Dear ACYIG Members,
At the ACYIG Organizational Meeting in DC last week, it was announced that the ACYIG Advisory Board recently voted by acclamation to add a seventh member position to the Board.
This position is titled, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE. Whoever serves in this position is charged with liaising with ACYIG graduate and undergraduate student members to communicate ideas, policies, and concerns from students between members and the ACYIG Advisory Board. Continue reading Call for Self Nominations: ACYIG Board Position of Student Representative
ACYIG 2015 Conference: Reminders and Travel Tips
The buzz is on about the 2015 conference of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, if the recent AAA meetings were any indication! This is a reminder of the deadline for submitting a proposal: January 10, send to cdellclark2@gmail.com. The call for papers can be found here.
Also a couple of travel tips to make this conference even more affordable than it is already. If you live within reach of Jet Blue Airlines, they have very attractive prices for flying into Long Beach Airport (LGB), an airport especially close to the venue, California State University at Long Beach. Also, if you would like to find a roommate with whom to share a room, contact Aviva Sinervo at asinervo@ucsc.edu. Aviva’s communications committee is helping to put people in touch with others seeking to share a room.
See you in Long Beach!
Documentary screening “Play no matter what!”
Anthropology of Children and Youth Seminar
Documentary ‘Play no matter what!’ and the concept of Social Circus
Kim van Haaster, Director and producer of documentaries at Kim van Haaster Audiovisuele Producties
Monday December 15, 2014 10:30-12:00
VU University, Amsterdam, room Z-009(Metropolitan)
Kim van Haaster will introduce the concept of Social Circus that is closely related to the topic of the documentary ‘Play no matter what!’. The documentary was shot in Romania in 2013. After the screening there is time for questions.
Synopsis: Rachitoasa is the hilly hometown of Alexandra and Noni, two Romanian teenagers at the age of fourteen. There is not much else to do in Rachitoasa but to go school, work the land, help out in the household, or hang out on the streets. But one glorious day a bunch of funny looking, foreign people come to live in their village and stay a while. They turn the abandoned and rundown school building down the road into a colorful place for them to play! Ash and Jolien and the two teenagers become friends and hand-in-hand they play and figure out what they are good at and what is valuable in life. Playing is the most powerful way of learning, no matter the circumstances.
Please also note the date and time of the other upcoming seminar:
Friday 16 January: 10.30-12.00
VU University is located at a 10-minutes’ walk from Amsterdam Zuid railway station. The Metropolitan Building is located opposite the University’s main building, across the tramway. Tram stop ‘De Boelelaan / VU’ is served by tram lines 5 and 51.
Feel free to communicate information of this seminar to other people who might be interested.
Could you confirm your participation in the 15 December seminar to us? childrenseminar@hotmail.com
New Book: Orphans & Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
by Nazan Maksudyan
Syracuse University Press (2014)
Book Description
History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who are farthest removed from power the lead actors in this history. Continue reading New Book: Orphans & Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
CFP: Children & Forced Migration
Seeking contributions for an edited volume on Children and Forced Migration: Durable Solutions during Transient Years.
Editors: Marisa O. Ensor (marisaensor@yahoo.com), and Elzbieta M. Gozdziak (emg27@georgetown.edu)
The proposed book project is conceived as a follow up to our successful volume Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), to be included in Palgrave’s recent series on “Studies in Childhood and Youth”.
Download the full call for submissions for more information.
New Book: Violence Against Children in Kenya
by Alphonce C. L. Omolo
Children in Kenya continue to suffer diverse types of violence against them despite the fact that Kenyan laws are prohibiting violence and various prevention measures exist. In order to achieve effective prevention of violence, adequate knowledge of risk factors is imperative. In Kenya, such knowledge is lacking and there is limited attention given to the multifaceted nature of the social environment in which children grow up and how such environments aggravate violence against children as well as hinder prevention measures.
This qualitative research applied the ecological model of socialisation of Urie Bronfenbrenner as its theoretical and analytical framework in examining risk factors and consequences, responses and projects. In assessing what is being done to prevent violence against children in Kenya, the author reviews existing projects and policies that shape prevention measures including the possible influence of international conventions. He also analyses diverse sets of ideas, attitudes, philosophies and practices that explain the similar and the different notions of childhood in African and in Western settings. Exploring the social construction of violence, the author examines ideas and discourses that explain the heterogeneous characteristics of violence and how their understanding, occurrence and severity vary from culture to culture.
CFP – Extending Play: The Sequel
Are we the species that plays—or are we better understood as the species that repeats?
Walter Benjamin suggests that, “For a child repetition is the soul of play.” Is play always at its core a form of re-play, an iteration of an earlier moment that resists a complete recurrence, yet is found in a series or sequence? We accept replication as a matter of course: Successful games and films always already have a sequel in the works, fashion is fueled by a recycling of its past, and images are increasingly manipulated to mimic the earlier eras of photographic technique. But what is the impact of these repeats, echoes, and continuations? And how do we understand the experience of play as a chain of sequels in the age of digital surrogates, cybernetic archives and networks of distributed storage? Continue reading CFP – Extending Play: The Sequel
ACYIG Business Mtg & Social Hour – Sat 12/6, 6:30pm
Dear ACYIG Members,
We look forward to seeing you this Saturday, December 6th from 6:30-8:15pm for the ACYIG Organization Meeting held at the AAA’s in the Marriott Ballroom Salon 2.
The first hour is devoted to important interest group business and the second hour will include the social hour and book fair with a number of new and exciting publications.
We hope to see you! (Suggested donation: $5.)
Safe travels,
The ACYIG Board