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This page lists calls for papers for scholarly conferences, anthologies and journals that focus on the history of Boy/Girl Scouting, Girl Guiding, and/or youth. In addition, conferences that fully or partially focus on the history of Scouting are listed below. If you wish to have a CFP posted on this site, please contact us with the appropriate information.
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Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Interrogating Normativity in Childhood Studies
May 20-21, 2011
The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA
We invite submissions for participation in a conference hosted by the Department of Childhood Studies of Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, USA on Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives. As a field, childhood studies has flourished in large part because scholars have recognized the necessity of moving between and beyond traditional academic disciplines and have resisted the idea that there exists one, normative version of childhood common to all. Indeed, Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives seeks participation from those who work to counter the presumption or invocation of an unproblematically normative childhood by making visible how varied material and institutional circumstances, ideologies, beliefs and daily practices serve to shape the unfolding lives and experiences of children.
In this spirit, participants are encouraged to interrogate practices and discourses surrounding childhood and childhood studies, asking, for instance: What forms do childhoods take in various social arrangements? How do the dynamics of social class, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation and religion configure notions of “appropriate” and “inappropriate” childhoods? How do children understand various kinds of social difference and inequalities? What about the understandings of researchers, and those who care for or otherwise attend to children? In what ways do conceptualizations of “the child” and of presumed normative childhoods—in research, in the commercial world, in institutional and everyday settings, in literature and discourse—inform the kinds of actions undertaken by and on behalf of children?
*Abstract submission opens here September 1st
Contact Us
•Website: http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods
•Submissions: All abstracts are to be sent to childhoodsconference@camden.rutgers.edu
•Questions: Dan Cook, Conference Chair
Department of Childhood Studies
Email: dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu
Phone: +1 856-225-6741/ +1 856-225-2816
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Childhoods Conference: Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood
Venue: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Thursday, May 5 Saturday, May 7, 2011
This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child studies, which has changed significantly in recent decades. Disciplines long dedicated to the study of the child, and childhood, have been recently revitalized and are engaged with the central problematic of what the
child and childhood represent, including how these categories relate to others such as infant and youth. Figured in the plural, childhoods pose a significant crossroads for theoretical and empirical work on the nature of being human and development broadly construed. Various disciplines consider childhood as an experience, as a biological fact, as a social category, as an artistic and literary construct, as a category for historical and demographic analysis, as a category of personhood, and as a locus for human rights and policy interventions.
Participating scholars will examine childhoods of the past, present, and future from around the world, and will present research results, policy approaches, and theoretical paradigms that are emergent in this re-engagement with the child and childhood. Bringing together divergent networks of expertise, this conference offers the opportunity for new research collaborations and the scholarly dissemination of innovative research.
Conference Format: three days of multidisciplinary panels with scholarly presentations on conference themes; poster sessions; several keynote events; practitioner sessions; and a film night.
Conference Themes and Questions: definitions and boundaries of childhood: invented or discovered?; indigenous theories and experiences of childhood; the importance of gender; the impact of globalization; the impact of changing technologies on children and childhood, and on the study of children and childhood; concepts of adolescence; vulnerability and empowerment; and health, development, disability, and risk. Proposals for papers on additional themes will also be considered.
Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Patrizia Albanese (Co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Families, Ryerson University)
- Dr. Mona Gleason (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- Dr. Allison James (Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield)
- Dr. Perry Nodelman (Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Mavis Reimer (Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood and Director of the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg)
- Dr. Richard Tremblay (Director, Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal)
Submission Guidelines: For presentations, and for posters, please submit a proposal/abstract of between 300 and 500 words through the "submit paper/poster proposal" tabs to the left of this screen by October 1, 2010.
Please complete all fields of the proposal submission form. Proposals for multidisciplinary panels are also welcome. Please note that presentations should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. We would especially like to encourage graduate students to contribute posters on their current research and will offer a prize for best student poster.
For more information, please contact childhoods@uleth.ca
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Youth (Sub) cultures in Changing Societies
Tallinn University, Estonia, 2-4 February 2011
Rapid technological developments, structural changes in the society and economic uncertainty influence lifestyles of young people. One of the possibilities for identification and belonging is participation in different youth cultures. Youth (sub)cultures are oriented towards choices in music, style, sports or politics, but at the same time determined by structural circumstances. As the media tends to focus on their negative aspects, distinctive youth lifestyles have often been associated with deviance. The latter is especially the case in Eastern Europe, where the society has for a long time been understood as homogeneous, and where a plurality of lifestyles has only recently
began to surface.
The conference investigates the impact of choices and structural restrictions on youth cultures in times of social change. The main focus is on the question whether youth cultures are deviant or only distinctive lifestyles. Other questions concern, e.g., the role of youth cultures in multicultural society; the status of different youth (sub)cultures; and the changes that international subcultures undergo when being diffused to new societies what do they tell about the host society?
Keynote speakers:
Ross Haenfler Deviance and Youth Subcultures
Paul Hodkinson New Media and Youth Cultures
Hilary Pilkington Youth Cultures in Eastern Europe
Mikko Salasuo New and Old Approaches to Youth Cultures: The Scandinavian Case
The subject of the conference can be approached from different perspectives. In the 21st century, youth cultures are more diverse than ever, and all papers shedding new light on the topic are welcome. Selected papers of the conference will be published in the journal Studies of Transition States and Societies in a special issue on youth cultures.
Abstracts (max. 200 words), should be sent by e-mail to Maarja Kobin - maarja.kobin@gmail.com by 30 September 2010 at the latest. General inquiries regarding the event should be addressed to Airi-Alina Allaste,
- airi-alina.allaste@tlu.ee.
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Jacqueline M. Olich, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Slavic, Eurasian,& East European Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#5125, 3108 FedEx Global Education Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5125
Office: 919.962.0355
Mobile: 919.280.1054
global.unc.edu/slavic
http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/people/Olich/index.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/olich
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Conference: Philosophy at Play
Location: University of Gloucestershire, UK
Dates: 12th and 13th April 2011
This will be an inter-disciplinary conference focusing on philosophical aspects of play.
The deadline for the submission of a 300-500 word abstract is the 11th October 2010. Notifications of acceptance / rejection will be sent by 30th November 2010. The full programme will be announced in January 2011.
Please email abstracts to philosophyatplay@glos.ac.uk
First Call For Papers:
Many philosophers have had something to say about play, and their ideas are as diverse and contradictory as play itself. Variations operate across time (ancient, modern and postmodern), place (‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ philosophies and points in between) and discipline (epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and so on). Yet rarely are the names or work of key thinkers evident in policy or practitioner discussions about play. This conference aims to build disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play, particularly children’s play. Papers might include, but are not limited to:
· Philosophers on play
· Play in philosophy: ancient, modern and postmodern
· Play and aesthetics
· Play and power
· Play and freedom
· Play, space and time
· The dialectics of play
· Play, ethics and morality
· Game studies
· Philosophy of play as applied philosophy
· Philosophy of playwork
· Political philosophy, childhood and play
For further information or if you have any questions, please email eryall@glos.ac.uk
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