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On behalf of the members of The Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław, members are invited to two online lectures, Professor Marnie Campagnaro’s Architecture and Interior Design in Picturebook, and Professor Anastasia Ulanowicz’s Bloodlands Fiction, the fifth and sixth talks in the “International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies” series.
Professor Campagnero’s lecture will be held on December 1, 2021, at 6 p.m. Warsaw time.
If you are interested in taking part in the lecture, please contact us by email by 29 November at the following address: mateusz.swietlicki@uwr.edu.pl
NEWS: Call for Submissions – The Dragon Lode
Submissions are invited for the Spring 2022 issue of The Dragon Lode, the journal of the Children’s Literature and Reading SIG of the International Literacy Association (ILA).
Manuscripts that explore contemporary issues and questions, genre study, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading are invited.
Manuscripts due: December 15, 2021
NEWS: TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership 2022
The English and Creative Writing team at Roehampton is pleased to announce that the current round of applications for our annual scholarships in children’s literature is open (studies commencing October 2022).
We invite applications from outstanding candidates for our TECHNE AHRC doctoral studentships. Studentships are supported in departments across the university, but ECW will consider applications for projects related to children’s literature or creative writing for children. Projects drawing on our archival holdings—such as the Richmal Crompton archive and historical collections—will be especially welcome, as will proposals that build on our research interests.
The University of Roehampton is set on a beautiful, traditional campus in south-west London. The University provides its students with exceptional facilities, high quality teaching and a close-knit, collegiate experience. It has a diverse student body and a cosmopolitan outlook, with students from over 130 countries.
For more information and details of how to apply, please see our Graduate School pages:
Expressions of Interest should be sent by 3rd December 2021 to:
Dr. Lisa Sainsbury: L.Sainsbury@roehampton.ac.uk
Please visit https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/graduate-school/ to find out more about postgraduate research at Roehampton.
For all non-academic queries relating to the studentships, please contact:
PhD study at Roehampton: pgresearch@roehampton.ac.uk or Technē scholarships at Roehampton: TECHNE@roehampton.ac.uk
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CFP: The Child and the Book Conference
Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin
The Call for Papers for The Child and the Book Conference [May 2022] closes on the 15th November.
We are accepting paper, panel, and poster proposals. More details are available here:
The conference will be delivered in hybrid format because we wish to make it as accessible as possible. Both in person and online formats will feature keynotes, panel discussions, roundtables, and other inspiring activities.
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
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CFP: New Articles on Poetry in Barnboken
Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin
Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research presents four new articles within the theme “Poetry for Children and Youth.”
Berit Westergaard Bjørlo takes a closer look at examples of visual and verbal humour in two contemporary Norwegian poetry picturebooks, with particular emphasis on the interplay between the poems and illustrations. Reading nonsense poetry as play and creative thinking, Claus K. Madsen and Lea Allouche highlight the different uses of nonsense in Danish Birgitte Krogsbøll and Kamilla Wichmann’s Funkelgnister.
Johan Alfredsson examines the function of poetry and the picture book format in Tove Jansson’s classic The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My, demonstrating how the combination of these aspects can influence how child readers make sense of the narrative. Exploring the transferral of poetry from book to stage, Silje Harr Svare and Anne Skaret analyze a stage performance for children based on Norwegian author Rolf Jacobsen’s poetry which originally was published for adults. The four articles are written in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, with abstracts in English.
Guest editors of “Poetry for Children and Youth” are Johan Alfredsson (PhD, University of Gothenburg, Sweden), and Anne Skaret (Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Norway).
We also publish seven new reviews of recently published theoretical literature, such as Derritt Mason’s Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and
Culture and Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks. Theoretical and Analytical Approaches edited by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, and Anne-Stefi Teigland. The seven reviews are written in Swedish and Norwegian.
Barnboken is an Open Access journal. All content is available for free downloading. Read all the articles and reviews here.
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CFP: Children’s Literature in Education – Special Issue Aesthetic Approaches to Baby Books
Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin
Aside from Perry Nodelman’s landmark article “The Mirror Staged: Looking at Pictures of Babies in Baby Books” (Jeunesse, 2010) and chapters in Emergent Literacy (edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, 2011), few studies have paid attention to the aesthetics of books for infants up to three years old.
While, to some extent, baby books can be examined and analysed using the usual tools of picture book analysis and general narrative, stylistic and critical theories, it is puzzling that this huge and varied category of texts has not yet been granted its own theorisation. This may be, in part, because academic interest in the infant, who etymologically – as we are told ad nauseam – “does not speak”, is less obvious in literary fields than in the fields of neuropsychology or medicine, for which babies are an almost obsessive focus. Yet babies’ incommensurable differences in size, perception, literacy, comprehension, motricity, status, etc., to their peers even a couple of years older, warrant special examination, too, of the aesthetics of texts dedicated to them.
In this special issue, we want to consider the literariness and the artistic aspects of books intended for that very specific audience. We are looking for contributions on topics such as – though not limited to:
The poetics of books for babies
Genre, format and medium
Visual, sensory and tactile aspects of baby books
Bath books, pushchair books, toy-books and other object-books
Characters in baby books
Baby books of colours, shapes, numbers, letters, etc.
Pop-up books for babies
Musical books and sound books for babies
Classic baby books and baby books as presents
Ideological or political approaches to baby books
Cognitive poetics and the baby book
Historical studies of baby books
Baby books in translation
Please send a 400-word abstract to Clémentine Beauvais, clementine.beauvais@york.ac.uk, before February 1st, 2022.
Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by February 15th, 2022 and a first draft of the article will be due on October 1st, 2022, for publication in 2023.
Bernstein, R. (2020). “You Do It!”: Going-to-Bed Books and the Scripts of Children’s Literature. PMLA, 135(5), 877-894.
Beveridge, L. (2017). Chewing on Baby Books as a Form of Infant Literacy: Books are for Biting. In More Words about Pictures, ed. P. Nodelman, M. Reimer & N. Hamer (pp. 18-29). Routledge.
Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (Ed.). (2011). Emergent literacy: children’s books from 0 to 3 (Vol. 13). John Benjamins Publishing.
Nodelman, P. (2010). The Mirror Staged: Images of Babies in Baby Books. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2(2), 13-39.
Pereira, D. (2019). Bedtime books, the bedtime story ritual, and goodnight moon. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 44(2), 156-172.
Sundmark, B. (2018). The Visual, the Verbal, and the Very Young: A Metacognitive Approach to Picturebooks. Acta Didactica Norge, 12(2), Art. 12, 17 sider. https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.5642
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NEWS – Seminar: PiCoBoo: A Research Project and an Open-Access Database with Dr. Francesca Tancini
Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin
Date: Thursday 11 November
Dr. Francesca Tancini, University of Newcastle, will be speaking to the University of Reading’s Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Research Seminar on her project: “PiCoBoo: a research project and an open-access database”
The PiCoBoo project aims to assess the significance of 19th-century European picture books, printed in colour for children, as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes.
It makes accessible a large corpus of picture books, so far dispersed across countries and institutions, only partially retrievable through local catalogues, not always correctly described and in a not-uniformed way. The database now provides almost 600 books, with hundreds of digitised images included and not retrievable elsewhere on the web.
PiCoBoo project has been hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit at Newcastle University, in partnership with Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Books, and with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
This online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picoboo-a-research-project-and-an-open-access-database-tickets-181644602897
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NEWS: Modernity, Memory, and Asian Childhood International Conference
Posted on November 4, 2021 by admin
You are cordially invited to join an international conference to be held on November 20, 2021 at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. It is now organized as a virtual conference for all English sessions.
For more details, please visit the conference website: http://english.scu.edu.tw/tclra/2021conf/
Registration is free, but is required to attend the conference.  Register by November 10, 2021 at:  http://english.scu.edu.tw/tclra/2021conf/index.php/registration/
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IRSCL Book Award 2022- Applications open
Open Position: Assistant Professor in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies