Committee members Eileen Murphy and Grete Lillehammer are currently at the European Association of Archaeologists 22nd Annual Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, chairing a SSCIP sponsored session “Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage – The Old and the Young in Past Societies”. Eileen tells me, “Since older members of society, particularly grandparents, can play such an […]
Our interviewee is Dr Katie Hemer. Dr Hemer is currently a University of Sheffield Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, and will start her Lectureship there next year. She is the SSCIP Membership Secretary. Tell me a little bit about your research? To date, my research has mainly focused on the study of cemetery populations from early medieval […]
The SSCIP 2016 conference programme has just been announced with an impressive line up of international speakers approaching the conference theme of the Family in Past Perspective from a range of perspectives. Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past 2016 Programme Overview Tuesday 20th September 11:00 Registration Opens (St. Chad’s College, Durham) […]
SSCIP Conference 2016 The Family in Past Perspective: An interdisciplinary exploration of familial relationships through time 9th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past Location: St. Chad’s College, Durham University, 18 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RH Dates: Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd September 2016 Organisers: Dr. Becky Gowland and […]
A message from the SSCIP 2016 conference organisers: This is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the SSCIP conference is fast approaching (May 15th 2016). A final programme will be produced in June and emailed to members. We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers: Dr. Mary Lewis, Bioarchaeology, University of Reading […]
The new volume (9.1) for Childhood in the Past has just been released. Please click the journal link here. Eileen Murphy has provided an editorial that summarises recent SSCIP activities and events, and the great line-up of papers in this volume (below) Editorial Eileen M. Murphy Welcome to the spring issue of Volume nine of […]
A recent story of a 4,800-year-old ‘mother’ cradling a baby has been pulling at the heart strings of people worldwide with sensationalist headlines such as “Mother’s enduring love for baby revealed as 5000-year-old fossil found” and “Fossil of 5000-year-old mother cradling baby found in Taiwan”. But is this story everything it’s really cracked up to […] […]
Our interviewee is Dr Kirsty Squires, who is a Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology in the Department of Forensic and Crime Science at Staffordshire University (UK). She has been a member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past since 2011 and is the society’s outreach officer. Tell me a little bit about your […]
Jane Eva Baxter has announced an exciting opportunity to contribute to an upcoming Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) Monograph on 19th Century Childhoods: I am currently seeking participants for a volume on 19th century childhoods that is international and interdisciplinary in scope. Individual contributions do not have to be interdisciplinary, […]
World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8), Kyoto, 28th August- 2nd September 2016. Session: T05-M Experiences of Children in Conflict NOTE: Early bird registration and submission of papers for the WAC8 conference CLOSES on April 30 Organisers: Kirsty Squires and Caroline Sturdy Colls Contact: kirsty.squires(at)staffs.ac.uk Abstract: Studies that focus on conflict in both the past and present lay […]