The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is hosting a two-day conference May 16-17/08 on the theme of War, Immigration and Trauma. Features speakers are:
Dr. Cecile Rousseau, Head, Transcultural Child Psychiatry Clinic, Montreal Children’s Hospital, on “Trauma as a Transformation Process” and Olara A. Otunnu, UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, on “Protecting our Children from the Scourge of War”.
Also featured will be 3 expert panels:
• Child Development: Interactions with Armed Conflict and Migration
• Therapeutic Interventions: Talking with Children, Talking with Parents
• Moving to the Next Level: Implications for Policy & Practice.
For more information, see the conference website or contact Cathy Ditizio, Conference Administrator at: cathy.ditizio@sickkids.ca.
Category: Conferences
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War, immigration and trauma: Sick Kids Hospital conference
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George Brown College Summer Institute: Preparing professionals to lead change in the early years
The annual summer institute, held by George Brown College and the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development is scheduled this year for June 4/08 and will be held in Toronto. At each summer institute, George Brown College honours an individual for their contribution to the early childhood field. This year, the Summer Institute honours Aster Fessahaie, a 2002 recipient of the Skills for Change New Pioneers Award. See the George Brown College website for more info, or view the PDF georgebrown.
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Entre deux mers * Between two seas: Bridging children and communities, BC conference
The Early Childhood Educators of BC, the Canadian Child Care Federation, Ryerson University and the University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care are sponsoring a conference in Richmond, BC May 29-31/08. Entre Deux Mers * Between Two Seas: Bridging Children and Communities includes many workshops, keynotes and sessions on topics related to immigrant and refugee children and families, including:
The Ethics of Enacting Children’s Right to Citizenship, with Kylie Smith, research fellow at the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Refugee Preschool Children as Cultural Mediators, with Darcey M. Dachyshyn, University of Alberta.
Bridging Children and Communities through Integration of Diversity Training and Teacher Education, with Valerie Rhomberg, .
Working with Newcomer Children and Families: The Research and the Realities, with Penny Coates, Office of Early Childhood Development, Learning, and Care, Daljit Gill-Badesha, DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society and Gany Wawa Tut, a Southern Sudanese refugee and parent in Surrey.
Skilled Dialogue Strategies for Responding to Cultural Diversity, with Cathy Robb, Affiliated Services for Children and Youth.
Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Pan-Canadian Perspective on Diversity Theory and Practice in Early Childhood, with Gyda Chud, Vancouver Community College, Maryann Bird, formerly of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, and Debra Mayer, SpeciaLink.
Faces of Diversity: Supporting Children in Early Childhood Programs, with Becky Kelley, Bow Valley Community College.
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Father involvement conference
The University of Guelph‘s Father Involvement Research Alliance (FIRA) is hosting a conference Oct 22-24/08 in Toronto.
The FIRA has several areas of focus, including immigrant fathers.
The theme for the conference is diversity, visibility, community. Regretably, the call for proposals has past. -
Conference call: 2008 (US) National refugee and immigration conference
The National Refugee and Immigration Conference will be held Sept 25-26/08 in Chicago. The aim of the conference is to identify issues, emphasize best practices and highlight innovations by providing those who work with refugees and immigrants an opportunity to learn from and to network with one another. Children and families are a focus of this conference.
From The Center website:“Refugees and other immigrants in the U.S. must do their best to manage transitions and adjustments in new communities. Many families endure poverty, low wage employment, and attend schools under strain. Frequently, it is these families’ first experiences with formal education and urban life. Both adults and children experience tension in family relationships since cultural adjustment puts additional stress on marital and parental structures. Along with these struggles, however, comes evidence of strength and resilience, including healthy families, strong work ethic and aspirations, cohesive communities and faith.
Services for pre-school and K-12 refugee youth and their families may be compromised by differing perceptions and misunderstandings concerning the cultural adjustment process, health, health care, and nutrition, public education enrollment and attendance, academic roles and expectations, and American conventions and laws. Efforts to help refugee youth and families will have a better chance of succeeding if they are based on shared understandings and collaborative partnerships among families, schools, health and mental health providers.
Proposals are being accepted that address these and other related issues”.Deadline for submissions is May 2/08. See the application here.
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Childhood and migration conference, June 20-22, Philadelphia
A look at child migration through the lens of child rights. This US conference, sponsored by the Working Group on Childhood Migration features keynote speaker Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard Law School and Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.
The conference is raising some of the following questions:How are children’s rights and the notion of children as citizens affected by transnationalism, or by movement of parents and children in and out of various national legal systems?What are the emotional consequences of family separation across migratory families, especially for children?
What are children’s perspectives on migration, how are they to be elicited, how well can they be elicited and represented, and what can these perspectives tell us about socialization and processes of maturation in transnational families?
How is migration shaping any given culture group’s notions of childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood shaping migration?
How do media and policy makers represent children in migration and how do discourses about immigrant children and migrant parents affect their lives and experiences?What can we do to generate better quantitative and qualitative data on the effects that migration has on children? What are the numbers of migrant children and how are they best defined as children in their own rights?For more information, visit the conference website.
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Call for workshop proposals: International Metropolis conference, Bonn, Germany
The 13th International Metropolis conference will be held October 27-31 in Bonn, Germany.
Workshop proposals are invited from researchers, policy-makers, NGOs and other interested delegates. Workshops must include representation from the research, policy, NGO sectors, as well as participants from more than one country.
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Call for papers: York U graduate school conference
The Annual Graduate Student conference Rethinking the Mosaic: Immigration, Settlement and the Lived Experience will take place at York University April 17-18/08. Graduate students are invited to submit proposals. Some of the focus areas lend themselves well to children’s issues, including:
- Immigration/refugee law and practice
- Settlement sector and government involvement
- Health and well-being
- Multiculturalism/citizenship
- Family, children and youth experiences of immigrant/transnational families.
Deadline is March 6/08. For more information, see the CERIS website.
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The future of ECE in Ontario: Focus on the changing landscape
The Association of Early Childhood Educators, Ontario (AECEO) is hosting their 58th annual conference May 9-10/08 at Niagara College in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Of interest to the Early Childhood Working Group, these workshops, panels and presentations:
Equity and Access in ECE: Making the shift toward a critical perspective in early childhood studies and challenging the discourse of anti-bias education, with Zeenat Janmohamed, Atkinson Centre for Society & Child Development
The Young English Language Learner, with Roma Chumak-Horbatsch, Ryerson University School of Early Childhood Education & mylanguage.caVisit the AECEO website to download the preliminary conference brochure and for more details.
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NAME Conference: Beyond celebrating diversity
US-based National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) will hold its 18th annual conference Nov 12-16/08 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme is Beyond Celebrating Diversity: reActivating the Equity and Social Justice Roots of Multicultural Education.
Conference strands:- Critical discourses in multicultural education, social justice and equity
- The roots of multicultural education
- Empowering students of color, English language learners, and low-income students
- Community-based initiatives for educational equity and social justice
- Multicultural education in a digital age.
See the NAME site for details, including the call for proposals, rubric proposal and information on last year’s conference.
Proposals due March 31, 2008.