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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Learning, Education, Identities, and Musical Experiences: Ethnographic Approaches

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Infancia_c Workshop #3  – April 17-18, 2015 – Madrid, Spain

This small two-day conference/workshop welcomes empirical and methodological papers that document and discuss the place of music and closely related expressive practices in the daily lives of people across the life-span and in a variety of institutional and socio-cultural settings. We are particularly interested in studies that can make a contribution to one or both of the following strands of discussion:
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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: Children & Society Panel at ASA

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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?

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ACYIG Updates

Welcome our new Newsletter Editor!

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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)

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Job Postings

Lecturer – Early Childhood Studies

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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 →

ACYIG Updates

2015 Prizes – Submissions Now Open

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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.

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Calls for Papers: Publishing

CFP: Special Issue of *Jeunesse* on Mobility

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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

Calls for Papers: Conferences

CFP: The Child and Citizenship

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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.