Events
Recent Events
View past events from within the The Children’s Rights, Citizenship and Participation Initiative
Forthcoming Events
The Children’s Rights, Citizenship and Participation Initiative runs a variety of research-related events throughout the year.
November Half Day Think Tank
This half-day interdisciplinary ‘think-tank’ on Children’s Rights, Participation and Citizenship will review the draft of the issues paper on understanding how research around children’s rights sits within each of the disciplines. There will also be a review of the draft summaries of disciplinary perspectives on research around children’s rights with the view of formulating a book proposal for submission. Further discussion will be had around formulating a clear research question around children’s rights and informed consent.
10.00am-12.00pm Friday 20 November 2009
Frank Tate Room, Alice Hoy Building, University of Melbourne
Conferences
Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 9:
Thursday 19 November - Saturday 21 November 2009
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Keynote Presenters
- Associate Professor Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Stockholm University, Sweden
Title: What is an ethics of immanence and potentialities for early childhood education? - Mercy M. Musomi, Executive Director of Child Girl Network, Kenya
Title: TBA - Professor Patricia G Ramsey, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Title: TBA - Professor Helen Penn, University of East London, UK
Title: How can the rights of young children be enacted and guaranteed?
The CRCP Initiative will contribute to this conference run by the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University of Melbourne.
Further details can be found here:
http://www.education.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/conferences/conf09/index.html
2009 Children's Bioethics Centre National Conference: Celebrating the 20thAnniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Paediatric Ethics in Practice
Hosted by the Children’s Bioethics Centre , at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, in partnership with The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne.
Further details can be found here:
http://www.rch.org.au/bioethics/events/register.cfm
Celebrating the Twenty Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (UNCRoC): Moving the Children’s Rights Agenda Forward: An Interdisciplinary Australian Perspective.
Co-hosted with the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission
Friday 4 December 2009 10.00am-1.00pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre
Elisabeth Murdoch Building
University of Melbourne
Parkville