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CHILDHOOD:
A WORLD HISTORY October 10 - 11, 2003 University of California, Berkeley Alumni House Sponsored by the Center for Child & Youth Policy The Townsend Center for Humanities The Department of History |
| Friday,
October 10th Session 1: 9:00 - 10:30 Around the World: Comparative Childhoods Peter Stearns, Chair Session 2: 11:00 - 12:30 The Life Cycle of Childhood Paula Fass, Chair Session 3: 2:30 - 4:00 Representing Children: The Word, The Picture, The Symbol Anne Higonnet, Chair |
Saturday,
October 11th Session 4: 9:00 - 10:30 Childhood in Society & Culture Stephen Lassonde, Chair Session 5: 11:00 - 2:30 The Material World of Children Ning de Coninck-Smith, Chair Session 6: 2:30 - 4:00 What We Know, What We Want To Know: Reflection on the Field |
The goal of the conference is to
introduce the Berkeley campus and the larger Bay Area community
of students and others interested in the subject to the important
recent scholarship in the field of children's history, many of whose
practitioners have contributed to the Children
and Childhood: In History and Society, the Encyclopedia
edited by Paula S. Fass to be published by Macmillan Reference in
fall 2003. More details.
Among the subjects under discussion are children in ancient Greece and Rome, children in Islamic society, the Bible, Native American Children, children in Latin America and Africa, as well as children in modern Europe and the United States. Other subjects addressed in a global framework are parenting, infant mortality, sexuality, childbirth, puberty, play, toys and other forms of material culture. The conference will also look at institutions for children such as schools, the representation of children in art, children's literature, and children and the modern media. Because the conference provides a broad perspective over time and place we look forward to raising two fundamentally important questions: 1) Where does the field of children's history go from here? 2) Can world history be practiced effectively? By evaluating what this global perspective provides to a new field such as children's history the conference hopes to move these two issues to the center of attention. |
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