We conclude our Annual Research Theme for 2014-2015 with a one-day conference on
Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth
The Cedars, Whiteknights, University of Reading
Thursday 24th September, 2015
Special thanks to Dr Jeremy Burchardt for organising a series of excellent events on the theme throughout the year and putting together the outstanding programme below.
To register, please fill out the online booking form here: http://store.rdg.ac/VenueReadingSymposium
09.30 | Registration and coffee |
10.00 | Welcome |
10.05 | Keynote: Professor Melanie Tebbutt (Manchester Metropolitan University), Listening Spaces |
11.00 | Dr Edwina Attlee (CASS School of Art and Architecture), Planning for Play |
11.30 | Coffee |
11.45 | Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick), Spaces and Places of Pre-school Childcare in Post-1945 England: Contemporary Reflections on Past Childhoods |
12.15 | Tiia Sahrakorpi (UCL), Creating Childhood Spaces in Hitler Youth Memoirs |
12.45 | Sara Hiorns (FCO/QMUL), Creating and Defining the Diplomatic Family Home |
13.15 | Lunch |
14.00 | Dr Jacqui Turner (University of Reading), ‘The Little Red Caps’: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Working Class Children 1890–1914 |
14.30 | Ruth Salter (University of Reading), Minors in Miracula: Children and Youths in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography |
15.00 | Tea/coffee |
15.15 | Dr Jenny Bavidge (University of Cambridge), Guides to London for Children from the 1790s to the Present Day |
15.45 | Rosanne Waine (Bath Spa University), Samplers as Spaces of Discourse: An Examination of Schoolgirl Agency |
16.15 | Daisy Johnson (University of York), ‘A real Chalet School girl’ : The space of childhood as represented within the Chalet School series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
16.45 | Tea/coffee |
17.00 | Linda Maynard (Birkbeck), ‘Dream Lives’: Fraternal Uses of Spaces of Childhood to Express Separation and Loss during Wartime |
17.30 | Dr Hannah Newton (University of Reading), Eternal Places: Children’s Emotional Response to Death and the Afterlife in Early Modern England |
18.00 | Conference ends |
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