Lecture Series: Troubling Childhoods?

Generational Perspectives on a Marginalized Group

Sociologically, childhood is a membership category. People who make up this group (i.e., "children") are faced with a deeply rooted imagery of them being outsiders to society which comes with unequal distributions of resources, rights, and obligations between age groups. The status of children might very well be considered to be one of a marginalized group.

Since approx. 30 years, studies on childhood seek to recover the imagery of children as social actors. Since then, Childhood Studies provided findings on these troubling conditions, e.g., children’s legal status, vulnerabilities, well-being, silencing, displacement and political regulations. In return, such research can be considered as troubling the imagery of childhood itself: Making the very social processes visible, which constitute generational inequalities.

The lecture series of international scholars report on issues that render childhood a troubling age group: these issues range from victimizations and generational dependencies to limited welfare services, gender socialization, and friendships among minor refugees.

Schedule:

THURSDAYS, 6.15 - 7.45 PM VIA ZOOM

Meeting-ID: 940 0972 7396
Password: Childhoods

April 22th
Ways of seeing children: Perspectives of child protection workers in Chile, Norway and beyond
IDA BRUHEIM JENSEN (Universitetet i Stavanger, NOR)

April 29th
Gender socialization in American high schools
C.J. PASCOE (University of Oregon, USA)

May 20th
Childhood victimization
DAVID FINKELHOR (University of New Hampshire, USA)

May 27th
Children’s wellbeing and children’s rights from an international perspective.
ASHER BEN-ARIEH (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISR)

June 10th
Making friends in Germany: Challenges encountered by young refugees
JESSICA SCHWITTEK / ALEXANDRA KÖNIG, (University Duisburg-Essen, GER)

June 17th
Married as minors: Young women's experiences with U.S. 'Child Marriage'
JAMIE O’QUINN (University of Texas, USA)

July 01st
Inequalities and the generational order
DORIS BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER (BU Wuppertal, GER)