Seminar for Young Scholars: „Children in Multiple Crises“

The seminar for young scholars, „Children in Multiple Crises“, brings together young researchers (MA and PhD students, postdocs and other early-career researchers) studying child vulnerability in different contexts in Estonia and Germany. Throughout the three seminar days, young researchers from Estonia and Germany will present to each other their research varying from child autonomy in medical care and child sexual abuse to the COVID-19 effects on children’s wellbeing in schools. Furthermore, to provide a further impulse to discussions, internationally known and recognised childhood researchers Prof. Sabine Andresen and Prof. Dagmar Kutsar will give their input. Prof. Sabine Andresen will also give an open lecture, which is open not only to the students at the University of Tartu but also to professionals working with children in vulnerable life situations.

This seminar of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany.

Official program

Sunday, 25.08.2024

15:00–16:30	Networking meeting
16:30–17:00	Break and a short tour of the Lossi 36 building
17:00–18:00	Visit to the University of Tartu Museum
20:00–22:00	Dinner

Monday 26.08.2024

09:00–09:10	Opening words by Dr Mai Beilmann (University of Tartu) and Ms Ieva Pranka (Baltic-German University Liaison Office)
09:10–10:30	Session I: Insights into Childhood Inequalities and Vulnerabilities Chair: Prof Dr Dagmar Kutsar
09:10–09:30	Dr Kadri Soo “Challenges for Education System: Why is School Liking Among Estonian Children Falling?”
09:30–10:00	Dr Johanna Wilmes “Growing up with Social Inequality – Images of and Experiences from a Segregated Neighbourhood”
10:00–10:30	Dr Kristi Paron “Child-Patient Autonomy: Interplay between Normativity and Relationality”
10:30–11:00	Break
11:00–12:30	Session II: Insights into Child Sexual Abuse Chair: Dr Judit Strömpl
11:00–11:30	Dr Hanin Mordi “Beyond the Shadows: Understanding Societal Responses to Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse”
11:30–12:00	Merve Dilara Çelik “Zooming In and Out: Building Databases from (CSA) Survivor Stories – The Power of Seeing through Reading”
12:00–12:30	Dr Simone Eelmaa “The Social Categorization of Sexual Abuse”
13:00–14:00	Lunch
14:15–15:45	Public lecture by Prof Dr Sabine Andresen “Lessons from Survivors’ Reports About Child Sexual Abuse. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany“
15:45–16:10	Break
16:15–18:00	Workgroup meeting
18:00–19:00	Guided tour in Tartu
19:00–22:00	Dinner

Tuesday 27.08.2024

09:00–10:30	Session III: Insights into Childhood Vulnerability and War Chair: Dr Mai Beilmann
09:00–09:30	Dr Oliver Nahkur “Theoretical Framework of Children's Vulnerability and Resilience and the International Index of Children's Subjective Vulnerability-Resilience”
09:30–10:00	Johanna Christ “Objectification of Dispatched Children – A Recurring Phenomenon”
10:00–10:30	Tatjana Dietz “Children’s Drawings about War and Flight – An Explorative Childhood Research”
10:30–11:00	Break
11:00–12:30	Workgroup meeting
12:30–14:00	Lunch