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Submissions are invited for the upcoming special issue of Strenae – Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance, titled "The Biography Reframed: Historical Roots, Contemporary Trends, and Multimodal Narratives for Young Readers", guest-edited by Marnie Campagnaro (University of Padova) and Chiara Malpezzi (University of Padova). Abstracts are welcomed until February 15, 2025.

For the International Day of Study in Collodi (Pistoia, Itay), 5 July 2025, organized by the National Carlo Collodi Foundation in collaboration with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research of Chapman University and The University of Iowa, abstracts for The symposium The Multimedia Puppet: Illustrations in The Adventures of Pinocchio are welcomed until February 28, 2025.

The 9th International Conference of the European Network of Picturebook Research The Picturebook between Fiction and Reality will be held in Osijek, Croatia on 28 – 29 September 2023. Abstracts should be sent before 15 February 2023.

The Tilburg University announces a call for papers for an upcoming edited volume titled "The Pitfalls of Good Intentions: An Exploration of Textual Intentionality in Children’s Literature." Abstract-Deadline: 1 November 2024.

The Role of the Child as Citizen is the aim of a Conference being held 26-28 May 2022 at L-Università ta' Malta. Abstracts should be sent before 15 November 2021.

Professor Bernhardt von der Universität Münster plant einen Band für die Reihe "Literatur – Medien – Didaktik" im Frank&Timme Verlag zum Thema "Themenorientierter Literatur- und Medienunterricht im Spannungsfeld von Realismus und ästhetischer Eigengesetzlichkeit". Abstracts können bis zum 29.04.2024 eingereicht werden.

The conference Tomi Ungerer, border hopper (1931-2019): Languages, images and childhood invites proposals for papers. The event wishes to honor Ungerer as a border hopper across countries, languages, narratives, fictional worlds, cultures and readerships. They invite participants to submit papers that address the author-illustrator as a multifaceted border hopper, bearing in mind how much he inspired other artists all through his lifetime as he will doubtless do in the future. The international conference is jointly organised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse, with Musée Tomi Ungerer - Centre international de l'illustration, Centre culturel irlandais, Institut International Charles Perrault, Université Caen Normandie, CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR 9022 Héritages (CY Cergy Paris Université/CNRS/ministère de la Culture), and the support of Afreloce. Proposals in English or French should be submitted by April 15th at the latest.

[20.07.2019]

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Germany and Europe, the 15th International Child and the Book Conference, 27-29 May 2020, Berlin, Germany focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic systems in opposition to authoritarian regimes, to fathom the transformation but also continuities in children’s and young adult literature since the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

In recent years, scholarship on children’s and young adult literature has addressed radical changes occurring in this period. These include the rise of nationalism, the discursive construction of migration, and increased awareness of Othering, resulting, for instance, in racism and discrimination against disability, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. These broad forces shape the future of young generations, but also resonate with the past, and therefore cannot be seen outside the context of tensions between transformation and historical continuity – as is visible throughout post-war Europe and in the city of Berlin in particular.

Referring to the history of Germany and Europe beginning with the rise of fascism in the early 20th century, this conference focuses on the presence of both historical continuity and radical departures from the past, whether that past is conceived of in political, aesthetic, or pedagogical terms. It will gather international scholars who represent a multitude of disciplinary perspectives. We hope to spark discussions surrounding issues of continuity and transformation, with an emphasis on the political dimensions of these concerns, by inviting papers addressing a wide range of subjects in children’s and young adult literature and media, such as picturebooks, comics, and children’s films.

We invite papers related to the conference theme. Possible areas for investigation include, but are not restricted to:

• transformation and continuity in politics and ideology
• discourses of identity and identity politics in children’s literature
• past and present in historical narratives
• considerations of children’s publishing policy and censorship
• changing conceptions of the child citizen
• the politics of pedagogy
• trauma and (post)memory (World War II, Holocaust, displacement, migration, exile, etc.)
• transformation and continuity in cold-war children’s literature and media

Transformation and Continuity: Political and Cultural Changes in Children’s Literature from the Past Century to the Present Day will reflect academic diversity, and host studies from across different fields of research, academic systems, and cultural backgrounds. We welcome proposals for individual papers as well as panels. We particularly encourage graduate students and other early-career scholars to apply. Please send an abstract of 300 words and a short biography (100 words) as two attached Word documents to Catalina Zech at: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein. before November 15, 2019.

Panel proposals may consist of either three or four papers. Panels should consolidate papers with focus on the conference main theme. The panel organizer should invite participants and evaluate each paper in the panel, but the panel as a whole and its individual papers will also be reviewed by external evaluators. For a panel proposal, the panel organizers should submit a short overview statement of the panel theme (300-500 words), a list of participants, and the abstracts of their papers.

Abstracts should include the following information:

a. author(s) with affiliation(s)

b. title and text of proposal

c. selected bibliography with 3-5 academic references

d. five keywords

All abstracts and papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English. Papers will be 20 minutes maximum followed by a 10 minutes discussion. Deadline for abstract submission: November 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2020. All submissions are blind reviewed by the members of the Reading Committee.

Conference venue: Freie Universität Berlin

Scientific Committee:

Farriba Schulz (Freie Universität Berlin)
Ada Bieber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Petra Anders (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

[Quelle: Call for Papers]

21./22. März 2025 im Museum für Sepulkralkultur (Kassel)

Die transmortale XIV wird vom Zentralinstitut und Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel, und dem Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Hamburg in Kooperation mit der Stiftung Deutsche Bestattungskultur veranstaltet. In diesem Jahr findet sie in Zusammenarbeit mit der Professur für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur an der Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Universität in Bielefeld und der Professur für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihre Didaktik am Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur II der Universität zu Köln statt.

Undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft sucht Beiträger*innen für die Ausgabe 20 (2025) zum Thema "Was ist das Politische in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur?" Abstracts können bis zum 15.06.2025 eingereicht werden.