Category Archives: Call for Papers

 How do different cultures present the concept of death to children? How is death represented pictorially? How is death suggested metaphorically? How do the images and metaphors in children’s books reflect contemporaneous beliefs, hopes, and fears? Are there taboos in … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS:  #1: Genderqueer Children and Youth #2: Institutionalized Spaces, Geographies, and Environments of Young People #3: ‘Growing up global’: Childhoods in a Transnational Context A JOINT SESSION OF ARCYP AND ACCUTE AT THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND … Continue reading →

The 2013 ChLA Conference call for papers online submission site is now open at www.usm.edu/chla2013.    Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference Play and Risk in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture June 13-15, 2013 Biloxi, Miss. The University of … Continue reading →

Fantastic Adaptations, Transformations, and Audiences March 20-24, 2013 Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel ICFA 34 will explore the ubiquity of adaptation in all its Fantastic forms. In addition to essays examining our Guests’ work, conference papers might consider specific adaptations, adaptation … Continue reading →

 CALL FOR PAPERS Picturing Children of the Sun: A Critical Kaleidoscope of  African-American Children’s Picture Books Edited by Michelle H. Martin With the publication of Mrs. A. E. Johnson’s Clarence and Corinne, or God’s Way (1890) and Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Little … Continue reading →

In this themed issue of IRCL we wish to throw out a challenge to scholars in our field to engage with the most recent, cross-disciplinary, approach to literary studies and explore what its implications and usefulness may be for the study of … Continue reading →

Deadline: July 15, 2012Book Editors: Miriam Forman-Brunell, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City Rebecca Hains, Ph.D., Salem State University Publisher: Peter Lang Press “Mediated Youth” series, edited by Sharon Mazzarella Description: Princesses are significant figures in girl culture, and they have … Continue reading →

Deadline: December 31, 2012 Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modernvolume IV (2013) Published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT) http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de Crime and the Fantastic If there is one thread that consistently runs through all forms of the fantastic from the … Continue reading →

Society for the History of Children and Youth, June 25-27, 2013 Conference Theme: “Space and Childhood in History” The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth will be held June 25-27, 2013, at the … Continue reading →

Call for Papers Approaching War: Childhood, Culture and the First World War, 1880-1919 An International Leverhulme Trust Project http://research.ncl.ac.uk/fww-child/ Third International Conference Approaching War: Europe Newcastle University, UK, 15-17 March, 2013 This is the third of three conferences aimed at … Continue reading →

In children’s literature, elderly people such as Stian Hole’s “Stamp Man” in Garmann’s Street often offer identificatory potential for the young reader since, similar to children, they can escape societal restraints and expectations. At the same time, these figures have … Continue reading →

Call for Articles: “The Work of Play” The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts (METC) in Madison, New Jersey is currently planning its spring/summer 2013 exhibit tentatively titled “The Work of Play.” The exhibit is set to focus on the … Continue reading →

Deadline: August 31, 2012 For thirty years, L.M. Montgomery lived in Ontario, writing fiction that confirmed her place, established by the early Anne novels, in the Canadian canon. While much has been written on the familial, cultural, historical, and geographical associations … Continue reading →

Deadline: July 1, 2012 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference March 6-10, 2013 in Chicago “Visualizing Adolescent Girlhood” At the turn of the twentieth century, the adolescent girl was seminally defined by American psychologist G. Stanley Hall as a highly … Continue reading →

Deadline: June 15, 2012 The Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (MAP/ACA) invites academics, graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars, and artists to submit papers for the annual fall conference to be held in Pittsburgh, PA. MAP/ACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated … Continue reading →

Deadline: 18 June 2012 ESC: English Studies in Canada invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Childhood and Its Discontents,” guest edited by Nat Hurley. No figure more fully embodies the paradoxical demands of civilization than the child. At once beloved and … Continue reading →

Call for Papers Children and War: Past and Present Second international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 10-12 July 2013

The program for the conference, “Place, Nation, and Borders in Children’s Literature” is now available online: http://lnu.se/institutioner/institutionen-for-sprak-och-litteratur/konferenser–symposier/3-5-may-place-nation-and-borders-in-childrens-literature/preliminary-programme There are still spots available for participants. Contact Astrid Surmatz at astrid.surmatz@lnu.se or Anja Noack Thordin at anja.noack-thordin@lnu.se.

Deadline: May 30, 2012 Although children and youth appear in a great number of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, they are rarely the focus of critical attention. This collection seeks to remedy that oversight and aims to add to the rich and … Continue reading →

Deadline: September 1, 2012 and February 1, 2013 JCL explores issues of current concern to scholars in the field of children;s literature, teachers of children’s literature, librarians, and classroom teachers, preschool through middle school. Manuscript guidelines can be found at … Continue reading →