Exploring Vulnerability in Childhood – Between Normalization and Disablement
Childhood research in German-speaking countries is situated between praxeological perspectives and the focus on vulnerable childhoods. Meanwhile international and interdisciplinary debates on vulnerability and educational science discussions on the constitutive dependency of people in general are being increasingly received. Additionally, a philosophical perspective on childhood is gaining in importance. The question of the relationship between autonomy and dependency, in which childhood vulnerability in particular is to be conceived, is being posed anew. An analysis of 'disabled childhoods' intensifies this question and puts it into concrete terms — using the example of a group of children who have so far received little attention in social and educational childhood research. A childhood theory perspective is called upon to examine both the fundamental vulnerability and the claim to autonomy of all children in this context.
The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is therefore to bring together philosophical debates on vulnerability and constitutive dependency with international research from disability studies and on 'disabled childhoods'.
The conference will be held in English.
Keynotes
Prof. Dr. Amy Mullin (Toronto): Children, Ability and Autonomy
Wednesday, 2 PM
Dr. Tillie Curran (Bristol) & Prof. Dr. Katherine Runswick-Cole (Sheffield): "It's a Thing!" Disabled Children's Childhood Studies
Thursday, 9 AM
Prof. Dr. Markus Dederich, Dr. des. Philipp Seitzer & Prof. Dr. Jörg Zirfas (Cologne): The Ambivalent Role of Vulnerability in the Pedagogical Gaze on children with Disabilities
Friday, 9 AM
Panel Discussion
Childhood Studies and the Missing Link of 'disabled children'?
Thursday, 2 PM
- Dr. Tillie Curran (Bristol)
- Prof. Dr. Helga Kelle (Bielefeld)
- Prof. Dr. Runswick-Cole (Sheffield)
- Dr. Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg)
Panels
Panel I: Vulnerabilities in Childhood: Theoretical and Systematic Perspectives
- Prof. Dr. Anne Waldschmidt (Cologne): The Disabled Child – Some Reflections from a Dispositif-Dnalytical Perspective
- Prof. Dr. Florian Eßer (Osnabrück): Agency and/or Vulnerability? Reflections on Childhood from the Perspective of an Ethics of Care
- Prof. Dr. Veronika Magyar-Haas (Fribourg): On the Ambivalences of Vulnerability: Care, Norms and Paternalism
Panel II: The Constitution of the (A)Normal in Childhood: Historical Perspectives
- Dr. Michèle Hofmann (Zurich): Producing “a/normal” Childhoods in Pedagogical Institutions – a Historical Perspective
- Prof. Dr. Julia König (Wuppertal): Body, Children and Vulnerability
- Dr. Jona Tomke Garz (Zurich): Special Schools for Special Children? Historical Knowledge Practices and the Boundaries of Normality
Panel III: Exploring Intersectional Vulnerabilities in Childhood: Theory, Methodology and Ethics
- Prof. Dr. Borgunn Ytterhus (Trondheim): Social inclusion in Norwegian Kindergartens: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas
- Dr. des. Katharina Sufryd (Duisburg-Essen): Order of Ability: Ethnographic Insights into the Making of Vulnerability and Ability in School
- Dr. des. Yvonne Wechuli (Kassel): Dismembering Root Causes of Vulnerable Cchildhoods between Allegations of “Hiding” and Overprotection
Moderated Postersession
Exploring Intersectional Vulnerabilities in Childhood: Theory, Methodology and Ethics
Thursday, 4 PM
- Prof. Dr. Birgit Behrisch (Berlin): ‚Behinderte Kindheiten‘ aus kollektiven Lebenslagen? – Kinder von Eltern mit Behinderungen
- Tatjana Dietz (Frankfurt a.M.): Frames of Vulnerability – A Historic-Discourse Analytical Look on Hospitalism and Infancy
- Mareike Jansen (Soest): Intersectional Multi-Level Analysis as a New Approach to the Agency of Children with Disabilities
- Dr. Hannah Nitschmann (Würzburg): Exploring Unequal Dispositions of Vulnerability and Individual Coping Strategies in Inclusive Classrooms
- Rouven Seebo (Innsbruck): Darstellungen ‚behinderter Kindheiten‘ in sozialen Medien
- Dr. Csilla Schiffer (Budapest): Fleeing from Help. The Natural History of Escapes from Special Education Schools
- Dr. Hanna Weinbach & Lea Wulf (Siegen): Un/doing ‘Disability’ as Consequence of Social Services Work
- Julia Zimmer & Nico Leonhardt (Leipzig): Resilience as an Act of Unlearning!? Vulnerability between Ableism Criticism and Solidarity Practices
A detailled programme is available for download.
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The street-adress is Universitätsstr. 12, 45141 Essen. Further information regarding travel can be found on the website of the venue.
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