Childhood
Cultures "Book Planning Day" **advance booking preferred**
Speaker(s): Convened by Professor Debbie Epstien, University
of Cardiff, and Dr Nina Laurie, University of Newcastle
Venue: G9, Percy Building
Date: Thursday, 19th May 2005
Time: 10:00am
Childhood Cultures "Book Planning Day". 10am to 3pm Thursday 19th
May. For catering purposes please indicate your attendance in advance (email:
s.g.m.barber@ncl.ac.uk).
Dialogue
session
Venue: G7, Percy Building
Date: Thursday, 27th May 2004
Time: 1:00pm
Dialogue session, focusing on exploring and developing the possibility of submitting
a funding application to the ESRC seminar programme. New and existing members
of the group are very welcome to attend and contribute.
Childhood
Cultures Research Group Dialogue Event
Speaker(s): Phil Powrie (School of Modern Languages),
James Leggott (School of Modern Languages), Kate Thorpe (School of English Literature,
Language and Linguistics), all University of Newcastle
Venue: G9, Percy Building
Date: Thursday, 22nd April 2004
Time: 1:00pm
Dialogue session, focusing on exploring and developing the possibility of submitting
a funding application to the ESRC seminar programme. New and existing members
of the group are very welcome to attend and contribute.
Researching
childhood: themes and issues across the disciplines
Speaker(s): colleagues from across the Faculty will give
brief presentations on the current state of research on children and childhood
in their field
Venue: Percy Building G9
Date: Wednesday, 29th September 2004
Time: 12:00pm
In our first year of existence, we have been holding a series of internal research forums in order to develop dialogue and identify areas of shared concern. More than a dozen colleagues and research students have presented their work, on topics as diverse as consulting with children about landscape, children’s columns in nineteenth-century newspapers, and the representation of children in French film.
In the second year, we will invite visiting speakers to these meetings, to provide outside stimulus and raise the profile of the group externally. The exchange of ideas and interests that takes place in these meetings will contribute to the development of a funding application to appropriate research councils, to organise a collaborative, interdisciplinary conference and write a book focussing on theoretical & methodological issues in the field. The group will also play host to the annual national postgraduate conference, ‘The Child and the Book’.