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Childhood Inequalities across Global Contexts (Lecture Series ZKJF) (Winter 2024/2025)
International Lecture Series
The lecture series explores how societal inequalities, such as social class differences, shape contemporary childhoods, children’s lives, and perspectives across various cultural and national contexts. The guest lecturers have diverse epistemic, theoretical, and research backgrounds in the social and educational sciences. A common theme among the lectures is how children’s hopes, aspirations, beliefs, and perceptions contribute to inequalities in their educational opportunities and shape their future life chances. Additionally, the lectures will examine how parental strategies, resources, and family practices contribute to inequalities in children's approaches to learning and education. Topics discussed throughout the semester include the experiences of children growing up in diverse places, children’s representations of class status and their future, and experiences of educational migration.
The international lecture series organised by the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies is aimed at students and staff of all faculties and disciplines and anyone interested in the topic. The accompanying seminar allows students to earn credits relevant to their studies. The lectures will be in English, and the accompanying class (250284) will be conducted in German and English.
- Event Dates
We are looking forward to the following presentations and to our guests:
23.10.24, 4-6 p.m. (CET) | Dr Dieter Vandebroeck, Professor | Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BEL) | Learning to Navigate Social Space. The Early Development of Children’s Perception and Judgment of Class Inequality
13.11.24, 4-6 p.m. (CET) | Dr Janice Aurini, Associate Professor | University of Waterloo (CAN) | From Fear of Falling to Controlled Descent? How Upper-Middle Class Parents Manage Downward Mobility Risks
20.11.24, 4-6 p.m. (CET) | Dr Siqi Tu, Research Fellow | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (GER) | The Chinese “Parachute Generation”: Family Strategies and the “New” Transnational Class
04.12.24, 4-6 p.m. (CET) | Dr Adrienne Lee Atterberry, VAP | University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA) | Partners in Privilege: Parents and their Children Crafting Transnational Futures
15.01.25, 4-6 p.m. (CET) | Dr Kevin Diter, Maître de Conférence | Université de Lille (FRA) | C’est pô juste! [It’s sooo unfair!]: The Socially Differentiated Perceptions of (In)justice in Children Aged 5.5 to 10.5 Years. First Results from the ELFE Longitudinal Survey
"What’s next? New perspectives on (early) childhood education and care"
International Online Lecture Series
The objective of the event series is to facilitate discourse on novel perspectives in childhood education and research, thereby enhancing the current discourse. Individuals with an interest in this compelling topic from the realms of science and education are invited to participate free of charge. Further information and registration can be found at: https://s.gwdg.de/w1wbJn
The lecture series is being organised by the Research Center for Early Childhood in Lower Saxony (University of Hildesheim), the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies (Bielefeld University) and the Institute for Theory and Empiricism of Social Questions (ITES).
The lecture series is organized by: Prof Dr Peter Cloos, Prof Dr Meike Sophia Baader, Christoph Kairies (University of Hildesheim); Dr Jennifer Carnin (Bielefeld University), Stephanie Simon (TU Dortmund University).
- Lectures Winter 2024/2025
- 20.01.2025, 18.15 - 19.45 Uhr (CET/UTC +1) (registration until 19.01.2025) Ursina Jaeger: "Kindheit jenseits öffentlicher Institutionen. Die Diversität pädagogischer Alternativität und ihre Implikationen für die Kindheitsforschung" [German Lecture, 'Childhood beyond public institutions. The Diversity of Pedagogical Alternativity and its Implications for Childhood Research']
- 27.01.2025, 18.15 - 19.45 Uhr (CET/UTC +1) (registration until 26.01.2025) Wiebke Hiemesch:"Von Straßenbahnen, Hafenbecken und dem Turmbau zu Babel. Zeichnungen jüdischer Kinder aus dem Hamburg der 1930er Jahre als Quellen einer Kindheitsgeschichte" [German lecture, 'Of trams, harbour basins and the Tower of Babel. Drawings by Jewish children from Hamburg in the 1930s as sources of a childhood story']
- Lectures Summer 2024
