FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (with abstracts and conference information)
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Children's History Society Fifth Biennial Conference
Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth
Programme
| Pre-conference Event: Tuesday, 30 June, 18:00-21:00 | |
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| Student and Early Career Researchers Social (Open to all conference participants) Venue The House Skatepark, Unit D, Bardwell Road, Sheffield S3 8AS Come and experience The House Skatepark, a local institution that’s been going for over 25 years! There will be space to socialise, eat and drink, and watch the skateboarding from the viewing gallery. Plus, for those who would like to, the event includes the opportunity to skateboard yourself! Free coaching will be provided by the expert team at The House, and is open to all ages, whether you’re a complete novice or have some (or lots of) experience! Protective equipment and boards supplied. Getting there The House is accessible by the Sheffield Supertram (see tram route map and timeable information here). The nearest stop is Infirmary Road (just three stops on the Blue or Yellow routes from the University of Sheffield towards Malin Bridge or Middlewood) + a 9 minute walkas shown on this map. Or you can get an Uber. Food and drink Reasonably priced, good-quality, hot food and non-alcoholic drinks are available to buy at the venue. This includes vegetarian and vegan options. Please let staff at The House know of any allergies. There are also several decent nearby pubs if you wish to make a night of it! Note You need to sign up for membership of The House in order to skateboard there. It is free but a requirement of the venue. This can be done on the night or in advance via this online form. |
Day 1: Wednesday, 1 July
| 08:15-09:00 | REGISTRATION /SIGN IN The Diamond (Leavygreave Road Entrance), Ground Floor Exhibition Space | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 | ||
| 9:30-11:00 Session 1 | Panel A The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Chair: Sophie Heywood Artie McCarthy (University of Canberra) ‘Hands Around the World’: Indigenous Children and Internationalism in the Interwar Period Catherine Freeman (Independent Researcher) ‘I have arranged with Miss Zimmern… that the Upper Standard should correspond with a school in Australia’: Children’s Correspondents through the League of Empire Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University ELTE, Budapest) Concepts and Anxieties about Self, Identity and Belonging: The Voices of Children in the Hungarian Children's Train Action of 1920 and 1930 | Panel B The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 08 PLAY IN STREET AND PLAYGROUND Chair: Julia Bishop Tsai-Yuan Ko (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Making Space in the Urban Street: Gender, Materiality, and Working-Class Children's Geographies, 1870-1914 Srinita Majumdar and Yiru Wang (ETH Zurich) The Grounds of Play: YMCA and the Early History of Playgrounds for Children in Twentieth Century India and China Emilija Jacevičienė (Vytautas Magnus University) Children’s Street Games in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Lithuania: How Space Shapes Play | Panel C The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 09 CARING SPACES? PLACE, IDENTITY AND BELONGING IN CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE, 1800-PRESENT Jade Shepherd (Newcastle University) ‘[E]vidently she is the pet of the family’: Expectations and Experiences of Boarding Out in the East Midlands, 1870-1930 Claudia Soares (Newcastle University) Transformative Environments? Home, Street and Care Settings across the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Jim Hinks (Newcastle University) ‘Food, shelter and mother love’? The World of the Boarded-Out Child in Twentieth-Century Scotland, 1908-1968 Kate Wilson (Newcastle University) Housing the Past: Care-Experienced Children and Young People’s Memories of Housing Insecurity in Oral History Interviews |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tea and Coffee The Diamond Basement | ||
| 11:30-13:00 Session 2 | Panel D The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 MULTIGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOODS Chair: Laura Tisdall Simon Sleight (King's College London) and Shirleene Robinson (University of Technology Sydney) Surviving and Reflecting: Intergenerational responses to the Canberra Bushfires Harriet Bee (King's College London) From ‘walking out’ to ‘going steady’: Girlhood and the Americanisation of Dating Rituals in Liverpool and Melbourne, c.1950-1970 Rhianedd Collins (Cardiff University) Digital Playgrounds: Exploring the History of Childhood Play through Intergenerational Video Game Co-Production | Panel E The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 08 HOMES AWAY FROM HOME Chair: Jim Hinks Rosie Canning (Independent Researcher) and Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds) Imagined Home in Care-Experienced Childhoods Iria Suárez Martínez (Royal College of Art) Plants as Agents of Care inside Victorian and Edwardian Children's Hospitals Joachim Brenner (History Department, University Heidelberg) Losing, Reflecting and Creating Home: Children Write about Home and Flight in the Aftermath of World War II | Panel F The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 09 ASSEMBLING INTERGENERATIONAL REMEMBRANCE CREATION, CURATORSHIP AND RESEARCH AROUND HISTORICAL GENOCIDES Macarena García-González, Albert Elduque Busquets and Michelle Rennerova (Pompeu Fabra University) Curatorial Agency and Difficult Memories: Challenges of Children’s Participation in Remembrance Practices Marija Todorova (The Education University of Hong Kong) Children Bearing Witness to War Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (University of Wrocław), Katarzyna Liszka (University of Wrocław), Anna Czerwińska and Sonia Ruszkowska (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews) Co-Creating Holocaust Memory: Youth-led Curatorial Practices and Intergenerational Dialogue at POLIN Museum |
| 13:00-14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15-15:45 Session 3 | Panel G The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 ACTIVISM Chair: Catherine Freeman Nathaniel Andrews (University of Manchester) Anarchist Childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945 Laura Tisdall (Newcastle University) Schools, Students and Chronological Age in Cold War Britain (c.1956-1989) Andrea Griffante (Lithuanian Institute of History) Drawing Independence: Child Art, the Collapse of the USSR, and the Re-Emergence of Independent Lithuania | Panel H The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 08 CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING AS A COSMOPOLITAN SPACE 1970S-PRESENT (panel discussion) Sophie Heywood (University of Reading) Challenging the One-Way Narrative of British Children’s Literature and Soft Power in the Late 20th/ 21st Century: How and Why Can We Make Translation's Place in British Children's Literature Visible? Emma Page (University of Reading) Transnational Methods: Tracing Britain's Place in the ‘World’ of Children’s Literature, and the Representation of the ‘World’ within British Publishing Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University) Publisher Aidan Chambers: Cosmopolitan Tastemakers and Tracing Transnational Influences in British Children’s Book Cultures | |
| 15:45-16:15 | Tea and Coffee
The Diamond Basement | ||
| 16:15-17:15 Session 4 | Keynote 1 The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 Karen Sands-O’Connor (University of Sheffield) and Darren Chetty (University College London) The Child Inside, Outside, and Breaking Down the Walls of Children’s Literature’s Secret Garden | ||
| 17:15-18:15 | Drinks reception The Diamond Basement |
Day 2: Thursday, 2 July
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION / SIGN IN The Diamond, Ground Floor Exhibition Space | ||
| 09:00-10:30 Session 5 | Panel I The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 GIRLS AND GIRLHOODS Chair: Yinka Olusoga Taylar Carty (University of Glasgow) ‘An Age Capable of Being Useful': Enslaved Black Girlhood in the British Caribbean Jordyn Beaupré (McMaster University) The Perpetually Liminal Girl: Serial Displacement and Moral Uncertainty in Transnational Victorian Child Rescue Agnes Hamberger (Darlarna University) Working-Class School Girls and the Educational Spaces of the Nineteenth century | Panel J The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 01 CHILDREN AND THE POLITICAL Chair: Catherine Bannister Nazan Cicek (Ankara University) ‘I liked school better than home because unlike my parents my teachers appreciated and respected me’: The Perceptions of and Comparison Between Home and School as Reflected in the Findings of an Oral History Project of Childhood in Turkey Catherine Ellis (Toronto Metropolitan University) Postwar British Trade Union Leadership and Intergenerational Solidarity | Panel K The Diamond, G05 - Workroom 02 EDUCATIONAL JOURNEYS THROUGH TIME AND SPACE REFLECTIONS ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PRACTICES OF GERMAN YOUNG PEOPLE Michael Rocher (Humboldt University in Berlin) Escaping School Punishment in 1752: Autobiographical Practices between Honour and Belonging Sylvia Wehren (University of Hildesheim) Outside the Domestic Sphere: Youth Mobility, Gender, and Class in 19th Century Youth Diaries Kerrin v. Engelhardt (University Halle-Wittenberg) Mapping Transitions: Space, Time and Youth Self-Narration in the 1920s Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (University of Hamburg) Sharing Educational Journeys: Circular Letters of Hamburg Secondary School Graduates, 1942-2009 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea and Coffee
The Diamond Basement | ||
| 11:00-12:30 Session 6 | Panel L The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 DISPLACEMENT, BELONGING AND IDENTITY Chair: Rhianedd Collins Lukas Schretter (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War) Encounters with the ‘Fatherland’: Memory, Identity, and Belonging Among the Children of Austrian Women and Allied Soldiers after World War II Olamide Udo-Udoma Ejorh (University of Sheffield) Children, Localised Displacement and the Making of Play Spaces in a Dense Urban Settlement in Lagos | Panel M The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 01 SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN CARE INSTITUTIONS Chair: Jessamy Carlson Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds) ‘It was through some Iron railing bars’: The Architecture, Practice and Legacy of Separating Infant Siblings in Care Claire Phillips (Aberystwyth University) Sibling Relationships in Welsh Workhouses, c.1880-1930 Johanne Taylor (Flinders University) ‘Priggish pragmatism’: The Management of Sibling Relationships in South Australian State Care, 1898-1912 | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | Children’s History Society AGM
The Diamond, G05 - Workroom 02 | |
| Session 7 14:00-15:00 | Keynote 2 The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 Caroline Bressey (University College London) Archival Scenes and Critical Fabulations of Family and Place Intergenerational Stories of Maddison, from Enslavement to the London County Council | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea and Coffee The Diamond Basement | ||
| 15:30-17:00 Session 8 | Panel N The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 CHILDHOODS AND FAMILIES Chair: Agnes Hamberger Ugnė Jonaitytė (Lithuanian Institute of History) The Other Side of Childhood: Child Abandonment and Infanticide in 18th Century Lithuania David Bell (Independent Researcher) Child-Adult Sibling Relationships in Ancient Mediterranean Households: Implications for Everyday Experience and Early-Christian Kinship Identity Meri Dickson (Independent Researcher) A Golden Childhood: Fairy Belief, Nostalgia and the Construction of Childhood Spaces | Panel O The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 01 WHERE ARE OUR HISTORIES? CREATING PLACES AND SPACES FOR CARE EXPERIENCED VOICES, ACTIONS, IDENTITIES AND MEMORIES THROUGH RECORDKEEPING Kirsten Wright (University of Melbourne) Elizabeth Lomas (University College London) Belinda Battley (Archives New Zealand) | Panel P The Diamond, G05 - Workroom 02 RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS Chair: Mary Clare Martin Ireland Wright (Independent researcher) ‘I became a man in a child's body’: Indigenous Childhood and Identity in the Canadian Residential School System Jessamy Carlson (University of Dundee and The National Archives) and Tahaney Alghrani (Hugh Baird University Centre) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: English Approaches to the Juvenile Secure Estate in the Long Twentieth Century Seonaid Anthoney (Independent Researcher) ‘The Home as their own’? The Metropolitan Police Home and Sexually Abused Girls in Early Twentieth-Century London |
| 19:00 (drink) for 19:30-22:30 (meal) | Conference Dinner (pre-booked delegates) - South Street Kitchen, located in Park Hill Flats, 19-20 South St, Sheffield S2 5QX | If you wish to travel together on public transport, meet at the University of Sheffield tram stop at 6.15pm, on the platform nearest to the Diamond.
We will be catching the Blue Route (‘Halfway’) tram to the Sheffield Station/Sheffield Hallam University stop. The fare is £2.50 (single) or £4.20 (same day return back to the University of Sheffield tram stop) and tickets can be bought from the conductor on the tram (cash and contactless card payments accepted) (Or go earlier to explore the iconic Park Hill Flats and nearby Sheffield Cholera Monument before the dinner!) |
Day 3: Friday, 3 July
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION / SIGN IN The Diamond (Leavygreave Road Entrance), Ground Floor Exhibition Space | ||
| 09:00-10:30 Session 9 | Panel Q The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGININGS Chair: Artie McCarthy Sulthana Nasrin (King's College London) Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes While Organising a Transnational Literary Textbooks Archive Betül Gaye Dinç (Northumbria University) ‘My Geography’s Rather Vague’: Elinor Lyon’s Cartographic Storytelling across Her Oeuvre Sydney Stitt (University of Cambridge) Tigers and Imperial Identity in British Children’s Media, 1857-1901 | Panel R The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 01 SPACE, EMOTION AND DISABILITY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich) Coming of Age with Disabilities in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Education, Space and Emotion Philip Milnes-Smith (Shakespeare's Globe) and Nicola Lane (Independent filmmaker) 'I am sick, or not at home': Returning a Voice to the Young Patients and Students of a Convalescent Home and a Training School Marianne Markowski (University of Greenwich) Encountering Difficult Histories: ‘This could have been me’ | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea and Coffee The Diamond Basement | ||
| 11:00-12:00 Session 10 | Keynote 3 The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 Becky Parry with Kathryn Reaney, Harry Wright, Maisie Dorlin and Olivia Downton (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) Children’s Capital of Culture: Reimagining Rotherham | ||
| 12:00-13:30 Session 11 | Panel T The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 02 SCHOOLS, RULES AND STORIES Chair: Catherine Ellis Ellen Ceder Henriksson (Södertörn University) Children out of Place: Exploring Truancy as Spatial Deviance in Sweden at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Daisy Johnson (Independent Researcher) ‘I feel I missed a very great deal’: Untangling the Relationship between Adult / Child Author in Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ School Stories Julia Bishop (University of Sheffield) Children and Young People’s Voices in the History of School Meals in Britain | Panel S The Diamond, G04 - Workroom 01 LOOK WIDE: WIDE GAMES AS A PLAYFUL, EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE, FROM THEIR GUIDING AND SCOUTING ORIGINS TO CONTEMPORARY DESIGN FOR ALL Catherine Bannister (University of Sheffield) Space, Story, Strategy, and Youth: Wide Games in Guiding and Scouting educational histories Alice Olusoga (Whiteley Woods Outdoor Activity Centre, Sheffield) Playing it Forward: Co-creating Wide Games Resources through Oral Histories of Play in Place Yinka Olusoga (University of Sheffield) From Campsite to Curriculum: The Future Potential for Wide Games in Formal Education | |
| 13:30 | Conference Close | ||
| 14:15-16:00 Western Bank Library | Visit to the University of Sheffield’s Special Collections to explore its multimedia holdings relating to children’s history, including the Archives of Cultural Tradition and National Fairground and Circus Archive. | Please assemble at the turnstiles of Western Bank Library (a 10-minute walk from The Diamond) at 14:15 in order to be signed in. Pre-booking is not required. There will be a short talk at the start followed by the opportunity to browse the collections on display. |
