Congresses and Forums

INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (IPRA) GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS 26th IPRA General Conference on AGENDA FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT Conflict Prevention, Post-Conflict Transformation, and the Conflict, Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development Debate 27th November – 1st December 2016 Freetown, Sierra Leone Hosted by the University of Sierra Leone In Collaboration with the 10th Dealing with…

. . . . Talking ‘bout my Generation: Concepts of Youth and Generation in Research on the MENA region, five years after 2011 International Workshop Wednesday, November 30 – Friday, December 02, 2016 Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany   The uprisings of 2011 challenged many predominant concepts of ‘youth’…

15-16 September 2016 – Melbourne (Australia).   The conference will bring together educators, researchers, policy makers and young people who are committed to developing and sustaining successful educational opportunities and pathways for disenfranchised young people.  We’re providing a platform for advancing a national conversation on practice and research in flexible and inclusive education.   Read…

 .  . Message from the Organisational Secretary of RC34   Dear colleagues, associates and friends, Many of you will know that we are endeavouring to produce a history of RC34 – both its academic story (the theoretical developments and political bridges to which it has contributed) and what might be called the ‘geo-personal’ story (its…

The 24th annual workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TIY) will take place in Trento, Italy on 7-10 September 2016. The workshop will be hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Research jointly with the Center for Social Inequality Studies (CSIS) of the University of Trento. The theme for this…

. . . **Call for Papers & Symposia** SLLS International Conference ‘Education and the Life Course: Determinants and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities’       5 – 8 October 2016* Bamberg, Germany    Submission deadline – 31 March 2016 (*Optional pre-conference workshop on the 5th October, with the main conference starting on 6th) Although the overall conference…

Graduate Student Paper Award   Please consider submitting your work for presentation at the 2016 SSSP Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, on August 19-21, 2016. Submissions for the Graduate Student Paper Award are also encouraged (see below for details). The Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division of the Society for the Study of Social…

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 8-9 September 2016, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford   ‘Adolescence’ has risen high on the global agenda, with a particular focus on girls. Researchers, policymakers and practitioners are increasingly interested in the second decade of life as a newly recognised ‘window of opportunity’ to reduce poverty and inequality…

Call for Papers Salzburg, 25. & 26. August 2016Keynote speakers: Mario Biggeri (Florence) & Lucinda Platt (LSE)The aim of this conference is threefold: (1) to discuss how different crises (like the recent economic downturn, political instability, natural disasters or (civil) war) affect child poverty; (2) to reveal the consequences such crises have on children living in…

Tuesday 19th – Thursday 21st January 2016 Venue:  The University of Sheffield, Conference Room, ICOSS, University of Sheffield 219 Portobello, S1 4DP The ‘Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South’ project seeks to bring together researchers exploring childhood and children’s lives in diverse contexts in the Global South to engage in theory development using the…