The Challenge of Children’s Representations Seminar Series - Seminar 1
This seminar series seeks to the explore the politics of children’s rights and representations. It focuses on the interplay between the claims of different actors in the field of the representations of children and their rights, including children themselves, and the basis upon which these claims are made. The seminars are based on the work of a group of academics who have been working together for the last two years to explore children’s representations in relation to the research they have been conducting in various contexts including: Ghana, India, Sweden, Belgium and within the international human rights community. For more information visit our webpage here.
Seminars chaired by: Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh (Project lead) – University of Bristol (UK)
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Negotiating children’s rights in Sweden: National and historical origins
Speaker: Prof. Bengt Sandin – Linkoping University (Sweden)
Discussant: Therese Boje Mortensen (Lund University, Sweden)
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Exercising the right to education: Critical notes from India on reframing ‘participation’ in schooling
Speaker: Dr. Sarada Balagopalan – Rutgers University (USA)
Discussant: Victor Karunan (former UNICEF Senior Social Policy Specialist, SE Asia)
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Children’s representation in the mirror maze of transnational organisations
Speaker: Prof. Karl Hanson – University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Discussant: Patricio Cuevas-Parra (World Vision International)
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Speakers
Bengt Sandin
Prof. @Linkoping University (Sweden)
Bengt Sandin is professor at the Department of Thematic Studies/Child Studies at the University of Linköping, Sweden. His research spans the period from the Early Modern to the late Swedish Welfare State and involve both an engagement in social and cultural history of children and the construction of childhood. Research interests include Early Modern Education and State building, Child Labour, 19th century Education, Street Children, Educational Media Politics, Welfare Politics and Abortion, the Identity of the Foetus, Construction of Children’s Rights, The History of Child Psychiatry, Children, Childhood and Reparative Justice. Bengt has been the scientific leader of a number of research programmes and has been the adviser of some 25 PhD projects. He is a fellow at CASBS, Stanford and was the president of SHCY 2011-2013.