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NB lunch will be provided

Chair: Professor Pia Christensen 

• Speaker: Professor Colette Daiute - City University New York

Title: The Image of the Child in Children’s Rights Discourse 

Abstract: I will focus on how “the child” is presented in child advocacy discourse, in particular by focusing on explicit and implicit conceptions across disciplines, policies, and practices.

•  Speaker: Dr Nick Lee – The University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Title: Separation and separability: Why do people worry about children’s rights? Have they any need to? 

Abstract: In the UK, the phrase ‘children’s rights’ will still occasion fear and scorn amongst many adults. I explore why this is so and argue that if this debate on children’s rights were restricted to the terms of the UNCRC, they would not have to worry at all. But ‘children’s rights’, I argue often function as a proxy for other well merited concerns.

 Bio Sketch:

Colette Daiute is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Ph.D. program in Developmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Previously she has been teaching and doing research at Harvard. She has a longstanding research interest in the social and cognitive development among children and those who work with them in challenging circumstances, such as U.S. urban schools and nations involved in violent conflict 

Nick Lee is Associate Professor at ÌÇÐÄTV Institute of Education. He is author of ‘Childhood and Society: Growing up in an age of uncertainty’ (2001) and ‘Childhood and Human Values: Development, separation and separability’ (2005). He is currently working on mimetic factors in health behavior across the life course (ESRC, MRC, BBSRC joint funded) and developing a bio-political approach to issues of childhood, growth and change. 

Please note: There will only be a limited number of places.