This conference will explore the ways in which children imagine, understand and engage with the wider world.
Keynote speakerKaren Wells, ‘The child in the world: violence and gendered transitions to adulthood.’Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London) works on childhood and globalisation, and visual cultures of childhood. She is the author of ‘Childhood in a Global Perspective’ (Polity, 2009).
We plan to bring together written versions of the presentations to form the basis of a special issue in a relevant journal.