Conference Schedule
LAW AND THE CHILD IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE – PROGRAM
Keynote: Sunday June 1, 4:45-6:00 Michael Grossberg, “Why Kids Matter: Age as a Useful Category of Analysis in Legal History with dinner following at Kafe 421
Sunday, June 1, 3:00-4:30 p.m.(1) Age, Consent & Rights to Oneself
- Will Smiley, “Three Fatwas and a Treaty: A Historical Perspective on Childhood, Apostacy, and Islamic Law”
- Kristin McCabe Lashua, “Charitable Kidnappers? Children, Consent, and the Early English Empire”
- Serena Mayeri, “‘Hapless’ and ‘Innocent’ Children: Child-Centered Arguments in the Law of the Non-Marital Family and Beyond, 1960s-1980s”
Commentator: Susanna Blumenthal
Monday June 2, 9:00-10:30 a.m.(2) The Problem of Unattached Children
- Jaundrea Bates, “ ‘I Am Only a Boy in These Courts: Immigration, Minority and Civil Law in Turn of the Century Buenos Aires”
- Shani Roper, “Childhood, Delinquency and Social Control: Exploration of Legislation Tackling Juvenile Delinquency in Colonial Jamaica, 1881-1904”
- Sharon Park, “The Legal Categorization of the Child Refugee and Recipient of U. S. Aid, 1945-1960”
Commentator: Michael Grossberg
Monday June 2, 1:15-2:45 p.m.(4) Children, Families, & Colonialism
- Yen-Chi Liu, “Colonial childhoods: Children and the Law under Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan (1895-1945)”
- Tadashi Ishikawa, “How Can Adopted Daughters Be Treated in and Between Households? Parental Authority, Incomplete Transfers, and Japanese Courts in Colonial Taiwan, 1919-1936”
- Nurfadzilah Yahaya, “Question of Guardianship in Colonial Southeast Asia: Arab Children under British and Dutch Rule”
Commentator: MJ Maynes & Barbara Welke
Monday, June 2, 3:00-4:30 p.m.(5) Class, Sexuality, Race and Social Order
- Cynthia Greenlee, “Due to Her Tender Age: African-Americans, Child Rape and South Carolina Courts, 1885-1920"
- Sara Mayeux, “Car Trouble: Adolescence, Automobility, and the Law, 1890-1930”
- Marcia Chatelain, “‘Questions We Cannot Answer’: The Brown v. Board Decision and Girl Scouts of the United States”
Commentator: Martha Jones
Closing Reception, 4:30 p.m.
Closing Comments: Sarah Barringer Gordon
Monday June 2, 10:45-12:15 a.m.(3) Parental & Children’s Rights & the Consolidation of State Power
- Heather Hawkins, “Getting Them Back: Child Welfare, Parental Rights, and Administrative Power in the 19th Century US”
- Julia Bowes, “The Limits of Liberalism: Mandatory Schooling, Compulsory Vaccination and the end of laissez-faire parenting, 1870-1920”
- Kathryn Schumaker, “Discipline and Due Process: The Civil Rights Struggle and the Expansion of Students’ Rights”
Commentator: Nick Syrett