Crossed Perspectives on Early Childhood

2026-2027 Programme - Seminar Series

This seminar series explores early childhood from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawning on historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches.

The seminar draws on case studies conducted by researchers, academic staff, and doctoral students among populations from diverse geographical and historical backgrounds. It examines concepts of birth and child development in the child’s interactions with family and wider social circles, taking gender norms into account and emphasising the children’s capacity for agency and negotiation from an early age.

The series also investigates the boundaries of early childhood and its temporality according to medical, international, anthropological, and historical standards.

Organisers

Doris Bonnet: emeritus anthropologist at the Institut de Recherche sur le Développement (IRD), member of Ceped, UMR 196, Université Paris Cité, member of the Institut Convergence Migrations (ICM).
Gladys Chicharro: ethnologist at Université Paris 8 (EXPERICE).
Michel Christian: historian at the University of Geneva
Vincent Gourdon: historian, demographer at CNRS, UMR 8596, Centre Roland Mousnier,
Nathalie Sage Pranchère: historian at CNRS, UMR 7219, SPHERE Laboratory
Charles-Edouard de Suremain: anthropologist at the Institut de Recherche sur le Développement (IRD), UMR 208, IRD/MNHN, PALOC.

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Practical information

Location: Maison Suger – 16–18 rue Suger, 75006 Paris
Schedule: Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month, 10:00–12:00
Free entrance

Download 2026-2027 programme

Published at 14 August 2026