Call for Papers: CHILDHOOD AND TIME, The IX Conference on Childhood Studies, Tampere University, Finland, 11–13 May 2020

Call for Papers: CHILDHOOD AND TIME

The IX Conference on Childhood Studies

Tampere University, Finland, 11–13 May 2020

The theme of the biennial Childhood Conference in 2020 is Childhood and Time. The theme is deliberately broad and designed to invite scholars to discuss timely perspectives on childhood across a broad spectrum. We hope to inspire lively debates about how childhood and time interweave from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The conference is organised by Tampere University, the Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research PERLA, and the Finnish Society for Childhood Studies.

Keynote speakers: Prof. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Prof. John Potter and Prof. Kaisa Vehkalahti

Panel discussion: Prof. Erica Burman, Dr. Stephanie Olsen, Prof. Spyros Spyrou and Prof. Hanne Warming

Individual abstract submissions for workshops and poster sessions as well as proposals for self-organised symposia are welcome. Abstract submission opens on the 1st November 2019 and closes on the 15th January 2020. Notifications on acceptance will be sent by 15th February 2020.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Modern and postmodern conceptions of time and childhood
Children and childhood over time: histories of childhood and temporal structurings of childhood across time and spaces
Children and future, including social, economic, political and environmental problems and alternative futures
Age, development and notions of the normal in childhood related to time and the measurement of time
Time and temporality in children’s everyday life, including children’s experience and time, children’s conception of time, children’s time use, routines, schedules, celebrations, calendar time, children and nature times, and performativity of temporality in childhood
Children’s time, family time, institutional time and societal time, the management of time and regulation and surveillance of children through time
Children’s emotions, body, space, gender, class and time
Childhood and non-Western and Indigenous conceptualizations of time, such as Sami conceptions of time and ancestry or the Australian Indigenous notion of Dreamtime
The role of time and temporality across the life course, age and generation in the study of childhood
The politics, governance and commodification of time in childhood
Childhood in a digital age
Continuities and changes in childhood over time
Time and temporality in the rhetoric and politics of childhood

Abstract submission

The electronic form for abstract submission will be made available on the conference website in October 2019. Please, submit your abstract of no more than 350 words by 15th January 2020. Abstracts should be in English.

Schedule

1st November: Call for papers opens

15th January 2020: Deadline for abstract submissions

15th February 2020: Notification of acceptance

15th February 2020: Registration opens

29th April 2020: Deadline for conference registration

Have a look at the complete CFP here: https://events.tuni.fi/childhood-2020/call-for-papers/

For more information, please visit our website

https://events.tuni.fi/childhood-2020/