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 (Sessions 1-4)
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | Introduction and Welcome | ||
| 9:30-11:00 Session 1 | Panel A INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Artie McCarthy, ‘Hands Around the World’ - Indigenous Children and Internationalism in the Interwar Period Catherine Freeman, ‘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 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 PLAY IN STREET AND PLAYGROUND Tsai-Yuan Ko, Making Space in the Urban Street: Gender, Materiality, and Working-Class Children's Geographies, 1870-1914 Srinita Majumdar and Yiru Wang, The Grounds of Play: YMCA and the Early History of Playgrounds for Children in Twentieth Century India and China Emilija Jacevičienė, Children’s Street Games in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Lithuania: How Space Shapes Play | Panel C Caring Spaces? Place, Identity and Belonging in Children’s Social Care, 1800-Present Jade Shepherd “[E]vidently she is the pet of the family”: Expectations and Experiences of Boarding Out in the East Midlands, 1870-1930 Claudia Soares Transformative Environments? Home, Street and Care Settings across the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Jim Hinks ‘Food, shelter and mother love’? The World of the Boarded-Out Child in Twentieth Century Scotland 1908-1968 Kate Wilson, Housing the Past: Care-Experienced Children and Young People’s Memories of Housing Insecurity in Oral History Interviews |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | ||
| 11:30-13:00 Session 2 | Panel D MULTIGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOODS Simon Sleight and Shirleene Robinson, Surviving and Reflecting: Intergenerational responses to the Canberra bushfires Harriet Bee, From ‘walking out’ to ‘going steady’: Girlhood and the Americanisation of Dating Rituals in Liverpool and Melbourne, c.1950-1970 Rhianedd Collins, Digital Playgrounds: Exploring the History of Childhood Play through Intergenerational Video Game Co-Production | Panel E HOMES AWAY FROM HOME Rosie Canning and Delyth Edwards, Imagined Home in Care-Experienced Childhoods Iria Suárez Martínez, Plants as Agents of Care inside Victorian and Edwardian Children's Hospitals Joachim Brenner, Losing, Reflecting and Creating Home: Children Write about Home and Flight in the Aftermath of World War II | Panel F Assembling Intergenerational Remembrance Creation, Curatorship and Research around Historical Genocides Macarena García-González, Albert Elduque Busquets, and Michelle Rennerova, Curatorial Agency and Difficult Memories: Challenges of Children’s Participation in Remembrance Practices Marija Todorova, Children Bearing Witness to War Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Katarzyna Liszka, Anna Czerwińska and Sonia Ruszkowska, Co-Creating Holocaust Memory: Youth-led Curatorial Practices and Intergenerational Dialogue at POLIN Museum María BerrÍos, The Carceral Politics of Unchilding. Childhood Imprisonment and its Fabulations |
| 13:00-14:15 | Lunch | ||
| 14:15-15:45 Session 3 | Panel G ACTIVISM Nathaniel Andrews Anarchist Childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945 Laura Tisdall Schools, Students and Chronological Age in Cold War Britain (c.1956-1989) | Panel H Children’s Publishing as a Cosmopolitan Space 1970s-present (panel discussion) Lucy Pearson Sophie Heywood Emma Page | |
| 15:45-16:15 | Break | ||
| 16:15-17:15 Session 4 | Keynote 1 Karen Sands-O’Connor and Darren Chetty The Child Inside, Outside, and Breaking Down the Walls of Children’s Literature’s Secret Garden | ||
| 17:15-18:15 | Book Launch (TBC) |
Day 2: Thursday, 2 July (Sessions 5-8)
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 09:00-10:30 Session 5 | Panel I GIRLS AND GIRLHOODS Taylar Carty, ‘An Age Capable of Being Useful': Enslaved Black Girlhood in the British Caribbean Jordyn Beaupré, The Perpetually Liminal Girl: Serial Displacement and Moral Uncertainty in Transnational Victorian Child Rescue Agnes Hamberger, Working-Class School Girls and the Educational Spaces of the Nineteenth century | Panel J CHILDREN AND THE POLITICAL Nazan Cicek, ‘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 Tuva Skjelbred, Nodeland Imagining Catastrophe: Scandinavian Children, Nuclear War and Spaces of Imagination Catherine Ellis, Postwar British Trade Union Leadership and Intergenerational Solidarity | Panel K Educational Journeys through Time and Space Reflections on Autobiographical Practices of German Young People Michael Rocher, Escaping School Punishment in 1752: Autobiographical Practices between Honour and Belonging Sylvia Wehren, Outside the Domestic Sphere: Youth Mobility, Gender, and Class in 19th Century Youth Diaries Kerrin v. Engelhardt, Mapping Transitions: Space, Time and Youth Self-Narration in the 1920s Sylvia Kesper-Biermann, Sharing Educational Journeys: Circular Letters of Hamburg Secondary School Graduates, 1942-2009 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 Session 6 | Panel L DISPLACEMENT, BELONGING AND IDENTITY Zehavit Schenkolewski, The Voice of Immigrant Children: Emigration, Absorption and Identity of Jewish Immigrants Children to Israel during the Mandate Period Lukas Schretter, 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, Children, Localised Displacement and the Making of Play Spaces in a Dense Urban Settlement in Lagos | Panel M VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDHOOD Susmita Prakash, Carved Childhoods: Representation of Children in Public Spaces in Ancient Indian Sculptures (ca. 2nd century BCE to 5th century CE) Andrea Griffante, Drawing Independence: Child Art, the Collapse of the USSR, and the Re-Emergence of Independent Lithuania | Panel N Sibling Relationships in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British and Australian Care Institutions Chair: Jessamy Carlson Delyth Edwards, ‘It was through some Iron railing bars’: The Architecture, Practice and Legacy of Separating Infant Siblings in Care Claire Phillips, Sibling Relationships in Welsh Workhouses, c.1880-1930 Johanne Taylor, ‘Priggish pragmatism’: The Management of Sibling Relationships in South Australian State Care, 1898-1912 |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | Children’s History Society AGM | |
| Session 7 14:00-15:00 | Keynote 2 Caroline Bressey Archival Scenes and Critical Fabulations of Family and Place Intergenerational Stories of Maddison, from Enslavement to the London County Council | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Break | ||
| 15:30-17:00 Session 8 | Panel O CHILDHOODS AND FAMILIES Ugnė Jonaityte, The Other Side of Childhood: Child Abandonment and Infanticide in 18th Century Lithuania David Bell, Child-adult sibling relationships in ancient Mediterranean households: implications for everyday experience and early-Christian kinship identity Meri Dickson, A Golden Childhood: Fairy Belief, Nostalgia and the Construction of Childhood Spaces | Panel P Where Are Our Histories? Creating Places and Spaces for Care Experienced Voices, Actions, Identities and Memories through Recordkeeping Kirsten Wright Elizabeth Lomas Anna Sexton Belinda Battley | Panel Q RESIDENTIAL INSTITUTIONS Ireland Wright, ‘I became a man in a child's body’: Indigenous Childhood and Identity in the Canadian Residential School System Jessamy Carlson and Tahaney Alghrani, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: English Approaches to the Juvenile Secure Estate in the Long Twentieth Century Seonaid Anthoney, ‘The Home as their own’? The Metropolitan Police Home and Sexually Abused Girls in Early Twentieth Century London |
| 19:00 (drink) for 19:30 (meal) | Conference Dinner South Street Kitchen | South Streek Kitchen is accessible via Sheffield Supertram for those who wish to use public transport. We will lead a party from the University of Sheffield tram stop, meeting time TBC |
Day 3: Friday, 3 July (Sessions 9-11)
| 08:30-09:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 09:00-10:30 Session 9 | Panel R GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGININGS Sulthana Nasrin, Learning to Read in Colonial Kerala: Notes While Organising a Transnational Literary Textbooks Archive Betül Gaye Dinc, “My Geography’s Rather Vague”: Elinor Lyon’s Cartographic Storytelling across Her Oeuvre Sydney Stitt, Imagining the Hunt: Tigers and Environmental Consciousness in Imperial Childhoods of the Late Victorian Period | Panel S Space, Emotion and Disability in Early Twentieth Century Britain Mary Clare Martin, Coming of Age with Disabilities in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Education, Space and Emotion Philip Milnes-Smith and Nicola Lane, “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, Encountering Difficult Histories: ‘This could have been me’ | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-12:00 Session 10 | Presentation by Rotherham Children's Capital of Culture | ||
| 12:00-13:30 Session 11 | Panel T Look Wide Wide Games as a Playful, Educational Practice, from their Guiding and Scouting origins to contemporary design for all Yinka Olusoga, Alice Olusoga, Catherine Bannister Space, Story, Strategy, and Youth: Wide Games in Guiding and Scouting educational histories Playing it Forward: Co-creating Wide Games resources through oral histories of play in place From Campsite to Curriculum: The Future Potential for Wide Games in Formal Education | Panel U SCHOOLS, RULES AND STORIES Ellen Ceder Henriksson, Children out of Place: Exploring Truancy as Spatial Deviance in Sweden at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Daisy Johnson, “I feel I missed a very great deal”: Untangling the relationship between Adult / Child Author in Early Twentieth-Century Girls’ School Stories Julia Bishop, Children and Young People’s Voices in the History of School Meals in Britain | Panel V
Documenting Children and Family
Belonging and Ownership in Urban
Space (screening and presentation) Maire Tracey Liza Ryan-Carter Chloe Williams |
| 13:30 | Conference Close | ||
| 14:00-15:30 approx | Optional visit to Special Collections at the University of Sheffield (a short walk from The Diamond) to explore its multimedia holdings relating to children’s history, including the Archives of Cultural Tradition and National Fairground and Circus Archive |
