The Conference will focus on developing concepts and problem-solving frameworks, at the same time promoting regional networks for teaching, research and publication on children and childhood. Plenary sessions on cross-cutting themes of particular regional importance – research methods, education and HIV/AIDS – will be combined with four specialist symposia:
- The everyday lives of children in Asia-Pacific;
- Children, citizenship and policy in Asia-Pacific;
- Change and continuity in Asia-Pacific childhoods;
- Violence and children in Asia-Pacific
The central location and excellent facilities of the National University of Singapore make it an ideal institutional setting for the Conference as well as for longer-term follow up. The Conference fits one of the University’s stated goals - to foster multi-disciplinary research - and children and childhood are of special interest to a number of Departments and Institutes, including the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, which jointly hosted a preparatory workshop in July 2004
The Conference will take place 17- 20 July 2006, on the campus of the National University of Singapore. Participation will be by invitation. No ‘call for papers’ will be made, but Organising and Scientific Committees are actively seeking further young and established scholars carrying out research on children and childhood in Asian and Pacific countries. Participants will be researchers from any relevant academic discipline. Because one aim is to foster networking, activists, policymakers and representatives of donor agencies who have an interest in research on children and childhood, will be encouraged to attend in order to improve the interface between academics and practitioners.
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