Samedi 30 juin 2012 : conférence / Saturday 30th of June 2012 : conference
Principales / Main publications

Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. A social and cultural historian, she has recently been active in developing the field of children’s history and has worked to make this an interdisciplinary field with a global perspective. Paula Fass earned her A. B. degree from Barnard College, and M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University. In 2008 she was awarded an honorary Ph. D. degree from Linkoping University in Sweden.

 
Professor Fass’s books include Children of a New World:  Society, Culture, and Globalization (2007), Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (1997), Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (1989), The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977),  Childhood in America (2000, edited with Mary Ann Mason). She was the editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (2004). Her most recent books are a family memoir, Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir (2009, published in paperback in 2011) and a collection of essays on modern childhood (edited with Michael Grossberg) Reinventing Childhood After World War II (2011). She has contributed to many collections in areas such as twentieth century culture, American education, immigration, globalization, children’s history and children’s policy. In 2005, she toured central Italy as a Department of State lecturer. She has also lectured in Sweden, Poland, Chile, France, and Turkey. In fall 2008, Paula Fass was in Sweden as Kerstin Hesselgren Professor, a special appointment of the Swedish Research Council. She was President of the Society for the History of Children and Youth during 2007-2009, and is currently writing a history of American parent-child relations over the past two hundred years and editing The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World.

Samedi 30 juin 2012 : conférence / Saturday 30th of June 2012 : conference

Most historians agree that, however the globalization process is understood, it did not begin in the twenty-first century. The expansion outward of market capital, knowledge, and people has been going on for a some time, certainly since the age of exploration and enlightenment in the West. In fact, the history of the United States is deeply embedded in that process and early on became an example of it. Nevertheless, it is useful to think of the current phase of the process as having certain characteristics that make it notable and unique. From the point of view of the history of childhood, these characteristics include broad and early access to enormous quantities of information and forms of play not managed by or supervised by adults; the participation in an international market for goods and services (both as producers and as consumers); the rapid expansion of the need for schooling at all levels;  the existence of a genuinely global youth culture with significant social and political implications. All these can be said to have transformed childhood in the Western World and are having important consequences for children everywhere.

Paula S. Fass has worked on several of these areas and will use her keynote to examine these new facets of globalization in a longer historical perspective. Her address will ask how we can understand the new features of contemporary globalization through a more probing and comprehensive quest for historical antecedents and comparisons, in the United States especially, but elsewhere as well, and how our historical understanding can be sharpened by examining the specific ways globalization is affecting children, youth, and childhood in the world today. By using globalization as a form of perception, our knowledge of the world past and present can be significantly sharpened and expanded.

Principales / Main publications

Recent publications (since 2005)

Reinventing Childhood After World War II, edited with Michael Grossberg, University of  Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

“Children on the Boundaries of History and Historiography,” Transatlantic Encounters: Philosophy, Media, Politics, edited by Elzbieta Oleksy and Wieslaw Oleksy, American  Studies and Media Series (Peter Lang Verlag, 2011)

“A Historical Context for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, #633 (January 2011), 17-29.

“Childhood and Memory,” Presidential Address to the Society for the History of Children and Youth, July 2009, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, III, 2 (Spring 2010), 155-164,

Inheriting the Holocaust: A Second Generation Memoir (Rutgers University Press, 2009, paperback 2011).

“Childhood and Youth as an American/Global Experience in the Context of the Past,” in Figuring the Future:  Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth, edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham, School for American Research Advanced Seminar Series  (Santa Fe:  SAR Press, 2008), 25-47.

“The World is at Our Door:  Why Historians of Children and Childhood Should Open Up,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth,  1 (Winter 2008), 11-31.

“The Past Is Not a Foreign Country:  The Historical Education of Policy,” in Raising Children: Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses, edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Neil Gilbert (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2008), 9-26.

“Childhood and Globalization,” in Stories for Children, Histories of Childhood/Histoires D’Enfant, Histoires D’Enfance, Tome 1- Civilisation (Tours, France:  Presses Universitaires Francois Rabelais, 2008), Graat No. 36, pp.31-46.

“Bringing It Home:  Children, Technology, and Family in the Postwar World,’ in The Columbia History of Post-World War II America, edited by Mark C. Carnes (Columbia University Press, 2007), 79-105.

Children of a New World:  Essays in Society, Culture, and the World (New York University Press,  2007).

“Niños, Historia y Globalización,” Revista De Derechos Del Niño (Tres/Cuantros,October  2006),  (Universidad Diego Portales y UNICEF, Santiago, Chile, 315-334 [Spanish  language version of “Children and Globalization”]“The Memoir Problem,” Reviews in American History, 34 (March 2006), 107-123.

“Immigration and Education in the United States,”  A Companion to American Immigration, edited by Reed Ueda (Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 492-512.

“A Historian’s Many Pasts,” History Workshop Journal, 60 (Autumn 2005), 189-193.

“Abduction Stories That Changed our Lives:  From Charley Ross to Modern Behavior,” American Behavioral History, edited by  Peter N. Stearns (New York University Press  2005), 42-57.

“Children in Global Migrations,” Journal of Social History, 38 (Summer 2005), 937-53.