Happy New Year. 2017 marked the 10 year anniversary of SSCIP and I have the pleasure of talking with one of the founders of the Society and the social archaeology of childhood, Professor Grete Lillehammer from the Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Norway. Tell me a little bit about your research? My main field […]
October was a busy month for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. On Saturday 14th October 2017, the society held a stall at The Big Biology Day at Staffordshire University. This annual event runs as part of the Royal Society of Biology’s “Biology Week”, which champions Life Sciences and was established […]
The 11th annual conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past will be jointly organised by the Institute of Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. The conference will be held at the Museum of Natural […]
Welcome to Part 2 of Volume 10 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP). This issue includes two research papers and five book reviews. In the first of the research papers Jennifer Bengtson highlights the lack of infant-focused research that has been undertaken […]
The first SSCIP biannual lecture will be taking place on 25th October 2017 at Staffordshire University. “Excavating Literature for Signs of Childness” Dr Farah Mendlesohn Abstract In this paper I will discuss how narratives around significant historical events–in this case the English Civil War–have triple layered constructions of childhood, sometimes (but not always) attempting to […]
Take a look at the contents of Childhood in the Past – Volume 10.1 – 2017: Editorial – Ten Years of Childhood in the Past Eileen M. Murphy Invited paper SSCIP: The First Ten Years Sally Crawford Research papers Landscapes of Childhood: Places and Material Culture Margarita Sánchez Romero Child Bioarchaeology: Perspectives on the Past […]
COMING SOON – FROM CHILDHOOD IN THE PAST MONOGRAPH SERIES SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDHOOD IN THE PAST, EDITED BY EILEEN MURPHY AND MÉLIE LE ROY Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a […]
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past 10th International Conference: The Life and Death of Children in the Past, November 6th – 8th, 2017, Templo Mayor Museum, Free Entrance Submission of proposals • Abstracts accepted from March 10th – June 30th, 2017. • All abstracts must be sent by e-mail to sscipmexico2017@hotmail.com • […]
(a message from the Forager Child Studies Group): We would like to inform you of a new and exciting research project coming out of the forager child studies research team (foragerchildstudies.wordpress.com). We are looking to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of the ecological factors that influence forager children’s participation in play and work activities across the […]
At the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, we want to share our passion and enthusiasm for this subject with professionals and the public alike. Therefore, we have been busy organising events that highlight the importance of children in the past. In October 2016, the Society was involved in the Big Biology […]