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Regulation of Childhood and Youth (Lecture Series ZKJF) (Winter 2025/2026)
German Lecture Series
Childhood and adolescence are highly regulated phases of life. In these phases of life, regulation takes place, for example, on the part of the welfare state, the education and care system, the family and the peer group or legally, e.g. on the basis of the Eighth Social Code (SGB VIII).
The lecture series centres on the questions of how children and young people are constructed in different contexts as those in need of protection, unreasonable, sources of danger or potentially permanently at risk and what scope for action is attributed to them as independent actors. Since the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, their rights have been discussed in the field of tension between protection, promotion and participation rights. The restructuring of the investment-based welfare state and the current reforms of Book VIII of the Social Code with a view to inclusion are also bringing children and young people into focus as central addressees - especially in places of institutional regulation such as day-care centres, schools, child and youth welfare or juvenile criminal law.
The speakers will use empirical analyses and theoretical reflections to shed light on the diverse forms and effects of the regulation of childhood and youth.
The lecture series by the Centre for Childhood and Youth Studies is aimed at students and staff of all faculties and subject areas as well as anyone interested in the topic.
- Event Dates
We are looking forward to welcome the following guests and lectures:
22.10.2025 | Kindheits- und Jugendtheoretische Perspektiven auf die politische, wohlfahrtsstaatliche und interaktive Regulierung von Lebensphasen | Prof. Dr. Stephan Dahmen (Universität Bielefeld)
19.11.2025 | Zeitliche Ordnungen und Regulierungen in Bezug auf das Wohlergehen von Kindern | Prof.in Dr.in Susann Fegter (Technische Universität Berlin)
10.12.2025 | Dezentrierung des Politischen. Kindheit und Demokratie | Dr.in Sarah Mühlbacher (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.)
14.01.2026 | Kindheit und Wohlfahrtsstaat – Kontinuität und Wandel | Prof.in Dr.in Johanna Mierendorff (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
21.01.2026 | Zwischen "benachteiligt" und "Leistungsträger[*innen]". Das Reden über junge Menschen im Bundestag zwischen 1989 und 2023 | Nico Noltemeyer & Dr. Max Breger (Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld)
"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 2025/2026
- 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
