Other opportunities

Call for submissions: SPA’s 2016 Stirling Prize Competition

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2016 Stirling Prize for Best Published Book in Psychological Anthropology

The Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) welcomes submissions for the 2016 Stirling Prize for Best Published Book. The Stirling Prize is awarded to a published work that makes an outstanding contribution to any area of psychological anthropology, including works exploring childhood, adolescence and aspects of human development. All books published within the last six years (2011-2016), including ones scheduled for publication later in 2016, are eligible for consideration. Continue reading Call for submissions: SPA’s 2016 Stirling Prize Competition →

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP Visualizing Diversity in Children’s Literature

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Panel Sponsored by Children’s Literature Association Diversity Committee

2016 Children’s Literature Association Conference

The ChLA Diversity Committee seeks paper proposals for a panel on diversity and visual representation in children’s literature. Scholarship has increasingly become invested in examining and interrogating the ways the institution of children’s literature defines and practices diversity. This panel will specifically investigate how visual elements in children’s literature have been utilized in such definitions and practices. Papers may examine how visual-verbal narratives such as picturebooks, comics, graphic novels, photographic books, cartoons, and animated films define, approach, promote, conceal and/or ignore diversity; how tensions between visual and verbal modes create possibilities and problems in representing minority groups; how children’s literature has attempted to make the marginalized and “invisible” visible; and how texts appropriate, complicate and/or repudiate visual caricatures of minority groups. Continue reading CFP Visualizing Diversity in Children’s Literature →

Events, Training/Education

Workshop at King’s College London: Children’s benefit or burden?

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Children’s benefit or burden?

A workshop about how young people have been used to promote ideas of the future and why this matters today

3 September 2015, King’s College London
NGOs, academics, museum professionals and policy makers working with, on and for children are invited to explore how and why children were mobilised and represented in the past – and what lessons this history offers us today. 
 

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New Books

New Book: Remembered Reading Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood

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A reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of girls’ comics
Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. Remembered Reading is a readers’ history which explores the genre, and memories of those comics, looking at how and why this rich history has been forgotten. The research is based around both analysis of what the titles contained and interviews with women about their childhood comic reading. In addition, it also looks at the other comic books that British girls engaged with, including humour comics and superhero titles. In doing so it looks at intersections of class, girlhood, and genre, and puts comic reading into historical, cultural, and educational context.

http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462700307

New Books

New Books on North African, Saharan and Amazigh (Berber) children’s toy and play cultures

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Rossie, J-P. (2015). Saharan – North African – Amazigh Children’s Toy Catalogs: Donation to Centro per la Cultura Ludica in Turin. Braga: Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University of Portugal, 93, 179 ill.

Rossie, J-P. (2015). Saharan – North-African – Amazigh Children’s Toy Catalogs: Donation to Musée du Jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne, first part: dolls and toy animals, Braga: Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University of Portugal, 72, 127 ill.

These books are available here:

Academia.edu : https://independent.academia.edu/JeanPierreRossie

Scribd : https://www.scribd.com/jean_pierre_rossie

Sanatoyplay (website of the author): http://www.sanatoyplay.org (publications)

Funding Opportunities, Training/Education

VERY SHORT DEADLINE: Fully Funded PhD Studentship

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Fully Funded PhD Studentship: Families and Food in Hard Times research project

Ref: 1483875 

UCL Institute of Education, Department Social Science 

Duration of Studentship: 3 years
Stipend: £17,493 per year, inclusive of London Allowance plus course fees of £5,445 per year

Vacancy Information

Thomas Coram Research Unit is a multidisciplinary research unit which carries out policy-relevant research focussed on children and young people within and outside their families. The studentship will be located at the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), UCL Institute of Education and will be available from October 2015. It is attached to a five year research project ‘Families and Food in Hard Times’ funded by the European Research Council.   Continue reading VERY SHORT DEADLINE: Fully Funded PhD Studentship →

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP – Deadline approaching – Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or foes?

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Call for papers

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or foes?

Seminar at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK,

16-17th November 2015

This seminar will bring together community- and university-based academics and activists to unpack perceived conflicts between children’s interests and women’s interests (which themselves are heterogeneous) and, more broadly, intersections and antagonisms between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood.

We invite you to submit an abstract to present or an application to participate. Deadline for abstract submission: 15th August 2015. Continue reading CFP – Deadline approaching – Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or foes? →