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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Where:<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Victoria University, Footscray Park Campus, Building G, Room 372</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Convenors:<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Jean-Paul Baldacchino [Jean-Paul.Baldacchino@vu.edu.au]</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Anna Branford [Anna.Branford@vu.edu.au]</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<H2 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0pt 3pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><EM><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Arial>Child abuse and the juvenile offender: Sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives on children and the law</FONT></FONT></EM></SPAN></H2>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Ass. Prof. David McCallum [Victoria University]</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Dr. Carl Scuderi [Victoria Children's Court]</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>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.<SPAN> </SPAN>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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0pt 3pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><EM><FONT color=#000000>The tense romance of/for the child: Sociological perspectives on childhood consumption and the ‘inner child’</FONT></EM></SPAN></STRONG></H2>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Dr. Beryl Langer [La Trobe University]</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>Dr. Anna Branford [Victoria University]</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"><FONT color=#000000>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.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10pt"><FONT color=#000000><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">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.</SPAN><FONT face=Calibri> </FONT></FONT></P></FONT></DIV>
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