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Settler colonial genocides have a blurred nature. They are often committed by liberal, so-called “democratic” regimes, sustained by a body of citizens—a single group among other groups governed—who think the regime’s foundations are fair. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay bostonreview.net/articles/seein…

On September 30th, the systems which uphold colonialism are still in place and the harm continues. Reconciliation in practice has shifted away from transformation or ending harm and towards comforting Canadians. Read the full Brief: yellowheadinstitute.org/2024/09/30/a-d…

Mary Jane Logan McCallum Mary Jane McCallum, editor of the brand-new edition of BROWN TOM'S SCHOOLDAYS, writes about Indigenous print cultures and the importance of Enos Montour's 1985 novel for The Conversation Canada. Read the article here: theconversation.com/out-of-the-arc…

Enjoying this. A thing about presentism anxiety that baffles me is it presumes we know the present and don’t know the past. But we don’t know the present - psychoanalysis shows us that - and to claim otherwise is an assertion that only follows from a positivist sense of history

I ain’t reading all of that, Free Palestine

We're excited to share this term's programme for the History of Childhood seminar - we can't wait to be back! Starting Monday 21 October at 11am. All sessions are hybrid, so join us at Magdalen College Oxford or online. See you soon! Full details here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/i…

Join us on Friday, October 18 at 3pm in M1040 (or on zoom) to hear Dr. Ben Whaley's talk "Japanese Video Games: Toward a History of Empathetic Engagement." All are welcome!

CFP AAG 2025: Historical Geographies of Childhood. Please join Prof. Meghan Cope @geomeg and I in Detroit in March! Abstracts due October 25, 2024.

Less than a week away!

Post your favorite "Desire Paths". These are paths that naturally form as a result of bad planning.

A note for tomorrow: ANYONE WHO IS TRICK-OR-TREATING AT FIFTEEN IS PRESUMPTIVELY CLINGING TO THE RITUALS OF CHILDHOOD AT THE MOST DISCOMBOBULATING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES. THROW CANDY AND KINDNESS AT THEM

The Call for Papers for SHCY's 2025 Meeting is now live, with an important update from President Nick Syrett: shcy.org/events1/call-f… #shcy2025

Hey Tricks & Treats! Elio Colavito and I are happy (and sad!) to announce the final entry for this year’s Whorestory speaker series on November 13th from 12:10-2pm EST. Join us at this talk for, “’Sex Work is Work, Duh!’: Organizing and Understanding Sex Worker Labour(s).”

“Settler-colonialism [is] bound inside a number of conundrums centred around the concept of childhood, and the real existence of people categorised, variously, as children.” decolonialhacker.org/article/we-mus…

Nominations for SHCY's 2025 prizes are now open! We'll be publicizing them individually over the coming days, but see here for a complete list of the updated calls: shcy.org/awards/current…

Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r