{"id":1109,"date":"2015-07-14T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:59:07","slug":"an-exciting-symposium-on-colonial-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/an-exciting-symposium-on-colonial-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"An exciting symposium on colonial childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Research on Colonial Culture is hosting a free two-day symposium, <span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u2018Unpicking the tapestry: children and young people in British colonial contexts\u2019<\/span>, comprising 16 different papers on this theme by a range of scholars from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the USA, and with roundtable discussions to end each day\u2019s sessions.\u00a0 This will be held in the Seminar Room, Hocken Collections, 24-25 August.\u00a0 Click here for the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2015\/07\/Draft-Programme.pdf\">Draft Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1113\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2015\/07\/kristine.alexander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1113\" class=\"wp-image-1113 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2015\/07\/kristine.alexander.jpg\" alt=\"kristine.alexander\" width=\"130\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Kristine Alexander<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As part of this event, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Dr Kristine Alexander<\/span> of Leithbridge University, a Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies, will be giving a <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">public lecture, &#8220;A Tangled Web: Childhood, Colonialism, and Archives&#8221;.<\/span>\u00a0 This will be be held in Burns 2, 24 August at 5.30pm.\u00a0 All interested people are warmly invited.<\/p>\n<p>In particular the symposium is interested in addressing a number of key questions which include: What does it mean to talk about \u2018colonial childhoods or adolescence\u2019 or to think about children and young people in relation to colonialism? What colonial sites were significant or influential for children\u2019s and young people\u2019s lives, and in what colonial sites were children influential? To what extent were children and young people constrained by boundaries or moved fluidly across boundaries (eg. gender, race or ethnicity, nation, class, religion), and to what effect? What are the sources for excavating and interpreting colonial childhoods? What are the gaps and silences? How do we negotiate these? In what ways might a comparative approach (across colonial societies) expand or limit our understanding of colonial childhoods and adolescence? What are the significant challenges and opportunities in this field of academic enquiry?<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in attending the symposium, please contact hugh.morrison@otago.ac.nz by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Research on Colonial Culture is hosting a free two-day symposium, \u2018Unpicking the tapestry: children and young people in British colonial contexts\u2019, comprising 16 different papers on this theme by a range of scholars from New Zealand, Australia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17444],"tags":[39683,17459,17474,39684],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symposium","tag-childhood-studies","tag-colonialism","tag-crocc","tag-kristine-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}