This colloquium explores how children and childhood have responded to – and negotiated – borders. What roles did children play in making people, ideas, and practices mobile? In what contexts were certain ideas of childhood given power across space so as to construct new national and international concepts of childhood? To what extent did the young communicate across divides? How did children live with the borders formed by states, communities and families? In this one-day colloquium, we will explore these questions by focusing on children’s experiences and perspectives, ranging across the globe and over the last 800 years.
As part of the day, we are delighted to especially welcome Bart van Es and Lien de Jong to talk about the award-winning book, The Cut Out Girl: a story of War and Family (2018).
For further details, see: https://bit.ly/2VE9oil
Draft programme
9:10-9:30 Registration (Summer Common Room)
9:30-9:35 Welcome
9:35-11:05 Session 1: Communication across borders
Chair: Sumita Mukherjee (Bristol)
Sneha Krishnan (Oxford) Good Christian Girls for a Stable India: Cold War Geopolitics and Postcolonial Girlhood
Rosie Walters (Bristol) Crossing North-South Divides in a Study with Members of the UN Foundation’s ‘Girl Up’
11:05-11:15: Tea/Coffee (Cloisters)
11:15-1:00 Session 2: Recovering voices
Chair: Kathryn Gleadle (Oxford)
Mary Cox (Oxford) Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924
11:55-12:00 short break
Bart van Es (Oxford) The Cut Out Girl: a story of War and Family
1:00-1:45: Lunch (Old Kitchen Bar)
1:45-3:15 Session 3: Orphans’ voices
Chair: Siân Pooley (Oxford)
Helen Berry (Newcastle) ‘Wanting More’: Recovering Children’s Voices from the London Foundling Hospital Archives
Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Oxford) ‘Thus makes us orphans all’: the History of the Armenian Genocide through the Eyes of Armenian and Turkish War Children
3:15-3:30 Tea/Coffee (Cloisters)
3:30-5:15 Session 4: Moving across borders
Chair and closing remarks: Jennifer Crane (Oxford)
Miriam Müller (Birmingham) Negotiating and Rescinding Borders in Medieval Rural Childhood
Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester) ‘If you love me you will redeeme me suddenlie’: The Emotional World of a Seventeenth-Century Indentured Child
Registration:
By Monday 24th June 2019: https://bit.ly/2VE9oil
Registration fee (includes coffee, lunch, tea): Waged £20; Unwaged £10.
Please email sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk if you have any queries.
Organisers: Jennifer Crane, Kathryn Gleadle, Siân PooleyOrganisers: Jennifer Crane, Kathryn Gleadle, Siân Pooley
