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Recent Network Content
The JDC Archives invites you to a webinar: “Impossible Reconstructions: Families After the Holocaust"
Impossible Reconstructions: Families After the Holocaust
Rebecca Clifford
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 12:00 PM-1:30PM (EST)
MLA 2022: Word Play: Nonstandard English and Multilingualism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Guaranteed Panel)
Children’s literature in English has long been a tool for literacy instruction and acculturation to English language, used both as a tool for learning and as a force for homogenization within histories of Anglophone colonialism and imperialism. As scholars and professors dedicated to exploring the ways in which texts for young people make meaning, we know that language functions as both a tool of empowerment and one of imprisonment.
Roundtable on Agency, Experience and the History of Childhood and Youth
Join us for a virtual roundtable on Agency, Experience and the History of Childhood and Youth at the fourth annual History of Experiences conference from March 8-12.
Black Girl Banned: Representations of Rebellion and Radical Black Girlhood
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DEADLINE EXTENDED – SHCY Calls for Nominations for the Best Article in 2019 and 2020 on Childhood History in German
The deadline for submissions to this article prize has been extended until February 28!
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The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best peer-reviewed journal article on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in German in 2019-2020. The winner will be announced in the Summer of 2021.
The 8th International Conference of The European Network of Picturebook Research: Picturebooks in Time
The program in Research of Child and Youth Culture, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, invites scholars to submit proposals for The 8th International Conference of The European Network of Picturebook Research, which will take place on October 3-4, 2021.
The theme of the conference will be Picturebooks in Time.
The deadline for application submission is February 26th, 2021. The conference will be held in a hybrid form, at Tel Aviv University and online.
CFP: Childhood and Youth Network of the Social Science History Association--Deadline extended to March 16
CFP: The Childhood and Youth Network of the Social Science History Association
CfP Historical children's and youth literature
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