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Visualising Childhoods
a two-day interdisciplinary symposium

Thursday 26 and Friday 27 April 2007
Convened by Professor David MacDougall

Preliminary Program

Day 1 — Thursday 26 April 2007

9:00-9:50 Coffee and tea on arrival and registrations

9:50-10:00 Opening of Symposium, Howard Morphy, Research School of Humanities, ANU

Session: Children Perceived (1)
Chair: Stephanie Donald, University of Technology Sydney

10:00-10:45 Keynote Address: Look at this! Captions and Photographs in Advocacy for Children, Judith Ennew, Knowing Children, Bangkok, and University of Cambridge

10:45-11:30 Representations of Child Abuse in the Media, Abigail Bray, University of Western Australia

11:30-12:00 Morning tea

12:00-12:45 Through Familiar Eyes: On Artists Exhibiting Photographs of Their Children, Denise Ferris, ANU

12:45-2:00 Lunch

Session: Children Perceived (2)
Chair: Isobel Crombie, National Gallery of Victoria

2:00-2:45 Parenting for the Nation: Malaysian and Singaporean Perspectives, Maila Stivens, University of Melbourne

2:45-3:30 Across Generations: Interpreting Photographic Images of Grandchildren, Suzanne Goopy, Griffith University

3:30-4:00 Afternoon tea

4:00-4:45 Representations of Children in Roman Society, Beryl Rawson, ANU

4:45-5:30 Childhood in Remakes of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, Kathryn Millard, Macquarie University

Day 2 — Friday 27 April 2007

Session: Children’s Perspectives
Chair: Philip Darbyshire, Flinders University

9:00-9:45 Representations and Interpretations of Childhood from the Australian Children’s Folklore Collection, June Factor, University of Melbourne

9:45-10:30 ‘I'm going to photograph everything…everything!’: The remarkable Case of Child Photographer J.H.Lartigue, Isobel Crombie, National Gallery of Victoria

10:30-11:00 Morning tea

11:00-11:45 To be announced.

11:45-12:30 “It’s not that straight forward, yaar” – young girls’ visual representation of childhood in the bustees (slums) of Kolkata, Kabita Chakraborty, University of Queensland

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session: Understanding Children
Chair: Maila Stivens, University of Melbourne

1:30-2:15 Walking on Uneven Paths: The Transcultural Experience of Migrant Children in France and Ireland, Rossella Ragazzi, University Ethnographic Museum, University of Tromsø

2:15-3:00 Bedside Photographic Displays, Peter Lewis, Children’s Hospital, Westmead

3:00-3:45 Visualising Learning: Young Children's Interactions with E-games, Susan Roberts, Jane Torr and Emilia Djonov, Macquarie University

3:45-4:15 Afternoon tea

4:15-5:00 Pictures of Health? Children’s Use of ‘Photovoice’ in Health and Wellbeing Research, Philip Darbyshire, Flinders University

5:00-6:00 Drinks and informal discussion