[Commpsych] FW: [aehd] Research Colloquium - The Child Papers

[Heather Gridley]

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School of Social Sciences and Psychology
Research Colloquium
The Child Papers
Tuesday 11th, August 2009
 
5.00 - 7.30 pm 
 
Light Refreshments provided
 
 
 
Where:                          Victoria University, Footscray Park Campus, Building G, Room 372

                                    Melways street directory for Footscray Park is 2S F4

 

Convenors:                  Jean-Paul Baldacchino [Jean-Paul.Baldacchino at vu.edu.au]

                                    Anna Branford [Anna.Branford at vu.edu.au]

                                                                                


Child abuse and the juvenile offender: Sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives on children and the law


 

Ass. Prof. David McCallum [Victoria University]

Dr. Carl Scuderi [Victoria Children's Court]

Prof. McCallum examines the reported 'child protection crisis' in Australia, placing these events in the historical context of recurring shifts in how the problem of child abuse is calculated and acted upon. The crisis accompanies tensions within liberal political reason concerning the intervention of governing agencies in the private sphere of the family. 

Dr. Scuderi is a psychoanalyst and a psychologist who has worked for a number of years with the Victorian Children's Court clinic, dealing with both child protection and juvenile offending.  He will present some thoughts which arise from speaking and listening to juvenile offenders in a setting which exemplifies ways in which the speaking being of the child articulates the unbearable truth of the family and uses the law in an attempt to resolve Oedipal problems. 


The tense romance of/for the child: Sociological perspectives on childhood consumption and the 'inner child'


 

Dr. Beryl Langer [La Trobe University]

Dr. Anna Branford [Victoria University]

 

Dr. Branford considers ways in which the pop-psychology discourse of the 'inner child' has gained resonance in contemporary Western society, noting that the term might mask certain tensions within adult-child relations. The argument is formed in relation to adult writers for children such as J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll and A.A. Milne, whose biographers often characterise them as children.

Dr. Langer's paper concludes the colloquium by looking at the re-making of childhood as a market category in the last third of the twentieth century. Considering cultural tensions over children's relation to consumption, she argues that Romantic sacralisation of childhood has continuing appeal because it offers a space of non-alienated being and utopian possibility within capitalist modernity. 

 



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