THURSDAY, 6 NOVEMBER 2014 20:00

Conference Warming at Wernings Weinstube, Alter Markt 1, Bielefeld (self-pay)

FRIDAY,7 NOVEMBER 2014

9:00-9:30 Welcome Address by ZiF; Introduction by Ralf Schneider / Sandra Dinter (Bielefeld)

Section I: Contemporary British Childhoods between Rights and Protection

9:30-10:30 Michael Wyness(University of Warwick): “The recognition and distribution of children’s agency in the UK.”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Nigel Parton (University of Huddersfield): “The politics of child protection in England.”

12:00-13:00 Daniel Monk (Birkbeck, University of London): “Dressing up for school: beyond rights and welfare.”

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading): “Wants and needs: Children's TV and public service in the UK.”

Section II: Contemporary Literary Constructions of Childhood and Current Children’s Literature Criticism

15:30-16:30 Anja Müller (University of Siegen): “Writing plural childhoods (?) - Some thoughts concerning the recent shortlists of some children’s book awards.”

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (University of Reading): “Children’s literature, cognitivism and neuroscience, or, capitalism and/ as the return to the same.”

18:00-19:00 Sandra Dinter (University of Bielefeld): “Entering the child’s mind? Child narrators in contemporary British fiction.”

19:30 Dinner at ZiF

SATURDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2014

Section III: Institutions of Contemporary British Childhood

9:00-10:00 Ken Jones (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Competition as a law of life: childhood, schooling and strategies of parenting.”

10:00-11:00 Erica Burman (University of Manchester): “Contingent connections: Between German and British childhoods - Marion Daltrop.”

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Angela Davis (University of Warwick): “Transformations in nursery care for Britain's under-fives c.1960-2010.”

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Sarah Neal (University of Surrey): “Children's friendships in super-diverse geographies: negotiating social and ethnic difference.”

Section IV: Contemporary Medial and Visual Constructions of Childhood

15:00-16:00 Karen Lury (University of Glasgow): “An inconvenient growth? Child actors on contemporary British television.”

16:00–16:30 Coffee Break

16:30–17:30 Ellen Handler Spitz (University of Maryland, Baltimore County):“Our images of, by, and for children.”

17:30-18:30 Jessica Sage (University of Reading): “Bodies, books, buying: sexuality and looking in children's books and the media.”

19:30 Dinner at Brauhaus John Albrecht, Hagenbruchstraße 8, Bielefeld (self-pay)