A historical perspective on childhood, children and their rights in the 20th century

Joint conference for early career scholars

Organized by the Institute for Lithuanian History, Nordostinstitut (IKGN) and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

100 years after the Declaration, the young scholars conference invites to explore the development and implementation of the law of children and childhood protection, everyday practices, issues and challenges from the perspective of social history with a focus on the 19th century. But already since the demographic revolution of the late 19th century, the view of the relation between families children and states had changed dramatically. Children were seen as a crucial element of the state‘s power, and their position in their families became a topic of public interest. These aspects have become of research interest lately. So, children‘s and childhood history has become a recent trend in historiography, combining family and social history. Nevertheless, Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region seem to be under-researched in this respect.

The 100 years anniversary of the Declaration seems to be a great incentive for further research, we aim at taking an interdisciplinary and retrospective look at the theoretical and practical dynamics of these processes and the resulting development of children‘s rights policies in a comparative perspectivies in the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and beyond.

read more about the Declaration

Program

September 26

September 27