One of the most popular topics of conversation in today's society is: the child. Countless textbooks and internet forums provide information on what we can do for their balanced physical and mental development, but with today's knowledge, we can also review our childhoods and improve our self-perception. Intergenerational differences, brought about by changing social and environmental contexts, are visible even at the scale of a human lifetime. We are now more aware of the complex process that defines our role in adulthood, which determines our ability to adapt to the challenges of modern society and the environment.
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SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
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Rise of Children
The research history of childhood in archaeology, the first steps and main steps, the methodological evolution
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Children in Society
Migration, interpersonal conflicts, status-social roles in childhood, family relationships, gender
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​Feeding with Love
Attitude toward children, health, diet, living conditions, diseases, growth
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Child in Space and Time
Where are we in childhood research regarding different archaeological periods? What are the research routes?
But how did we come to our current understanding? What was childhood like in the past without today's knowledge?​
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We can look at childhood from many different angles, which spins like a „marble ball” in space and time. The "Child Space" scientific conference aims to bring this colourful picture to life through the tools of history, archaeology and anthropology. We have recognised that children in the past were not invisible, they were creators of their own space through their existence, just as they are today. Their physical remains testify to the environmental and social factors that influenced their development and caused them to fail to reach adulthood. Beyond our perspective, an understanding of the attitudes of parents in the past and of children's family relationships is essential for understanding and improving modern human relationships.
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Childhood research in our region is still in its infancy. Therefore, another important aim of the conference is to formulate new common research directions. In public lectures, the foremost researchers in the field will lead us into the archaeology of childhood. A related round table discussion with representatives of psychology, education and cultural anthropology aims to create a platform where the child of the past and the child of the present can meet, creating a new perspective not only on childhood but on human nature as a whole.​​
CONFERENCE TEAM
Projects
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NRDI MEC_SZ_24 149350
Special thanks
For the children drawings:
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all the little artists
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Angéla Kelemen, Damjanich János Museum, Szolnok
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Szilvia Fábián, ​Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre, Hungarian National Museum, National Institute of Archaeology
For the logo:​
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Borbála Sarolta Szekeres
