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‘Young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms, trained to utter complex thoughts and feelings through song.’
Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The spring issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is here! Read this week's interview with Beth Marsden about her featured article and learn why "orphanage kids ruled": shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/voices-o...
Wrote a tiny little blog for @shcy.bsky.social about a juke box that experienced a spiritual conversion in the 1950s. Check it out here! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/conversi...
The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...
CFP: The Othered Child: Roma (and) Childhood between History and Antigypsyist Fantasy — www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Save the Date: The next SHCY conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal on June 28-30, 2027. Call for papers coming soon!
SHCY is co-sponsoring the conference "When Filiation Is Not Self-Evident: Filiation and Violence, 20th–21st Centuries," hosted at the Centre for History, Sciences Po (CHSP), Paris, on November 4-6, 2026. Proposals are due by June 30, 2026: www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/...
Call for papers for the 5th international conference of the Journal of Youth Studies.
The conference will take place at the University of Porto (Portugal) in May 2027.
Abstracts are due by 31 July 2026.
jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/
The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much...
