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Call for pieces for Digital Childhoods - the digital companion of the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY (@shcy.bsky.social)): shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/contribute

Register below for our colloquium Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences on 23 June, in Oxford or online. There's only a few spaces left to come in person so sign up soon if you'd like to join us in Oxford!

Call for Blog Submissions! Interested in sharing your #histed research? Submit a blog post to the History of Education Society: historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blog-…

A one-day symposium: "New perspectives on nineteenth-century childhoods." Where: London, UK. When: 4 June (next week). tickettailor.com/events/qmul19c…

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

This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise-o…

The program and additional registration information are available on SHCY's website: shcy.org/events1/regist…

All conference participants must also be paid-up members of the SHCY; you may join the SHCY here: shcy.press.jhu.edu/membership/join

🖥️ Upcoming Seminar this month! Tom Cryer (UCL) ‘Schooling for Freedom: Reflections on African American Education and the Struggle for Black Citizenship in the American South, c.1867-1947’. Wednesday 18th of June at 5pm Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/716YCzMsu4 #histed

The book talk I did at JF Books 季風書園 is now up on Youtube! This was a really fun event, and it was a true honor to share my research at such a fantastic institution for promoting China studies (which also happens to be the coolest book store in DC)

I am really delighted that the edited volume I have been working on for the past 3 years with Valeria LLobet Didier Reynaert and Wouter Vandenhole has just been published open access. The book brings together a fabulous selection of scholars. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…..

In this week's blog post, Berry Pillot de Chenecey takes us to children in London during World War II who used shrapnel pieces for their play and imagination: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-curren…

Call for colloquium papers: "Acknowledge Place and More-than-Human: Conceptualisation of Children and Youth’s Living Spaces in the Anthropocene." Abstracts are due by 25 August. The colloquium will take place online in October.

We recently announced a Call for Papers for our next Annual Conference this November in Winchester! You can submit an abstract now until Thursday 31st of July! PGRs are especially welcome. Information: historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/ #histed #cfp #conference #history #education

Public Policy Research Fellow position ('25-'27) at Centre for HPS, University of Leeds! Come work with me on my Wellcome Research Project on 'Moral Babies' and the 'Science' of Infancy in 19th-century America and Britain. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCPR1077

This week on the blog Sabine Fruhstuck shares a quintessential Japanese childish thing: the randsel. Read more about this iconic backpack here: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/carrying-t…

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