Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012
Forum theme: Social Justice and Democratization Main Theme: Children's Voices, Well Being and Social Justice Abstract Submission: 25 August 2011 - 15 December 2011, Completed papers due May 31, 2012 Registration and Conference Info: http://www.isa-sociology.org/buenos-aires-2012/rc/rc.php?n=RC53 RC53, Sociology of Childhood Call for Papers We are interested in research papers for the following sessions that address the current state of children and meanings of childhood. We invite abstracts for proposed papers for sessions that provide a platform for international discussions that engage exciting work in the sociology of childhood on relevant and timely issues as well as the Forum theme, Social Justice and Democratization. Abstracts may be submitted directly to the Session Organizer listed with each session title, and completed papers will be due to the Session Organizer by May 31, 2012 in order to facilitate Forum discussions. Send abstracts directly to the Session Organizer listed below each proposed session title as follows: • Session A. Children's Rights and Social Justice, Session Organizer – Loretta E. Bass, Email: [email protected] • Session B. Childhood in Democracy’s Infancy, Session Organizer – Doris Buhler-Niederberger, University of Wuppertal, Email: [email protected] • Session C. Children, Society and Exclusions, Session Organizer – Ethel Kosminski, Queens College - CUNY & UNESP, State University of Sao Paulo - Marilia, Email:[email protected] • Session D. Globalization and New Contours of Childhood, Session Organizer – Vinod Chandra, University of Lucknow, Email: [email protected] • Session E. Children's Bodies, Session Organizer – Lars Alberth, University of Wuppertal, Email: [email protected] • Session F. La infancia en las sociedades de disciplinamiento y exclusión social (in Spanish) Session Organizer – Elinor Bisig, CONICET-CIJS-UNC, Email:[email protected] • Session G. Poster Session, Children's Lives, Voices and Well Being, Session Organizer – Ethel Kosminkski, Queens College - CUNY & UNESP, State University of Sao Paulo - Marilia, Email: [email protected] • Session I. Leisure, Democracy and Diversity of Lifestyles of Children and Youth Joint Session of ISA RC 13 (Sociology of Leisure - Host Committee), RC 53 (Sociology of Childhood) Session Co-Organizers: Ishwar Modi, India International Institute of Social Sciences, Email: [email protected], and Loretta E. Bass University of Oklahoma, Email: [email protected] The IUSSP International Seminar on Violence in Adolescence and Youth in Developing Countries is issuing a call for papers for an event in Asunción, Paraguay, May 2012. Experiences of violence are frequently present in adolescents’ and young people’s lives, sometimes with lasting consequences. An indication of the importance of the topic is the fact that in the young ages morbidity and mortality resulting from violence are on the rise in many societies. For this seminar the panel welcomes papers dealing with:
• The extent and types of violence among identifiable categories of adolescent and young populations defined by age (for example, younger and older adolescents), marital status, school attendance, area of residence, family composition, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, etc. • Determinants and consequences of violence during adolescence and youth stages. • Demographic aspects of violence in adolescence and youth. • Health related outcomes resulting from violence. • Characteristics of the young population “at risk” of involvement in violence (as victims or perpetrators). • Methodological issues in studying violence among young people. The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Young People’s Life Course in Developing Countries invites researchers in the field to submit online by November 15, 2011 a short 200-word abstract AND upload an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages, including tables) or a full paper, which must be unpublished. To submit and fill out the online submission form, please click here – online submission form – go to: http://www.iussp.org/login/submissionslogin.php. 2011 SSHD Biennial Meeting on Developmental Systems Science: October 28 – 30, 2011
Brown University, Providence, RI Deadline to submit proposals for poster and symposium presentations: AUGUST 15, 2011 Access the Call for proposals by clicking here. Register for the conference by clicking here. Please forward this message to your listservs related to Human Development. The following will be Keynote Speakers: 1. Brain Development and Adolescent Risk Behavior Dr. Beatriz H. Luna, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Howard Sercombe, University of Strathclyde 2. Agent-Based Modeling Adam Thomas, Brookings Institution, Research Director, Center on Children and Families 3. System Dynamics Dr. Robert Milstein, PhD., M.P.H., Center for Disease Control (CDC) 4.Network Analysis Dr. Janet Okamoto, PhD., National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives Conference, May 19-21, 2011, Rutgers University2/17/2011
Registration is now open for the Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives conference to be held May 19-21, 2011 on the campus of Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Elizabeth Chin of Occidental College and Judith Ennew of the University of Malaya will give Keynote presentations. The conference will culminate with a Spotlight Panel of invited speakers who will address how notions of multiple childhoods inform their research and can inform social practice http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/spotlight.html. Space is limited. Early-bird registration closes in March. To register, please go tohttps://camlaw.rutgers.edu/webapps/payment/register.php?event_id=6. The conference website has information on accommodations, logistics, speakers and a preliminary program schedule http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/. Return often for updates. Graduate students note that there will be a Graduate Student Forum .http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/forum.html. Contact [email protected] if you have any questions. Multiple Childhoods/ Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Interrogating Normativity in Childhood
Studies. May 19-21, Philadelphia. Graduate Student Forum: Charting the Course After the Exploring Childhood Studies Conference (2010), the graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, were energized by the enthusiastic interest in our growing field, but also impressed by the need and desire for more venues of communication across disciplines to explore and interrogate Childhood(s) and Childhood Studies. Our search for such interactions is ongoing. The Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives Conference (MC/MP) http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/ is an opportune space for once again engaging and advancing this dialogue amongst graduate students from diverse disciplines joined in an interest in one overarching field of Childhood Studies. In this spirit, we are pleased to host and solicit participants for a Graduate Student Forum at the MC/MP Conference. This event will also be an opportunity for emerging scholars in this growing field to reach across disciplinary divides, share experiences, discuss their research, and get a better sense not only of where the field of Childhood Studies is going but of the people who will be taking it there. The Forum will address the themes outlined below, emerging from the main conference, in a roundtable format. --Doing multidisciplinary studies--how, why, perils, pitfalls and rewards. --Exploring Childhood Studies--an ongoing discussion, what is this new field, where does it come from, what does it entail now, and where are we as emerging scholars going to take it. --Interrogating “the child” -- who is a child? when is a child? age, development, society, culture? --other topics you care to propose related to the overall theme of Multiple Childhoods/ Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Interrogating Normativity in Childhood Studies To participate, please submit a statement on any one of the above themes, no longer than two double spaced pages to Martin Woodside: [email protected] with the subject line “Charting the Course” no later than February 26, 2011. The Forum will take place at the MC/MP Conference on May 19th. Participation in these discussions will be limited to 40 people. However, the Forum will be followed by a less formal gathering of all graduate students attending MC/MP during happy hour at the Palomar Bar! And this will be immediately followed by the Conference opening reception, also at the Hotel Palomar. We look forward to your interest. For any further questions please contact Anandini Dar ([email protected]) or Patrick Cox ([email protected]). Graduate Student Forum Committee. 1) You can now submit to the 2011 Annual Meeting program: http://www.asanet.org/meetings/Call_for_Papers.cfm 2) All 2010 ASA memberships expire on 12/31, so be sure to renew today (it really helps our section out): http://www.asanet.org/members/join.cfm. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars Program, University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on the:
"Social Determinants of Child Health" May 17th-18th, 2011 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI http://sitemaker.umich.edu/sdch.registration/home The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan invite you to attend a symposium on the "Social Determinants of Child Health." The objective of this symposium is to raise scholarly awareness and further develop a research agenda focused on the social determinants of child health. Researchers from the social sciences, public health, and medicine will present their work on this topic. Topics covered will include: the social, biological, and environmental determinants of child health; patterns and trends in child health; child health policies; and emerging issues in child health (e.g., autism, ADHD, vaccinations). Please see our website (http://sitemaker.umich.edu/sdch.registration/home) for a complete list of sessions, details about speakers, and registration information. We welcome you to join us for the symposium. There is no cost to attend. If you have questions, please contact one of the co-organizers: Hedy Lee ([email protected]), Neil Mehta ([email protected]), or Kristin Turney ([email protected]). Travel Awards for Students, Post-docs, and Recent PhD Graduates We are pleased to announce a competition for travel awards to offset the cost of attending the symposium. Recipients will be expected to present a poster that details their original research on the social determinants of child health. Recipients will also be expected to attend all symposium events. Awards will be approximately $500 and can be used to offset the cost of domestic travel and hotel accommodations (additional funds may be available). We expect to make 10 awards. In addition, we are exploring the possibility of publishing a special issue on the social determinants of child health in conjunction with a peer-reviewed journal. Recipients will have an opportunity to submit their research to the special issue. Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled in pre-doctoral or post-doctoral training or completed doctoral training within the last five years at time of submission. Procedure: Applicants should email a cover letter (one page), extended abstract of their research (two page), and CV to Neil Mehta ([email protected]). Please submit all materials in one attached document. The cover letter should discuss how attending the symposium is related to the applicant’s career goals. Awards will be assessed based on the scientific merit of the research, the suitability of the research to the symposium’s themes, and the potential benefits to the applicant. Deadline: Applications should be submitted on or before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 1, 2011. OTE: Deadline Extended to November 30
Friends and Colleagues This is the Final Call for Papers for the Multiple Childhoods/Multidisciplinary Perspectives conference to be held on May 20-21, 2011 at the Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA campus. Sponsored by the Department of Childhood Studies of Rutgers-Camden (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/) , the conference will convene scholars and practitioners from various fields to examine the questions and problems confronting childhoods today. We are extremely excited to announce that Professor Elizabeth Chin of Occidental College, USA, and Judith Ennew, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Malaya, will deliver keynote talks at the conference. In addition, we expect to convene a panel of scholar-experts to address issues of normative evaluations and presumptions in childhood studies and practice. Scholars, practitioners and students interested in children and childhood studies are encouraged to attend. In response to several requests, we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the program to November 30, 2010. For information, please visit the newly-revamped websitehttp://www.camden.rutgers.edu/multiple-childhoods/. There will be an award for Best Graduate Student Paper. Information on accommodations and travel logistics will be added over the next few months. So, return to the site often for updates. Consider submitting your work to one of these exciting sessions:
Understanding and Protecting Children’s Rights (Open Session). Session Organizer: Brian Gran, Case Western Reserve University, [email protected] Social Context, Public Policy, and Child and Adolescent Well-Being (Open Session). Session Organizer: Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado at Boulder, [email protected] Sociological Perspectives in Federally Funded Research on Children (Invited Ses-sion). Session Organizer: Elizabeth Cooksey, Ohio State University, [email protected] Children, Families, and Immigration (Open Session). Session Organizer: Jennifer C. Lee, Indiana University, [email protected] The ASA online submissions system opens December 1, 2010 for the 2011 meetings in Chi-cago. The deadline for submission is January 13, 2011 at 3 pm EST. For more information, see: http://asanet.org/meetings/Call_for_Papers.cfm Find below an archived list of announcements and calls for papers. Subsequent posts about conference announcements and calls for papers will be updated in real-time.
-- Call for Papers -- XVII World Congress International Sociological Association Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010 URL: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc53.htm Research Committee on Sociology of Childhood RC53 Programme Coordinator Doris Bühler-Niederberger, University of Wuppertal, Germany, [email protected] Call for Papers Please send your paper proposal until September, 15, to Doris Bühler-Niederberger; University of Wuppertal: [email protected], and to the organizer of the session you would like to choose for your paper. Any individual may participate on up two sessions. Once your presentation is approved by the session chair, you must then submit an abstract of your paper on-line (instructions will be made available in due course). Abstracts are only accepted by the system from those who are already registered for the Congress. The deadline for submission of approved abstracts is May 4, 2010. See the following link for more information: here -- Call for Papers -- Exploring Childhood Studies, A Graduate Student Conference, April 2010 Department of Childhood Studies Rutgers University, Camden The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student conference on April 9, 2010. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals. The field of childhood studies engages in both theoretical and empirical study of children and childhood within historical, contemporary, interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, state, national, and global contexts. Each combination of perspectives provides new insights into the lives of children and the families, cultures, and societies in which they are embedded. The interdisciplinary nature of the field is one of its greatest strengths and the core of its remarkable potential for scholarly advancement, but also leaves the field open for exploration and interrogation, and its borders difficult, if not impossible, to define. The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood Studies by "doing" childhood studies; the conference will explore the field by offering explorations within it. We seek papers from all disciplines that keep childhood as a construct, children as a category, or the child as a real living human as their central focus, providing critical thought and insight while locating them in different contexts, fields, and ideologies. In keeping with what we believe is the essential interdisciplinary nature of Childhood Studies, this conference seeks to be interdisciplinary itself. We seek proposals from all disciplines--education, literature, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, history, criminology, philosophy, medicine, religion, film studies, and cultural studies--as well as interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholarly work. The range of open topics within this field is as broad as the contexts of the experiences of children and childhood: war, health, rights, gender, poverty, wealth, policy, ethics, popular culture, globalization, school, family, home, sexuality, community, and representations in all modes of fiction. The field of Childhood Studies itself is open to interrogation. Selected papers will be grouped into panels that may be based around discipline, theme, or perspective, but will demonstrate the common grounding of the papers in their mutual exploration of children and childhood studies. Paper presentations should be limited to 20 minutes in length. Please send 250-word abstract for paper or poster presentation (specify which) and cover letter with name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to [email protected]. Include the words "conference abstract" in subject line, and include name on the cover letter only. For further information about The Exploring Childhood Studies conference, contact: Patrick Cox at [email protected] or Anandini Dar at [email protected]. Deadline for submission is October 31, 2009. Accepted presenters will receive email notification by January 10, 2010. Welcome to the Department of Childhood Studies and The Center for Children and Childhood Studies, Rutgers-Camden is a leader in the national and international discourse on the state of children and childhood. We are very proud of the fact that Rutgers-Camden is the first and only PhD-granting Department of Childhood Studies in the nation, which has now entered its third year. We look forward to introducing the larger academic community to our fellow students, exemplary faculty and unique program, and to engaging in vigorous and stimulating discussions with our peers throughout academia. Visit the Department of Childhood Studies here: http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/ -- Penn State Symposium Announcement “Biosocial Research Contributions to Understanding Family Processes and Problems”, is the title of Penn State’s 17th Annual Symposium on Family Issues. The conference will take place October 8-9, 2009 on Penn State’s University Park campus. Alan Booth, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Family Studies, explains, “Conceptual shifts and technological breakthroughs have placed new emphasis on the importance of combining nature and nurture to understand family processes and problems. The link between biology and behavior is no longer regarded as a simple, unidirectional, cause and effect process.” Today’s researchers emphasize bi-directional relations between physiological processes and behavior, processes that operate in the context of previous experience and the demands of a multi-layered ecology. As Booth explains, “Biological factors mediate and moderate behavioral adaptation to a range of environmental challenges. At the same time, environmental challenges and behavioral responses affect biological processes.” Family relationships are at the intersection of many biological and environmental influences. The goal of this symposium is to stimulate conversation among scholars who construct and use biosocial models, as well as among those who want to know more about biosocial processes. Researchers interested in both biological and social/environmental influences on behavior, health, and development will be represented, including researchers whose work emphasizes behavioral endocrinology, behavior genetics, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, sociology, demography, anthropology, economics, and psychology. Sixteen symposium presenters will consider physiological and social environmental influences on parenting and early childhood development, followed by adolescent adjustment, and family formation. Finally, factors that influence how families adapt to social inequalities will be examined. Lead speakers include: Alison Fleming, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Jenae Neiderhiser, Penn State, Steven Gangestad, University of New Mexico, and Guang Guo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. For a complete list of presenters and to register, visit http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/2009.htm The Symposium is supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. |
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