H-Childhood is an edited network focused on the history of childhood and youth. Subscriptions to H-Childhood are free. The H-Childhood network is co-sponsored by the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) and H-Net.
Centre for Research on Colonial Culture
Division of Humanities, University of Otago, New Zealand
Call for Papers
Symposium: Unpicking the tapestry: children & young people in British colonial contexts
Location: Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Dates: Monday 24 August to Tuesday 25 August, 2015
The application call below is for a research project focusing on the enabling environment for youth development, sponsored by a partnership between Restless Development, Youth Business International and War Child UK. The project is being implemented by Youth Policy Labs, a Berlin-based think tank that focuses on youth policy.
"CHC Ep7: The Examined Life" includes a conversation with Ansgar Allen, Lecture at the University of Sheffield in the UK. It is available online at http://shcyhome.org/2015/02/chc-episode-7-the-examined-life/
From James Marten, Marquette University james.marten@marquette.edu
The first few weeks of 2015 have seen a great deal of activity on the website of the Society for the History of Children and Youth:
Registration for the Eight Biennial Conference of the Society at the University of British Columbia (June 24-26) opened; you can sign up at http://shcyhome.org/conference/
Fully-funded PhD Studentship in History of Childhood at University of Oxford
PhD Studentship on ‘Child abuse and neglect in mid-twentieth-century Britain’, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, UK
Funded through TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
CALL FOR PAPERS Global Studies of Childhood
www.wwwords.co.uk/GSCH and www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202350
Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives on Childhood, Youth and Adolescence: troubling the global/local nexus
Dear All,
submitted by:
Pam Cushing
Associate Professor, Kings University College
February 11, 2015
York University
Health Sciences Building room 412
