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SSCIP 2025

17th Annual Conference of the
Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past



About SSCIP 2025


We are pleased to welcome you to the 17th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) at Aarhus University, Denmark, on June 25th-27th 2025.

This year’s theme will be Children and Climate Change inviting us to consider the effects climatic changes have had on children, but also how children responded to and coped with such challenges. Moreover, we should consider what role children – as motors of innovation – may have played in adaptation during moments of crisis precipitated by climatic change in the past. It is generally agreed that children were an important part of past societies, yet they are often not considered as active participants in major events in the human past, including those related to climatic changes.

Naturally, contribution on children and childhoods past not directly related to climate change are also welcome.

Time and place


25 to 27 June 2025

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), buildings 1630-1632, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Important dates


Call for abstracts/posters:

  • 4th April 2025

Registration:

  • Presenters: 23rd May 2025
  • Non-presenters: 13th June 2025