Young People, Borders & Well-Being
San Diego, California
January 12–15, 2015
Download the announcement for more information. Continue reading 4th International Children’s Geographies Conference
CFP: Children & Society Panel at ASA
ASA 2015 – Symbiotic anthropologies: theoretical commensalities and methodological mutualisms
CFP – Children and Society panel
Children are significant research subjects as they mirror social contexts where they belong and re-elaborate their experience to become agents of change. What can we learn about our discipline, our society and our future by engaging with children in different set ups?
Welcome our new Newsletter Editor!
We are excited to announce that Dr. Kate Grim-Feinberg will be taking over as Newsletter Editor effective December 2014. Please consider sending your inquiries or submissions for the February issue over the next few months (kgrimfe2@illinois.edu). The final deadline is January 5th, but we encourage notifying the Editor of your intent to submit by the beginning of our rolling submission deadline of December 15th.
See the Newsletter Submission Guidelines page for more information on submission types and policies.
View the most recent newsletter (October 2014)
View the newsletter archive
Lecturer – Early Childhood Studies
University of Roehampton, School of Education
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer Early Childhood Studies (1.0 FTE)
Salary: £37,633 to £49,354 pa inclusive of London Weighting
The University of Roehampton has a beautiful parkland campus, located in the heart of south-west London, and offers excellent facilities for staff and students.
Applications are invited for a full-time without term Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Early Childhood. Roehampton has a well-established and international reputation for its work in Early Childhood. We are seeking applications from highly motivated candidates who have research and teaching interests complementary to those of current staff in the multi-disciplinary Early Childhood Studies team. We are particularly looking for experience in the areas of play, children under 3, working with families, history and philosophy of early childhood and equal opportunities. The successful candidate will contribute to the Early Childhood Studies subject area, which includes BA Early Childhood Studies, MA Early Childhood Studies, Initial Teacher Training including Early Years Teachers Status and the supervision of PhD students. Continue reading Lecturer – Early Childhood Studies
2015 Prizes – Submissions Now Open
UPDATE 12/29/14: Due to the need for AAA’s Executive Board to review all section and interest group prizes, the ACYIG 2015 prizes have been postponed.
The ACYIG Prize Committee hopes that we will re-post the announcements for the ACYIG Prizes in mid-2015, for award at the end rather than at the beginning of 2015.
We apologize for any inconvenience that postponing the Prizes may cause to our members and colleagues. Any further questions regarding the Prizes should be sent to esobo@mail.sdsu.edu.
We look forward to updating you on further announcements about the Prizes, and we thank you for your patience as we work to establish this important recognition of our members’ contributions to the anthropology of children and youth!
ACYIG is currently accepting submissions for its 2015 prizes for Best Student Essay in Anthropology of Children and Youth and Best New Book on Children and Youth by an ACYIG Member.
Click on the following links for details: Continue reading 2015 Prizes – Submissions Now Open
CFP: Special Issue of *Jeunesse* on Mobility
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures invites essay submissions for a special issue addressing mobility in relation to youth texts and culture(s). We welcome essays that consider registers of race, class, gender, and disability. Essays should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length and prepared for blind peer-review.
Mobility invites us to think about bodies, identities, and agency from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Im/mobility can be many things: geographic, physical, ideological, imaginative, temporal, social. What are some of the ways that we might analyze this amorphous—in fact, mobile—topic in light of young people, their texts, and their cultures?
Submissions are requested by: 30 June 2015.
Topics may include:
- Dancing children
- Border crossings and home(land) security systems
- Movement as performance/choreography
- Narratives of upward/downward mobility
- Transformations through mobility/mobilizing transformations
- Mobile audiences and audiences of mobility
- Movement as affect and affect as “being moved”
- Planes, trains, and automobiles
- Immigration and generations
- Ability and impairment
- Kinesthetics or kin-aesthetics
- Mobilizing youth polities
- Digital movement and mobile communication
- Play and playgrounds
- Containment and freedom of movement
Inquiries may be directed to Larissa Wodtke, Managing Editor: l.wodtke@uwinnipeg.ca
Further information about submission guidelines is available at: http://jeunessejournal.ca
CFP: The Child and Citizenship
A symposium to be held at Texas A&M University
27 March 2015
Sponsored by the Critical Childhood Studies Glasscock Humanities Seminar and the Texas A&M Department of English
Keynote Speaker: Courtney Weikle-Mills, University of Pittsburgh
300-word proposals are invited for 15-minute papers to be presented at a one-day interdisciplinary symposium on “The Child and Citizenship.” Papers may contemplate the child as future citizen (e.g., efforts within such forums as literature, pedagogy, public health, or character-building endeavors on the order of Scouting to shape the citizens of tomorrow) or as present citizen (e.g., children engaged in activities such as work, charitable endeavors, or social protest movements). Proposals focusing on any culture or time period are welcome.
Sample approaches include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Children and national identity
- Children and political rights/theory
- Educating children for citizenship
- Children and immigration
- Historical and/or global understandings of children in society
- Consumerism and the child citizen
- The gendering of the child citizen
- Childhood, citizenship, and race
- Children’s literature (or other media) and citizenship
Please submit abstracts to organizers Lucia Hodgson (luciahodgson@tamu.edu) and Claudia Nelson (claudia_nelson@tamu.edu) on or before 1 December 2014.
CFP: African Youth and Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Texas Africa Conference
Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights
Venue: The University of Texas at Austin
April 3-5, 2015
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/2015africa-conference/call-for-papers.php
We are now inviting scholars to submit conference papers and full panel proposals for the 2015 conference on Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights. The social, political, and cultural landscapes envisioned and created under the context of development highlight the historic and ongoing challenges that frame efforts to transform Africa’s development trajectory. The goal of this year’s conference is to generate interdisciplinary insights that can interrogate development paradigms and intervention practices as they relate to urban space and human rights in Africa.
What does development mean in the context of indigenous strategies of self-determination and global intervention? How do notions of development shape urban space and urban policies in Africa? In what ways have development strategies affected human rights? How do indigenous collectives and global activists define human rights and urban rights, and how can these definitions shift notions of development?
Some potential topics may include:
– Development Debates
– Narratives of development
– Concepts of Under-Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights
– African Development Strategies
– Sustainable Development, Gender and Development
– Entrepreneurship and Development, Insurgent Development Practices
– Development and the aid industry
– Human Rights Debates
– Intervention in Human Rights, Border Issues
– Rhetoric and culture of international human rights
– Dependency and Human Rights Issues
– Development, Intellectual Property and Struggle over Resources
– Urban Space and Development Practices
– Urban Planning and Development Strategies
– Urban Rights, Rights to the City
– Urban Informalization/Informality and Citizenship
– Social Exclusion, Displacement, and Urban Marginalization
– Africom and Intervention
– NGO’s and MCC’s and Prospects for Development
– Sanctions for Better or Worse (Zimbabwe, Sudan, etc.)
– Education for Development
– Children and Youth: development strategies for/impacts, rights and life prospects
As with all our previous conferences, participants will be drawn from different parts of the world. Submitted papers will be assigned to particular panels according to similarities in theme, topic, discipline, or geographical location. Papers can also be submitted together as a panel. Additionally, selected papers will be published in book form.
This conference also has a commitment to professional development which will be fostered through workshops in writing, publishing, and conference presentation. The conference will also provide ample time for professionals from various disciplines and geographical locations to interact, exchange ideas, and receive feedback. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend and present papers and will be partnered with a senior scholar to encourage their own growth as scholars.
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is November 30, 2014. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and title, as well as the author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation.
Please submit all abstracts to africaconference2015@gmail.com and Toyin Falola: toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu
A mandatory non-refundable registration fee of $150 for scholars and $100 for graduate students must be paid immediately upon the acceptance of the abstract. This conference fee includes admission to the panels, workshops, and special events, as well as transportation to and from the conference from the hotel, breakfast for three days, dinner on Friday night, lunch on Saturday, and a banquet on Saturday evening.
It is expected that all participants will raise the funding to attend the conference. The University of Texas at Austin does not provide participants with any form of funding support, travel expenses, or boarding expenses. If the conference obtains outside funding this will be used to help subsidize graduate students’ accommodations on a competitive basis but it is not guaranteed.
Convened by: Professor Toyin Falola, toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu
Coordinated by: Bisola Falola and Ben Weiss, africaconference2015@gmail.com
Conference Website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/2015africa-conference/