Children, Youth & Families

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2nd International Conference
RE-PRESENTING CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

8th – 10th July 2008
at The Sheffield Marriott Hotel, Kenwood Road, Sheffield

This conference will explore the ways in which childhood and youth are represented as life course categories and how in changing cultural and historical contexts these categories are beginning to be questioned and often re-presented. This process of reflection and review can be seen taking place in a variety of different ways, which are addressed by the conference strands.


Theory	What new theoretical approaches are being developed in relation to the study of childhood and youth? How are ‘children’ and ‘youth’ being positioned within different disciplinary perspectives/How do these (re)present children and young people? What overlaps or differences are there?

Methods	How are the views of children and young people being accessed and represented? What are the implications of different research methods for the (re)presentation of ‘children’s voices’?

Discourses	How are ideas of childhood and youth changing? What similarities/differences are there between these ideas in different cultural sites – e.g. the media, film, literature, art, law, education?

Policy	What impact are changing representations of childhood and youth, as life course categories, having on children and young people’s everyday lives? How do children and young people encounter and understand representations of ‘childhood’ and ‘youth’? What do they think of how they are presented?

Abstracts

Abstracts of no more than 200 words (indicating preferred strand) should be sent to the conference administrator, Dawn Lessels, by 31st January 2008. d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk.

Plenary Speakers

Jens Qvortrup – NOSEB, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Harry Hendrick – Odense University, Denmark
Sonia Livingstone – London School of Economics, UK

Conference Costs

£435 – this special all inclusive rate includes: conference fee, 2 nights B&B at the Sheffield Marriott Hotel, dinner (Tuesday), the conference dinner (Wednesday), all lunches/teas/coffees.

£280 – includes conference fee, all lunches/teas/coffees.

£175 - day rate (includes conference fee, 1 lunch, teas/coffees).

£175 – self-funded PhD student (includes conference fee, all lunches/teas/coffees).

Please note that places are limited at this conference so early booking is recommended.

Further details can be found at www.sheffield.ac.uk/cscy

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