SHCY Bulletin

Society for the History of Children and Youth

To Our Readers:

This is the conference issue -- check out the photo album of events at Berkeley in July, the papers on critical historiography from one of the conference sessions, an account of the session on history and public policy (with announcement of a new website), and the summaries of the keynote and presidential addresses.

The editors have changed the name of the publication to the SHCY Bulletin. We have also shifted the publication dates to Fall and Spring issues; the new Bulletin will now appear in October and March. And, you will see that the Bulletin has been streamlined, with fewer columns. We invite volunteers to resurrect the missing columns, and as always, we invite members who want a forum for their interests to create new sections of the Bulletin. We want this publication to be reader-driven.

Enjoy, the Bulletin editors

Table of Contents

Issue #14 (Fall 2009)

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Message from Steven Mintz,  SHCY President, "The Value of Interdisciplinarity"

Reports from 5^th Biennial Conference, University of California, Berkeley, July 10-12, 2009

Keynote Address by Peter Stearns

Presidential Address by Paula Fass

Presentation of SHCY Grace Abbott Book Prize and Best Article Prize

Photo Album

Conference Sessions

Entering into the Fray: Historians of Childhood and Public Policy  . . . . Julia Grant

Check out the new website that emerged from this session

The Critical Historiography of Childhood, Essays from the SHCY Session, July 10, 2009

Introduction . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Harvey J. Graff

On the Role of Theory and Investigation in Critical

Childhood Studies  . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .Jim Block

Critical Historiography of Childhood Roundtable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca de Schweinitz

Round Table on the Critical Historiography of Childhood . . . . . . . . .Colin Heywood

Comments for Panel on the Critical Historiography of

Childhood . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Ritterhouse

History and Theory, and Whose Side We Are On  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michael Zuckerman

Pedagogy: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Childhood Studies . . . . .Stephen Gennaro, ed.

Steve’s introductory essay includes a link to a powerpoint presentation on the need for theory in childhood studies.

The column also features essays about the Rutgers,Camden Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies Program by:

Lynne Vallone

Daniel Thomas Cook

Deborah Valentine

Conference Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Priscilla Clement, ed.

Bulletin call for conference reporters

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, “History Without Boundaries,” Seattle, Washington

March 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leslie Paris

American Association for the History of Medicine

April 23-26, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cara Kinzelman

Children and War, Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ

April 3-5, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Cox

Models of Childhood and their Cultural Consequences, University of Sheffield

June 15, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afua Twum-Danso

Expanding Literacy Studies: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students,  The Ohio State University

April 3-5, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shawn Casey

The Political Child: Children, Education and the State, University of Helsinki

15-16 May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Stanbridge

Breaking the Boundaries: A Peer Reviewed Research Conference on Radical Children's Literature, University of British Columbia

 April 25, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Megan Lankford

Omohundro Institute for Early American History, 15^th Annual Conference, 

Salt Lake City, Utah

June, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca de Schweinitz

Member News and News from the Field . . . . . . . . .  Nancy Zey, ed.

U. Chicago Press Announces New Publication: The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion

Opportunities  

Calls for Conference Papers and Journal Submissions

Fellowship Opportunity:  Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society

Dissertation Abstracts and Dissertations in Progress . . . . . . . .Colleen Vasconsellos, ed.

Contributors

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