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A global & cross-disciplinary network of scholars & practitioners researching social, political & legal issues relating to children & childhood. qmul.ac.uk/clpn

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Call for conference papers: "More-than-human dimensions of learning and children's geographies."

For a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society, which will take place in London (UK) in September.

Abstracts are due by 25 February.

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Call for conference papers: "Family, discipline, and the making of unequal childhoods."

For a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society, which will take place in London (UK) in September.

Abstracts are due by 28 February.

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Journal of Childhood, Education & Society Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Childhood, Education & Society

The latest issue of the Journal of Childhood, Education & Society is out:

www.j-ces.com/index.php/jc...

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CFP: "Towards just places through children’s geographies in, of, and for, education."

For a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society (London, September).

The session is co-organized by our member, Lauren Hammond.

Abstracts are due by 2 March.

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Senior Research Fellow, Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank - Stratford, United Kingdom job with UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON | 406936 We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Research Fellow/expert in child online harms to join the Child Online Harms Policy ...

Academic job: Senior Research Fellow for a project on "Child Online Harms Policy" at the University of East London (UK).

Applications are due by 17 February.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

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Call for papers: "Geographies of Crisis: Youth Perspectives."

For a session at the Nordic Geographers Meeting, which will take place at the University of Iceland in June.

Abstracts are due by 9 March.

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Call for Abstracts | Shifting Power: New Frontiers in Youth Participation Across research, policy and practice, youth participation in decision-making is widely accepted as a core principle. While participatory and co-production mechanisms are in place, many have been criti...

Call for conference papers: "New Frontiers in Youth Participation."

The conference will take place in June at the University of Galway (Ireland).

Abstracts are due by 6 March.

universityofgalwayunesco.clr.events/event/139308

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Call for Nominations - Neil Sutherland Article Prize | H-Net This award honours the ground-breaking work of Neil Sutherland in the history of children and youth by recognizing outstanding and innovative contributions to the field. The prize will be awarded by t...

Call for nominations: the Neil Sutherland Prize for articles / chapters on the history of children and youth.

Nominations are due by 15 February.

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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CFP: "Climate justice, creativity & humour: learning with & from children & young people."

For a session at the conference of the Royal Geographical Society, which will take place in September in London (UK).

The session is co-organized by our member Catherine Walker.

Abstracts due 23 February.

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AMECYS at MESA | AMECYS

Call for conference panels: Children in the Middle East, North Africa, the Gulf & their diasporic communities.

Sponsored by @amecys.bsky.social for the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association in Boston in November.

Proposals due by 9 February.

www.amecys.org/amecys-at-mesa

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Call for book proposals for the series Sociological Studies of Children and Youth.

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27 | 2025 Penser la biographie pour la jeunesse : histoire, tendan... Revue consacrΓ©e Γ  la littΓ©rature et Γ  l’édition pour la jeunesse, Γ  l’imagerie enfantine, Γ  la culture matΓ©rielle et orale de l’enfance

The latest issue of the journal StrenΓ¦: Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects is out:

journals.openedition.org/strenae/1147...

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Gender & History Special Issue Call for Papers - Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS 'Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World' Gender & History: Special Issue Edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward Call for Papers deadline - 31 May 2026. What is the future of our ...

Call for articles: "Childhood, Gender and Crises."

For a special issue of the journal Gender & History.

Abstracts are due by 31 May.

royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gen...

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Project MUSE - The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth-Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2026

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is out:

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56180

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Calls for papers:
1. "Postcolonial Fantasy for Young People";
2. "Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature."

For sessions at the Modern Language Association conference (January 2027, Los Angeles).

Abstracts are due by 1 March.

Links - in the comments below.

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CFP: "Place, Space & Mobilities in Young People’s Everyday Life."

For a session at the annual Nordic Youth Research conference, which will take place at Stockholm University (Sweden) from 20 to 22 October.

Abstracts due 30 Jan.

The conference website is www.su.se/english/divi...

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Call for conference papers: "Social Radicalism, Wanderlust, and Utopianism in Children’s and Young-Adult Literature."

The conference will take place at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in June.

Abstracts are due by 20 February.

www.childlitassn.org/assets/CfA_B...

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Call for articles in English or Italian: "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Children's and Young-adult Literature."

For a special issue of the Italian journal Pagine giovani.

Abstracts are due by 31 January.

www.childlitassn.org/assets/CALL%...

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Call for articles: "Girls Authoring Change: Creativity, Voice, and Social Justice."

For a special issue of the journal Girlhood Studies.

Abstracts are due by 16 February.

www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/GH...

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Research Associate in Young People’s Care Mobilities at University of Oxford Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate in Young People’s Care Mobilities opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Academic job: Research Associate in Young People’s Care Mobilities at the University of Oxford.

Applications are due by 20 February.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF438/r...

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Future Issues | Social Inclusion Social Inclusion is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society.

Call for articles: "Youth With Disabilities in Chinese Society."

For a special issue of the journal Social Inclusion.

Abstracts are due by 15 March.

www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...

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Sport, the Body and Discourses Aimed at Children and Young People From cereal boxes to bedroom walls and television screens, sport is a constant presence in the lives of children and young people. To what extent does it shape them? As a major socio-cultural pheno...

Call for articles: "Sport, the Body and Discourses Aimed at Children and Young People."

For a special issue of the journal StrenΓ¦: Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects.

Abstracts are due by 15 April.

journals.openedition.org/strenae/12538

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The Fourth International CHILDLIFE Conference Welcome to the 4th International CHILDLIFE Conference on Children and Young People in Everyday Life and Professional Practices.

Call for conference papers: "Children and Young People in Everyday Life and Professional Practices."

The conference will take place at Oslo Metropolitan University (Sweden) in September.

Abstracts are due by 1 March.

www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...

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GCYFRG Writing Retreat 2026 Booking and Bursary Form.docx Following successful GCYFRG writing retreats in 2019, 2022, 2023 2024 and 2025 as well as two years of virtual writing retreats during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, we are looking forward to summer 2...

The eighth international summer writing retreat of the Geographies of Children, Youth & Families Research Group (@gcyfrg.bsky.social) of the Royal Geographical Society:

When: 22–26 June.
Where: Flagstone Farm Cottages (UK).

Applications are due by 24 February:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Call for conference papers / panels: The history of childhood & youth.

Organized by the Childhood & Youth Network of the Social Science History Association (chaired by our members Elizabeth Dillenburg & MJ Maynes).

The conference will take place in Atlanta (US) in November.

Proposals due 1 March.

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A webinar series on the history of childhood.

Where: online and at the University of Oxford.
When: January-March.

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Call for colloquium papers: "Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood."

The colloquium will take place both online and at the University of Oxford (UK) on 22 June.

Abstracts are due by 13 March.

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CFP: "Digital Lifeworlds: Childhood, Youth, Intergenerational Futures."

For a research stream co-organized by our member, Seran Demiral, for the European Sociology Association conference (Poland, August).

Abstracts due by 30 Jan.

Submissions via this website: europeansociology.org/event/72289c...

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