Rethinking Children/Childhood in the 21st Century
Event Date: 4th & 5th February 2010
4th February 2010
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Opening: Sander L. Gilman (BIH/Emory)
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Children and their Representation (HERE)
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- Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota) – Re‐tooling and Reconfiguring Children: Conflicts in the Civilizing Process
- Michael Rosen (Birkbeck): Discussant
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- Barbara Bennett Woodhouse (Emory University) – Needs, Rights, and Vulnerability
- Daniel Monk (Birkbeck): Discussant
- Jessamy Harvey (Birkbeck): Chair
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Children in/at Museums: Panel discussion (HERE)
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- Erica Davies (Director, The Ragged School Museum London),
- Lars Tharp (Director of the Foundling Museum, London),
- Leigh‐Anne Stradeski (Director, Eureka! The National Children’s Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire)
- Rhian Harris (Director, The Museum of Childhood V&A) Chair
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5th February 2010
Children/Childhood in China (HERE)
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- David Pomfret, (Department of History, University of Hong Kong) ‘ Children of Empire’: Childhood in British and French Colonial Cultures
- Valentina Boretti, (Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS) From new citizen to revolutionary successor: Playthings and the ideal child in Republican and Communist China
- Zhou Xun (University of Hong Kong): Discussant & Chair
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The New and Old Science of Childhood/Children (HERE)
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- Marjorie Lorch, Professor of Neurolinguistics (Birkbeck) Darwin’s instigation of British baby science
- Ofra Koffman, (Centre for the study of invention and social process, Goldsmiths) Mature Bodies, Childish Minds : Psychology, Government and the Emergence of the Problem of Teenage Parenthood
- Karen Wells, (Programme Director, International Childhood Studies Birkbeck): Chair
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Closing Comments: Sander Gilman, (BIH/Emory)
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