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Critical Disability Studies Conference: Call for Papers

Child, Family and Disability


Free conference hosted by
Manchester Metropolitan University.


Dates: Wednesday 28th April, 2010 ~ 10am-4pm day
Venue: Lecture theatre 5, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (http://www.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/)

This conference brings together an international group of disability studies researchers. This call for papers seeks contributions
around the following areas:

Making sense of and challenging notions of children and childhood
Making sense of normal and normalcy
Making sense of and challenging ableism
Questioning the push to make children hyper-normal
Intersections of child, gender, class, ethnicity, ability
Examining the
ways in which normalcy and ableism function in the lives of disabled children and their families and allies
Challenging policy conceptions of child and disability
Bringing together ideas from the human and social sciences and humanities

Keynote speakers will include Professor Patricia McKeever, Senior Scientist, Theme Leader and Bloorview Kids Foundation Chair in Childhood Disability Studies, Canada. Professor McKeever’s research interests include: social, philosophical and policy aspects of childhood disability/chronic illness, interdisciplinary scholarship, contemporary social theory, and qualitative research methods.

Deadline for paper abstracts: 31st January 2010
Deadline for attendance: 31st March 2010
Abstract and attendance email Katherine Runswick-Cole:
k.runswick-cole@mmu.ac.uk


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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

For a list of sessions,
submission information,
and dates and deadlines
Contact David Lancy
david.lancy@usu.edu

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 Lancy
All Submissions Deadline:
November 30, 2009
Questions?
Contact David Lancy
david.lancy@usu.edu


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Call for Papers and Poster Presentations
Children, Families, and the Migration Experience:
Opportunities and Challenges

Middlesex University,
Hendon Campus, London
May 21st 2010

Specific themes may include:
* Current migration patterns, family strategies and
family reunion
* Migrants from the new EU states
* The emotional impact of migration
* New arrivals and the transition to schooling
* Migration, education and parental expectations
* Language acquisition, language transition
and bi-lingualism

Please send abstracts for papers
or poster presentations of no more than
300 words to Magda Lopez Rodriguez at m.rodriguez@mdx.ac.uk
by 16 December 2009.

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AAA Childhood Interest Group Home - AAA Childhood Interest Group
Anthropology News In Focus Archive, 49(4) This AN issue features two
In Focus commentary series on Children and Childhood. "Transforming the Anthropology of Childhood" examines new ways of thinking about childhood and children's roles and experiences that move beyond the traditional limits of our discipline, and between sub-disciplines.

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Call for papers:
Center for the Study of Childhood and Youth
3rd International Conference
6th-8th of July 2010
Childhood and Youth in Transition
Monthly Seminar at VU University Amsterdam
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology


Click here for more information

This seminar brings together academics engaged in research with children. During monthly meetings, experts will deliver lectures and participants will discuss relevant literature. The seminar is designed to encourage child-centered approaches to children studies and to develop theory useful to cognitive and social sciences, with the accent on anthropology. The core aim of inspiring academic research with children will be stimulated through joint research projects, publications and conferences with national and international partners. Active dialogue is sought and facilitated with stakeholders and policy makers working on child centered programes. Specialists conducting research with adolescents are also cordially invited to participate in the seminar.