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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Excited to publish the programme for our 2026 Colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism and Childhood - Monday 22nd June at Magdalen College and online - please register and share!

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Welcome - Sian Pooley (University of Oxford)
9.30-11.30
Children as humanitarians- Chair: Sin Pooley (University of Oxford)
Layla Koch (University of Heidelberg: Dear Samuel, Dear Children: Interdependent Ideas of Charity and Childbood in the Early U.S.
Missionary Moremens, 1830-40
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• Verónica Diaz-Cerda (University of Warwick): Beyond Solidarity: Cbildres's Memories of Communities of Care in the Chilean Exile in Britain
• Elizabeth Wehbe (Rutgers University-Camden): Childhood, Humanitarianism, and the Home in Asylum-Secking Families
11.30-11.45
Tea & Coffee
11.45-12.30
Keynote Paper - Chair: Charlotte Canizo (University of Oxford)
Rebecca Clifford (Durham University): Humanitarianism and the making of child Holocaust survivors: the case of the Lingfield children
12.30-1.15
Lunch
1.15-2.45
Humanitarianism and war - Chair: Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes University)
• Dror Sharon (Tel Aviv University): A Leer and a Place to Stand: Hamanitarian Cbild Esacation as Political Protest in late 1930s Britain
• Camille Jaccard (University of Lausannc): Humanitarian Framewonks and the Making of Post-War Child Psychiatry: Transnational Training for the Care of War-Affected Children (1944-1950)
• Lukas Schretter (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute): 'Occupation Children", Charity, and the Struggle for Responsibility: Humanitarian Efforts for Children of British Soldiers in Post-World War I! Austria and Germany
2.45-3.00
Tea & Coffee
3.00-4.30
Colonial and postcolonial humanitarianism- Chair: Joseph Leidy (University of Oxford)
• Anais Faurt (Chestnut Hill College): Child protestion, private charity, and colonial bumanitarianism at the end of the French empire (1945-1960)
Divya Kannan (Shiv Nadar University): From Australia to India: The Aid for India Campaign and the Making of the Humanitarian Child Stacey Hynd (University of Exeter): Contested Constructions of Africa's Cbild Soldiers: Humanitarianism, the Limits of Childbood and Youth Identities, 1980-2010s
4.30-4.50
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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

And tomorrow (11/03) 5pm Maison Francaise d’Oxford, join us for two great talks - Hannah Stovin on youth cross-dressing in late 19th England and Charlotte Canizo on Jewish humanitarianism & orphan migration after WWI www.mfo.ac.uk/dPhil-resear...

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DPhil Research Presentations – Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood

11 March, 5pm, Maison Française d'Oxford

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...

Call for papers for one-day colloquium: Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood. Monday 22nd June 2026. Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford Magdalen College Oxford, UK, and online.
We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood’ from a wide variety of perspectives. Areas that papers might explore include:
Children’s experiences as recipients of charity and humanitarianism, including in the context of conflict and displacement.
Children’s experiences as charitable and humanitarian actors and providers.
Representations of childhood within charitable and humanitarian discourses.
Institutions and communities that mobilise around charitable and humanitarian relief for children.
Memories, intergenerational transmission, and legacies of charity and humanitarianism.
Failures, limitations, and tensions resulting from charitable and humanitarian actions.
Archives for, approaches to, and public engagement with the study of charity, humanitarianism, and childhood in the past.
Conceptual connections between care, vulnerability, and age.

We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage papers that engage with the diversity of children’s and young people’s experiences in any historical period and place.

Please send abstracts of c. 250 words for a fifteen-minute paper and a brief bio to sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 13th March 2026. We plan to offer in person and online participation, so please indicate your preference when submitting.

Organising Committee: Charlotte Canizo, Joseph Leidy, Siân Pooley, Susannah Wright

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Charlotte Canizo @charlottecanizo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ll be presenting my research at @histchildoxford.bsky.social next Monday at 11am. Do join online or in person if you’re curious to hear more!

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Charlotte Canizo @charlottecanizo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thank you very much to the @histchildoxford.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my research online. I’m also excited to present my work at the Centre’s seminar on 17 November! Do join if you’d like to learn more about the migrations of Jewish orphans and humanitarian relief before the Holocaust

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We're delighted to share the programme for this term's History of Childhood seminar series. We can't wait to hear from all our fantastic speakers. Join us for our first session on Monday 20 October, at Magdalen College Oxford or online via Teams at 11am when we'll be thinking all about 'play'!

Programme for the History of Childhood seminar series Michaelmas 2025. Seminars are on Mondays 11:00-12:15 at Magdalen College Oxford (Sophia Sheppard Room) and online via Microsoft Teams. All welcome and to join us for lunch afterwards.
On Monday 20 October there is a welcome seminar and discussion of approaches to ‘play’ within histories of childhood and youth. Meet with other researchers working on histories of childhood and youth, with papers exploring ‘play’ from: Fiona Maxwell (University of Chicago) on drama and performativity; Holly Nielsen (historian and narrative designer) on board games; and Caitlin Hendrie (Macquarie University) on archaeological approaches. On Monday 3 November Joey Rauschenberger will speak on ‘Children on the streets. Conceptual thoughts on a history of modernity and empirical explorations on the example of the late German Empire.’ On Monday 17 November, Charlotte Canizo will give a paper on ‘Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)’. Our final seminar is on Monday 1 December when Aisha Djelid will present on 'Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861'.
To find out more, join the email list web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/history-of-childhood or follow us on Bluesky @histchildoxford.bsky.social or Instagram @histchildoxford. For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the email list in advance or email sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk for a link.

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Dr. Cailee Davis @caileedavis.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A major thank you to everyone who attended and supported the #HolocaustStudies networking event at the #IWM last week… What a fantastic day fostering community and supporting young researchers. We hope to make this an annual event so look out for future calls for participants! 📣

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Charlotte Canizo @charlottecanizo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Really happy to share my very first publication in English! A book review of Nina Valbousquet's excellent work, Les Âmes tièdes. Le Vatican face à la Shoah, for Books & Ideas 🔗 laviedesidees.fr/Pius-XII-the...

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Pius XII, the Holy See, and the Jews

About: Nina Valbousquet, Les Âmes tièdes. Le Vatican face à la Shoah, La Découverte

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Charlotte Canizo @charlottecanizo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Merci beaucoup à @julienlemauff.bsky.social pour l'opportunité de recenser l'excellent ouvrage de @camillemahe.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/juli...

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