As promised, I’m finally getting around to writing more about this. I’ve submitted an overview of sessions on childhood/youth for the Society for History of Childhood and Youth newsletter which will come out later this summer. [older issues can be viewed here].

Overall I found the meeting really interesting and the folks very welcoming — I like these smaller more specialized meetings. As I say in my SHCY review, I found Ian Hacking’s keynote to be particularly enlightening (for those who missed it, this was an expanded version of his article in London Review of Books.] he shows a great deal of empathy towards parents of autistic children, and more importantly individuals with autism.

Well, my book, Student Bodies, is now being listed in the Fall 2007 University of Michigan Press catalogue. So, it’s really going to come out. What a relief!