[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Exploring Childhood Studies (deadline 1/10/10)

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Patrick Cox <ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu>


Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference
Department of Childhood Studies
Rutgers University, Camden

The Department of Childhood Studies Graduate Student Organization at 
Rutgers University, Camden, invites submissions for paper presentations 
for their first formal graduate student conference to be held April 9, 
2010 on the Camden, NJ campus. Graduate students from all disciplines 
who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are 
encouraged to submit proposals.

The field of childhood studies engages in both theoretical and empirical 
study of children and childhood within historical, contemporary, 
interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, state, national, and global contexts. 
The interdisciplinary nature of the field is one of its greatest 
strengths and the core of its remarkable potential for scholarly 
advancement, but also leaves the field open for exploration and 
interrogation, and its borders difficult, if not impossible, to define.

The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood 
Studies by "doing" childhood studies. We seek papers that investigate 
childhood as a construct, children as a category, or the child as a real 
living human as their central focus, providing critical thought and 
insight while locating them in different contexts, fields, and ideologies.

We invite proposals from all disciplines, including education, 
literature, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, 
political science, history, criminology, philosophy, medicine, religion, 
film studies, and cultural studies as well as multi-disciplinary 
scholarly work. The range of possible topics includes: war, health, 
rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, 
globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, social 
constructions, theorizations and representations of children and 
childhood in all modes of fiction.

Submission: 250-word abstract plus cover letter with name, current level 
of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to 
m_modica at vfcc.edu . Include the words "conference abstract" in subject 
line, and include name on the cover letter only.

Deadline: October 31, 2009. Accepted presenters will receive 
notification by January 10, 2010.

Contact Patrick Cox at ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu or Anandini Dar at
anandini at camden.rutgers.edu if you have questions about the conference, or
visit http://crab.rutgers.edu/~bowman/conference/
Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here:
http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/


Patrick Cox
Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
ptcox at camden.rutgers.edu