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Lecture
Series and other Events
in Childhood
Studies at Rutgers University
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| Oct 26,
2009 |
| Urban
Youth Symposium on Nov 20, 2009 @ RU-Camden |
Sponsored by the Office of the
President and the Office of the Chancellor.
 The
Urban Youth Symposium will bring together a diverse
group of scholars and practitioners to engage in roundtable
discussions about the topic of urban youth today. Unlike
traditional academic conferences, this symposium will unite
many different voices as a means to engage in intellectual
conversation about issues affecting minority young people
in urban places. The symposium aims to highlight the work
being done on campus and in our community and sees that work
within a larger context of practitioners, writers, activists,
theorists, and academics. Rutgers–Camden’s own Future
Scholars will participate in this event.
The symposium will be held on the Rutgers–Camden
Campus and is FREE and
open to the public. Please join us by registering online.
For more information, please contact Lynne
Vallone, chair of the Department of Childhood Studies. |
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| Sep
9, 2009 |
| Childhood Studies Research
Seminar
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Please join the Department
of Childhood Studies for a research seminar on Wednesday, October
7th at 4:30 pm in the 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge of Armitage
Hall.
Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen, Doctoral Student from the Norwegian Center for
Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology will present
her work, “A Cultural Studies Approach to the Construction of Tweens: The
Case of the Disney-Tween Phenomenon“ |
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| Sep
1, 2009 |
| Childhood
Studies Colloquium (RU-
Department of Childhood Studies) |
We are thrilled
to announce that Prof. Barrie Thorne, U-C Berkeley,
will be the special guest of the Department
of Childhood Studies on September 30 and October
1. A public talk entitled “Social Class
Inequality and Children's Experiences and Management of
Family Shame,” is scheduled for
September 30, at 4:Please join the Department of Childhood
Studies for a research seminar on Wednesday, October 7th
at 4:30 pm in the 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge of Armitage
Hall.
Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen, Doctoral Student from the Norwegian Center for
Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology will present
her work, “A Cultural Studies Approach to the Construction of Tweens: The
Case of the Disney-Tween Phenomenon“30 in the 4th Floor Lounge of Law School.
A reception will follow at the Stedman
Gallery at 6pm.
>>> click
here to download a flier (pdf)
Dr.
Barrie Thorne, professor of Gender
and Women’s Studies and Sociology at UC-Berkeley,
is an internationally-recognized scholar and pioneer
both of women’s and gender studies and of childhood
studies. Her research and teaching focus on
the sociology of gender, feminist theory, the sociology
of age relations, childhood and families and ethnographic
methods. In 2002, she received the American Sociological
Association Jessie Bernard Award in recognition of
scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology
to encompass the role of women in society. She
is currently writing an ethnography of kids growing
up, and parents raising children, in a mixed-income,
ethnically diverse area of Oakland. |
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| April
17, 2009 |
| Special
Research Seminar (RU- Department of Childhood Studies) |
Please
join us for a special Childhood Studies Research Seminar
featuring
Dr. Sarada Balagopalan, Associate
Fellow, Centre For The Study of Developing Societies,
New Delhi, India.
Date: April
17th, 2009
Title of Presentation: “On
Global Threads and Local Sutures: Street
Children and the Politics of Translating
Rights in Calcutta, India”
Place: Faculty
Lounge, 3rd Floor, Armitage Hall
Time: Free period
Refreshments will be served.
All are welcome.
>>> read
more |
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The Department of Childhood
Studies at Rutgers-Camden
sponsored an international conference on “Children
and War”
on April 3-5, 2009. >>> Visit
the Conference website |
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Spring
2009 Speaker Series |
On
the Rights of Children |
All
presentations will be held from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
and
all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will
be served.
Locations for March and April events
will be announced.
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In
recognition of the 20th anniversary of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and
the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the Center for Children and Childhood
Studies together with the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and Criminal Justice and the Rutgers
University School of Law is sponsoring a series
of speakers and panel sessions focusing on several
aspects of children’s
rights.
> download
flier (pdf)
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| February |
"Ain't
I a Person? Human Rights in Light of Childhood"
- a discussion of the philosophical grounds
and challenges of children's rights
Thursday,
February 12 – Law
School Faculty Lounge
Speaker:
- John
Wall, Associate
Professor of Religion, Rutgers University – Camden
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A Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated
Parents
Monday, February 23 – Room E403, Law School
Panelists:
- Philip
Genty, Professor,
Columbia University School of Law
- Ann Adalist-Estrin,
Director, National Resource Center on Children
and Families of the Incarcerated
- Ceciley
J. Bradford, Inmate
Family Services Program Manager, Pennsylvania
Prison Society
- This panel will also feature a student who is
a child of an incarcerated parent
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| March |
The Rights of Children in the Juvenile Justice
System
Thursday, March 5 – Room
E403, Law School
Panelists:
- JC Lore, Co-Director,
Children’s
Justice Clinic, Rutgers University School of
Law
- Sandra
Simkins, Co-Director, Children’s
Justice Clinic, Rutgers University School of
Law
- Lourdes
Rosado, Esq., Juvenile Law Center,
Philadelphia
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When a Child is Alone: The Rights of Unaccompanied
Immigrant Children
Monday, March 23 – Room
E403, Law School
Panelists:
- Ilze
Earner, Assistant
Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work
- Mary
Ellen Glick, Community Resource Developer, Lutheran
Child and Family Services, Philadelphia
- This panel will also feature a youth who is an
unaccompanied immigrant
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| April |
Children in Foster Care: Rights, Reality and
Remedies
Wednesday, April 1 -
Law School room 103 (west wing)
4:30-6pm
and reception
in room E403 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm (east wing)
Please join
us for a panel discussion on foster care with
the following speakers: Frank P.
Cervone, Esq. (Executive Director, Support Center
for Child Advocates), Erin O’Leary, Esq.
(Director of Legal Affairs, NJ Dept. of Children
and Families) and two former foster youth. Professor
Meredith L. Schalick will moderate the panel and
also briefly discuss her article in progress on
the legal remedies for children mistreated in foster
care. A light reception will follow the
discussion in the law school faculty lounge (room
E403). All are welcome. Contact Professor
Schalick with any questions – schalick@camden.rutgers.edu
Panelists:
- Frank
P. Cervone, Executive Director, Support
Center for Child Advocates
- Erin
O’Leary, Director
of Legal Affairs, NJ Department of Children and Families
- Meredith
Schalick, Visiting Clinical Assistant
Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Camden
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of
Children
Thursday, April 16
Multipurpose
Room in the Campus Center
Speaker: Barbara
Woodhouse, David H. Levin
Chair in Family Law and Director, Center for
Children and Families, University of Florida
College of Law, will speak on "Children's
Rights on the World Stage: the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child." |
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Prof.
Daniel Cook (Childhood
Studies), "Children's Food
and the Provisioning of Meaning: Commerce, Care
and Maternal Practice"
2008-2009 Liberal
Studies Colloquium Series
“You are What You Eat:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Food”
All colloquium events take place from
4:30 - 6:00 pm in the Faculty Lounge on the 3rd floor of
Armitage Hall on the Rutgers-Camden campus. They are free
and open to all.
>>> more
information about this lecture series |
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This
dramatic exhibit documents the experiences of incarcerated
persons in the United States. Curated by Rickie Solinger
with support from the Ford Foundation. Co-sponsored by
the Center for Children and Childhood Studies.
Reception
& Gallery Talk
Wednesday, November 5th
5:30 - 7:30pm
~ Free and Open to All ~
Speaker: Dr.
Jane A. Siegel, Chair of the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology & Criminal
Justice at Rutgers University-Camden & author of the
upcoming Rutgers University Press publication, Disrupted
Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison.
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Fall 2008 |
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Fall
2008 - Speaker
Series - 50:830:201 |
Frontiers
of Psychology |
The
events are held on Fridays at 1:15 pm
in Armitage Hall in the Faculty Lounge on the
3rd Floor. |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title |
| Sep
12 |
Thomas Haworth
Joseph J. Peters Institute
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Forensic Psychology: Assessment of violent sexual predators |
| Sep 19 |
Mauricio Delgado
Rutgers - Newark
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Social and emotional influences
on decision-making and the brain
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| Sep 26 |
Patrick Markey
Villanova University |
Personality and behavior |
| Oct 3 |
Karen Rose
Widener University |
The
Divisive Coverage Effect: How media cleave differences
of opinion between social groups
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| Oct
10 |
Rebecca Lakin
Children’s
Hospital of Phila |
Community-based participatory
action research with inner-city, minority youth |
| Oct
17 |
Eleanor Brown West Chester University |
Early Childhood Cognition and
Emotions Lab (ECCEL) |
| Oct
24 |
Rita Johnson
Cheney University |
School Psychologists: More than
just gatekeepers to special education |
| Oct
31 |
TBA |
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| Nov
7 |
David Festinger
Treatment Research
Institute |
Evaluating treatment efficacy |
| Nov
14 |
Robert Atkins
Rutgers - Newark |
Relatively Deprived: Understanding
how high-poverty urban neighborhoods influence the
health and development of youth |
| Nov
21 |
Bonnie Angelone
Rowan University |
Topic: Visual Perception |
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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2008 |
| Sep
24 |
Nancy
Rosoff (History) “’I’d
Love to Play on Her Team’: The Female World of
Sport and Sociability”
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| Oct
15 |
Larisa
Saguisag (Childhood Studies)
“A Part or Apart?: Racial Assimilation in the Young Adult Fiction of
Sherman
Alexie and An Na” |
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| Nov
12 |
Deborah
Valentine (Childhood Studies)
“Addressing
Pedagogical Challenges in Childhood Studies: Promising Practices and
Ongoing Questions”
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All presentations are free and open to the public.
They will be held in Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Faculty
Lounge from 12:10-1:10.
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Seminar
Series for Spring 2008 |
Piercing
the Myths: Girls, Aggression and Violence |
Girls
are becoming increasingly more involved in violent
activities, shattering stereotypes of girls as “sugar
and spice and everything nice.” The speakers
in this series will explore girls’ involvement
in violent and aggressive activities and discuss some
motives behind their actions.
>>> Program
description  |
All
events will take place from 4:30 – 6:30 pm
in the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center,
Conference Room West-ABC,
326 Penn Street
Light refreshments will be served |
Professional
development hours will be available upon request. |
April 3 |
April 10 |
April 17 |
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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Spring 2008 |
All
presentations are on Wednesdays at 12:10-1:10 pm
in Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge. |
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| Feb 13 |
Special
Joint Event with the
First Year Seminar
Department of
English
Candice
Kaup (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“What's the Harm of a Diary: Feminine
Silence in Harry Potter”
and
Peter
Bryant (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“Trauma through Form in Art Spiegelman's Maus” |
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| March 5 |
Bruno
Vanobbergen (Ghent University, CS Visiting Scholar)
“Sea hospitals and the hygiene offensive: a professionalization
of the medical science or the commodification of the weak
and disabled child?”
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| April 9 |
Carol
Singley (Rutgers-Camden, English)
“Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption and American Literature” |
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| April 30 |
Tetsuji
Yamada (Rutgers-Camden, Economics)
“Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children and Healthcare Needs for
Children
under the State Children's Health Insurance Program” |
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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2007 |
| Sep
25 |
Sean
Duffy (Psychology)
Sean Duffy began our Research Seminar Series with
his talk on “Building Baby Brains: How Infants
and Young Children Know Where They Are in the World”
Suggested reading, article
1 (pdf) and article
2 (pdf)
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| Nov
6 |
Cati
Coe (Anthropology)
“Responsibility, Risk and the Scattered Family:
The Emotional Responses of Ghanaian Parents and Children
to Transnational Migration” |
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| Dec
4 |
Holly
Blackford (English)
“Age Trumps Race: How Teens Read Jim of Mark
Twain's Huck Finn” |
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Seminar
Series for Spring 2007 |
Rethinking
Childhood: Juveniles and the Justice
System |
Despite
the fact that the overall rate of juvenile
crime is declining, children are being imprisoned
and confined at alarming rates, with minority
youth in particular making up the majority
of incarcerated youth around the country. Why
is this the case? This speaker’s series
seeks to shed light on the issues surrounding
juvenile incarceration and explore new ways
of dealing with youth in the justice system. |
This
series is co-sponsored by The Rutgers University-Camden
Center for Children and Childhood Studies and The
Rutgers University School of Law Children's
Justice Clinic |
>>>
download a Description
of the Program  |
All
panels will take place on Thursdays
at 319 Cooper Street – Room 109
from 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Light refreshments
will be served. |
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Thursday,
March 1, 2007:
“Trauma and
Juvenile Delinquency” |
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Dr.
Martin Finkel,
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
and Medical Director and Founder
of the Center for Children's Support
at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey-School
of Osteopathic Medicine |
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Dr.
Linda Williams, Professor
of Criminal Justice and Criminology,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
>>> view
presentation |
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Amy
Hoch, Psy.D., Psychologist,
Child Abuse Research Education and
Service (CARES) Institute at the University
of Medicine & Dentistry of New
Jersey
>>> view
presentation |
| Moderator: |
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Sandra
Simkins, Esq, Associate
Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Children’s Justice Clinic,
Rutgers University School of Law |
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Thursday,
March 8, 2007:
“School to
Prison Pipeline: The Disconnect Between
Juveniles and School” |
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Delores
Jones – Brown, Professor,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
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Laval
Miller-Wilson, Esq., Senior
Attorney, Juvenile Law Center |
| Moderator: |
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Nyeema
C. Watson, Associate Director,
Rutgers University Center for Children
and Childhood Studies |
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Thursday,
April 5, 2007:
“Justice or
Injustice? The Disproportionate Number
of Minority Youth in the Justice System” |
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Robert
Listenbee, Esq., Chief, Juvenile
Unit, Defender Association of Philadelphia |
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Michael
Finley, Sr. Program Associate,
The W. Haywood Burns Institute for
Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity |
| Moderator: |
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Dr.
Jane Siegel, Associate Professor
of Criminology, Rutgers University,
Camden |
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Thursday,
April 12, 2007:
“Colors: Youth
and Gangs” |
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Malik
Aziz, Youth Advocate, Philadelphia |
| Moderator: |
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J.C.
Lore III, Visiting Clinical
Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Children’s Justice Clinic, Rutgers
University School of Law |
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download a Description
of the Program |
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CCCS
and Barnes and Noble to Partner for
Children’s
Book Week Celebration and FUNDRAISER |
 On Friday,
November 17th, Rutgers University
Center for Children and Childhood Studies
(RU-CCCS) celebrated Children’s Book
Week with a Book
Fair Fundraiser at Barnes
and Noble in Moorestown, New Jersey from
11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
For
more information, please contact Becky
Heritage at (856) 225-6739. |
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| New
Exhibit/Reception at the Rutgers-Camden Center
for the Arts |
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more information, please contact Nyeema
Watson |
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Previous
Events |
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REMEMBERING
CHILDHOOD:
Meet
the Authors, Hear Their Stories
March
- April 2006
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The Spring
2006 REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD Series brings
writers and authors to the Rutgers University Camden
campus and to the Camden Children's Garden to share
their perspectives on childhood as reflected in
their work. Some of the events are taking place
in conjuntion with the 18th annual Spring Rutgers-Camden
Writers' Conference, April 8th, 2006.
All
events are free and
open to the public. No registration required!
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more information, directions to the campus, and
to the Camden Children's Garden, click
here to download a brochure. |
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This
day-long conference explores legal and social science
perspectives on educational inequality, and the outcomes
and the effects of these inequalities on the overall
development of children.
>>> more |
Gordon
Theater, Rutgers-Camden |
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Previous
LECTURE SERIES IN CHILDHOOD STUDIES |
REGIONAL
SEMINAR SERIES
at
Rutgers-Camden
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ASSOCIATES
SEMINAR SERIES
at Rutgers-Camden
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An
Associate Seminar to correspond with our conference
on Race,
Class and Education. Professor
Holly Blackford presented
"Reflection
of History or Reinscription of Racial Tensions? Tourism
and the Towns of Mark Twain's Hannibal and Harper
Lee's Monroeville."
Thursday, May
4, 2006 from 12:20 - 1:20. |
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2004-2005
Schedule
CCCS Associates meet regularly on the Rutgers-Camden
campus to present
their latest research projects in childhood studies. |
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RUTGERS
CENTER FOR HISTORICAL ANALYSIS (RCHA)
at Rutgers University,
New Brunswick campus
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2004-2005
Seminar Schedule
The
purpose of the 2004-2005 Gendered Passages Project, "The
Gendering of Children," is to encourage
interdisciplinary research, conversation, and theoretical
synthesis of two fields – the study of children
and the study of gender.
>>> RCHA 2004-05
Gendered Passages Project |
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SELECTED
SERVICE & OUTREACH PROGRAM EVENTS |
SPARC
Program
(Science Preparation Alliance
of Rutgers and Camden) |
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goal of the SPARC program is to make precollege students
interested and enthusiastic about science, especially the
biological, brain, behavioral, and cognitive (BBBC) sciences.
The following links show examples of SPARC initiatives: |
- SPARC
Teachers' Workshop
A workshop for teachers Participants get "hands-on"
learning of computer skills and laboratory methods.
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- EXPO
2004
Allied Health Science EXPO is a program for middle
and high school students with interests in the allied
health sciences.
>>> previous Expo
2003
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Camden
Campaign for Professional Childcare Development
Previous Events and Programs |
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Camden
Campaign for Children's Literacy
LIBRARY OUTREACH INITIATIVE
at the Camden Free Library
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The Library
Outreach Initiative offered
a wide variety of free reading and artistic
programs for children in the Camden community
for four years. These programs included
storytelling by a recognized literary artist
and hands on literacy related activities
including murals, storyboards, bookmarks, & books
created by the children.The Library
Outreach Initiative was a 4-year collaborative
project between CCCS and the Camden Free
Library. >>> more
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Literacy Programs 2001 -- 2002 -- 2003 -- 2004 |
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Camden
Campaign for Children's Literacy
COMMUNITY OUTREACH LITERACY EVENTS
at Rutgers-Camden |
CCCL
Kick-Off Event (9/15/2001)
This wonderful Rutgers-Camden campus community event
took place four days after 9/11 |
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CCCL
03 Summer Celebration
Another fun CCCL event at Rutgers-Camden |
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a short Video* |
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Other
previous CCCS CAMPUS EVENTS and EXHIBITS |
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| Exhibition
on Child Labor in Stedman Art Gallery |
 Let
Children be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine’s Crusade
Against Child Labor will be on
display at the Stedman Gallery from Monday,
March 13, 2006– Saturday, May 6, 2006. Sociologist
Lewis Wickes Hines (American, 1874-1940) photography
captured his concern for children, immigrants and
the working-class. The exhibition of 55 prints offers
a revealing look at child labor practices at the
onset of American industrialization and the circumstances
that poor working children endured well into the
late 1930’s.
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more about
the exhibition |
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