The graduate students of the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden (http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/) invite submissions for papers and poster presentations for their first formal graduate student conference. Graduate students from all disciplines who are engaged in research relating to children and childhood are encouraged to submit proposals. 

The Exploring Childhood Studies conference proposes defining Childhood Studies by "doing" childhood studies; the conference will explore the field by offering explorations within it. The organizers 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 the organizers believe is the essential interdisciplinary nature of Childhood Studies, this conference seeks to be interdisciplinary itself. They 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. 

Deadline: Expired 

For more information:

ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~bowman/conference/