[Colloque international] 1968 and the boundaries of childhood

Le colloque, qui se tient à la bibliothèque municipale de Tours, réunira des chercheurs venus de toute l’Europe. Il est accompagné d’une exposition de livres pour enfants non-sexistes des années 1970, venus de Grande-Bretagne, des États-Unis et de France, exposition qui ouvre en ce début du mois de septembre: Libérons les enfants !

Détails du programme:

Day 1: Thursday 12th October

1.30-2.45pm coffee and registration
2.45pm ‘The Children’s ‘68’: Introduction to the project

• Theme 1: Children’s rights and children’s culture

3.15pm-5.15pm
Lucy Pearson, Newcastle University, UK
‘The Right to Read: Children’s Rights and Children’s Publishing in Britain’

Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick, UK
‘Rights, Limits and the Landscape of the Child in ‘70s Britain’

Olle Widhe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
‘Radical children’s literature and children’s rights in Sweden around ’68’

Discussant: Helle Strandgaard Jensen

6:30-8pm Public lecture (in French)
Sophie Heywood & Cécile Boulaire: ‘Le ’68 des enfants’

Day 2: Friday 13th October

8.30am-9am
CMER (Cellule Mutualisée Europe Recherche)
Presentation of funding opportunities in the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

• Theme 3: New ideas of the family and gender

9am-10.45am
Nelly Chabrol-Gagne, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
‘A militant aesthetic: a reading of Martine petite maman (1968), Histoire de Julie qui avait une ombre de garçon (1976), Salut poupée (1978), Mes années 70 (2008)’

Tour of exhibition on DIY feminist children’s books and talk by artist Andrea Francke of ‘Invisible Spaces of Parenthood’, London UK

10.45am-11am Coffee

• Theme 4: Avant-gardes and aesthetic experimentation

11am-12.15pm
Anna Antoniazzi, University of Genoa, Italy
‘Cultural revolution in Italian children’s literature’

Anita Wincencjusz, Akademy Szuk Piekynch, Wroclaw, Poland
‘Children’s book design and illustration in Poland, c. 1968’

Discussant: Cécile Boulaire

12.15pm-2pm Lunch

• Theme 5: Utopias and transforming society

2pm-3.30pm
Loïc Boyer, Graphic designer and editor of Cligne Cligne magazine and series (Didier jeunesse), Orléans, France
‘Designing spaces for the child in France by the early ’70s: what CRÉE means’

Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading, UK
‘Children of the World on British television: the 1968 of 1971’

Discussant: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

3.30pm-3.45pm Coffee

• Theme 5: Counter-culture, hippyism and anti-authoritarianism

3.45pm-6.15pm
Kim Reynolds, Newcastle University, UK
‘One, two, three what are we fighting for? The long view of antiwar writing for children’

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen, Germany
‘Political indoctrination and anti-authoritarian ideas: leftist picturebooks in Germany after 1968’

David Buckingham, Loughborough University/Kings College London, UK
‘Children of the revolution? The British hippie counter-culture and the idea of childhood’

Sophie Heywood, University of Reading, UK/ University of Tours, France
‘Explosive tales for children: Harlin Quist Books and the May ’68 of French children’s picturebooks’

Discussant: Lucy Pearson

Evening: Social Dinner

Day 3: Saturday 14th October

Theme 6: Defining ‘radical’ children’s culture c. 1968

9am-11:00am

Helle Strandgaard Jensen, University of Århus, Denmark
‘Nordic children’s television around 1968 – progressive or radical?’

Cécile Boulaire, University of Tours, France
‘Okapi, a ‘fantastinouï’ magazine for teenagers in the spirit of ‘68’

Birgitte Beck Pristed, University of Århus, Denmark
‘Revolution Elsewhere: Soviet Conformist and Non-Conformist Children’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s’

Discussant: Lucy Pearson

11:15-11:30am Coffee

11.30am-12.45pm Round Table: Breaking boundaries?
Alex Thorp, Education curator, Serpentine Gallery London, UK

Viviane Ezratty, Conservatrice générale et directrice de la médiathèque Françoise Sagan à Paris

Isabelle Nières-Chevrel, University of Rennes II

12.45pm-1pm
Daniel Gordon, Edge Hill University, UK: observations from a historian of ’68

Sophie Heywood: closing remarks

To register for this event: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/1968-and-boundaries-childhood

PRICING
Private institutions 200 EUR
Public institutions 120 EUR
Students & PhD Scholars 60 EUR
Social dinner 60 EUR