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Special
Childhood Studies Research Seminars |
| Oct 7, 09 |
Please join us on
Wednesday, October 7th at 4:30 pm, Armitage
Hall -3rd Floor Faculty Lounge for a seminar by
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“
This project sets out to investigate how tweens are constructed
by different stakeholders through the examination of four key
dimensions. These include: lived culture—tweens’ own reflections around what it means to be a tween
gathered from open interviews and observation; producers--how does Disney
as a corporation cater to tweens and what are their constructions of tweens?;
text and products—how are tweens constructed through Disney media content
and consumer products?; and finally, the audience, specifically the tweens—how
do they perceive Disney content and products aimed at them?
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. |
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Sep 30 -
Oct 1, 09 |
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 4:30 pm in the 4th Floor Lounge of Law School.
A reception will follow in the Stedman
Gallery at 6:00pm. We
expect that Dr. Thorne will speak in one of our classes and
will make herself available to meet with students.
Barrie Thorne is a pioneer of women’s studies and of
childhood studies and is an early supporter of our program.
Please see http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/barrie.html for
more information about her. >>> click
here to download a flier (pdf) |
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| Apr 17 |
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.
Dr. Balagopalan's talk is entitled “On Global
Threads and Local Sutures: Street Children and the Politics
of Translating Rights in Calcutta, India" and
will take place on Friday, April 17 during the Free Period
in the Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor, Armitage Hall. Dr. Balagopalen is currently a Visiting Professor at
the University of Texas-Austin.
Prevailing discourses on children’s rights assume that
the idea of possessing rights is equally intelligible to all
children worldwide. Recognizing that there is nothing natural
nor inevitable about the creation of children into rights-bearing
subjects, the proposed paper uses ethnographic research with
a group of street children in Calcutta, India to interrogate
what the idea of rights mean to children who don’t share
the history of being inserted into certain formations of the
self that a rights discourse assumes. Building on existing
scholarship on the complex history of colonialism and modernity
in South Asia, Dr. Balagopalen will focus on three fundamental
shifts that discourses on children’s rights
seek to create in these children’s existing self-constructions.
These shifts epitomize the ways in which the universality
of rights has a certain materiality in the local that precedes
and frames the ways in which these discourses are imagined
and acted upon by the populations that it seeks to include.
Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. |
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Spring
2009 Childhood Studies Seminar Series
All of the talks were held in the lower level seminar
room in 405-407 and lunch was served.
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| Feb 13 |
Dr. Susan
Miller (Undergraduate
Advisor, University of Pennsylvania) presented "Amazons
and Intellectuals: Testing the Limits of Schoolgirl Identities
1900-1945." |
| Feb 18 |
Dr. Ethan
Sribnick (Post Doctoral
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library) presented her
paper, "Rehabilitating
Child Welfare: American Liberalism and and Public Policy for
Children, 1945-1980." |
| Feb 26 |
Dr. Lauren
Silver (Post Doctoral
Researcher) presented her research on Thursday, February 26. |
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| March 11 |
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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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2008 |
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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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| 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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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Spring 2008 |
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| Feb
13 |
Special joint event with the First Year Seminar,
Department of English
Candice Kaup (English)
“What's the Harm of a Diary: Feminine Silence in
Harry Potter”
and
Peter Bryant (English)
“Trauma through Form in Art Spiegelman's Maus”
NOTE: Due to a scheduling conflict, the date of this
event has been changed from its original day and time. |
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| Mar
5 |
Bruno Vanobbergen (Ghent
University, Childhood Studies 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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| Apr
9 |
Carol
Singley (English)
"
Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption and American
Literature” |
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| Apr 30 |
Tetsuji
Yamada (Economics)
"Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children and Healthcare
Needs for Children under the State Children's Health Insurance
Program” |
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For
more information on childhood studies events at Rutgers-Camden, click
here! |
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Research
Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2007 |
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| 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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