Children
in Crisis Conference |
||
|
|
||
 |
||
|
Children in Crisis: This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. No registration required. Lipman Room, 8th Floor of Barrows Hall This conference, sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Urban
Ethnography, will bring together researchers from around the world
to share their findings on the difficult circumstances in which many
children live and offer insights into what can be done about these
situations. This interdisciplinary conference will illuminate the
lives of children at war, displaced children, street kids, children
in dire poverty, and children grappling with crippling disparities
through first-person observational accounts. The investigators who
will present at the conference have lived alongside these children
and immersed themselves in the difficulties that constitute their
everyday lives. The conference hopes to illuminate what childhood
is like for those youth caught in a constant state of crisis, and
offer potential policy solutions to the problems these children face. Friday, October 30, 2009 8:30am Doors Open 9:00-9:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Conference
Organizer, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Chair: Deborah Lustig, PhD, Research Associate, Training Coordinator,
“Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention” Panelists: Dawn Chatty, University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford, UK “Refugees in the Middle East: Identity Politics among Sahrawi, Palestinian and Afghani Youth” Philip Kilbride, Professor of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College “Longitudinal repeated ethnography in Kenya: theoretical implications for a universal, gendered, cultural understanding of children in harsh circumstances” Discussants: 12:00-1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30-4:00pm Panel 2: “Violence, Morality and Survival” Chair: Michel Laguerre Panelists: Gina Crivello, PhD, Researcher, “Young Lives” study, and Jo Boyden, PhD, Director, “Young Lives Research Centre,” Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK “Situating risk in children's social and moral worlds: Young Lives research in Ethiopia and Peru” J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Muhlenberg College “No Balm in Gilead: Childhood, Suffering, and Survival in Haiti” Discussants: Corey M. Abramson, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley Jennifer Randles, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:30am Doors Open 9:00am-12:30pm Panel 3: “Structure, Mobility and Health” Chair: Barrie Thorne, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley Panelists: Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas-Austin “Children at Toxic Risk: Experience and Denial” Lewis Aptekar, Professor of Counselor Education, San Jose State University “‘Street children’”, “‘AIDS orphans’” and “‘Unprotected minors’”: What you read is not what you see. Lessons from ethnographic research and humanitarian assistance” Prudence Carter, Associate Professor in the School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of Sociology, Stanford University “(Im)permeable Boundaries: Why Integration into Affluent White-Majority Schools Is Elusive” Discussants: 12:30-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-3:30pm Panel 4: “What Can Be Done?” A Roundtable on Policy Implications Chair: Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley Panelists: Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas-Austin Lewis Aptekar, Professor of Counselor Education, San Jose State University Prudence Carter, Associate Professor in the School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of Sociology, Stanford University Dawn Chatty, University Reader in Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford, UK Gina Crivello, PhD, Researcher, “Young Lives” study, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK Philip Kilbride, Professor of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Muhlenberg College This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. For more information, please contact cueconference@gmail.com or call Usree Bhattacharya at 510-642-0813. | ||
