CCFC’s 6^th Summit

Consuming Kids:

The Sexualization of Children and Other Commercial Calamities

Scholarships

We have a limited number of scholarships to help students, activists, educators, and others interested in countering the commercialization of childhood attend the CCFC summit. 

To apply please fill out this application and email it to ccfc@jbcc.harvard.edu or fax it to 617-232-7343

Please note that scholarships will be for the cost of registration only. We regret that we will not be able to provide any travel assistance.

The application deadline is December 31, 2007. Please note that if we are unable to provide you with a scholarship, you will still be able to register at early bird rates.

If you have any questions, please email us at CCFC@jbcc.harvard.edu, or call 617-278-4174.

You can support CCFC’s summit scholarship fund by clicking here.

Confirmed speakers

• Morgan Spurlock, Director: Supersize Me

• Michael Brody, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Nancy Carlsson-Paige, author, Taking Back Childhood

• Gail Dines, co-author, Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality

• Richard Freed, child/adolescent psychologist, private practice

• Allen Kanner, co-editor, Psychology and Consumer Culture

• Tim Kasser, author, the High Price of Materialism

• Joe Kelly, author, Dads and Daughters

• Jean Kilbourne, author, Can’t Buy My Love

• Diane Levin, author, Remote Control Childhood

• Susan Linn, author Consuming Kids

• Alex Molnar, author,  School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity

• Alvin F Poussaint, MD, co-author Come On, People

• Michele Simon, the Marin Institute; author, Appetite for Profit

• Juliet Schor, author, Born to Buy

• Susan Gregory Thomas, author Buy, Buy, Baby

• Ginger Carlson, author, Child of Wonder

• Rebecca Randall, Common Sense Media

• Jason Smith, Public Health Advocacy Institute

• Lynn Ziegler, author, Spongeheadz: U and Media

• Julie Gale, Kids Free 2 B Kids(Australia)

• Ana Lúcia Villela, Instituto Alana (Brazil)

• Rob Williams, Action Coaltion for Media Education

• Gary Brunk, Kansas Action for Children

• Lynn Davey, Frameworks Institute

Past CCFC Summits

Consuming Kids: Marketing in Schools and Beyond
October 26-28, 2006, Wheelock College, Boston

Consuming Kids: How Marketing Undermines
Children’s Health, Values & Behavior
March 11-13, 2005, Howard University, Washington DC

Consuming Kids: Toying with Children's Health
February 14, 2004, New York City

Consuming Kids: Marketers Impact on Children's Health

September 20, 2002

The Commercialization of Childhood: How Marketing Harms Children
Sept 10, 2001. New York City