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Research Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2008
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All presentations are free and open to the public.
They will be held in Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge from 12:10-1:10.
 
Sep 24 Nancy Rosoff (History)
“’I’d Love to Play on Her Team’: The Female World of Sport and Sociability”

Oct 15 Larisa Saguisag (Childhood Studies)
“A Part or Apart?: Racial Assimilation in the Young Adult Fiction of Sherman Alexie and An Na”

Nov 12 Deborah Valentine (Childhood Studies)
“Addressing Pedagogical Challenges in Childhood Studies:  Promising Practices and Ongoing Questions
   
 

 

Research Seminar in Childhood Studies - Spring 2008
 
Feb 13 Special joint event with the First Year Seminar, Department of English

Candice Kaup (English)
“What's the Harm of a Diary: Feminine Silence in Harry Potter” 
and
Peter Bryant (English)
“Trauma through Form in Art Spiegelman's Maus” 

NOTE:  Due to a scheduling conflict, the date of this event has been changed from its original day and time.


Mar 5

Bruno Vanobbergen (Ghent University, Childhood Studies Visiting Scholar)
“Sea hospitals and the hygiene offensive: a professionalization of the medical science or the commodification of the weak and disabled child?”


Apr 9 Carol Singley (English)
" Building a Nation, Building a Family: Adoption and American Literature”

Apr 30

Tetsuji Yamada (Economics)
"Healthcare Service Accessibility for Children and Healthcare Needs for Children under the State Children's Health Insurance Program”


 
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Research Seminar in Childhood Studies - Fall 2007
 
Sep 25 Sean Duffy (Psychology)
Sean Duffy began our Research Seminar Series with his talk on “Building Baby Brains: How Infants and Young Children Know Where They Are in the World”

Suggested reading: article 1 (pdf) and article 2 (pdf)

Nov 6 Cati Coe (Anthropology)
“Responsibility, Risk and the Scattered Family: The Emotional Responses of Ghanaian Parents and Children to Transnational Migration”

Dec 4 Holly Blackford (English)
“Age Trumps Race: How Teens Read Jim of Mark Twain's Huck Finn”

 

Last updated September 6, 2008


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