HISTORIES OF HOME SUBJECT SPECIALIST NETWORK
in association with the V&A Museum of Childhood
THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CHILDREN AT HOME
Friday 18 March 2011, Geffrye Museum, London, 9.30 – 17.30
While childhood itself has been the subject of scholarly interest, relatively little has
been written on the place of children within the home, their position within the
household and their lived experience of home. This conference will therefore bring
together historical and contemporary research examining children’s senses of
home and belonging, their familial/ household relationships and their use of space
within the home, as well as their material culture.
Sessions will explore the intimate spaces and memories of working- and middleclass childhoods, toys and technology in the contemporary home, homelessness
and deprived childhoods, as well as feeling at home in semi-domestic settings and
institutions. Methodological challenges and innovations will also be discussed
throughout the day. The conference programme reflects the interdisciplinary
approach of the Histories of Home SSN and will draw on sociology, social and
economic history, film studies, cultural anthropology, pedagogy, art history and
social work.
Speakers
Irene Cieraad (Technical University Delft)
From playpen to Playstation: children’s conquest of the living room
Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes University)
Homes from home: child redemption in the slums, 1900 - 1940
Alison Hall (Birmingham City Archives & Heritage/University of Birmingham)
The Shelter photographs and social policy: Children without homes, 1960 -1972
Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London)
“White painted fortresses”? Space and material culture in English middle-class nurseries
1850 - 1910
Colin Heywood (University of Nottingham)
A comparative history of French and English childhood in the nineteenth-century
(Title TBC)
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
The idea and reality of “home” in the lives of working-class children of the
nineteenth-century
Allison James (University of Sheffield)
The sociology of childhood (Title TBC)
Alyson Leslie (University of Huddersfield)
The empty treasure chest – when home, and our concept of home, fails children,
1945 – present
Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes University)
Children, charity and the poor home in eighteenth-century London
Karen Lury (University of Glasgow)
The ‘fragile magic of the home’: amateur domestic comedies and the intimate
geography of childhood (1939 – 1989)
Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich)
Discourse and experience: caring for disabled children at home, 1800 - 1900
Lydia Plowman (University of Stirling)
Exploring children’s everyday lives at home and beyond with mobile phone diaries
in
the 21st- century
Marit Ursin (University of Bodoe, Norway)
Narratives of home among young people on the street in Brazil in the 1980s and
1990s
Delegate fees
£40/ £30 (full-time students), includes light sandwich lunch and refreshments
Booking information
Book early to secure your place! To book please complete and return the Booking
Form with payment by Wednesday 9 March 2011 to:
Krisztina Lackoi, SSN Co-ordinator
klackoi@geffrye-museum.org.uk
Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA