agenda
1968 and the boudaries of childhood
Infos pratiques
du Jeudi 12 Octobre 2017 au Samedi 14 Octobre 2017
Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Municipale 2 bis avenue André Malraux
37000 Tours
Description
The global upheaval caused by the protest movements around 1968 revolutionised social structures, overturned cultural conventions, challenged political ideologies, and catalysed civil rights activism by women, gay people and ethnic minorities. Childhood historians stress the importance of this period in altering the authority structures that shaped children’s lives.

This project analyses 1968 as a watershed moment in children’s culture and its related disciplines. It is a new collaboration between researchers and practitioners from Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK.

By thinking about children’s culture as a site for artistic and intellectual experimentation, at the centre of ideological activity across disciplinary boundaries and national borders, we aim to open up new ways of understanding the ‘68 liberation movements and their legacies. With the fiftieth anniversary of ‘68 approaching, it is important that the children’s perspective is finally brought to the fore of scholarly debate and public commemorations.

Le 18 novembre (10-12h, 13-15, 15-17h) :
- Bernard Vouilloux (Professeur de Littérature française, Paris-Sorbonne) : Voit-on quand on lit ?
- Rémi Jimenes (Maître de conférences, Université de Tours et CESR) : Politique et typographie : Les caractères italiens dans la production imprimée en langue française (Paris, 1520-1560)

- Loïc Boyer (Graphiste, directeur de collection aux éditions Didier Jeunesse) : L’avant-garde, l’alphabet et le petit pompier ou Comment la lettre a pris son autonomie dans l’album pour enfants

Day 1: Thursday 12th October

2.30-4pm
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) : Political indoctrination and anti-authoritarian ideas: leftist picturebooks in Germany after 1968
Kim Reynolds (Newcastle University, UK) : One, two, three what are we fighting for? The long view of antiwar writing for children

4.20-6pm
Birgitte Beck Pristed (University of Århus, Denmark) : Revolution Elsewhere: Soviet Conformist and Non-Conformist Children’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s
Helle Strandgaard Jensen (University of Århus, Denmark) : Potent policy. Nordic children’s television around 1968

Day 2: Friday 13th October

9-10.45am
Nelly Chabrol-Gagne (University of Clermont-Ferrand, France) : Martine, Julie and co: scenes of family life in picturebooks for young girls growing up in France, 1960s-1970s
Tour of exhibition on DIY feminist children’s books and talk by artist Andrea Francke of Invisible Spaces of Parenthood (London UK)

11-12.15pm
Anna Antoniazzi (University of Genoa, Italy) : Cultural revolution in Italian children’s literature
Anita Wincencjusz (Akademy Szuk Piekynch, Wroclaw, Poland) : Children’s book design and illustration in Poland, c. 1968

2-3.30pm
Loïc Boyer (graphic designer and editor of Cligne Cligne magazine and series, Orléans, France) : Designing spaces for the child in France by the early ’70s: what CREE means
Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading, UK) : Children of the World on British television : the 1968 of 1971

4-6pm
Olle Widhe (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) : Radical children’s literature and children’s rights in Sweden around ’68
Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) : The Right to Read: Children’s Rights and Children’s Publishing in Britain
Mathew Thomson (University of Warwick, UK) : Rights, Limits and the Landscape of the Child in ‘70s Britain

Day 3: Saturday 14th October

9-11:00am
Cécile Boulaire (University of Tours, France) : Okapi, a ‘fantastinouï’ magazine for teenagers in the spirit of ‘68
Sophie Heywood (University of Reading, UK/ University of Tours, France) : Explosive tales for children: Harlin Quist Books and the May ’68 of French children’s picturebooks
David Buckingham (Loughborough University/Kings College London, UK) : Children of the revolution? The British hippie counter-culture and the idea of childhood

11.20-12.45pm Round Table: Breaking boundaries?
Alex Thorp (Education curator, Serpentine Gallery London, UK), Viviane Ezratty (Conservatrice générale et directrice de la médiathèque Françoise Sagan à Paris), Isabelle Nières-Chevrel (University of Rennes II)

12.45pm-1pm
Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill University, UK) : observations from a historian of ’68