Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children’s Art in Times of Crisis Editors: Monica Eileen Patterson (Carleton University) and Hannah Dyer (Brock University) This special issue of Global Studies of Childhood focuses on children’s art and its relation to social
CFP – Children’s Literature and Climate Change
We seek essays on how children’s literature empowers young people to productively engage with the challenges of climate change. After decades of climate change denial and toothless mainstream response, young people are angry. In response to climate change illiteracy and
CFP – Controversial Dimensions of Children’s Literature
International conference organized by the CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE 19-20 March, 2020 University of Wrocław Literature for children offers an ongoing challenge for creators, publishers, readers (of whatever age), educators, and researchers. Its functioning is
CFP – “This is my story”
Call for papers and workshops with a focus on biographical and autobiographical narratives in the EFL classroom. For the presentations and workshops we would like to encourage contributions based on biographical / autobiographical texts particularly from the following fields: In
CFP – Lost Futures: Representing the Displaced Child
Call for Papers Lost Futures: Representing the Displaced Child The image of the child has long been deployed in literature, illustration, film and other media to represent ideas of national identity, societal norms and societal anxieties. Yet, this deployment is
CFP – L.M. Montgomery and Vision
CFP: L.M. Montgomery and Vision The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s Fourteenth Biennial Conference University of Prince Edward Island, 25-28 June 2020 “My fingers tingle to grasp a pen—my brain teems with plots. I’ve a score of fascinating dream characters I want
CFP – The Spatial Dynamics of Children’s Series Literature
Call for Papers: The Spatial Dynamics of Children’s Series Literature Editors: Michael G. Cornelius, Marybeth Richards, and Courtney Gotham, Wilson College “Geography,” Nedra Reynolds asserts, “fixes identities” (149). That is to say, where we come from—and where we are, literally,
CFP – Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature
Call for Papers Edited Collection on Plants in Children’s and YA Literature Editors: Melanie Duckworth and Lykke Guanio-Uluru From the forests of the tales of the Brothers’ Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from Piglet’s house in Winnie the
CFP – Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene
Call for papers for edited collection Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene Brian Attebery, Tereza Dědinová and Marek Oziewicz (Eds.) “Fantasy’s main claim to cultural importance resides, I believe, in the work of redefining the relationship between contemporary readers and
CFP – Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things”
Literary Juvenilia, Material Imagination and “Things” Seventh International Literary Juvenilia Conference UNSW Sydney 20 May to 23 May 2020 A young writer’s learning and creative experience is built around things. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s evocative phrase “material imagination,” this conference