Childhood, culture and the first World War
'A Game That Calls Up Love and Hatred Both'
An International Interdisciplinary Conference, 1-3 December 2011
University of Technology Sydney, Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing (ACCY) and Dromkeen Museum
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Date: 1-3 December 2011
Locations: UTS Aerial Function Centre (Building 10, City Campus) and the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House
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Contact: Magaret.Mccomb@uts.edu.au
The Leverhulme International Network project Approaching War: Children's Culture and War, 1880-1919 (opens an external site) focuses on the pre-war and wartime experience of children in Anglophone countries, including Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Three international conferences are planned: Australia, 2011; Canada, 2012; UK, 2013.
The Australian Symposium explores the impact of the First World War on childhood from the perspective of the global south. It brings together researchers and practitioners to explore verbal and visual representations of war in the children’s culture of Australia and the global south, with special reference to the First World War but also considering other wars of the 20th century.
Departing for the War
- Farewell*
Papers will consider:
- National and global ideas of childhood and nationhood
- The intersection of cultures of war and childhood cultures
- Constructing Empire
- Mother Country and 'sons'
- Concepts of 'home'
- Gender, the child and war
- Constructing otherness
- Changing histories and geographies
- The spread of conflict in Europe, Asia, the Far East
- War and federation
- Child/adult relationships
- Multimodal representations of friends and foes
A key part of the program is a Celebration of Children's Literature scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, the 3rd of December at Sydney Opera House.
* Images courtesy Australian War Memorial
