Pitt is hosting its first interdisciplinary conference on Childhood Studies and Gender studies on April 6-7! A collaborative event between Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, the Children's Literature program, and the Humanities Center, the conference will include keynote speakers, panels, and meet the author sessions. Registration is free and open to all—and can be done online at https://www.playingwithchildhood.com/program/ where you may find out more about the conference. UPDATE: THERE IS NO NEED TO REGISTER IF YOU ARE A PITT STUDENT. Just show up! There will be an undergrad symposium running alongside the rest of the conference and details can be found here: http://www.gsws.pitt.edu/events/undergraduate-symposium-children-and-chi.... Much work and care has been put into planning by Julian Gill-Peterson, Frieda Cohen, Todd Reeser, Heidi Castaneda, Mary Grycko, Julie Beaulieu, Tyler Bickford, Courtney Weikle-Mills, and others and we hope that you can join us!
The keynote speakers are CJ Pascoe, associate professor at University of Oregon and author of Dude You're a Fag: Maculinity and Sexuality in High School (2007), Rebekah Sheldon, assistant professor at Indiana University and author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (2016), and Lauren Silver, associate professor at Rutgers Camden and author of System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation (2015), an ethnographic study with youth of color that explores their identity work and service negotiations in a large, urban child welfare system.
Attendees will be able to navigate the two-day conference via three different streams: Queer, Trans, and Gender Variant Childhood Studies; Critical Race and Black Childhood Studies; and Global Childhood Studies.