The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is an international learned society with a multi-disciplinary nature, bringing together members who have a shared interest in longitudinal and life course research. SLLS was established in 2009 and has nearly 200 members worldwide, and this letter is to invite you to become a member yourself.
As a member of SLLS you will receive: • automatic registration for our open access, peer reviewed online journal, Longitudinal & Life Course Studies • substantial discounts on publishing costs for LLCS • a regular bulletin of global news and events in longitudinal and life course research from our President • reduced fees for attendance at the Society’s annual conference, which this year will be hosted by the University of Bielefeld, Germany between September 26th and 28th, 2011 • collaborative contacts throughout the global longitudinal and life course research community • a close association with the Longview think tank, which promotes longitudinal research and communication between policy makers and researchers • access to capacity building initiatives, including our annual summer school, online master classes and methodological and longitudinal practice workshops • a regional Global Representative, who will promote SLLS in your region • the opportunity to make nominations, be nominated and vote in elections for the future SLLS President and Executive Committee. As an alternative to individual membership, if your colleagues are also engaged with longitudinal or life course research, your institution may become a corporate member. For full information on the Society’s activities, the call for papers for our 2011 conference and for the application form to join please visit us at www.slls.org.uk. As the North American Representative and member of the SLLS Executive Committee, I see the Society as an exciting venture for anyone interested in longitudinal and/or life course studies. If you have other colleagues who you feel might be interested in joining this newly formed society, please pass this information along to them too. We hope that you enjoyed our Fall issue of Child and Youth News, available on our website. We are proud to announce that we are working on the Winter Issue, scheduled for distribution in early March.
As usual, for this issue, consider submitting information/short write-ups/suggestions including but not limited to the following categories: - Accomplishments (Promotions, awards, updates) - Announcements (Upcoming conferences/opportunities for funding/publishing, job announcements) - Current Events (Issues affecting children and youth across the globe) - Publications (Suggestions for book reviews in upcoming issues) - Features (Excellent centers, websites, leaders in research on children and youth) HOW TO SUBMIT: We are publishing both a website and the newsletter. Please make all formal submissions to the Newsletter Editor, Sarah Ovink, at smovink (at) ucdavis.edu. Newsletter content may be published on the website prior to its publication in the newsletter. The deadline for submissions to the Winter Newsletter is February 24th. Any submissions received after that date will be forwarded to the Spring newsletter. As usual, all appropriate submissions will also be posted on our section website as well as on our new Facebook page. If you have questions for us please contact the Publications Chair, Elizabeth Vaquera, at evaquera (at) usf.edu. We look forward to working with you in making our third year of the revived Child and Youth News a success! Thank you! Best regards, The Section Publication Committee Find below you will find a link to a special issue of the International Journal of Population Research on "Health and Well-Being of Immigrant Children and Youth". The issue may be of interest to some of you.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijpr/si/icy.html 2011 CALL for Nominations: Council on Contemporary Families 2010 Media Awards for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues
The Council on Contemporary Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of family researchers, mental health and social practitioners, and clinicians, dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best practices findings about American families. The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) announces the opening of nominations for its Ninth Annual Media Awards competition. We honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues, in particular the story behind the story: how diverse families are coping with social and economic change; what they need to flourish; and how these needs can best be met. The Council will present three awards for outstanding coverage of family issues during 2010: *two for journalism in text form (print- or web-based); and *one for broadcast journalism (audio or video) Past winners include journalists from USA Today, Time magazine, the Boston Globe, the San Antonio Express-News, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, KPCC (Southern California Public Radio), Thirteen/WNET, AlterNet, the Associated Press, among many others. Stories cover topics ranging from the consequences of parental snooping on tech-obsessed teens to hunger in Oklahoma and the role of religion in American family life. You can read about last year’s winners, who reported on increased medical risks for children born to older fathers, the scientific research behind contemporary parenting issues, and how families are coping with layoffs and financial insecurity at http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/media-awards/. The award recipients will be honored at the Fourteenth Annual CCF Conference, Tipping Point? When Minority Families Become the Majority, Friday, April 8, and Saturday, April 9, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Media awards will be presented at a plenary luncheon on Friday, April 8. Nomination: Writers, editors, and producers may self-nominate; CCF members are also encouraged to submit nominations. Criteria: Submissions must draw on traditional journalistic techniques of interview, observation and documentation. Opinion pieces are not eligible. *Work must have been published, broadcast, or posted during calendar year 2010. *Video and radio submissions must not exceed 30 minutes. *Written submissions must not exceed 2000 words; excerpts are acceptable. *A series that covers a particular issue over time is eligible. Please complete and submit the nomination form found at http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/media-awards/ along with five copies of the print, audio, or broadcast clips under consideration. Deadline for nominations: Friday, January 28, 2011. Winners will be notified by Friday, March 4, 2011. Awards will be presented on Friday, April 8 at noon, at the Council on Contemporary Families 14th Annual Conference, Tipping Point? When Minority Families Become the Majority, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Winners are invited to attend the entire conference in full. We urge winners to accept their awards in person. CCF will cover airfare and hotel expenses for our honorees. At the plenary session where awards are presented, winners are invited to speak for five minutes on emerging issues affecting American families and how CCF members and supporters can help the media cover these stories effectively. Mark Your Calendars for CCF's 14th Annual Conference The topic of our 14th Annual Conference, April 8-9, 2011, is “Tipping Point? When Minority Families Become the Majority.” Panels in our customary brief formal presentation/long dialogue format will convene experts on the topics listed below. Please join us for these compelling sessions, as well as for networking opportunities and to discuss current research on family issues. Following is the Council on Contemporary Families 9th Annual Media Awards Nomination Form. * * * Council on Contemporary Families 9th Annual Media Awards Nomination Form Deadline for entries: Friday, January 28, 2011 Winners will be notified by Friday, March 4th Awards presented at the University of Illinois at Chicago, on Friday, April 8, 2011 Criteria *Work must have been published, broadcast, or posted during calendar year 2010. *Video and radio submissions must not exceed 30 minutes. *Written submissions must not exceed 2000 words; excerpts are acceptable. *A series that covers a particular issue over time is eligible. Please complete the form found at http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/media-awards/ and submit it — online AND printed out and mailed with FIVE sets of the relevant tear sheets, CDs or DVDs — to: Pamela Anne Quiroz, Chair, CCF Media Committee, University of Illinois at Chicago, 3238 EPASW, 1040 W. Harrison M/C 147, Chicago IL 60607. Email: [email protected], Phone: (708) 769-2890. The nominations should include: YOUR NAME: POSITION: MEDIA OUTLET: MAILING ADDRESS: EMAIL ADDRESS: DAYTIME TELEPHONE: WORK(S) FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS AWARD: Please list titles& dates published, along with URLs for electronic versions. If there is any contextual information that you think would be useful, please provide it here. Thank you for your submission! Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is proud to offer Children’s Studies Guest Lecture series for Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 as part of their Special Topics class, “Children, Government and Public Policy in New York State,” taught by the Honorable William Scarborough, Chair of the Committee on Children and Families in the NYS Assembly. A number of distinguished speakers are scheduled to appear, and more information can be found online at: http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/childrensstudies
Both guest lecture series connect speakers to the Children’s Studies program and Center with collaborative opportunities for research, internships, and public service opportunities that actively involve students. The guest lecture courses are also integrated with the Career Ex-ploration Internship, a carefully designed course that provides guidance and education for students in a way that makes their outside internship experience at Brooklyn College unique. Find below an archive of general announcements. Future announcements will be updated in real-time.
Special Issue on Sociology of Children and Childhood in March 2010 Current Sociology See here for more information Call for Nominations: Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award, Deadline May 1 This award will recognize current or former higher education faculty members who have inspired her or his students to make a difference in their communities. Award recipients will receive a minimum of $25,000 to be used at their discretion. So, if you know anyone (including yourself) who has inspired students to become helpful in their communities, you might want to consider submitting a nomination. For more information and inquiries, see here. Call for Papers for the Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY), by June 1, 2010 The editors of SSCY (annual volume published by Emerald Publishing, UK) invite completed papers focused on children and youth for volume 14, to be published in the spring of 2011. The Series Co-editors, David A. Kinney and Loretta E. Bass, seek to include papers that are timely and in need of critical examination in the areas of research, theory, and policy regarding children and youth. The SSCY volume has a history of publishing work from diverse theoretical and methodological orientations, and welcomes contributions by scholars from around the world. Contributions are peer-reviewed by the series editors, members of the editorial board, and other researchers. Submission deadline is June 1, 2010. Submit papers electronically (less than 30 manuscript pages in length) to Loretta Bass at [email protected], or in hardcopy to SSCY, Loretta Bass, 780 Van Vleet Oval, 331 KH, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019. Call for Chapter Proposals, due July 15, 2010 Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for 21st Century Schools Editors: Andrea Honigsfeld, Ed.D. and Audrey Cohan, Ed.D. Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield SCOPE AND PURPOSE: After publishing Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) (www.rowmaneducation.com) and currently finishing a second edited volume entitled Breaking the Mold of Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century, Rowman and Littlefield has given us a contract for a third book in the Breaking the Mold series. This new book will be titled Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for 21st Century Schools. See the attached document here for further details. A Celebration of Life Course Studies: Honoring Glen Elder’s Contributions to Sociology (1pm Friday, August 13th, Atlanta Marriot Marquis) Plan to arrive early in Atlanta this summer and attend an exciting afternoon of sessions examining the way in which the life course perspective has influenced scholarship in a wide range of areas within sociology. A reception will follow. Both the sessions and the reception will be held at the Marriot Marquis (L401/402). Tentative Schedule: Introductions: Robert Crosnoe (University of Texas at Austin) and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson (Washington State University) Session 1: Sociological Perspectives on the Life Course 1. Population—Dennis Hogan (Brown University) 2. Social Psychology—Linda George (Duke University) 3. Medical Sociology and Mental Health—Blair Wheaton (University of Toronto) 4. Criminology—Robert Sampson (Harvard University) Discussant: Eliza Pavalko (Indiana University) Break Session 2: Life Course Stages and Contexts of the Life Course 1. Children and Youth—Jeylan Mortimer (University of Minnesota) 2. Aging—Angela O’Rand (Duke University) 3. Schools and Education—Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University) 4. Family—Arland Thornton (University of Michigan) Discussant: Richard Settersten (Oregon State University) Closing Remarks: Michael Shanahan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Reception immediately following. Symposium Report: Child Protection in Indian Country The conference described below was posted by U.S. Department of Justice, on "The Justice Blog" (http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/613). For those of you who have interests in the well-being and welfare of Native American children, the DOJ provides additional links at the bottom of their post. See document here for further details. The Future of Children: Free Conference at Princeton, April 30th The Future of Children is offering a free conference on how students persist during their high school and college years. The conference will be held on April 30 at Princeton University. This conference will highlight issues of education persistence and degree attainment by reviewing the research on causes and effective initiatives. Interventions designed to help at-risk students overcome barriers will be discussed. Particular focus on practical solutions for issues such as remedial/developmental education, advising, and high school/college bridge programs will be provided. Those of you who are interested may find more information at their web site: http://www.futureofchildren.princeton.edu/persistence/index.asp Life Course Mini-Conference: The New Inequalities: Race, Crime, and the Life Course in the Era of Hyper-Incarceration Life Course Center Miniconference 2010 Friday, February 26 9:00-4:45 pm 1114 Social Sciences Building 267-19th Avenue South West Bank Campus University of Minnesota Minneapolis 55455 Contact: Holly Schoonover, [email protected], (612)624-4300 Visit: http://www.soc.umn.edu/research/lccminiconference.html Free and Open to the Public. Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference Rutgers University, Camden The Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden proudly announces its first graduate student conference to be held April 09, 2010 on the Camden, New Jersey campus. See here for more information. Important sources NYU Graduate Student Emily Rauscher composed a list of "must-read" sources in the sociology of childhood, with input from members. The full list can be found here. For questions, please contact [email protected]. See also: Sociology of Children Syllabi |
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