Program

The more detailed initial program is available here (Updated 5 May, The latest conference program can be found on the online platform Howspace).

° Greetings by President Mari Walls (Tampere University)

° Opening words: Research Director Katja Repo (Tampere University)

° Musical performance by Kaleva High School Students

° Pro Childhood Award by Finnish Society for Childhood studies

Looking for the child in history. Voice and agency in the history of childhood.

Academy Research Fellow Kaisa Vehkalahti, University of Oulu

Childhood and Temporalities in Common World Pedagogies

Prof. Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Toronto

Play, performance and palimpsest in children’s lived experience in the digital age, including in the time of a global pandemic

Prof. John Potter, University College London

Prof. Erica Burman, Dr. Stephanie Olsen, Prof. Spyros Spyrou and Prof. Hanne Warming

Panel participants will address the conference theme ‘childhood and time’ by elaborating their own considerations on time and connecting discussions emerged during the conference with a view of raising necessary questions for future research.