The School of Early Childhood Studies at the Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University in Toronto invites applications for a Tenure Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2015, subject to final budgetary approval. Continue reading Tenure-track position — Early Childhood Studies
New Book: The Government of Childhood
Invitation to Book Reading – Wed. 10/22 at UMBC
Please join us on Wednesday, October 22nd, 4:00-5:30pm in the University of Maryland – Baltimore County Library Gallery for:
“Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village”: Reading, Book Signing, and Reception with UMBC Anthropologist Bambi Chapin.
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Childhood Deployed brown bag at Barnard, Oct 20
A brown bag book talk with Professor Susan Shepler
(American University, Washington DC)
Childhood Deployed:
Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
(NYU Press, 2014)
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CFP: Childhood Studies Colloquium (Univ. of Auckland)
Childhood Studies Colloquium
14 November 2014 9.30am – 4.30pm
Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland
Keynote address: Making a difference – connecting rights, research and policy
Emeritus Professor Anne B. Smith, University of Otago
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CFP: Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature
Literature for children and young adults is a rich source of material for the study of literary maps, one that has been largely overlooked, despite the growth in academic interest in this area of study. We are therefore seeking contributions for a proposed collection on maps in children’s literature that will bring together the best current thinking on the topic, which will become a resource for scholars, and provide a springboard for further study in this area, particularly in terms of interdisciplinary and international discourses. Continue reading CFP: Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature
CFP: Childhood and Pethood
Call for Papers
Childhood and Pethood: Representation, Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Power
Abstracts (500 words) due November 1, 2014
Articles (7,000 words) due July 1, 2015
While scholars of children’s literature and childhood studies frequently discuss representations of animals in children’s texts, there is little discussion of the often parallel ways in which these texts construct animal and child subjectivity. Continue reading CFP: Childhood and Pethood
25 years of the UNCRC
25 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC):
The relevance of children’s rights in a
higher education context
It is 25 years this November since the UNCRC was internationally agreed. Join us to celebrate and reflect upon the UNCRC, children’s rights, and higher education: Continue reading 25 years of the UNCRC