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Conference Calendar and Calls for Papers

This website aims to inform our associates and graduate students about upcoming conferences related to childhood studies and about "calls for papers" in the field. In terms of opportunities to publish in the field, you may want to visit our Selected Journals related to Childhood Studies as well.
Please email us with your suggestions. We appreciate your input. Thank you very much!
Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers
Date
Location
Title
Jul 11-17, 2010 Gothenburg, Sweden
Call for Papers: September 15, 09.
Contact: Doris Bühler-Niederberger; University of Wuppertal:
buehler@uni-wuppertal.de, and to the
organizer of the session you would like to choose for your paper.
>>> more (pdf)

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology
RC 53 - Sociology of Childhood



Jul 6-10, 2010 The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth "Childhood and Youth in Transition" International Conference to be held at the Kenwood Hall, Hotel, Sheffield, UK on 6-8 July 2010.
DEADLINE: Call for Papers Jan 31, 2010.
Further details about the conference can be found on the CSCY website: www.sheffield.ac.uk/cscy

Jun 14-18, 2010 NDACAN will sponsor its 18th Summer Research Institute (SRI) for child maltreatment researchers on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York on June 14 - 18, 2010.
DEADLINE: Applications and CVs must be received via e-mail attachment on or before Friday January 29, 2010.
The Summer Research Institute will be an intensive experience in secondary data analysis that combines colloquia with hands-on computing time. Participants are selected on a competitive basis from a variety of disciplines including psychology, social work, and medicine.
>>> more information

Apr 9, 2010

Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals.
Deadline for Submissions:
Oct 31, 2009

Exploring Childhood Studies:
A Graduate Student Conference

The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student conference on April 9, 2010.

Mar 19-20, 2010

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Call for Papers (pdf)

The Hofstra Cultural Center, in cooperation with the School of Education, Health, and Human Services, is sponsoring a two-day interdisciplinary symposium focused on children's toys, games, dolls, and play activities

Jan 15-16, 2010

La Casa de California, Mexico City, Mexico

>>> download brochure (pdf)

>>> conference website

The Students We Share: New Research from the United States and Mexico - binational conference to be held at the University of California’s Casa de California in the elegant and historic Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City. Brings together our two nations’ leading Pk-12 education and migration researchers and policymakers to share current research and explore future lines of interchange and collaboration in service to the children our countries share.

Due date:
Dec 15, 09
Call for Papers
http://redfeatherjournal.org/interior_pages/call.html
Red Feather is an online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that facilitates a dialogue among scholars and professionals through vigorous discussion of the intersections between the child image and the conception of childhood, children's material culture, children and politics, the child body, and any other conceptions of the child within local, national, and global contexts.
Interested contributors please submit the paper, an abstract, a current CV, and a brief biography as attachments in Word to debbieo@okstate.edu
Deadline for submissions for the premier issue is December 15th 2009.

Nov 19-21, 2009 Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 9: Children’s rights in research, policy and practice

Sep 15, 2009 deadline for Oct issue

Jan 15, 2010
deadline for Feb issue

Call for Papers
Solicitations for the October 2009 / February 2010
Anthropology of Childhood Interest Group Newsletter

We are soliciting the following Columns/Features from ACIG members for both the October 2009 and February 2010 Newsletter.
Sep15, 2009 is the deadline for all submissions for the October issue; Jan 15, 2010 is the deadline for all submissions to the February issue

July 10-12, 2009 UC Berkeley, CA Society for the History of Children and Youth conference

Oct 31 - Nov 1, 08 Worcester, Massachusetts
Home, School, Play, Work:
The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children

July 27-29, 08 The Family Research Laboratory and Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel & Conference Center in Portsmouth, NH. International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference

July 8-10, 08 The University of Sheffield
219 Portobello
Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
Re-Presenting Childhood & Youth - 2nd International Conference

Jun 20-21, 08 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008: Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances

Jun 13-15, 08 Lillehammer, Norway Bonds and Communities- Young people and their social ties (NYRIS10 – Nordic Youth Research Conference)

May 28-29, 08 European University Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus

Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal First international conference organized by the International Childhood and Youth Research Network. 

     


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