Childhood and Youth

The Childhood & Youth Network of the Social Science History Association brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in studying the experiences, ideas, and issues surrounding children, childhood, and youth cultures. The network has recently organized panels on the following themes:

  • Child Migrants and Refugees
  • Childhood and Colonialism
  • The Emotional Lives of Children
  • Spaces of Childhood
  • Documenting Histories of Childhood and Youth
  • Schooling and Education
  • Child Labor
  • Children at War
  • Children, Youth, and Political Movements
  • Children and the Environment
  • Youth and Commodification

We invite submissions of papers or (preferably) full panels by February. We especially welcome panels and papers that engage in transnational and interdisciplinary research. Please contact the Childhood and Youth network co-chairs if you have questions, comments, or are interested in submitting a paper or panel for the conference or serving as a chair or discussant.

Network Representatives



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SSHA 2024 Final Conference Program Released

The 2024 SSHA conference (in Toronto, Oct 31 - Nov 3) program has been released and is available here.

SSHA Town Hall, March 25

The SSHA officers invite SSHA members to attend a Zoom town hall on Monday March 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm EST to discuss and answer questions about the four Executive Committee motions passed on December 20, 2023, and February 8, 2024. The zoom link is here (Meeting ID: 895 1708 6578 | Password: 602250).

These motions concern our association journal, Social Science History, specifically editorial procedure guidelines, journal scope and the editor model. These motions have been posted on the SSHA website.

2024 Annual Conference Submissions Now Open

SSHA is now accepting paper and session submissions for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please visit our submission portal to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.

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