Save the Date: Bahá’í Chair Conference on Children and Youth
On September 28–29, the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace will bring together nearly a dozen international speakers to discuss the development of the younger generation at a groundbreaking conference. “Learning Outside the Lines: Children and Youth in an Interconnected World” will focus on the different aspects of childhood and adolescence and will shine a light on the often neglected issues relating to youth.
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The conference will feature a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the historical aspects of childhood experience, including: a look at slave communities in nineteenth-century America; early America girlhood in the 18th and 19th centuries; changes in attitudes toward children; and childhood in the Arab renaissance. Leading up to the modern era and taking a global perspective, other topics include: the role of media in formulating childhood experience; childhood education disparities; the story of Asian immigrant girls in Japan and the United States; childhood adjustments; variety and stress; and problematic media use and technology addiction.
Speakers include:
Orna Blumen
Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, Graduate Program;
Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Services
University of Haifa, Israel
Barbara Finkelstein
Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, College of Education
University of Maryland
Sharon Halevi
Head of Multidisciplinary Studies;
Director of Women’s & Gender Studies Program;
Professor of History
University of Haifa, Israel
Cindi Katz
Professor of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences Program
City University of New York, Graduate Center
Wilma King
Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar of African American History
University of Missouri
Dafna Lemish
Dean, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts;
Professor of Communication
Southern Illinois University
Steven Mintz
Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning;
Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
Hoda Mahmoudi (conference organizer)
Bahá’í Chair for World Peace
University of Maryland
Michael Robb
Director of Research
Common Sense Media
Peter N. Stearns
Provost and Professor of History
George Mason University
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Wasserman Dean, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies;
Distinguished Professor of Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Tomoko Tokunaga
Project Assistant Professor, International Center
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Fruma Zachs
Head of Middle Eastern History Department;
Professor of Middle Eastern History
University of Haifa, Israel
“Learning Outside the Lines: Children and Youth in an Interconnected World”
September 28–29
University of Maryland
The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace is a leading forum for research and discourse on global peace, drawing on insights from religion while aiming to develop a sound, scientific basis for knowledge and strategies that lead to the creation of a better world. Learn more at bahaichair.umd.edu.
Published on Mon, Jun 27, 2016 - 3:33PM