Children and Childhoods Conference 2024
- Date
- 10 July 2024
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- 11 July 2024
- Time
- 9.30 AM–5.00 PM
- Location
- Ipswich Campus, University of Suffolk
We are excited to announce the 6th biennial Children and Childhoods Conference!
Building on a successful legacy, we invite papers that theoretically and empirically engage with children’s lives, across disciplines, reflecting the diverse nature of childhood studies. The conference continues our inclusive and open ethos and aims to bring together established academics, early career researchers, and postgraduate students.
This year, in response to the grave repercussions of the recent pandemic, ongoing civil wars, globally, and the ever-growing inequalities, we seek to build dialogue on the ways to move forward towards a transformative future for children. Accordingly, the overarching theme for 2024 is 'Children and Future-making'.
Please note, the deadline for submissions of abstracts has now passed.
If you have any queries about the conference, please email:
Conference Topics
Topics covered by this call include but are not limited to:
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Children ‘in’ or ‘of’ war
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Global and Peripheral Childhoods
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(Dis)abling Childhoods
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Migration and Mobilities
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Identity, Belonging and ‘Otherness’
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Contemporary Families
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Children’s Relationships and friendships
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Children’s Rights, Voice and Participation
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Politics of Childhoods and Children’s Political Lives
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Transformative and Sustainable Education
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Social and Culturally-sustaining Pedagogy
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Policy, Intervention and Evaluation
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Children’s Digital Lives and Images of Childhood
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Health, Wellbeing, and Embodiment
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Sex and Sexualities
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Costs of Childhood
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Children’s Geographies and Climate Change
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Researching Children’s Lives
Keynote Speakers
Spyros Spyrou
Children as future-makers in a pluriversal world: From defuturing to other possible worlds and ways of being.