The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment
First announcement and Call for Papers for an International Conference:
Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation
(5th-7th September, 2012).
The University of Central Lancashire is hosting the second international conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network (http://www.icyrnet.net/).
The international research conference is aimed at researchers (both new and experienced), policy-makers and practitioners from all around the world.
It will take place side by side with an international gathering of children and young people, currently being planned around broad themes of participation and citizenship.
Shared plenary sessions, and a series of smaller workshops, will create spaces where children, young people and adults can come together and engage in dialogue.
Research and policy papers are invited on the following sub-themes:
• Spaces, places and institutions of childhood
• Inter-generational relationships
• Public and private domains
• Global and local
• Inclusion and exclusion
• Family and lifespan
• Culture and context
• Work, play and leisure
• Mobilities and borders
• Transitions and disruptions
• Conflict and peace
• Citizenship and rights
• Responsibility and dependency
• Public perceptions and attitudes
Cross-cutting themes are expected to include, for example, power, gender, abuse and exploitation.
Confirmed plenary speakers are:
• Libby Brooks (Columnist, The Guardian, UK)
• Jim Davis (Good Childhood Advisor, The Children's Society, England, UK)
• Allison James (Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK)
• Berry Mayall (Professor of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UK)
• Kavita Ratna (Director-Communications, Concerned for Working Children, Bangalore, India)
• Harry Shier (Education Adviser, CESESMA, Matagalpa, Nicaragua)
Other plenary speakers may be added nearer the date.
Full details of conference fees and booking arrangements will be announced in January 2012.
Abstracts (up to 150 words) are invited to be submitted by 5pm on 31st March 2012. Decisions will be notified on 30th April 2012.