NEWSLETTER

Society for the History of Children and Youth

UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE FIELD

History of Childhood and the American Studies Association
William Bush, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

 Adam Golub and Bill Bush co-founded the Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association shortly after the 2005 annual meeting, in the hopes of fostering cooperation between scholars who studied childhood and youth from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. At the 2006 ASA conference we held our first business meeting, and we currently have nearly two dozen members, ranging from pre-doctoral graduate students to senior scholars. We are in the process of developing a web site and listserv, and are sponsoring our first ASA panels at the fall 2007 meeting in Philadelphia (October 11-14:  for more information see http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/ )

Activities sponsored and/or organized (technically we are not sponsoring the juvenile justice panel because caucuses are only allowed to sponsor one panel per conference) by the American Studies Association Childhood and Youth Studies Caucus at this fall's annual meeting:

"Childhood and Youth Studies: Surveying an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field."
"Breakfast of Champions" Roundtable Panel for Graduate Students, co-sponsored with the ASA Students' Committee

Panel Participants:
Paula Fass, U. of California-Berkeley
Myra Bluebond-Langner, Rutgers University
William Bush, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas

I. Keywords in the Historical Study of Children and Youth

Chair: Lynne Vallone, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers U.
Panel Participants:
 "Character":  Jay Mechling, American Studies, U. of California, Davis
"Innocence": Leslie Paris, History, U. of British Columbia
"Consumer Culture":  Daniel Thomas Cook, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers U.
"Politics": Julia Mickenberg, American Studies, U. of Texas-Austin
Comment: Lynne Vallone, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers U.

II. Forty Years of Juvenile Justice Studies in North America:
Revisiting Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers (1969, 1977)

Chair: Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Chicana/o Studies, U. of California, Davis
Panel Participants:
Anthony M. Platt, School of Social Work, California State U., Sacramento
Mary Odem, Women's Studies and History, Emory University
Tamara Myers, History, U. of British Columbia
Geoff Ward, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern U.
William Bush, History, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas
Comment: The Audience

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The Society for the Social History of Medicine is organising a multi-disciplinary conference entitled Children, Disability and Community Care from 1850 to the Present Day to be held on 24-25 October 2007. Further details are available from http://www.centres.ex.ac.uk/medhist/conferences/children/index.shtml

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An academic symposium entitled, Scouting: A Centennial History Symposium, will be organised by the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University on 15 February 2008 celebrating and analyzing the development of Scouting, for boys and girls, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The keynote speaker is Professor John R. Gillis. Further information is available at: http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/tproctor/scoutwebpage08.htm