[ecrea] Call for Papers -- Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference

> Call for Papers -- Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference
>
> Department of Childhood Studies
> Rutgers University, Camden
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> 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. 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. Each combination of perspectives provides new 
> insights into the lives of children and the families, cultures, and 
> societies in which they are embedded. 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.
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> The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining 
> Childhood Studies by "doing" childhood studies; the conference will 
> explore the field by offering explorations within it. We seek papers 
> from all disciplines that keep 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.
>
> In keeping with what we believe is the essential interdisciplinary 
> nature of Childhood Studies, this conference seeks to be 
> interdisciplinary itself. We seek proposals from all 
> disciplines--education, literature, economics, psychology, 
> sociology, anthropology, law, political science, history, 
> criminology, philosophy, medicine, religion, film studies, and 
> cultural studies--as well as interdisciplinary and 
> multi-disciplinary scholarly work.
>
> The range of open topics within this field is as broad as the 
> contexts of the experiences of children and childhood: war, health, 
> rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, 
> globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, and 
> representations in all modes of fiction. The field of Childhood 
> Studies itself is open to interrogation.
>
> Selected papers will be grouped into panels that may be based around 
> discipline, theme, or perspective, but will demonstrate the common 
> grounding of the papers in their mutual exploration of children and 
> childhood studies.
>
> Paper presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length. 
> Please send 250-word abstract for paper or poster presentation 
> (specify which) and 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.
>
> For further information about The Exploring Childhood Studies 
> conference, contact: Patrick Cox at (ptcox /at/ camden.rutgers.edu) or 
> Anandini Dar at (anandini /at/ camden.rutgers.edu).
>
> Deadline for submission is October 31, 2009. Accepted presenters 
> will receive email notification by January 10, 2010.
>
> Home to the Department of Childhood Studies and The Center for 
> Children and Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden is a leader in the 
> national and international discourse on the state of children and 
> childhood. We are very proud of the fact that Rutgers-Camden is the 
> first and only PhD-granting Department of Childhood Studies in the 
> nation, which has now entered its third year. We look forward to 
> introducing the larger academic community to our fellow students, 
> exemplary faculty and unique program, and to engaging in vigorous 
> and stimulating discussions with our peers throughout academia.
>
> Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here: 
> http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/
>
> Patrick Cox
> PhD Student
> Department of Childhood Studies
> Rutgers University
> http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/
>
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> "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an 
> invincible summer."
> --Albert Camus
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> "Don't let your studies interfere with your education."
> --Colonel Henry Rutgers
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> "the jUdges of nOrmalitY are present everywhere."
> --Foucault, of course
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