Crossed Perspectives on Early Childhood
2025-2026 Programme - Seminar Series
This seminar series explores early childhood from a multidisciplinary perspective, including historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches.
The seminar draws on case studies conducted by researchers, academic staff, and doctoral students among populations from diverse geographic 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 child’s capacity for action 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
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2025-2026 programme
Research topics
Activities
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Male Sterilisation and Contraceptive Practices
14 November | Seminar "Crossed Perspectives on Early Childhood"
Crossed Narratives of Activism for Abortion, Alternative Childbirth, and Self-Help
24 October | Seminar "Crossed Perspectives on Early Childhood"
Shaping the Unborn Child in Contemporary Iran
10 October | Seminar "Crossed Perspectives on Early Childhood"
Published at 6 August 2025