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)
12:55 Welcome to SSCIP 2016 (Sally Crawford), St. Chad’s College
Session 1: Relative Needs: The Provision of Care and Resources within Families
Chair: Rebecca Gowland
13:00 Keynote: Professor Helen Ball (Durham University)
Postpartum sleep deprivation—how do parents cope?
13:40 Margarita Sánchez Romero
Families’ technologies: what makes us stand together?
14:05 Sian Halcrow
The unborn: foetuses in bioarchaeology
14:30 Claire Hodson
Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating perinatal and maternal health stress in medieval and post-medieval London (14th-19th Century)
14:55 Mary Clare Martin
Grandparenting revisited: cross-generational relationships in the London hinterland, 1740-1870
15:20 Refreshments
15:50 Maria Sommer
Family constructions and adult-child relationships in the Ancient Athenian Oikos
16:15 Sandra Wheeler, Tosha Dupras, and Lana Williams
Entering the “Valley of Death”: Isotopic Evidence of Disruption in the Mother-Infant Nexus at Roman Period Kellis, Egypt
16:40 Maureen Carroll
Seeking Divine Assistance in Matters of Family Continuity in Early Roman Italy
17:05 Ellen Kendall, Andrew Millard, and Rebecca Gowland
Mother-love in the time of malaria: endemic disease and parent-child relations in Britain
18:30 Evening Wine Reception (Tunstall Gallery, Durham Castle)
Wednesday 21st September
8:30 Registration Desk Open (St. Chad’s College)
Session 2: Between the Ideal and the Real: Image, Ideology, and the Past Family
Chair: Ellen Kendall
9:00 Keynote: Professor Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
History from underneath: women and girls’ experience of the industrial revolution
9:40 April Nowell
Learning to See and Seeing to Learn: Children, Communities of Practice and Pleistocene Visual Cultures
10:05 Laura Bécares Rodríguez
Nuclear families in Prehistoric times? Discourses about families in the interpretation of the past
10:30 Refreshments
11:00 Suzanne Conway
Post Rousseau: Visualizing the New Family
11:25 Jane Eva Baxter
The Rise of the Child Consumer and Interpretations of 19th-20th Century Domestic Sites
11:50 Sophie Newman
Best of Both Worlds? Child-care practices and child health within the English middle class family (18th -19th c.)
12:15 Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider
Children in the attic: a material culture of boredom?
12:40 Lunch
Session 3: Ties that Bind: Defining the Family
Chair: Sally Crawford
13:40 Keynote Speaker: Professor Janice McLaughlin (Newcastle University)
Kinship and Childhood Disability: Exploring Shared Memories of the Past and Present
14:20 Ann Nehlin
In the name of goodness: forgotten emotions and breakup of family-ties. Finnish children in Sweden during WWII
14:45 Daniel Justel
Adoptive vs Biological Filiation? Family relationships in the Ancient Near East
15:10 Refreshments
15:40 John Burton
Slavery, Emancipation and the Construction of Family on San Salvador, The Bahamas
16:05 Felicity Cawley
Familial Relationships and Their Impact on Experiences of Childhood in Scotland, c. 1920-1970
16:30 AGM
19:30 Conference Dinner and Quiz (St. Chad’s College)
Thursday 22nd September
8:30 Registration Desk Open (St. Chad’s College)
Session 4: Separate Spheres? Para-Familial Engagement in the Wider World
Chair: Sian Halcrow
9:00 Keynote Speaker: Professor Mary Lewis (University of Reading)
‘Cutting loose’: families, ties and adolescence in medieval England
9:40 Dominic Birch
`She could not live in quiet nether with her mother nor her sister’: Family Disputes and Community Space in Early Modern England
10:05 Carenza Lewis
Archaeological evidence for the material culture of 19th century children within and removed from their families
10:30 Refreshments
11:00 Mark Guillon
The perception of family through the excavation and study of funerary samples from third millennium BC collective graves to modern cemeteries; can we produce evidence of familial influence?
11:25 Kori Filipek, Charlotte Roberts, Rebecca Gowland, Janet Montgomery, Jane Evans, and Julia Beaumont
Institutional families: creating isotopic models of care in the medieval leprosarium
11:50 Rebecca Gowland, Anwen Caffell, Michelle Alexander, Leslie Quade, Malin Holst and Andrew Millard
Indentured: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pauper Apprentices in 19th Century England
12:15 Carrie Philip
TBA
12:40 Close
