Earlier this year, ACYIG surveyed our members to learn more about their interests and involvement with the group.
The full results can be downloaded here: ACYIG Survey Results
What is wrong with disciplining children? Battle of Ideas 2014
Oct 18-19, 2014 at The Barbican London
http://www.battleofideas.org.
The Kent Centre for Parenting Culture Studies is a session partner for a discussion, What is wrong with disciplining children? 5.30-6.45pm, Saturday 18th October. Convened by Jan Macvarish.
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Call for contributions: American Childhood Culture in 25 Artifacts
The Children and Childhood Studies are of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) is soliciting contributions for an online archive titled “American Childhood Culture in 25 Artifacts.”
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Introducing our new Social Media Coordinator
ACYIG has a new Social Media Coordinator! Patrick Alexander will be managing our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and keeping us apprised of children and youth in the news as well as ACYIG announcements and events of interest to our members. Use the icons to the left to follow our social media accounts!
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CFP: Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference
Date: June 24-26th, 2015
Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 1, 2014
Description: “In Relation: Children, Youth, and Belonging”
The Program Committee invites proposals for panels, papers, roundtables or workshops that explore histories of children and youth from any place and in any era. We will, however, give particular attention to proposals with a strong historical emphasis and that bear on the theme of this year’s conference.
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CFP: Childhood and Pethood (edited collection)
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. At the same time, while critics in the field of animal studies have remarked upon the cultural tendency to think of pets as children, there is little scholarly work on the larger implications of understanding pets as children and vice versa. Even though children and pets are similarly constructed, represented, and dominated in Western culture and society, scholars have largely neglected to interrogate childhood and pethood together. Continue reading CFP: Childhood and Pethood (edited collection)
CFP: History of Childhood & Youth
Call for papers: “History of Childhood and Youth”, a special volume of Revista Angelus Novus, an electronic journal of graduate students in Economic History and Social History of University of São Paulo, Brazil. Continue reading CFP: History of Childhood & Youth
CFP: Society for the History of Children and Youth
SHCY Eighth Biennial Conference
“Relationality and the global circulation of children’s literature and culture”
June 24-26th, 2015
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
We invite papers for a prospective panel that explores the global circulation of children’s literature and concepts of childhood, particularly along paths determined by the processes of history and imperialization and colonization.
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