Southern Theories and ‘Global’ Childhood Studies Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2021

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Third World Thematics, "Studies of childhoods in the Global South: towards an epistemic turn in transnational childhood research?" Deadline: 30 April 2021

Call for Papers: new edited book, "Curriculum of the body and the school as clinic: Histories of public health and schooling, 1900-2020"

Call for PhD Applications: "Youth in India", School of Geography, University of Melbourne

Call for Papers: "Children and Youth in an Uncertain and Unsettled World", World Conference on Children and Youth 

Call for Conference Theme Convenors: "16th Conference on International Education and Development", UKFIET

Reimagining Childhood Studies: Webinar Series 

We are delighted to announce the webinar series Reimagining Childhood Studies and to invite you to our upcoming inaugural event. This first webinar will introduce the series and explore the challenge of reimagining Childhood Studies as an interdisciplinary field through conversations with prominent scholars from around the world and with an international audience.   

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The series takes the challenge posed by the recent publication of Reimagining Childhood Studies (Spyrou, Rosen and Cook 2019) to collectively rethink, innovate, and reimagine our field of studies in an effort to offer a substantive, renewed, and inspiring agenda for the years to come. The webinar series envisions becoming a platform for childhood studies by reinvigorating debate within the field and opening it up to new ways of thinking finely tuned to the ethics and politics of this scholarly field.   

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For this first webinar three well-known scholars will kick-off the discussion by offering their own perspectives on reimagining Childhood Studies:  

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• Professor Lucia Rabello de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

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• Professor Sharon Bessell, Australian National University, Australia  

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• Professor Tatek Abebe, NTNU, Norway   

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The webinar will conclude with a Q & A session.   

Date: Wednesday, 25th November 2020  

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm GMT  

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Register for this free webinar on zoom

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Students, academics, and children’s sector workers /volunteers may find this series particularly relevant. 

Following this inaugural event, three other webinars are being planned. Each webinar will explore a different theme, issue, or concept which we have identified as potentially generative for Childhood Studies. The three planned webinars are as follows:
 

• Slow Violence (January 2021) 

• Refusal (February 2021) 

• Beyond Liberalism (March 2021) 

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Dates for these three webinars will be announced at a later point. 

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Organizers: 

Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus); Rachel Rosen (University College London); Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University). 

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