Please forward to any interested parties - this
is the first conference for the Leverhulme
International Network Project entitled
Approaching War: Children's Culture and War, 1880-1919.
¡¥A Game That Calls Up Love and Hatred Both¡¦:
The Child, the First World War, and the Global South
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
1-4 December 2011
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture
and Wellbeing (ACCY) & Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art
War ain¡¦t no giddy garden feete ¡V it¡¦s war:
A game that calls up love an¡¦ ¡¥atred both ¡K
~ C. J. Dennis, The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916)
The Leverhulme International Network project,
Approaching War: Children¡¦s Culture and War,
1880-1919
(www.fww-child.org<http://www.fww-child.org/>),
focuses on the pre-war and wartime experience of
children in Anglophone countries which were
involved in the conflict or which were engaged
in international discussions about the war,
including Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and
the USA. Three international conferences are
planned: Australia, 2011; Canada, 2012; UK, 2013.
The Australian conference in December 2011 at
the University of Technology Sydney will explore
the impact of the First World War on childhood
from the perspective of the global south. It
will bring together researchers and
practitioners to explore verbal and visual
representations of war in the children¡¦s
culture of Australia and the global south, with
special reference to the First World War but
also considering other wars of the 20th century.
Papers on any topic relating to the figure of
the child and childhood cultures and war, with a
particular focus on the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century, are welcome. We
welcome papers from a variety of disciplines,
including English, Education, Film, History,
Modern Languages, Sociology, and Geography, amongst others.
Participants are invited to submit 250 word
abstracts for 20 minute papers on the conference
themes. Panels of three linked papers are also
very welcome. Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:
¡´ Children¡¦s and young adult literature
¡´ National and global ideas of childhood and nationhood
¡´ Gender, the child and war
¡´ Intersection of cultures of war and childhood cultures
¡´ Constructing Empire
¡´ Concepts of ¡¥home¡¦
¡´ Constructing otherness
¡´ Changing histories and geographies
¡´ The spread of conflict in Europe, Asia, the Far East
¡´ War and federation
¡´ Child/adult relationships
¡´ Mother Country and ¡¥sons¡¦
¡´ Ambivalence and war
¡´ Multimodal representations of friends and foes
The project seeks to further scholarship on
countries drawn into the conflict by virtue of
their connections to the British Empire,
particularly those which have been
under-represented in First World War studies.
Conference papers from scholars in such
countries are particularly welcomed, and some
bursaries are available for those working in
countries where support for international
conference attendance has traditionally been
low. Some bursaries are also available for
postgraduate speakers from any institution.
Please see the conference website for more details.
Deadline for abstracts: March 1st 2011
Notification of outcome: April 1st 2011
Abstracts should be submitted via email to:
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Project Website:
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Dr Stacy Gillis
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
T. +44 (0)191 222 7360
F. +44 (0)191 222 8708
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