Conference Schedule

SATURDAY JULY 11, 2009

8:30-10 a.m.

O’Neill Room
Children At-Risk for Literacy or Illiteracy: Research in progress from Literacy Studies @ OSU. A Roundtable

Chair: Harvey J. Graff, Ohio State University

“Writing and Childhood in the Scottish Enlightenment”
Shawn Casey, Ohio State University

“Growing Up Female in Appalachia”
Karin Hooks, Ohio State University

“Literacy Studies @ OSU: The History of Literacy and Children at Risk”
Harvey J. Graff, Ohio State University

“Between Home and School? Reading by the Children of Lesbian Parents”
Caitlin Ryan, Ohio State University

Seaborg Room
“Hey Young Spender”: Children as Financial Agents across Time and Space

Chair: Gary Cross, Penn State University

Discussant: Daniel Thomas Cook, Rutgers University, Camden

“Constructing the Young Male Consumer in Early 19th Century Britain: A History of Toy Theatre Production, Marketing, Consumption and Play”
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Penn State University

“A Penny Saves: American Children and Foreign Missionaries, 1830-1860”
David Greenspoon, Penn State University

“‘Saving-For-Giving’: The Case of Batang Atikha in the Philippines”
Cheryll Alipio, University of Washington

Lewis-Latimer
Family and Childhood in East Asia

Chair: Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego

“No Longer Silent: Narrating Risk in Asian Adoptee Writing”
Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley

“The Creation of Modern Childhood and the Transformation of Family Representations in Prewar Japan”
Tomomichi Suzuki, University of California, Berkeley

“Opposition to Poor Relief for Able-Bodied Adults, Public Role of Motherhood and Child Welfare Policy in Pre-World War II Japan vs. the United States”
Yuko Yokotsuka, University of California, Berkeley
“How to Have a Healthy Chinese Baby”
Margaret Tillman, University of California, Berkeley

"How to Have a Healthy Chinese Baby"
Margaret Tillman, University of California, Berkeley

Howard Lounge
Schooling and Deviance

Chair: Heidi MacDonald, University of Lethbridge

“School and Deviance in the 20th Century”
Bengt Sandin, Linköping University, and Dirk Schumann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

“Heirs of the Cold War: 'Free Radio' Broadcasts for the Little Greeks in Migration”
Vasiliki Theodorou and Vasiliki Vasiloudi, Democritus University of Thrace

“On tour with the children of the popular classes from Ghent (Belgium) (1898-1915)”
Frank Simon and Bruno Vanobbergen, GhentUniversity

CCYP
The Politics of Child Protection

“Children Who Smoke: 1900s Buenos Aires”
Diego Armus, Swarthmore College

“‘Partially with Her Consent:’ Law, Youth, and Intimate Violence in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Melissa Hayes, Northern Illinois University

“‘Women and Children Are in a State of Emergency’: Anti-Porn Feminism, Children and the Politics of Victimhood”
Gillian Frank, Colby College

“Risky Programming? Having it Both Ways: Catching Predators and Producing (Pedophilic) Desires on Dateline"
Kysa Koerner Hubbard, University of Minnesota

10:30-Noon

O’Neill Room
After the Boom: American Childhood of the 1970s (and Beyond): A Roundtable

“No More Goody Two Shoes: Cultural Challenges to American Models of Maturation in the 1970s”
Gary Cross, Penn State University

“Inventing ‘Free Children’: Ideals of Childhood and Feminist Parenting in the 1970s”
Laura L. Lovett, University of Massachusetts

“Wearing the Pants: Girls and Second-Wave Feminism in the 1970s”
Leslie Paris, University of British Columbia

“From Pedestal to Indictment: The Post-60s Reconstruction of the American Child”
James E. Block, DePaul University

Seaborg Room
Youth and the Politics of the Long Civil Rights Movement

Chair: Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University

Comment: Rachel Devlin, Tulane University

“’No Slave Has Toiled to Make this Sweet’: Children and the Free Produce Movement in Antebellum America”
Alice Taylor, University of Toronto

“Divided Communities: High School Student Activism in the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements, Bellport, New York, 1969-1974”
Neil P. Buffett, Stony Brook University

"'A Sacrifice for Human Dignity': Youth Activism in the Jackson, Mississippi Struggle for Civil Rights"
Daphne R. Chamberlain, University of Mississippi

Lewis-Latimer
Children and Parents in South Asia and Beyond

Chair: Ann Kirson Swersky

Gautam Chando Roy, “Adult Perception of Childhood in a Colonial Situation: A Study in Children’s Literature of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Bengal”

Swapna Banerjee, “Children at-Risk? Disciplining and Fatherhood in Colonial India"

Shobna Nijhawan, “Courageous Girls and Intelligent Women: Writings for Children and their Parents in Colonial India”

Kristine Alexander, “The Girl Guides, Life-Saving and Gallantry in the Early 20th-Century British Empire”

CCYP
Adoption, Secrecy, and Kin: An International Perspective

Chair and Commentator: Joan Heifetz Hollinger

Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University, “Adoption, Secrecy, and the Specter of the True Mother in Twentieth-Century Australia”

Veronica Strong-Boag, University of British Columbia, “Staying in Touch: The Relations between Original Kin and Orphanages, Fostering, and Adoption in Canada”

E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University, “Opening Adoption Records and Destroying Families: The Myth Exploded in the U.S., England, and Australia, 1953-2007”

Howard Lounge
The Impact of Religion on the Lives of Children and Adolescents

Chair: Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Discussant: Jon Pahl, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

"Re-educating French Children in the Catholic Faith in the Eighteenth Century”
Jessica Nelson, Purdue University

“The Child in the Catholic Revival in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of the Countess de Ségur”
Sophie Heywood, University of Reading

“The Careful Crafting of a New Era: The Christianization of Jamaican Slave Children”
Colleen A. Vasconcellos, University of West Georgia

“Children and Youth and the Battle for the Future of African American Christianity During the Civil Rights Movement”
Thomas E. Bergler, Huntington University

12:30-2 p.m.

CCYP
Spatial Perspectives on Children at Risk 1

Chair: Loren Lerner, Concordia University

“Threatened Female Students and Authoritative Male Masters: Boston’s Failed Antebellum School Reorganization”
Rachel Remmel, Eastman School of Music

“The Mimico Boys: Architecture, Children, and the Law”
Kai Wood Mah, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“Young Women as and at Risk: The Bath Penitentiary and Lock Hospital”
Cynthia I. Hammond, Concordia University

“The Panopticon of Childhood: Danish Buildings for Children at Risk”
Ning de Coninck-Smith, The Danish University School of Education/Aarhus University

O’Neill
The Children's Table: Childhood Studies in the Humanities, A Roundtable

“Childhood Studies and American/Postcolonial Studies”
Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut (Co-Chair)

“Childhood Studies and Feminist Critical Race Studies”
Lucia Hodgson, University of Southern California (Co-Chair)

“Childhood Studies and Early American Children's Literature”
Patricia A. Crain, New York University

“Childhood Studies and Early Childhood Education Discourse”
Peter E. Cumming, York University

“Childhood Studies and Institutional Interdisciplinarity”
Patrick J. Ryan, University of Western Ontario

“Childhood Studies, American Genealogy and Adoption”
Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University, Camden

Howard Lounge
Children, International Charity, & Citizenship
Sponsored by the History of Children and Youth Group of the Canadian Historical Association

Discussant: Gael Graham, Western Carolina University

“A Generation of Christians at Risk? Training Ontario’s Protestant Children for a Global Mission”
Angela Rooke, York University

“’Let child love child’: The Limits of Internationalism in the Canadian Junior Red Cross, 1919-1939”
Sarah Glassford, University of Ottawa

“'Sponsor Me?': Youth and the Miles for Millions Walkathon in 1960s and 70s Canada”
Tamara Myers, University of British Columbia

“Relief for “Our Indians”: Race, Nation and Definitions of At-Risk Children”
Tarah Brookfield, York University & Brock University

Seaborg Room
Children’s Sexuality and Agency in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chair and Discussant: Lynn Sacco, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Sexology and the Sexual Child in the Writings of Albert Moll”
Gail Hawkes, University of New England, Australia & R. Danielle Egan, St. Lawrence University

“‘It was not I but Christ that did it’: Redefining Sibling Love in Nineteenth-Century South Africa”
Sarah E. Duff, Birkbeck College, University of London

“‘My Little Girl Wife’: Sexual Agency and Understandings of Childhood in Turn-of-the-Century American Child Marriages”
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado

Lewis-Latimer
Depression Teens, Prom Kings, and Victory Girls: Milwaukee Youth in the Twentieth Century

Chair and Discussant: Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

“’Great Personal Sacrifice’: Poor Children Change School Culture in Great Depression Milwaukee”
Daryl Webb, Marquette University

“Crowning Prom Kings: Boys and the High School Prom”

Candace Chen, Marquette University

“’The Peril of Erring Girls’: Sex Delinquency during World War II”
Charissa Keup, Marquette University

2:30-4 p.m.

O’Neill
Children and (Post) Colonial Childhoods

Chair and Discussant; Maritza Maymi, University of Puerto Rico

“Children and the Making of Class in Postcolonial Latin America”
Nara Milanich, Barnard College

“‘Fairylands’ and ‘Forcing Grounds’: Children, Agency and Imperilment in British and French Colonial Cultures”
David M. Pomfret, University of Hong Kong

“Young Mendicants and Migrants in Africa: Colonial Religious Encounters, Gendered Spaces, and a Changing Moral Compass of Childhood”
Shobana Shankar, UNICEF

Lewis-Latimer
Childhood and Radical Politics in the 20th Century

Chair: Paul Mishler, Indiana University, South Bend

“Fairy Tales on the Front Line: Children and Japanese Proletarian Literature”
Samuel Perry, Brown University

“Revolutionizing Childhood: American "Child Savers" in Russia, 1917-1945”
Julia L. Mickenberg, University of Texas

“Through Children’s Eyes: Childhood, Activism, and the Politics of Memory”
Natasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University, and Bernadine Mellis, filmmaker

CCYP
Spatial Perspectives on Children at Risk, 2

Chair: Abigail A. Van Slyck, Connecticut College

“Parents, Play Yards, and the Dangers of Childhood”
Bryn Varley Hollenbeck, Skidmore College

“Idea of Coming of Age on the Road: The Social Construction of Female Adolescence”
Loren Lerner, Concordia University

“The Power of Pink: Children’s Bedrooms Since World War II”
Annmarie Adams, McGill University

“Spatial Perspectives on Children at Risk: Reflections on Methodology”
Abigail A. Van Slyck, Connecticut College

Seaborg Room
Childhood Matters: ’Children & Youth’ in History

Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Mary McMurray, University of Kansas

4:00 - 5:00

Howard Lounge
Business Meeting

6:00 – 11:00

Great Hall
Banquet
President’s Address, Paula Fass
“Childhood and Memory”