Colloquia

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All colloquia take place via Zoom and last 90 minutes. They are every third week of the month, switching Thursdays and Saturdays, at 2:00 pm US Eastern time (remaining for 2021: Sat May 22, Thurs June 17, Sat July 17, Thurs Aug 19, Sat Sept 18, Thurs Oct 14, Sat Nov 20, Thurs 16 Dec).

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To attend, watch out for announcements via the listserv. All are welcome.

March 20, 2021
april 15, 2021

2:00-3:30 pm US ET

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Children's Voting as a Question of Economics

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A panel of experts will discuss the ways in which children's suffrage is related to economics, poverty, work, development, and similar topics.

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  • Luigi Campiglio, Professor of Economic Policy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

  • Lavinia Mello Rella, Researcher, Behavioral Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

  • Kristiina Vares-Wartiovaara, Sustainability Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Children's Voice Association, Finland

  • Stein Ringen, Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University and King's College London, UK

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Discussion and dialogue to follow.

March 20, 2021
March 20, 2021

2:00-3:30 pm US ET

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A Conversation with Jakob Hinze, recent Ph.D. in Philosophy at University of St Andrews, Scotland, and affiliate with the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, about his recently completed dissertation, Rejuvenating Democracy: Age, Knowledge, and the Right to Vote.

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Responses by John Wall, Robin Chen, and others followed by discussion.

November 12, 2020

Four of us presented what we are working on at the moment, including US efforts to lower the voting age, reaching out to countries' children's rights commissioners, developing an academic edited volume, and reaching out to paediatric societies worldwide. We also developed our overall plan for working groups and assigned leaders to each. See working group page here.

October 1, 2020

This meeting was devoted to developing an overall strategic campaign for the project, led by partners at Amnesty International UK. We developed the following overall objective statement: "We will work in our countries, regions, and globally to abolish a minimum voting age across the world." And we agreed to work on a hybrid model in which we continue to meet as a larger group in a monthly colloquium, but also develop smaller working groups to target specific issues and geographical regions.

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August 20, 2020

A discussion of practical strategies and next steps. Numerous strategies were proposed, including the following: involving children and youth; integrating persons of color; hosting a speakers series; developing white papers, courses, videos, scholarship, and fiction; gaining funding for polls, research, legal work, and case development; creating a website and twitter account; reaching out to more children's voting organizations; and working toward an eventual summit or convention with public declaration.

July 23, 2020

The inaugural meeting of the Children's Voting Colloquium. The 13 in attendance (with 4 sending regrets) presented their ideas about children's voting. All agreed that, in one way or another, the voting age of 18 should be eliminated, so that children and youth are equally accounted for in democracies. But there were various positions on whether that involves universal/ageless voting, lowering the voting age, proxy voting, or some combination thereof.

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