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Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
The Centre for the History of Childhood aims to promote the study of children, youth and childhood in the past through supporting research within and beyond Oxford, fostering a community of researchers and sharing new research through public engagement activity.
Seminars are works-in-progress, designed to offer a space to researchers working on childhood-related themes to share ideas and to get feedback on new work.
All welcome – and to join us for lunch afterwards.
Seminars take place in the Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College, and online via Microsoft Teams, unless otherwise stated.
To find out more, join the mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/history-of-childhood or follow us on Bluesky (at)histchildoxford.bsky.social or Instagram (at)histchildoxford .
If you would be interested in presenting a paper or organising a discussion session, please email mailto:sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk
For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance or email mailto:sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk for a link.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Christina de Bellaigue,
Sian Pooley,
Helen Sunderland
Timing: Mondays 11:00-12:15; in person and online via Microsoft Teams
Web Address:
https://history.web.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood#/
Organising department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Monday 20 October 2025
Welcome seminar and discussion of approaches to ‘play’ within histories of childhood and youth
Date: 20 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
:
N/A
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 November 2025
Children on the streets. Conceptual thoughts on a history of modernity and empirical explorations on the example of the late German Empire
Date: 3 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
:
Joey Rauschenberger (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online vya Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 November 2025
Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
Date: 17 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
:
Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 December 2025
Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
Date: 1 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
:
Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
