Conference Schedule

SUNDAY JULY 12, 2009

8:30-10 a.m.

O’Neill Room
At-Risk Subjects in History: Children and Youth of Color: A Roundtable
Audience participation encouraged

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Davis

Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wendy Jorae, University of California, Davis

Mario Rios Perez, University of Illinois

Susan Eckelman, Indiana University

Lakisha Simmons, University of Michigan

Seaborg Room
Adventures and Dangers: Children in 20th and 21st Century North American Popular Culture

Chair: Meredith Eliassen, San Francisco State University

“’Missing Girls’ in the Art of Henry Darger”
Mary Trent, University of California, Irvine

“Adventurous Children: Images of Children in Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids”
Alyson E. King, University of Ontario Institute ofTechnology

“No Ordinary Girl”: Visual Representations of Disney’s Kim Possible
Allison Wright, University of Texas

Lewis-Latimer Room
Case Studies in Risk-Taking and Agency of Youth in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Valentina Tikoff, DePaul University

Discussant: Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University

“Risky Business: Misbehavior Among Early Modern College Students in Bologna”
Christopher Carlsmith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

“The Risk of Taking Risks. A Rite of Passage in Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Youth Culture”
Benjamin Roberts, Independent Scholar, Amsterdam

“The Parameters of Risk: Young People Defying Parental Authority in Eighteenth-Century France”
Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University, Mankato

"Containing the Risk? Isolation, Integration, and the Orphanages of Eighteenth-Century Seville"
Valentina Tikoff, DePaul University

Howard Lounge
The Child Citizen, the Teacher and the World of the Classroom: Three Views of the Twentieth Century Experience

“Children Make Democracy Live: The Springfield Plan, 1939-1945”
Diana Selig, Claremont McKenna College

“Damaged Psyches: White Teachers and Black Students Post-Brown”
Jonna Perrillo, University of Texas, El Paso

“The Great Society Classroom”
Ben Keppel, University of Oklahoma

Discussant: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University

10:30-Noon

O’Neill
Children and War

“Children and War in Australian Picture Books”
Margot Hillel, Australian Catholic University

“Children in Occupied Belgium”
Mathieu Roeges and Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde, Ruyskensvelde

Seaborg Room
Constructing the Sexual Child: Historical Traces in Contemporary Culture

“Striking Back: Traces of Developmental Citizenship in Contemporary Queerness and Adolescence”
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University

“Risk Taking: Girls Transforming "Femininity" through their Use of Cultural Discourse”
Jessica Willis, St. Lawrence University

“Making Masculinity on the Day Care Floor: Childhood Subjectivity and The Meaning of a Father’s Touch”
Julie Willett, Texas Tech University

“Theorizing Childhood Sexuality: Why we need to Move beyond Protection and toward Recognition”
R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes, St. Lawrence University and University of New England

Discussant: Ning de Coninck-Smith, The Danish University School of Education/Aarhus University

Lewis-Latimer Room
Innovative Global Perspectives on Childhood 2

Chair: Michael Grossberg, Indiana University

“Reorienting Attention: Adolescent Hysterics and the Interventionist Paradigm in fin-de-siècle Psychological Science”
Anna Christina Rose, Miami University

“Italian Orphans of the Liberal Era”
Carl David Ipsen, Indiana University

“Youthful Delinquents in the Americanization of Lombroso: From Turin to Chicago”
Patrizia Guarnieri, University of Florence

Howard Lounge
Risky Bodies: Experts, Health, and Young People in Twentieth Century Canada and the United States

Chair: Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University

“Expecting Unexpected Death: Risk, Child Mortality, and the Search for Intent”
Gerald Cradock, University of Windsor

“Adelle Davis, Healthy Eating and the Production of "Superior Children."
Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph

“’Risky Business’: Adolescent Sexuality, Medical Discourse and the Treatment of Teen Pregnancy in 1950s Canada”
Sharon Wall, University of Winnipeg

“Doctored Bodies: Medical Discourse and Childhood as Pathology, 1900-1950”
Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia

12:30-2

CCYP
Creating a Book Together: Post World War II Childhoods

Parents and Children
Paula S. Fass, University of California, Berkeley

Children’s Culture
Steven Mintz, Columbia University

Children and the Law
Michael Grossberg, Indiana University

Children and the Law:
Mary Ann Mason, University of California, Berkeley

Children and Public Policy
Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Childhood in Comparative Perspective
Bengt Sandin, Linkopings University