Childhood Studies Rutgers

09/05/2023

Check out Childhood Studies upcoming event!!!
Register here https://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/black-childhoods-speakers-series/

09/12/2022

On Saturday, September 24, the country’s leading scholars, writers, activists, and cultural workers will spend the day honoring the legacy of bell hooks. Four panels will explore hooks’ ideas, writing, and personal impact through rich, honest, and accessible discussions.

Join us for a day of discussion celebrating the life and teachings of bell hooks

09/06/2022

Check out this fantastic opportunity to share your research!!! Abstract deadline November 14

Intergenerational learning and dialogue and Children’s and Young People’s Climate Crisis Activism: principles, priorities, and approaches

09/06/2022

Happy First Day of School Childhood Studies, Scholars!

Dr. Kortney Sherbine is hosting an event on September 8th to discuss children's pandemic cartographies during the pandemic. Follow the link and register for this event.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Dr. Kortney Sherbine - Childhood Art Speaker Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

09/02/2022

CFP: American Antiquarian Society is looking for panelists for their "Historic Children's Voices" at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

"From diaries to artwork to printed books and pamphlets produced by young people, works by children are present in existing archives but are often understudied. This panel seeks to engage panelists in discussing work produced by, but not necessarily for, children in the eighteenth century to shed light on the larger historical or literary significances of those works."

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08/24/2022

Hey Childhood Studies Scholars, I hope you had a great summer and are ready for a new year. Here are some scholarly things you may have missed. Our department graduate Lara Saguisag participated in the Trajectories of Youth History conference. Check it out!

Watch the recordings from our two-day symposium with the Society for the History of Children and Youth

03/03/2022

Join us for the launch of our Centering Black Childhoods speaker series! We put scholars, activists and communities in conversation to uplift and center Black children's ways of knowing, playing, dreaming and loving, in order to create new, more just futures. This series features Dr. Camika Royal in conversation with Gaylene Gordon and Shakira King on Wednesday, March 9, 6-7:30pm over zoom. More details at https://t.co/LfYUNJnqY5
Register at https://rcit.rutgers.edu/apps/payment/register.php?event_id=789

02/10/2022

Opportunity for a paid, 4 year PhD position in child research at NTNU in Trondheim Norway, check out details at

Job title: PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Child Research (220693), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Friday, March 18, 2022

02/03/2022

We're pleased to welcome you all to a book talk by our very own Dr. John Wall, on his new book 'Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing Democracy' where he argues for universal children's suffrage. The event will be held virtually on Monday, Feb 7th 4:20-5:40 PM EST.

Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91378777249?pwd=YjdQMmgwWi9WYU54WHJEZmFPLzJBdz09

11/16/2021

There’s still time to register and watch the film before the event. Won’t you join us? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-with-director-in-attendance-becoming-black-tickets-187486596457

11/05/2021

We're disappointed to announce that the upcoming book talk by Dr. John Wall, scheduled for November 12th, has been postponed. New date TBD soon, keep watching this space for updates!

11/04/2021

We're so thrilled to welcome Dr. Crystal Webster for a talk on her new book 'Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children
in the Antebellum North'. Join us Monday, November 15th, 4:20-5:20 PM EST on zoom https://bit.ly/3jWn4Qc

About the book:
Beyond the Boundaries is a history of Black
childhood in the U.S. during historical periods and in geographic regions experiencing the profoundly
fraught shift from slavery to freedom. In this talk,
Crystal Webster will focus on the uses of Black
children's labor. As part of gradual emancipation,
whites indentured Black children, extending the
exploitation of Black, unfree labor specifically
through children. Webster's child-centered
framework exposes both the centrality of Black
children as historical subjects in the process of
emancipation in the North, as well as their unique
forms of resistance to the exploitation of their labor.