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Volume 71, Issue 79,
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
News Workshops seek to discuss child culture New book will present latest findings from information gathered COUGAR NEWS SERVICES Experts from all around the country will visit UH this week to discuss such topics as cartoons, kindergarten and cookies and milk for "Children's Cultures and Children's Cultural Worlds -- An Interdisciplinary Workshop." The workshop, which runs Thursday through Saturday, is co-organized by Steven Mintz, a UH John and Rebecca Moores professor of history and national co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, along with three professors from other institutions. "The goal of the workshop is to promote dialogue among historians, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists about issues relating to the cultures that children create," Mintz said in a release. The workshop will include such speakers as New York Times columnist Peter Applebome and former Washington Post reporter Linda Perlstein. Applebome recently published Scouts Honor: A Father's Unlikely Foray into the Woods, about his experiences with his son. Perlstein's book Not Much, Just Chillin' gives an account of the life of middle school children. This workshop marks the second in a series of three that Mintz and his collaborators are putting together. The first covered child development and the next, planned for the spring at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will take a look at public policy and law. "While there are many conferences and many anthologies on childhood, I don't think there has been anything quite like the intensive, cross-disciplinary approach that we have adopted," Mintz said in a release. After the workshops, all the information will be
made into a book discussing the latest discoveries in childhood research.
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