Conference Schedule

FRIDAY JULY 10, 2009

8:30-10 a.m.

O’Neill Room
Re-/Un-Covering Children’s Experiences, Voices and Perspectives from Historical Records

“Disconcerting Answers: Students’ Responses to Object Lessons, 1850-1900”
Sarah Anne Carter, Harvard University

“Commercially Speaking: Gleaning Children’s Perspectives and Desires from Commercial Sources”
Daniel Thomas Cook, Rutgers University

“Copybooks, Scraps, and Scribbles: Childhood Studies in the Archives”
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College

“Seeking the “Authentic” Voice of Children from the Past: A European Perspective”
Colin Heywood, Nottingham University

Seaborg Room
Representations of Rupture: Children and Fractured Families in American Culture

“The Power of Sympathy: Fundraising, Storytelling, and Early Child Welfare Reform”
Nancy E. Zey, Sam Houston State University

“To Divorce or Not to Divorce?: Class, Gender, and the Debate about the Effects of Marital Failure on Children, 1900-1940”
Kristin Celello,City University of New York

“An Alarming Solution: Bedwetting, Mothers, and “Normal” Children in Mid-Twentieth-Century America”
Deborah Blythe Doroshow, Yale University

“Along the Line of Progress: Developing California's Foster Youth Institutions During the Progressive Era”
John K. Elliott, California State University, Fullerton

Discussant: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University

Howard Lounge
Entering into the Fray: Historians of Childhood and Public Policy

Chair and Discussant: Roberta Wollons, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College

Timothy A. Hacsi, University of Massachusetts Boston

Julia Grant, Michigan State University

CCYP
Internationalizing Child Welfare: Meanings and Practices of International Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century

Chair and Commentator: Xiaobei Chen, Carleton University

"Refugee Children at Risk: Edith Wharton's World War I Charities"
Carol Singley, Rutgers University, Cambden

"Defining International Responsibility: Media, the State, and the Origins of Save the Children Fund"
Ellen Boucher, Furman University

"The Humanitarian Origins of Intercountry Adoption"
Heide Fehrenbach, NOrthern Illinois University

"Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents in Postwar America"
Rachel Winslow, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30-Noon

CCYP
Skimming the Pages: Roles of Juvenile Magazine Imagery in Shaping Identity

“The First Ottoman-Turkish Children's Journal Mümeyyiz (1869): Studying Construction of the Ideal Child through the Concept of Reading and Children's Letters to the Editor (Varakas)”
Pinar Ozyurek, University of Chicago

“Towards the Service of Our Country: Visions of the Nation and Childhood in the Parallel Pedagogy of Nationalist Bengali Children’s Magazines (1905-1925)”
Sudipa Topdar, University of Michigan

“Designing Optimism: Sarah Stilwell Weber’s View of Strong American Girls”
Meredith Eliassen, San Francisco State University

“A Study of Subject Formation in Colonial Missionary Literature for Danish Children”Karen Vallgarda, University of Copenhagen

O’Neill Room
Wartime Girlhood

Chair: James Marten, Marquette University

“Freeborn Spirit”: The Revolutionary Poetry of Ruth Bryant, 1775-1783”
Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria

“’A Major One Night, a Captain Another’: Sexually Active Girlhoods on the WWII American Home Front”
Amanda Littauer, Saint Mary’s College

“From Marisol to Pan's Labyrinth: Visions of Wartime Trauma Through the Eyes of Spanish Girls”
Maria Elena Solino, University of Houston

Seaborg Room
Youth Resistance to Authority: High Jinks or High Risks?

Chair and Discussant: Paula S. Fass, University of California, Berkeley

“‘Rushing into Notoriety’: Honor, Violence, and the Language of Maturity”
Jane Feigen, Washington University in St. Louis

“Ritualized Risk Taking in Antebellum Southern Schools”
Jan Price Greenough, Temple University

Philip Keirle, “Laughter-as-risk: an exploration of character cultivation and the suppression of laughter”
Philip Keirle, University of Western Australia

“’Race leader, race leader, RACE LEADER!’: Class, Gender, and Cultural Conflicts in NAACP Youth Activism, 1925-1941”
Susan Bragg, Binghamton University

Lewis-Latimer Room
Children and Notions of Risk in Urban Colonial Africa

Moderator: David M. Rosen, PhD., J.D. Fairleigh Dickinson University

“Schoolgirls about Town: Visibility, Respectability, and Girl Culture in Colonial Zanzibar”
Corrie Decker, Lehman College, CUNY)

“Status Offenders: Girl Hawkers and Social Welfare in Colonial Lagos, 1940 – 1960”
Abosede A. George, Barnard College

“Their Days are spent in Gambling and Loafing, Pimping for Prostitutes and Picking Pockets”: Male Juvenile Delinquents on Lagos Island, 1920s-60s
Simon Heap, Plan International, UK

"Eradicating Shrine 'Wives' and Fishing 'Boys': Drafting Anti-Child Trafficking Legislation in West Africa, c.1990-2007"
Benjamin N. Lawrence, University of California, Davis

Howard Lounge
Placing the Hard-to-Place Child: Children with Disabilities and Special Needs in the History of Adoption, Foster Care, and Orphanages

Chair: E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University

“Special Needs, Certain Advantages: The Benefits of Fostering Children with Disabilities, 1900-1930”
C. Dianne Creagh, Penn State University, York

“Race, Age, Ability, Family: The “Hard-to-Place Child” in American Foster Care, 1940-1975”
Catherine Rymph, University of Missouri

"De-institutionalization in Romania: Education, Human Rights, and the Ecology of Disabilities in Romania"
Gabriela Walker, University of Illinois

Discussants: Paul K. Longmore, San Francisco State University, and Sandra Sufian, University of Illinois, Chicago

12:30-2 p.m.

O’Neill Room
Teaching the History of Childhood in the Non-West

Chair: “Towards Teaching a Global History of Childhood”
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University

Middle East
Heidi Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara

Africa
Abosede George, Barnard College

Latin America
Nara Milanich, Barnard College

Seaborg Room
United States Perspectives on Youth and Activism: Authority, Agency, and Activism in 1960s and 1970s America

Chair: Melissa R. Klapper, Rowan University

Discussant: Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University

“Little Women’s Libbers: Children, Feminism, and Social Change in the United States, 1969-1979”
Lori Rotskoff, Barnard Center for Research on Women

“Mass Student Insurrection” or What Happened When Long-Haired High School Students Challenged Authority, 1964-1969”
Gayle V. Fischer, Salem State University

“Endorsing the ERA: Negotiations of Womanhood in Girl Scouting, 1967-1977"
Jessica Foley, Brown University

Howard Lounge
Taking Chances: Factoring Risk into Juvenile Justice in the 1960s

Chair: Kathleen Jill Frydl, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Franklin E. Zimring, University of California, Berkeley

“Youthful Indiscretions: The Impact of Children’s Risky Behavior on Juvenile Justice Theories, Treatments, and Policies Leading up to In re Gault”
Laura Mihailoff, University of California, Berkeley

“Rhetorical Risks: The Evolving Concepts of Amenability and Parens Patriae in the Jurisprudence of Juvenile Courts”
David S. Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

CCYP
Empire Education and Indigenous Childhood: Native Children at Risk.

“Civilizing the Precocious Maori child: a case study in New Zealand”
Helen May, University of Otago, New Zealand

“Constraining the Wild Indian Child: A Case Study in Canada”
Larry Prochner, University of Alberta

Lewis-Latimer Room
Facing the White Light: Children and Youth Experience Survival and Confront Death

“’Going to sleep with the living and waking up with the dead’”:
Resilience Among Children in the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War
Julie deGraffenried , Baylor University

“Singing to the Madness of the Brave: Sacrifice, Mourning, and
Suicide in the Young Communist League, 1918-1928.”
Sean Guillory, UCLA

“Memory, Trauma, and Narrative: Interpreting Children’s Experiences of Civil War and Emancipation”
Catherine A. Jones, University of California, Santa Cruz

" 'Every Stitch and Step of My Life': How Trauma Changed Girls' Lives After the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders"
Amy Sullivan, University of Illinois, Chicago

2:30-4 p.m.

O’Neill Room
Critical Historiography of Childhood

Moderator: Harvey J. Graff, Ohio State University

Jennifer Ritterhouse, Utah State University

Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham

Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University

James Block. DePaul University

CCYP
Gender & Delinquency

Chairs: Margo De Koster, Centre d’histoire du droit et de la justice, Belgium / Kaisa Vehkalahti, Finnish Youth Research Society, Finland

Discussant: Tamara Myers, University of British Columbia

“Risk and gender in medical and psychological discourses on juvenile delinquency in 20th-century Belgium”
Margo De Koster & David Niget, Université catholique de Louvain

Kaisa Vehkalahti and Susanna Hoikkala, “Care and punishment: Disciplinary Practices in the early-20th-century Finnish Reform School education”
Kaisa Vehkalahti, Finnish Youth Research Network, and Susanna Hoikkala, University of Helsinki

“’Bringing the rebellious to their knees’… Public re-education practices, littering practices? The state reform school of Bruges for ‘incorrigible’ girls, 1920–1950”
Veerle Massin, Université catholique de Louvain

Howard Lounge
Constructing Difference on the Playground and in the Classroom: Discourses of Youth, Race and Risk in the early 20th Century

Chair: Joseph Hawes, University of Memphis

Discussant: Leslie Paris, University of British Columbia

“Present But Not Included: African American Children on Philadelphia's Playgrounds in the early Twentieth Century”
Deb Valentine, Rutgers University

“Sweetheart Señoritas” and the Boys of “Wallaceton”: “Race Leadership” and Youth Culture at Two Mission Schools”
Julie Cohen, University of California, Irvine

“New Science, Old Politics: The Legacy of Bio-medicine and Youth at Risk”
Judith Bessant, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

“Towards a Reflexive History of Child Welfare and Risk: Some Analytic Considerations”
Rob Watts, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Seaborg Room
Innovative Global Perspectives on Childhood, 1

Chair: Birgitte Soland, Ohio State University

“The Accidents of Children and Youth in an Agricultural Society: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts”
Ross W. Beales, Jr., College of the Holy Cross

“Children as Modern Consumers: Children at Risk? A Study of Norway in the Postwar Era”
Tora Korsvold, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Militarized Youth and Militarized Livelihoods: Issues of Framing and Labeling in International Agency Response to the Role of Youth and Adolescents in Armed Conflict”
Angela Raven-Roberts, UNICEF, Geneva

Lewis-Latimer
Students’ Patriotic Education and Student Activism

“Crossing the Line: El Paso’s 2006 Student Walkouts as a Pedagogy of Youth Liberation”
Susie Aquilina, University of Texas, El Paso

“Daughters of Columbia: Children’s Portrayals of an American Symbol”
Ellen Berg, University of Maryland

“Defending a Republican Future: An Exploration of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Techniques of Youth-Politicization”
Philip Keirle, University of Western Australia

5:00p.m.
Great Hall
Keynote Address“History and Happy Childhood”
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University

6:00 – 8:00
Great Hall
Reception