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For the first time AAACIG will
hold a joint meeting with
The Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR)
An annual conference
to be held
February 17th- 20th, 2010
at the
Albuquerque Marriott
2101 Louisiana Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM
800-228-9290
505-881-6800
List of sessions:
Dates and Deadlines
Submission information:
Hotel Reservations:
(conference rate) January 31, 2010
More Hotel information at"
http://www.sccr.org/sccr2010/hotel.html
Conference Registration:
Please register through the SCCR website:
http://www.sccr.org/sccr2010/registration.html
You will need to pay the non-member amount
Advance Registration Deadline:
January 31, 2010
Organizer:
David Lancydavid.lancy@usu.edu
All Submissions Deadline:
November 30, 2009
Questions? Contact
Contact David Lancy
david.lancy@usu.edu
SCCR
http://www.sccr.org/
AAACIG
http://www.aaacig.org/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers
Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference Department of Childhood Studies Graduate Student Organization
at Rutgers University, Camden,
to be held April 9, 2010
on the Rutgers University, Camden, NJ campus
We invite proposals from all disciplines, including education, literature,
economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, political science,
history, criminology, philosophy, medicine, religion, film studies, and
cultural studies as well as multi-disciplinary scholarly work. The range of
possible topics includes: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth,
policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home,
sexuality, community, social constructions, theorizations and
representations of children and childhood in all modes of fiction.
Please send a 250-word abstract plus cover letter
together with your name, current level of graduate study,
affiliated university, and email address
By October 31st, 2009
to
m_modica@vfcc.edu .
Include the words "conference abstract" in subject line
and include name on the cover letter only.
Contact Patrick Cox at
ptcox@camden.rutgers.eduor Anandini Dar at
anandini@camden.rutgers.eduif you have questions about the conference
or visit
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~bowman/conference/
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Call for Papers
Children and War: Past and Present
International multidisciplinary conference
to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria
September 30th–October 2nd, 2010
Organized by the University of Salzburg and
The University of Wolverhampton (UK)
All proposals which focus on any topic and theme on ‘Children and War’ are welcome, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, relief and rehabilitation work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, abuse and prostitution, trauma and amnesia, the trans–generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, to remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
– Children as witnesses and victims of war and conflicts
– Holocaust, genocides and forced labor
– Child soldiers, partisans and resistance fighters
– Army mascots
– Deportations and displacements, refugees and asylum seekers
– War crimes, trials and human rights
Please send an abstract of 200–250 words
together with biographical background information of 50–100 words
by 31 December 31st,2009 to J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Conference language: English.
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