Graduate Student Presentations for Stockton Childhood Application Seminar Series
We’re excited to share that four graduate students in the Rutgers-Camden Childhood Studies Department will present at the Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS), sponsored by the Stockton University Childhood Studies Minor. CASS is designed to showcase acclaimed scholars and cutting-edge research related to childhood. These presentations will be virtual. The Zoom links to attend are below.
November 18th, Tuesday, from 4:30 to 5:30pm EST
Sebastian Barajas will present “Beyond panopticism: The power of gaze at a self-directed education center:” I will discuss my ethnographic work at a self-directed education (SDE) center called Making Paths (MP), where, as with panopticism, power was exerted through the constant possibility of being watched. Yet, I found that gaze also had many other powerful dimensions that could not be explained by panopticism, such as the power of spectacle, the personal nature of gaze, the caring aspects of gaze, and the frequent desire to avert gaze.
Josiah Carolina will present “The Afro-Native Child & Where To Find Them:” My topic investigates the ways that settler-colonial studies and afropessimist studies can illuminate or generate important discursive interventions in the study of children and childhood.
November 20th, Thursday, from 4:30 to 5:30pm EST
Courtney Cook will present “A Genre of Their Own-Black Girlhood and Cinema:” What are Black girls doing in film? By doing, I mean: What is their purpose? What do films that center Black girls/Black Girlhood(s) contribute to ongoing discourses in media that the casting of non-Black girls and the centering of non-Black girlhoods are unable to do, and in what ways do these films provide analytic potential that current Black studies and Black girlhood scholarship studies seem to miss? This presentation will explore some of the intersections of Black Girlhood in film to continue validating Black Girlhood film as a genre in its own right.
Marcus Kissoon will present “Safe for Whom? Gender, Childhood, and the Quiet Violence of Public Safety Laws:” This study offers a feminist and childhood studies re-reading of New Jersey Assembly Bill A-4652 through the theoretical lens of Rob Nixon’s concept of “slow violence,” a form of violence that is gradual, delayed in its effects, and often invisible within dominant political and media narratives. Although A-4652 is framed as a public safety measure to deter incitement and disorder, its potential impact on school-aged children, particularly children of color, reveals how state mechanisms can institutionalize slow, bureaucratic forms of harm.
The organizers of CASS are aiming to create a community event of exploration and rich discussion, and as possible, encourage having your webcam on as it may aid in this goal.
November 18th, Tuesday, from 4:30 to 5:30pm EST
Zoom: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/88192256222?pwd=jIjQ8p2MdZb1dPZebhCWI6BUpks5ow.1
Password: 773192
Meeting ID: 881 9225 6222
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November 20th, Thursday, from 4:30 to 5:30pm EST
Zoom: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/82436242308?pwd=xVDSEMGHbbsKOd6u5tYPTLc1QUSiHy.1
Password: 633618
Meeting ID: 824 3624 2308
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Or Telephone: US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 305 224 1968 or +1 309 205 3325 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 646 931 3860 or +1 929 436 2866