Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University,

 1^st Call for papers

4^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY

9-11 JULY 2012.

 To celebrate the 10^th year of the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University, (CSCY) this conference addresses the theme of diversity in the lives of children and young people.

 Issues to be explored include, but are not restricted to:

       Children’s and young people’s diverse social and cultural worlds

        Understanding identity and difference

        Structures and institutions as indices of childhood diversity

        Time, space and place

        Methodological innovations in childhood research

        Theorising similarity and difference

 Those wishing to organise small symposia around a specific theme are also invited to submit a proposal.

 Abstracts:

Abstracts of no more than 200 words (for papers) 400 words (for symposia) should be sent to the conference administrator, Dawn Lessels, by January 31^st 2012. E-mail: d.j.lessels@sheffield.ac.uk.  

 Check out our conference page: http://www.cscy.group.shef.ac.uk/activities/conferences/index.htm