OmniTRAX/Broe Quest Series
Dr. Mark Golden
Professor of Classics, University of Winnipeg
Title: Changes and Challenges in the History of Childhood
It is often said that childhood is a modern invention and/or that parents in traditional and high mortality populations didn't feel the (frequent) loss of their children as deeply as we do.
I will briefly argue that neither belief is correct. I will then point out an area where our own practices and attitudes require more thought: our failure to extend democratic rights to children.
Bio: Dr. Mark Golden was born in Winnipeg, raised on Ottawa, and earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Toronto in 1981. He has worked at the University of Winnipeg since 1982 and has written many articles on the history of childhood in the ancient world, and one book, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore and London: 1990). MG