Call for workshop papers: "The Othered Child: Roma (and) Childhood between History and Antigypsyist Fantasy."
The online workshop will take place in October.
Abstracts are due by 30 June.
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
Call for papers for the 5th international conference of the Journal of Youth Studies.
The conference will take place at the University of Porto (Portugal) in May 2027.
Abstracts are due by 31 July 2026.
jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/
Call for conference papers: "Teaching Citizenship through Children's Literature in a University Context."
The conference will take place at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) in November.
Abstracts are due by 15 May.
www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/even...
The latest issue of the journal Girlhood Studies is out:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Call for articles for a special issue of the journal Childhood: "Children, Memory Work and Generation."
Abstracts are due by 1 June.
Academic job: Research Fellow for a project on Boys' and Young Men's Sexual Consent Cultures and Practices, at the University of Surrey (UK).
Applications are due by 12 May.
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Call for conference papers: "Caring for Children Displaced by Conflict During the 20th Century."
The conference will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in September.
Abstracts are due by 15 May.
networks.h-net.org/system/files...
Academic job:
Research Fellow for a project on the harms experienced by young people outside the family home.
The project, led by our member Tom Disney, is based at Northumbria University (UK).
Applications are due by 7 May.
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
Call for articles:
"Championing Children’s Linguistic Human Rights: Transformative possibilities at the intersections of language and disability in early care and education."
For a special issue of the journal Global Education Review.
Abstracts are due by 1 May.
ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ge...
A 2-day symposium: "Childhood, Youth and Ecological Imaginaries in Italian Studies."
The event will take place online and at the School of Advanced Study, University of London (UK) on 27-28 April.
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Call for articles: "Putting Babies at the Centre: Pedagogies of Care."
For a special issue of the Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, co-edited by our member Jane Dorrian.
Abstracts are due by 15 November.
www.j-ces.com/index.php/jc...
Academic job: Postdoctoral Research Associate for a project at the University of Exeter (UK) on the prosecution of domestic abuse victims for "failing to protect" their children.
Applications are due by 30 April.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRC060/p...
Call for articles for the Yearbook of the German Society for Research into Children’s and Young Adult Literature, focused on the theme of "Materiality / Mediality."
Abstracts are due by 15 June.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for chapters for an edited book on family and childhood in times of systemic change.
Abstracts are due by 30 April.
www.democratising-the-family.eu/news/call-fo...
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We've updated and expanded our list of movies.
It now includes detailed information on 154 movies dealing with social, political & legal issues concerning children:
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/media/c...
A special issue of the journal Childhood is out, on the theme of "Childhood and parent-child relationship in contemporary contexts":
journals.sagepub.com/toc/chda/33/1
Call for conference papers: "Childhood and the Female Pen: Women Writers and Translators for Children and Young Adults in Britain and Europe from the 18th to the 21st Centuries."
Abstracts are due by 13 April.
The conference will take place in May at Le Havre Normandy University (France).
A special issue of the journal Children & Society is out, on the theme of "Children and Families: Everyday Digital Media Culture":
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990860...
A lectureship in the fields of Education, Childhood and Family Studies at the University of Hull (UK).
Applications are due by 24 April.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY529/l...
A travel grant to undertake research in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature (Florida, the United States) - one of the world's largest collections of Anglo-American children’s literature.
Applications are due by 30 April.
sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/files/2026/0...
We're delighted to interview Manfred Liebel and Philip Meade about their new book -
Adultism: A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children:
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
We're delighted to interview our member, Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati, about her new edited book -
Girls' Positionalities at the Intersection of Identity and Violence:
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
Call for nominations for awards for the best book, the best article, and the best doctoral dissertation on the history of children, childhood, or youth.
Nominations (for all three awards) are due by 15 April.
www.shcy.org/awards/curre...
The journal Children & Society is seeking new co-editors.
Applications are due by 31 March.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Call for conference papers: "Children's Music-Making in the Institution: Historical Perspectives on Music Education in the Long 19th Century."
Abstracts are due by 31 May.
The conference will take place at the University of Oxford (UK) in October.
The Society for the History of Children and Youth is offering grants to support scholarly events on the history of children and youth.
Applications are due by 1 May.
www.shcy.org/events1/even...
Call for chapters for an edited collection: "Memory, Reading, and the Afterlives of Childhood Books."
Abstracts are due by 31 March.
www.upress.state.ms.us/News/2026/Re...
We're delighted to interview our member, Nina Schneider, about her new book -
Child Labour Opponents and Their Campaigns in the Americas:
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
