Seminar with Farida Makar on "Researching Histories of Progressive Education in Egypt" (January 2023)
A first online seminar. Farida Makar looked at how Egyptian teachers navigated the principles of progressive education during the first half of the twentieth century. The paper explored concrete examples, local initiatives and the lasting impact of the teachers' movement on the development of educational policy in Egypt.
Farida Makar, doctoral candidate in History at St. Antony's College, Oxford
Reading Group | Childhood and Youth Studies with Intersectional Humanities (February 2023)
The Childhood and Youth Studies Network and the Intersectional Humanities Programme ran an in-person discussion of the politics of age, in response to Ashwini Tambe’s article on ‘Climate, Race Science and the Age of Consent in the League of Nations’. The article was concerned with how concepts of climate, race, and sex underpinned efforts to track the age of consent around the world, and draws upon history, geography, and social sciences.
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Networking Event (March 2023)
Event held for students based in Oxford interested in Childhood and Youth Studies to provide a chance to share interests, collaborate, engage with research and approaches in other disciplines, or hear of opportunities in the field.
Childhood and Youth Studies Network Seminar with Nicole King (May 2023)
Talk held: Nicole King on her current research into Black childhood in African American fiction.
Dr Nicole King, Associate Professor of American Literature at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Feeling good / feeling bad: Environmental affects of childhood (May 2023)
Seminar held: Kate Cairns explored the affective politics of environmental education initiatives centering the agentic child, reflecting on personal memories from her own rural childhood in Ontario, Canada, alongside ethnographic research with youth in the city of Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Dr Kate Cairns, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University
Childhood and Youth Studies Network Seminar with Ashwiny Kistnareddy (May 2023)
Seminar held: Dr Ashwiny Kistnareddy discussed her new Leverhulme-funded project on refugee children’s narratives.
Dr Ashwiny Kistnareddy, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Genderwashing Meets Girl Power: The transnational politics of corporate-NGO partnerships for girls’ education (November 2023)
Seminar held: The first two decades of the twenty-first century saw the rise of girl power discourses in international development, which argue that when girls in the Global South are given an investment to stay in school, they will go on to lift entire communities out of poverty. Dr Rosie Walters explored several case studies to illustrate how corporate-NGO partnerships aimed at ‘empowering’ girls in the Global South could be seen as transnational gender washing, aimed at alleviating the concerns of publics in the Global North, while doing little to address harm experienced by stakeholders in the Global South.
Dr Rosie Walters, Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University
Pedagogy Session: Sources for Childhood and Youth Studies (November 2023)
A pedagogy session held, with a focus on sources for integrating childhood and youth studies into teaching for undergraduate or postgraduate students. The session, organised at the Centre for the History of the Book, showcased a diverse array of childhood and youth sources from the Bodleian collections, to consider how they might inform teaching of undergraduates or taught postgraduates.
Seminar with Charlotte Kelly on the female age of consent in Singapore (November 2023)
Seminar held: The female age of consent in Singapore.
Charlotte Kelly, D.Phil researcher at Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Within the Frame: Recentering the Black Child in the History of American Childhood (March 2024)
Talk held: Paper presented taken from Dr Camille Owens forthcoming book, Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024). The paper drew upon nineteenth-century archives of black children’s performances, cultural representations, and labor, to illustrate the patterned use of black children in the construction of white childhood, in the empowerment of white men, and in the measure of the human.
Dr Camille Owens, Assistant Professor in Literature and Cultural Studies at McGill University
Letters for Palestinian Childhoods Exhibition (July 2024)
Online and Travelling Exhibition | An Arts Project:
Art by young people in Gaza, elsewhere in Palestine and based in the UK, together with letters written by scholars and activists who have worked with Palestinian children. The goal was to draw attention to the full lives that young people in Palestine experience: their hopes, dreams, joys, relationships, aspirations, and everyday realities.
Exhibition Launch: Letters for Palestinian Childhoods (July 2024)
Letters for Palestinian Childhoods (online and travelling) exhibition of letters, poems, and artwork dedicated to the children of Palestine. The launch of the exhibition at the Community Works Oxford included a talk by Dr Basma Hajir on “Unchilding, Scholasticide and Settler-Colonialism: Educational Reflections and Implications”.
Basma Hajir, Palestinian Scholar/ Lecturer at the University of Bristol
