Information Observatories as Tools for Networked Policy-Making: the Case of UNICEF Oman's Disability Observatory. David S. Porcaro, Ph.D., is Director of Global Outreach and Education Specialist at Seward Incorporated, and an Instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Tamara Weiss is a Ph.D. candid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Porcaro, David; Weiss, Tamara
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Information Observatories as Tools for Networked Policy-Making: the Case of UNICEF Oman's Disability Observatory. David S. Porcaro, Ph.D., is Director of Global Outreach and Education Specialist at Seward Incorporated, and an Instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Tamara Weiss is a Ph.D. candid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Porcaro, David; Weiss, Tamara
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Love of the Proletarian State: The Emotional Life of Soviet Orphanages. How did Soviet children's homes attempt to remake their residents as new Soviet citizens-to-be of the imagined socialist utopia of the future? Stone examines the dark side of this Soviet childhood experience and draws attention to the emerging field of the history of emo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Stone, Andrew
Created:
2013-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making Black Girls Visible: Reconstructing Black Girlhood in the United States, 1861-1963 Owens' project centers black girls as historical actors, and their girlhoods as sites of historical knowledge of black female personhood, intellectualism, and political agency. Moreover, she maps black women and girls' efforts to engender materially and pol...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Owens, Tammy Cherelle
Created:
2014-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making Black Girls Visible: Reconstructing Black Girlhood in the United States, 1861-1963 Owens' project centers black girls as historical actors, and their girlhoods as sites of historical knowledge of black female personhood, intellectualism, and political agency. Moreover, she maps black women and girls' efforts to engender materially and pol...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Owens, Tammy Cherelle
Created:
2014-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Raising Britannia's Daughters: Constructions of Girlhood and Visions of Empire in Victorian Girls' Schools. The Love of the Proletarian State: The Emotional Life of Soviet Orphanages. How did imperial attentions shape the structure and curriculum of prominent girls' schools in England? How did these schools foster an imperial ethos across the Em...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dillenburg, Elizabeth|Stone, Andrew
Created:
2013-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Raising Britannia's Daughters: Constructions of Girlhood and Visions of Empire in Victorian Girls' Schools. How did imperial attentions shape the structure and curriculum of prominent girls' schools in England? How did these schools foster an imperial ethos across the Empire? Dillenburg provides insights into women's expanding role in the Britis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dillenburg, Elizabeth
Created:
2013-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Objects to be protected, not subjects with rights: examining the appropriation of the CRC and ACRWC in Ugandan policy In the past two decades significant attention has focused on children's rights and welfare. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990 by all but three UN member states spawned other international, re...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Park, Sharon; Lefebvre, Elisabeth E.
Created:
2014-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Objects to be protected, not subjects with rights: examining the appropriation of the CRC and ACRWC in Ugandan policy In the past two decades significant attention has focused on children's rights and welfare. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990 by all but three UN member states spawned other international, re...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Park, Sharon; Lefebvre, Elisabeth E.
Created:
2014-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women and/or Children First: Girlhood, Sexuality and Safety in Suburban Visual Media In the 2011 network trailer for ABC's hit sitcom, Suburgatory, a teenager complains about how her single father uprooted her from city life following condomgate, seeking a more wholesome suburban haven. Despite this popular consensus that suburbia is the best pl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hubbard, Kysa; Wlodarczyk, Holley
Created:
2014-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women and/or Children First: Girlhood, Sexuality and Safety in Suburban Visual Media In the 2011 network trailer for ABC's hit sitcom, Suburgatory, a teenager complains about how her single father uprooted her from city life following condomgate, seeking a more wholesome suburban haven. Despite this popular consensus that suburbia is the best pl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hubbard, Kysa; Wlodarczyk, Holley
Created:
2014-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This Letter is Filled with Muslin: Girlhood, Sociability, and Material Culture. Katie Goetz is a Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota. Things structured the rituals of young women. Friendships were sealed and kinship affirmed by the exchange of objects. Goetz considers the ways in which 18th and 19th century young women's social net...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goetz, Katie
Created:
2013-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Instant Identity, A Decade Later: Adolescent Girls, Digital Media, and Identity in the Instagram Age. Shayla Thiel-Stern is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Adolescent girls used Instant Messaging ten years ago in ways that both transgressed and played into stereotypical feminine norms. Today, girls ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fairy Tales, Child Abuse, and Childism. Are we are 'childist' society? What role does children's literature play in dealing with child abuse and abandonment? Jack Zipes will explore the question of child abuse in fairy tales along with a discussion of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl's book Childism. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus, Department of German,...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zipes, Jack
Created:
2012-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fairy Tales, Child Abuse, and Childism. Are we are 'childist' society? What role does children's literature play in dealing with child abuse and abandonment? Jack Zipes will explore the question of child abuse in fairy tales along with a discussion of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl's book Childism. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus, Department of German,...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zipes, Jack
Created:
2012-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Plain Brown Pinecones are Beautiful Too: Highlights for Children and the Real Meaning of Christmas. Patrick Cox, Ph.D. Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers University. This talk examines how Santa, Rudolph, and other Christmas trimmings are represented in the content of a children's magazine that tends to downplay the imaginary, fantastic, and ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Cox, Patrick
Created:
2013-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Plain Brown Pinecones are Beautiful Too: Highlights for Children and the Real Meaning of Christmas. Patrick Cox, Ph.D. Candidate, Childhood Studies, Rutgers University. This talk examines how Santa, Rudolph, and other Christmas trimmings are represented in the content of a children's magazine that tends to downplay the imaginary, fantastic, and ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Cox, Patrick
Created:
2013-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Wrapped in Stars and Stripes': The (American) Arctic Narratives of Robert, Josephine, and Marie Peary. Saving the Race: Child Emigration and Domestic Service in the British Metropole and Colonies, c. 1890-1914. The children's books by the Peary family, published at the turn of the last century, focus on and exploit images of a young Marie in or...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Woster, Emily; Dillenburg, Elizabeth
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Wrapped in Stars and Stripes': The (American) Arctic Narratives of Robert, Josephine, and Marie Peary. Saving the Race: Child Emigration and Domestic Service in the British Metropole and Colonies, c. 1890-1914. The children's books by the Peary family, published at the turn of the last century, focus on and exploit images of a young Marie in or...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Woster, Emily; Dillenburg, Elizabeth
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis and American Teen Girls in Public Recreational Space, 1905-2010. Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group--teenage girls--contributing to a ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
