Individual Paper Abstract CHS Conference 2026

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Please complete the form below to submit an abstract to present an individual paper at the Children's History Society's 5th Biennial Conference at the University of Sheffield, 1st to 3rd July 2026. Abstract should be in English.

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Theme 1: How can we understand children’s situated lives across time and space?

Theme 2: How have children and young people in the past conceptualised space and place in relation to their lives, their pasts and their hopes for the future?

Theme 3: How have children and young people's concepts of self, identity and belonging been shaped by space and place in the past?

Theme 4: How have children and young people in the past been impacted by spatial dislocation in childhood, due to factors such as war, displacement and migration?

Theme 5: How have intra- and intergenerational experiences of space and place in the past contributed to children and young people’s sense of belonging and identity formation?

Theme 6: How have children and young people navigated intercultural encounters with space and place in the past? How does ‘space become place’ if you are told that you have no right to claim connection with it?

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