Sam,
The conference sounds interesting. For the record, do you know of any funding
that might be available to help out students interested in participating?
Kimi Eisele
Sam Punch wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am organising a conference session "Children and Young People in Latin
> America" at the Annual conference of the Society for Latin American Studies
> (SLAS) which will take place in Cambridge, UK, 9-11 April 1999.
>
> The recent growing literature in the new social studies of childhood
> recognises that children are competent social beings who are active in
> shaping their own lives, yet they are also constrained by the structures of
> adult society and by their generational position in the life-cycle. This
> session aims to explore both the structure of childhood and the agency of
> children and young people in Latin America. It is hoped that different
> domains of children's lives will be addressed: at home, at school, at work,
> at play and on the street in both rural and urban contexts.
>
> Please send an abstract of your paper (approximately 300 words) by 15
> December 1998, by e-mail (in plain text format) or by post. If you require
> further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>
> Samantha Punch
> Department of Applied Social Science,
> University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
> Tel: 00.44.1786.467985
> Fax: 00.44.1786.466319
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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