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June 2, 2022
Children and the Law: A Conference in Honor of Michael Grossberg:
A Conference in Honor of Michael Grossberg
9:30am “Saving Our Kids”
Opening Remarks by Laura Edwards & Dirk Hartog
10-11:30am “Who Gets the Child?”
Comment by Steven Mintz
Chelsea Chamberlain, “Perpetual Children”: Mental Disability, Institutional Commitment, and the Intimate State
Naama Maor, “We Cannot be Hoodwinked into Making Paroles”: Delinquent Children, State Institutions, and the Boundaries of Juvenile Justice
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, The Double Removal of Migrant Youth: Late-Twentieth Century Data Collection and Education Law as U.S. Immigration Deterrence
Nathan Stenberg, “A Peculiar Case”: Disability, Performance, and the Legal (De)Construction of Institutionalized Children’s Personhood at the Pennhurst State School & Hospital
11:45-12:30 Break (Lunch Provided for Panel Participants Only)
12:45-2:15pm “A Protected Childhood”
Comment by Barbara Welke
Wangui Muigai, The Tenth Crusade: Baby-Saving, Racial Violence, and the NAACP
Yukako Otori, Esther Kaplan’s Saga: From an Undesirable Immigrant to an Undeportable “Child”
Shani Roper, Sitting at Intersections: Institutionalized Children and the Law in Colonial Jamaica 1904 to 1950
Doris Morgan Rueda, “The Boy is Large for His Age”: Making Age in Arizona’s Early Juvenile Court, 1907-1920
2:30-4pm “Legal Rights for Children?”
Comment by David Tanenhaus
Tera Agyepong, Constructing Race and Gendered Delinquency in the Juvenile Justice System
Juandrea Bates, Bringing Child Protection Home: Juveniles as Initiators of Child Protection Suits in Buenos Aires 1890-1930
Emily Prifogle, Rural Students and a “Right” to Local Schools
Kathryn Schumaker, Desegregating Discipline: Corporal Punishment and Children’s Rights in the Classroom in the 1970s
4:15pm Afterward
Introduction of Michael Grossberg by Ajay Mehrotra & Bengt Sandin Closing Remarks by Michael Grossberg