Claudio Baraldi - Global Childhoods in International Perspective: Universality, Diversity and Inequalities

Claudio Baraldiis Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His research includes works on interaction in educational systems, intercultural communication and mediation, and the development of dialogue. He has published widely in international journals and collections, he is co-author of a book (Niklas Luhmann. Education as a Social System, Springer, 2017), and he has edited and co-edited four other books (Dialogue in Intercultural Communities. From an Educational Point of View, John Benjamins, 2009; Coordinating Participation in Dialogue Interpreting, John Benjamins, 2012; Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation. Children, Young People in their Social Contexts, Routledge, 2012; Theorizing Childhood. Citizenship, Rights and Participation, Palgrave, 2018).Lucia Rabello de Castrois Professor of Childhood and Youth, Institute of Psychology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was Founder and Chair from 1998 to 2011, and present Scientific Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Exchange on Contemporary Childhood and Youth (NIPIAC/UFRJ/BRAZIL), Senior Researcher of the Brazilian Council of Science and Technological Development (CNPQ), and President of RC53 Sociology of Childhood (20182022). She is also Editor in Chief of DESidades, an international electronic peer-reviewed scientific journal in the area of childhood and youth (www.desidades.ufrj.br), published in Spanish and Portuguese, and President Elect of the National Association of Youth Researchers in Brazil (REDEJUBRA) 20172021. Professor Rabello de Castro has published widely on children and childhood in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English, covering issues of childrens political and social participation, theory and methodology in childhood research and contemporary culture and childrens subjectivities. A recent contribution, The study of childhood and youth in Brazil: dilemmas and choices of a Southern scholar, appeared in S. Koller (ed.) Psychology in Brazil: Scientists Making a Difference (Springer, 2019).

Loretta Bassis Professor of Sociology and holds the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship at the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Loretta is a demographer who focuses her research on childhood and stratification issues in the United States, Africa and Europe. Her book African Immigrant Families in Another France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) examines the integration experiences of international migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa to France. Her earlier book, Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), offers a window on the lives of child workers in 43 African countries. She is currently the Series Editor for the Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY), and serves on the Editorial Board for the journals Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Population Research and Policy Review and Current Sociology. Also, she has served as President of Research Committee 53, Sociology of Childhood, within the International Sociological Association (ISA) and as a past Chair of the American Sociological Associations (ASA) Children and Youth Section.Doris Bhler-Niederbergeris a Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. In her research she focuses on institutions and professions dealing with childhood and on age as a dimension of social structure and social order in different societies. Publications include Marginality and voice: childhood in sociology and society, Current Sociology