Professor Sabine Lee, CHIBOW coordinator, was recently invited to present a lecture as part of the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) Spring Series. Lee's research addresses the life courses of children who were fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers during conflicts. This lecture looks at three cases where military and political leadership have formulated policies relating to soldiers’ children, in an attempt to utilise their offspring for a process of national 'rebirth'. Despite great differences in the historical context and the nature of these conflicts, Lee highlights shared characteristics which shed light on the circumstances that have led t
CHIBOW Researchers Presented Papers at the Society for the History of Children and Youth Ninth Bienn
Early Stage Researchers Jakub Gałęziowski (University Augsburg) and Lisa Haberkern (University of Silesia) and Michal Korhel (University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem), members of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Children born of war – past, present and future” project, participated in this year’s conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth that took place on June 21-23 at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Under the title “Transition, Transaction, and Transgression” the conference concentrated most of all on transformation processes that children and youth undergo, but simultaneously also stimulate in their environment in dif
