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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 and/or Girl Guiding. 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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Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective
Sponsored by: The Society for the History of Children and Youth
Location: University of California, Berkeley, July 10-12, 2009
Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2009
The Society for the History of Children and Youth is pleased to announce that its 5th Biennial Conference -- Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective -- will take place at the University of California, Berkeley, July 10-12, 2009.
The Program Committee invites proposals from all those who study childhood from a historical perspective, regardless of discipline, country of study, or era.
The conference theme refers not only to children and youth who are deemed dependent or deviant, but to young people who are creative, active makers of history, who step beyond the bonds of tradition, defy age restrictions, challenge accepted norms and institutions, and help create new cultural practices, values, and sensibilities. Direct engagement with the conference theme is encouraged, but not required, of submissions.
We are especially eager to make this an international, interdisciplinary, interactive conference that will reflect the most exciting work on the history of childhood. In addition to panels presenting original research findings, we hope to include sessions on teaching and pedagogy, public history practice, new modes of presenting historical work, scholarly controversies, the historical context of contemporary issues, and updates on new scholarship in specific areas.
Along with proposals for sessions featuring formal papers, the Program Committee welcomes proposals and presentations that do not follow the traditional format. We encourage proposals that offer innovative approaches to presenting and discussing scholarship, including discussions and roundtables, pre-circulated papers, and workshops, as well as sessions featuring audio and visual resources.
We strongly prefer proposals for complete sessions, and encourage those new to the field to seek out co-panelists through H-Childhood. However, in an effort to facilitate the participation of newcomers, we will consider individual papers.
We encourage session organizers to create diverse panels and urge organizers to include papers that cross national and other categorical boundaries. Rather than a series of nation-based or regionally-specific conversations, we want to create a space for truly comparative, cross-cultural exchange.
The Conference Theme
The conference theme of risk and risk taking refers not only to young people who are “troubled” or “endangered,” but to children and youth who take active risks in creative ways. Thus proposals might look at young people as political actors, as active contributors to historical change, as defiers of cultural norms and traditions, and as creators of new sensibilities.
Possible topics include:
- The Construction of Childhood and Youth as At-Risk and Risk-Taking Stages of Life
- Discourses of Risk and Risk Taking: Legal, medical, pedagogical, psychological, and sociological
- Shifts in the Forms, Functions, and Cultural Meaning of Risk Taking
- Creative Risk Taking: Risk taking as a challenge to cultural norms, traditions, institutions, and age restrictions
- Risk Factors Over Time: Poverty, neglect and abuse, malnutrition, environmental risks, health and developmental problems, migrant status, family disruption, war and natural disaster, peer pressure, trafficking, child work, and consumption
- Contexts Influencing Risk and Risk Taking: Age, class, environment, gender, race and ethnicity, religion
- Resilience in Children
- Efforts to Protect Children from Risk and Risk Taking
Submission Procedures:
Proposals must be submitted electronically no later than Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, February 15, 2009. All proposals must include the following information:
- A complete mailing address, e-mail, phone number, and affiliation for each participant;
- An abstract of no more than 500 words for the session as a whole;
- A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation (for paper sessions and, if you wish, for roundtables -- panels and workshops do not allow for individual presentation abstracts); and
- A vita of no more than 500 words for each participant.
Note: All individuals who are on the program must be members of SHCY at the time of the conference. Please submit the proposal as email attachments to the program committee chair, Steven Mintz, at sm3031@columbia.edu, for consideration.
Scouting: A Centennial Symposium 15-16 February 2008, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Maryland, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-02-01
Since the 1907 camp at Brownsea Island, the Scout movement has grown in strength and reputation to become the world's largest voluntary service organization for young people. This 2008 academic symposium at Johns Hopkins University will celebrate and analyze the development of Scouting, both for boys and girls, in the context of the historical developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
While members of the Scout movement are welcome to participate, the conference will appeal particularly to the international scholarly community. The Conference is not affiliated with any international or national Scout or Guide organization.
The planned conference will begin on Friday, February 15, 2008, and will run through Saturday, February 16, in non-concurrent sessions. We request paper proposals that fit into the broad themes of the conference outlined below:
- History of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting/Guiding internationally
- Intellectual and educational roots of the movements
- Comparative youth movements
- Scouting and social/political issues (e.g. militarism, imperialism, race, gender)
- Scouting and its leaders
We seek papers by a broad variety of scholars at all levels of the historical profession and plan to provide financial assistance to scholars for travel to the conference. After the conference, the organizers hope to publish the papers in a special issue of a journal or as a book.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words and should be submitted, along with a current c.v., to the address below NO LATER THAN February 1, 2007. Participants will be notified by e-mail or mail (please provide both, if possible) no later than March 1, 2007, whether the proposal has been accepted. Full papers will be due by October 31, 2007.
Organizers include:
- Matthew A. Crenson Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
- Tammy M. Proctor Department of History, Wittenberg University
- Nelson R. Block Author of A Thing of the Spirit: The Life of E. Urner Goodman
CFP Contact: Dr. Tammy M. Proctor History Department Wittenberg University P.O. Box 720 Springfield, OH 45501-0720 Phone: (937) 327-7841 Fax: (937) 327-7991 Email: tproctor (at) wittenberg.edu Visit the website at http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/tproctor/CFPScout.htm
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