media Coordinator to manage our Facebook page, LinkedIn page, and listserv. The Social Media Coordinator will work closely with the ACYIG Communications Coordinator, as well as the Newsletter and Website Editors, to advertise current content. Familiarity with blogs and social media channels preferred. If you are interested in volunteering for the position, please email asinervo@ucsc.edu.

ACYIG is now soliciting contributions for the February 2014 issue. Please note that we have changed the submission deadline dates. We will now accept submissions on a rolling basis between Monday, December 16, 2013 and Monday, January 6, 2014. The final deadline for submission is Monday, January 6th, 2014. If possible, please notify me of your intent to submit by the start of the rolling period (i.e. December 16th). It is our hope that this modified timeline will facilitate an enhanced review and revision process.

All material should be sent to me at asinervo@ucsc.edu. Please consider the following types of submissions:

Rachael Stryker

I welcome your inquiries and expressions of interest, and look forward to receiving your submissions. Specific formatting guidelines are available on our website at http://www.aaanet.org/sections/acyig/newsletter/newsletter-submission-guidelines/.

Best,
Aviva Sinervo

Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures

Cultures Ludiques Sahariennes et Nord-Africaines

Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2013). Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures. Technical activities in play, games and toys. Foreword by Sudarshan Khanna, Braga: Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University of Portugal, 360 p. 350 ill.

A study in sociocultural anthropology study based on fieldwork, bibliographical information and museum documents about toy weapons for hunting and fighting games, toys for play related to transport and toys for play related to communication. There is also a chapter on using North African children’s play culture for pedagogical and sociocultural applications.

E-book available on <http://www.scribd.com/jean_pierre_rossie> and <http://www.sanatoyplay.org >

Rossie, Jean-Pierre (2013). Cultures Ludiques Sahariennes et Nord-Africaines. Les activités techniques dans les jeux et jouets. Préface de Sudarshan Khanna, Braga: Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University of Portugal, 364 p., 350 ill.

Une étude d’anthropologie socioculturelle basée sur le travail de terrain et l’information bibliographique et muséographique concernant les armes-jouets pour la chasse et le combat, les jouets pour des jeux liés au transport et les jouets pour des jeux liés à la communication. Il y a aussi un chapitre sur l’utilisation de la culture ludique des enfants d’Afrique du Nord pour des applications pédagogiques et socioculturelles.

Livre numérique disponible sur <http://www.scribd.com/jean_pierre_rossie> et <http://www.sanatoyplay.org>