Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Programme:
09:15-09:30 Welcome – Julia Gustavsson (University of Oxford)
09:30-11:00 Age and the State
Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge) “Infants in the eyes of the law”: Age and Development in the History of Canadian Indian Policy
Jessamy Carlson (The National Archives) “Lorry girls”: absconding and the adjultification of girls in government discourse
Vicky Taylor (University of Oxford) Adultified and criminialised: the construction of childhood in the UK government’s response to people arriving on “small boats”
11:15-12:05 Keynote Paper – Laura Tisdall (Unversity of Newcastle) “It wasn’t about trying to be adults”: becoming child-ish in late Cold War Britain
12:50-13:40 Keynote Paper – Bonnie Evans (University of Manchester) Why internationalism matters to the history of childhood: The World Health Organisation and universal approaches to neurodevelopment, 1948-2025
13:45-15:00 Developing Bodies
Suzanna Winterbourne (University of Oxford) “People are apt to look upon the subject in a wholly frivolous way”: children’s dress, growth and movement in British popular literature (1880-1914)
Shereece Linton-Ramsay (University of Oxford) Staff discipline and Black children’s responses at New York juvenile prisons (1915-1950)
Serena Iacobino (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Degeneration theories and the construction of the ‘new imperial child’: the case of girls’ education in colonial Congo (1908-1960)
Leting Zheng (University of Oregon) Competing®evolutionary narratives: children, labour and happiness during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)
Charlie Bell (Kings’s College, London) “Food for thought”: the (pseudo)science of child development in late 20th century Britain
15:15-16:45 Normalisation and Welfare
Hugh Morrison (University of Otago) Colonisation and the language of age: southern New Zealand (1848-1868)
Katie Joice (Birkbeck College, University of London) The limits of Bowlbyism: disability, social policy, and the ‘right to childhood’ in 1970s Britain
Thomas Parkinson (University of Cambridge) Becoming a normal, voluble human: on speech and hearing science in India
16:50-17:25 Keynote Commentary – Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford) Recording childhood: from baby biographies to neuroscience
Registration required:
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