Dear Folklore enthusiasts,
We are delighted to advised that the April 2014 issue of ‘Play and Folklore’ is now up on line. We do hope that you enjoy our latest publication.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/
Kindest Regards,
Play and Folklore Team
Museum Victoria
Wednesday 4 June
4-5.30pm, Greenbank Building, room 201
Can children contribute to decisions that affect their lives? A sharing of the experience of using Action Research approaches with children, parents / guardians and community leaders in two communities in Uganda
Presenter: Hilda Nankunda, PhD student, School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire
For more information, download the poster here: 4 June Hilda Nankunda POSTER
Seminar is free. Refreshments provided.
To reserve a place go to EventBrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights:
Inaugural Issue: Call for Submissions
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflecting on 25 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the topic of children’s rights. The Journal offers a forum for exchanging ideas and engaging in conversation regarding a range of issues relating to children’s rights. The Journal is international in scope and content and encourages diverse approaches to the subject.
We are currently accepting manuscripts to be considered for the Journal’s inaugural issue that reflect a range of contributions including case-studies, comparative analyses, advocacy, and policy articles. We welcome manuscripts in English and French from academics, researchers, community partners and young people. Each manuscript submission will undergo a peer review process. The editors will review youth submissions to verify their appropriateness to CJCR’s focus and scope.
The inaugural issue will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). For this Special Issue to be published in the fall 2014, we invite authors to consider the impact of the UNCRC for children’s lives in particular contexts from the past, in present circumstances, or to look ahead to how to envision the UNCRC in the future.
Proposals should consist of an abstract of 250 words and up to six keywords describing the article together with a short bio (300 words) and contact information for the author.
Original manuscripts should be approximately 8000 words plus references, double spaced, 12 point font, and using endnotes. We ask that manuscript submissions follow the American Psychological Association style guide. Consult the following link for details:
http://www.library.carleton.
Please submit manuscripts to Virginia Caputo, CJCR managing editor (virginia_caputo@carleton.ca )
Feel free to contact either Virginia Caputo at virginia_caputo@carleton.ca
Greetings:
I am the book reviews editor for the Alberta Journal of Educational Research. “The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (AJER) is a quarterly journal, published in Canada, devoted to the dissemination, criticism, interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic enquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education” (as cited athttp://ajer.synergiesprairies.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Jon
Hello again from ACYIG! Seems the time info we had for the AAA meeting registration deadline was in error – the AAA website says that the deadline is 5 pm Eastern, so we’d best go with that.
“Anyone who has not registered will be automatically dropped from the system. Session proposals will go to Section reviewers without unregistered names attached to it. There are no exceptions to this rule (because we can’t add people to the system…they do it through the registration process). Session organizers need to hound listed participants for roundtables and panels to register or they’ll end up with a broken session that goes to Section Program Chairs for review and it will be weighed against proposals with a complete set of participants. AAA will reimburse anyone registered for a session that is not accepted to the program.”
Happy Spring,
from ACYIG
Just a reminder about the post-doctoral fellowship opportunity in child and youth studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Please see attached poster for details. Feel free to share widely. Postdoc_Poster
We are interested in papers and presentations on any topic at the convergence of Popular Culture and American Childhood. In addition, in recognition of MAPACA’s 25 anniversary in 2014, we’d love to have papers or other presentations that deal with the concepts of “anniversaries” or “25” in relation to children and popular culture. These might include birthdays, aging or growing, “25 as the new 18,” contemplations on children’s pop culture over the past 25 years, thoughts on the academic field of the past 25 years, major anniversaries in children’s pop culture (child star birthdays, anniversaries of notable films, TV shows or toys…)
We will also be curating an online collection and pre-conference discussion titled “American Childhood in 25 Artifacts.” Keep an eye out for a separate Call for Contributions to this collection coming soon.
Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts. The deadline for submission is June 14, 2014. This year’s conference will be in Baltimore, MD, Nov. 6-8, 2014. For the complete call as well info on how to submit a proposal, please see http://mapaca.net/. Please direct any questions about the Children and Childhood Studies area to area co-chairs
Thanks, and see you at the Harbor!
Patrick Cox and Brandi J. Venable
Area Co-Chairs, Children and Childhood Studies
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association