We are delighted to welcome Lynne McKerr, Kirsty Squires, Sian Halcrow, Margarita Sanchez Romero and Ann Nehlin to the SSCIP committee! Ann is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of History at Stockholm University. She is working on a project concerning the transportation of Finnish children to Sweden during WWII which is funded by the Swedish […]
Society members Eileen Murphy and Grete Lillehammer have been informed that their session proposal ‘Giving New Meaning to Cultural Heritage: The Old and the Young in Past Societies’ has been provisionally accepted by the EAA Scientific Committee for the conference program 2016.
EAA conference Current Approaches to Archaeological Juvenile Burials [Session ID: R17] Melie Le Roy and Eileen Murphy Juvenile interments are frequently discovered within a variety of funerary and domestic contexts. Each burial has its own form; the body is positioned in a particular manner and they are sometimes associated with funerary goods and the remnants […]
Registration for the 8th International Conference at DePaul University, Chicago September 11-13 2015 is now open! This year’s theme is The Ideal Child: Presentation, Representation, and Commemoration. As in previous years, the conference will include sessions and presentations that address the conference theme, as well as others that focus on aspects of recent research into […]
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past is an interdisciplinary society to promote all aspects of the study of childhood in the past. Childhood in the past is a new and growing discipline, incorporating archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, sociology, psychology and many other studies. Our range is global; our chronology runs […]