Category Archives: Call for Papers

Contributors are sought for a critical essay collection on Canadian postwar literatures for submission to an internationally distributed British academic press in 2012. Besides war itself the book will address themes relevant to postwar social and cultural conditions. A key … Continue reading →

On Friday October 21, 2011, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) and the Children’s Studies Program at York University will co-present a symposium on new research in Children’s Material Cultures. The … Continue reading →

In October 2012, the Department of English at the University of Ottawa will host a Symposium on “Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography: Past, Present, and Future.” For Tolkien, the Realm of Faerie defined an imaginative place. That sense of place … Continue reading →

Literary Slipstreams (14–16 June 2012), Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts The 39th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference will consider a multiplicity of interpretations of “Literary Slipstreams,” a theme thriving in the present but involved with waking the past. As we enter … Continue reading →

[The call for papers for this exciting conference was posted recently on the website of Beyond Little House, an amazing resource for Ingalls-Wilder-Lane studies.] The National Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association Conference Sponsored by the Laura Ingalls Wilder … Continue reading →

Children’s Literature Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Same Text but Different: Variants in Children’s Media” February 3-4, 2012 The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: October 15, 2011 … Continue reading →

Call for Articles for a Special Issue of the Journal of LGBT Youth: “Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth,” edited by Genny Beemyn, Ph.D. This special issue of the Journal of LGBT Youth will move beyond studies of the experiences of … Continue reading →

A reminder that 15 August 2011 is the deadline for submissions for this conference, which will be held at the University of Prince Edward Island on 21–24 June 2012. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we … Continue reading →

One-day conference, University of Worcester (UK), 10 April 2010 Keynote speakers: Prof. Mavis Reimer, the Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood at the University of Winnipeg; Dr. Benjamin Lefebvre, the Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the University of … Continue reading →