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Registration is now open for the Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood Symposium at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 21 September 2018.
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Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S.(Vanderbilt University Press).
With public outrage rightfully centering on the U.S.’ treatment of young migrants and their families, this book explores critical and timely—and largely unconsidered—dimensions of mobility and advocacy:
I am interested in putting together a panel proposal for ChLA 2019 (to be held June 13-15 2019 in Indianapolis) with other people working on stories involving dolls or dollhouses. I think dolls are interesting in light of the conference theme of empathy, and also the proposed topic of how children’s literature fosters global awareness. Can doll stories foster empathy (in addition to fantasies of mastery/domination and/or oppressive notions of racialized innocence, as suggested by Robin Bernstein in Racial Innocence and Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye)?
I would like to alert colleagues about a New Books Network interview I did with Roxanne Panchasi about my book Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago, 2017) that was posted this week. My book was recently reviewed by Sara Fieldston in the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth. Please follow the link below for the podcast interview:
Julia M. Gossard won the 2017 prize for the best article published in the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth: “Tattletales: Childhood & Authority in Eighteenth-Century France.”
Popular Cultural Association: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
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