Here’s another look at some future conference proposals that
can include topics regard the study of Children’s Literature:
Reflections
on Revenge: an International Conference on the Culture and Politics of
Vengeance
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Dates:
2/3/4 September 2015
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Location:
University of Leicester
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Topic
Highlights: “What motivates revenge, what course does it run, and what is
it’s impact on individuals, societies and global history… this
interdisciplinary conference will ask who seeks revenge and why, how it is
done, how it is justified, how it is represented, how it feels to get revenge
or be on the receiving end. This includes revenge starting with the smallest
workplace slights, through family disputes and lynch mobs, to political
violence, war and terrorism.”
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Instructions: Please submit a 250 word
abstract via email to revenge@le.ac.uk by April 2nd, 2015.
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Website:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/criminology/research/current-projects/revenge/call-for-papers
Through Opposition and Commonality: The Role and Depiction of the Arts and Sciences in Young Adult Literature
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Dates:
Nov. 12-15, 2015
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Location:
Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, OH
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Topic
Highlights: “Common depictions of dystopian cityscapes and rural pastorality,
as in John Green’s Looking for Alaska (2006), indicate the danger in not only
overly embracing technological advances, but also the very messages that
governments and leaders encourage audiences to believe and support. In such
instances, cultural participants are suggested to be cautious and thoughtful in
what ideologies they embrace and act upon. Likewise, in Rainbow Rowell’s
realistic fictional text Eleanor and Park (2013), the significance of
challenging often self-imposed societal and cultural binaries depicts the way
in which opposing traditional hegemonic discourses and structures allows for
growth and, sometimes, salvation. Across genres, such literatures are
questioning and challenging notions of the impact arts and science have on
local, national and global scales. In keeping with the conference theme, “Arts
and Sciences,” this panel seeks to explore the ways in which Young Adult
Literatures question, investigate, challenge, impact and transform the function
of arts and sciences.”
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Instructions:
Inquiries and/or abstracts of 250-300 words may be sent to Amberyl Malkovich at
amalkovich@concord.edu by April 5, 2015.
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Website:
http://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/cfp%20-%20through%20opposition%20and%20commonality.pdf
Bookbird:
A Journal of International Children’s Literature:
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Bookbird:
A Journal of International Children's Literature (ISSN 0006 7377) is a refereed
journal published quarterly by IBBY
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Highlights:
“Invites contributions for a special issue exploring Indigenous Children’s
Literature from around the world. Taking our cue from studies like Clare
Bradford’s germinal Unsettling Narratives, which examines First Nations’ issues
in texts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, this issue welcomes articles
that focus on texts for children and young adults by Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal/First
Nations authors. Topics might include, but are not limited to: nations within
and across nations, decolonization and survivance, orality and storytelling,
history and context, formation of identity, borders and journeys, place and the
natural world, spirituality and sacred folkways, origin stories and the
trickster figure, tribal politics and sovereignty, community and culture.”
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Instructions: Full papers should be
submitted to the editor, Björn Sundmark (bjorn.sundmark@mah.se), and guest
editor, Roxanne Harde (rharde@ualberta.ca), by 1 July 2015.
CHILDREN'S
RIGHTS and CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn)
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Accepted articles will appear in issue 40.2
(2016) of The Lion and the Unicorn
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Topic
Highlights: “Seeking papers that investigate the intersections between the
histories, theories, and practices of children's rights and children's
literature. In response to the ratification of the United Nation's Convention
on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC) in 1989, advocates and scholars have
debated the necessity and revealed the complexity of defining and implementing
children's rights across the globe. Critical discourse on children's rights,
however, has not yet fully examined the role that children's literature plays
in shaping, promoting, implementing and interrogating children's rights. This
special issue invites scholars to explore the connections between the
institutions of children's rights and children's literature.”
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Instructions: Essays should be sent to guest editors Lara Saguisag and Matthew B.
Prickettat LU.RightsIssue@gmail.com by May 31, 2015. Submissions should be
15-20 pages (4000-6000 words)
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Website:
http://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/cfp%20-%20lion%20and%20the%20unicorn.pdf
WRITING HOME: BATTLEFRONT AND HOMEFRONT, CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR:
- Accepted essays
will appear in the 2017 issue.
- Topic Highlights: “This
special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn invites submissions focused on
children’s literature of the First World War from a variety of international
perspectives. Among other things, essays could focus on: Constructions of
“home” and “front” as made by civilians and soldiers in poetry, prose, and
illustrations; The role of the coming centenary in modern reconstructions of
the First World War; The significance of local and national borderlands and
boundaries, includingconceptualizations and reconceptualizations of “no man’s
land”; Intersections of childish/adult patterns of language in the war poetry
of young soldiers such as Robert Graves, David Jones, Wilfred Owen, and
Siegfried Sassoon; Collisions and explosions of memory and experience in experimental
writing; Responses to the war in the children’s literature of neutral
countries, American representations of the Great War, both before and after
April 6, 1917; Escape narratives written by or about children; Child heroism
narratives, including propaganda narratives of domestic heroism such
asparticipation in victory gardens and scrap collection efforts; Limitations of
language in writing about “unspeakable events” for children, particularly in
the nonfiction texts that have been marketed to popular audiences or to
classrooms; Visual representations of the First World War in graphic novels,
including work by Jacques Tardi and Jean-PierreVerney, Joe Sacco and Adam
Hochschild, Wayne Vansant, Pat Millsand Joe Colquhoun; The reshaping of
personal and national memory and identity in children’s war narratives; The
influence of militarism and pacifism on war narratives and propaganda
narratives atdifferent stages of the war.”
- Instructions: Essays
should be approximately 8,000 words in length. Please email your essay as
a Word attachment to Dr. Jacquilyn Weeks at weeksj@iupiu.edu by July 1,
2016. Accepted essays will appear in the 2017 issue. Or, if you prefer,
you can mail a hard copy to Dr. Weeks at: Department of English, Cavanaugh Hall
502L, IUPUI, 425 University Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
Eleventh-Annual
Wonderland Award:
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WHAT: Explore, explain, analyze, and interpret
the works of Lewis Carroll
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WHO: All graduate and undergraduate students in
all fields of study, currently enrolled in accredited California colleges and
universities are eligible to participate
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AWARD: First prize is $2,500; Second prize is
$1,500
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WHEN: Deadline for entries is Wednesday, April
1, 2015; winners will be announced at an award reception in Doheny Library on
Friday, April 24, 2015.
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About the
Award: “The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition
that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis Carroll
(1832–1898). The award was established in 2004 with the sponsorship of Linda
Cassady. The 1st award was made in spring 2005; speaking at that event was the
great-granddaughter of Alice, Vanessa St. Clair. Since then, there have been
more than 300 student submissions and the success of the program prompted USC
to open the competition to students from other Southern California colleges and
universities.”
Good luck to you and your submissions!
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