Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference
February 17-20, 2016
Call for submissions
The deadline of October 1st for submissions of papers, posters and panel proposals for the Society for Cross Cultural Research conference in Portland, Oregon is fast approaching! Visit the SCCR website at http://sccr.vancouver.wsu.edu/ Continue reading CFP – 2016 SCCR conference Portland, Oregon
The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University—Camden, New Jersey (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/), invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) to commence on September 1, 2016. Applications received by November 6, 2015 will receive full consideration. Continue reading Faculty Position Announcement–Assistant Professor TT Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden
*NOTE : The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to September 30
Dear Colleague,
We are delighted to announce that the Child and Teen Consumption 2016 Conference website is now open for submissions.
You can submit your abstract at this address:
http://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/conferences/ctc-2016/submission-abstracts/
The strict for abstract submission is 30 September 2015 (extended). Continue reading CFP – Child & Teen Consumption – CTC 2016, 27-29th April
The Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. We seek an anthropologist (Ph.D. in hand) who specializes in social, cultural, psychological, and/or linguistic approaches. We especially welcome applications from candidates who conduct ethnographically grounded, person-centered research (i.e. psychological, medical, gender and sexuality, developmental or life-course related topics) in non-US settings, and whose work bridges one or more of the different disciplines represented in the department.
The Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary department whose faculty includes anthropologists, biologists, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and methodologists whose theories and methods cross individual social science disciplines. Research in the department explores the social, cultural, psychological, and biological processes of change that vary across time, between individuals, between societies and cultures, and between species. Please see our website, https://humdev.uchicago.edu.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2015; submission by this date is strongly encouraged to assure full consideration. Applicants must be submitted online through the University of Chicago’s Academic Career Opportunities website. http://tinyurl.com/o7lg4gp. Applicants are required to upload 1) a brief cover letter 2) a current curriculum vitae and 3) a research statement addressing current and future research plans; 4) a teaching statement addressing teaching experience and philosophy; 5) one sample of scholarly writing (a published article or unpublished paper or chapter), and 6) the names and contact information of three referees. At a later date we may request letters of recommendation. Review of applications until the position is filled and/or the search is closed.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity / Disabled / Veterans Employer.
Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-5671 or email ACOppAdministrator@uchicago.edu with their request.
Please download the flyer for more info on a forthcoming Symposium including Jo Boyden and Charles Watters as speakers.
Call for papers for a special issue of NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Editors: Sonia Livingstone and Amanda Third
Abstracts due (400-500 words): 15th September 2015
In 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee released the code that would form the foundation of the World Wide Web, which now boasts an audience of three billion users worldwide. The same year, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the history of the UN. The trajectories thereby set in motion have recently become explicitly intertwined, with growing momentum behind calls for the recognition of the potential of online and networked media for promoting children’s rights. At the same time, researchers, child rights’ advocates and internet governance experts, among others, are concerned that children’s rights are being newly infringed rather than enhanced in the digital age. Continue reading CFP – Children’s and young people’s rights in the digital age
The ‘Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South’ project seeks to bring together researchers exploring childhood and children’s lives in diverse contexts in the Global South to engage in theory development using the various empirical studies that have been produced on Southern childhoods as a starting point for dialogue and action.
The central questions of this project are:
These questions will be addressed through two initiatives in particular:
Dates: 19-21 January 2016
Venue: The University of Sheffield
The website will be launched by the end of September 2015.
The project is managed by Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh at the University of Sheffield, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth and funded by the British Academy Rising Star Scheme.
EXTENSION TO Call for Papers for Special Issue of Environmental Education Research: Urban / childhood / nature / pedagogy
*** Owing to requests from Northern Hemisphere scholars to adjust the due date to coincide with various vacation and work schedules, the CFP has a revised deadline – 1 October 2015 – PLEASE NOTIFY COLLEAGUES WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING ***
Guest editors: Iris Duhn (Monash University), Karen Malone (University of Western Sydney), Marek Tesar (University of Auckland)
The CFP is available on the journal website at: http://explore.tandfonline.