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CFP: Rock Music and Youth Identities in Soviet Bloc
Call for Papers: “Rocking the Bloc: Rock Music and Youth Identities in
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe”
Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies (AAASS) are planning a series of panels on the theme, “Rocking
the Bloc: Rock Music and Youth Identities in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe.” The panels will take place during the AAASS 40th
National Convention in Philadelphia, PA, November 20-23, 2008.
Panelists will be invited to take part in the publication of a book on
rock music and youth identity in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Contributions by graduate students and junior and senior scholars are
welcome. We hope to involve scholars from a number of disciplines as
well as scholars from the region.
Interested participants should submit titles of their presentations,
brief summaries of presentations (100 words maximum), and curriculum
vitas to Dr. William Risch, Assistant Professor of History, Georgia
College and State University, at by December 31, 2007.
CFP: What is Childhood Studies at New York University, May 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS/ PARTICIPANTS
What is Childhood Studies- and how do we teach it in the classroom?
The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association
New York University
New York City
May 22-24, 2008
“Childhood” has become a hotly contested subject in academic discourse.
Its growth in popularity parallels the emphasis over the last half
century in the field of cultural studies to give voice to the
“voiceless.” Childhood & Children’s Studies now occupy an important
place in academia, as illustrated by the fact that York University in
Toronto and Rutgers University have both recently added degree granting
Children’s Studies programs. In this seminar, a potential syllabus for
a first year undergraduate course “Introduction to Children’s Studies”
will be looked at - and a series of constructivist activities will be
used for each week of the syllabus- to illustrate ways of engaging
student activity and critical thought in both small seminar and large
lecture style classrooms. Participants in this seminar are asked to
read the /United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child/
(available at http://www.unicef.org/crc/) in advance and come to the
seminar with an activity designed to help teach some aspect of the
convention. At the completion of the workshop each participant will be
given a copy of each of the seminar’s activities, in addition to a copy
of each of the activities designed by the other 14 participants. Please
note that this is a workshop for all teachers, not only those in
childhood studies, since many of the activities used in this workshop
can be adapted and used to cover other areas of cultural studies. The
seminar is being taught by Stephen Gennaro. Stephen Gennaro is a
cultural historian of youth and media. He has over 10 years of teaching
experience at all levels from nursery school to undergraduate and has
been developing curriculum for public school boards and private
institutions for close to 15 years. Stephen is currently teaching in the
Children’s Studies Department at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Interested parties please contact:
Stephen Gennaro
Children’s Studies,
Division of Humanities
76 Winters Lane
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
NYT Review of Chudacoff, Children At Play
Domininque Browning writes in the NYT about Howard Chudacoff’s new book, _Children at Play: An American History_:
“In a fascinating and provocative survey, ‘Children at Play: An American History,’ Howard P. Chudacoff traces the evolution of the ways in which children have amused themselves since colonial times. Using letters, diaries and literature as his sources, he examines adults’ attitudes toward play, as ‘the devil’s workshop,’ or as the work of childhood. At the same time, he shows what children have doneto amuse themselves—either in spite of the adults or abetted by them. You would think that child’s play is a spontaneous and natural affair. Quite the opposite. It has long been shaped by a convergence of many forces—from styles of clothing to the design of houses to social revolutions—and by simple demographics like the proportion of children to adults at any given time.”
Read the whole review here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Browning-t.html
First review of Tamara Myers, Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945
Tamara Myers’ new book was published late last year by the University of Toronto Press and is just starting to get the recognition it deserves. So even though hardly anyone reads this site yet, I thought I’d post something about it here in anticipation of new readers.
This book is part of a wave of new juvenile justice scholarship that is pushing the field in exciting new directions: chronologically, geographically, and methodologically.
American scholars could learn a lot from this book.
Quoting from a review in the Spring 2007 issue of _Canadian Literature_:
“Myers looks at les jeunes filles modernes in Montreal and situates their construction by and treatment in the juvenile justice system, itself a nexus of class, race, gender, culture, and national imagination. She begins with the inauguration of the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents’ Court in 1869 and walks through the Juvenile Delinquency Act, the interference from Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religions, and the practical gendered matters of the courts (among others). She concludes with a chapter on reform schools (the Girls’ Cottage Industrial School), the most interesting section of which notes its geography (set in nature to reinforce perception of women’s innate innocence and delicateness) and architecture (different cottages for those with venereal disease, those who were immoral but without disease, and those who were incorrigible). Here the interior space of the reform schools mimicked the imagined (defiled) interior spaces of these young women.
“Myers is careful to document instances where young female delinquents weren’t just victims, or acted upon.”
Read the whole review: http://www.canlit.ca/reviews-review.php?id=13401
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