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Dear all,
One of Francoise's doctoral students is running the following seminar and thought some of you may be interested:

BRINGING UP BABY: PARENTING, EXPERTISE AND THE MEDIA

Is there, or has there ever been, a 'right' way to bring up children? Why
is this such an emotive issue? What is the role of 'parenting experts', and
how do they effect the experience of parenting and being parented? How do
the media reflect, magnify or alter perceptions about appropriate
childcare?

A round-table discussion with: * Daisy Goodwin (Executive
producer,'Bringing up Baby'; journalist and author) * Eileen Hayes
(Parenting Advisor to the NSPCC, Editor-in-chief 'Your Family', Chair,
Media and Parenting Group * Christina Hardyment (Author,'Dream Babies') *
Dr Ellie Lee (Social Policy, University of Kent and Convener, Parenting
Culture Studies Group) * Dr Joanna Hawthorne (Research Psychologist, Centre
for Family Research, Cambridge, and Director and Trainer, Brazelton Centre
in Great Britain) * Ciara Doyle (Sociology,Trinity College, Dublin) *
Jennie Bristow (Journalist on Parenting, author 'Guide to Subversive
Parenting', spiked-online) * Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert(Institute of Ideas
Parents' Forum)

* Chair: Charlotte Faircloth (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

Friday 14 December 2007, 10am - 2.30pm,
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
For registration and full details, please visit:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/baby.html
or email: events@crassh.cam.ac.uk