Longfellow Lecture: Ensuring the “Good Childhood” in a Rapidly Changing World: A Nordic-American Dialogue


Longfellow Lecture: Ensuring the “Good Childhood” in a Rapidly Changing World: A Nordic-American Dialogue

The first presentation by Dr. Denisha Jones, Esquire will provide an overview of how the good childhood is withheld from the lives of low-income children of color. This presentation will explore potential policy solutions at the national and local level will be explored.

The following presentation by Dr. Judith T. Wagner, will act in conversation with the Jones’s talk, on the Nordic ideology known as The Good Childhood (en god barndom in Danish). The concept rests on these bedrock principles as they apply to children: rights, democracy, egalitarianism, emancipation, cooperation, and solidarity.

This event is free to attend. Register online at www.sarahlawrence.edu/cdi/public-events/longfellow-lecture.html

 

Event Location and Ticket Information

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Reisinger Concert Hall
Sarah Lawrence College 1 Mead Way
Bronxville, New York 10708
Handicap Accessible? Yes

Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019
Times: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Ticket pricing:
Free event
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Presenter: Sarah Lawrence College
Presenter Phone: 9143952412
Presenter Website: www.sarahlawrence.edu