1st Global Conference (2010)

1st Global Conference

Saturday 3rd July – Monday 5th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Saturday 3rd July 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Words
David White

14:00
Session 1: Children’s Literature
Chair: David White

Max in his Wolf suit meets the Velveteen Rabbit—Exploring the Animal/Child Relationship within Children’s Literature and Life Experiences
Wendy C. Turgeon

Meeting Childhood Needs: The Need for Humour in Children’s Literature
Elena Xeni

Just Testing: Adult-Child Relationships and Comedy as Empowerment in the work of Andy Griffiths
Mark Macleod

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Victimization of Children Around the World
Chair: Lucy Hopkins

International Anti-Trafficking Policy in Southern Benin: Between Policy and Practice
Neil Howard

Child War Victims before the International Criminal Court – Avenue to Justice for the Most Vulnerable?
Helen Hamzei

India’s Child Labour Policies: Its Implementation within the ILO Framework with emphasis on Conventions 138 and 182 and the Multilateral Framework with emphasis on the Social Clause of the WTO
Aishwarya Padmanabhan

17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Sunday 4th July 2010
09:00
Session 3: Big Issues in Children’s Literature
Chair: Mariah Adin

The Childlike Voice as Grounds for a Therapeutic Narrative of Holocaust Survivors — A New Wave of Holocaust Literature for Children in Israel
Yael Darr

Holy Nature, Batman! American Environmental Attitudes In Comics vs. Children’s Award-Winning Books, 1965-1975
Elizabeth D. Blum

‘Giving Face to the Facts’: Representing American Slavery in Children’s Literature
Myisha Priest

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Childhood and Education Circa 1700
Chair: Theresa Schmitz

Jean Rou, A Seventeenth century Huguenot Tutor, and his Ideas on Education, as Compared to the Educational ideas of John Locke
Michaël Green

Pensées diverses sur l’éducation de la jeunesse en 1715
Melissa M. Wittmeier

The Influence of Early Modern Epistemology on the Education of Girls in Eighteenth-Century France
Karen L. Taylor

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5a: Diverse Cultural Perspectives
Chair: Malgorzata Szczesniak

From ‘Disciplined’ to ‘Spontaneous’ Child: the Evolving Models of Childrearing in Soviet Parenting Manuals during Post-Stalinism
Natalia Chernyaeva

Childhood and Theory of Pedagogics in Greece (19th century to early 20th century): From the ‘small adult’ to the ‘psychology of the child’
Vasilis Foukas and Paschalina Chatzimpei

Conceptions of Children and Our Obligations to Them: Multifaceted Perspectives from Judaism and Christianity
Marcia J. Bunge

Session 5b: Children’s Voices
Chair: Wendy C. Turgeon

Perceptions of Disabled Childhoods – Listening to Inarticulate Children and Young People
Allison Boggis

The Everyday Silencing of Children and the Politics of Voice
Penny Weiss

The Scientization of the Parent-Child Relationship
Judith Suissa

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 6: Sex and Sexuality
Chair: Neil Howard

Sexualising Citizenship? A Critical Consideration of Contemporary Youth Policy in the UK
Allison Moore

Dangerous Childhood: Constructing Risk and the Governance of Teacher-student Interactions
Anne-Marie Grondin

17:00
Sessions End

Monday 5th July 2010
09:00
Session 7: Children and the Arts
Chair: Elizabeth Blum

Remembering And Creating Childhood In The Works Of August Strindberg And Ingmar Bergman
Karin Nykvist

The Child and the Maniac: Unsettling Discourses of Childhood Sexual Innocence in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
Lucy Hopkins

‘And I will be small, so small, that all thinking will become impossible.’ – The Children and Youth Theatre Speelteater/KOPERGIETERY: On the Edge of the Nest
Katrien Vandendriessche

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: The Maturing Process
Chair: Michaël Green

Adult Crime, Adult Time: Defining the Teenager in the American Legal System
Mariah Adin

The Change from Children to Young Adolescents in the Middle School Years: Children’s perspectives at San Roque
Edie Lanphar and Phil Fitzsimmons

From Physical Recreation to Digitization: A Social History of Children’s Games in the Philippines
Charita A. Delos Reyes

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: High Art and Big Ideas
Chair: Marcia J. Bunge

The Discovery of Children as a Worthy Audience for Operas
Theresa Schmitz

Reconsidering the Examined Life: Philosophy and Children
Michael Burroughs

Children Talk: Children’s Interpretation of Childhood
Naile Berberoglu

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 10: Perspectives on Young Children
Chair: Allison Boggis

Gratitude among Preschool Children
Małgorzata Szcześniak and Marisa Falcinelli

Children’s Social Practices in the Use of the Illustrated Book in the Context of a Kindergarten
Cristina Madureira

17:00
Development Meeting

17.30
Conference Close