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IRSCL Conferences
2009 Congress, Frankfurt, Germany
The 19th Biennial Congress of IRSCL will be held at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, August 8-12, 2009.
The theme is 'Children's Literature and Cultural Diversity in the Past and the Present'
2011 Congress, Brisbane, Australia
The 20th Biennial Congress of IRSCL will be held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 7-11 July, 2011.
The theme is: 'Fear and Safety in Children's Literature'
Other Conferences
Visual Narrative Media in Britain from Ally Sloper to Judge Dredd
Popular Narrative Media/Association for Research in Popular Fictions Conference
Friday 10th and Saturday 11th July 2009
Liverpool John Moores University, Dean Walters Building
Covering the period from the 1880s to early 1980s, this interdisciplinary conference will look at the histories, methodologies, archives, readers and cultural practices surrounding a range of visual texts and texts containing illustrations.
The texts include anthology and other comics, comic strips, cartoons, illustrated story papers, and periodicals of which the following are indicative examples: Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, Judy, Illustrated Chips, Girl's Own Paper, Boy's Own Paper, The Dandy, The Beano, School Friend, Whizzer and Chips, Rupert, Hornet, Wizard, Tiger, Hotspur,Eagle, Girl, Bunty, Giles, Look-In, Look and Learn, Tammy, Misty, Valiant, 2000AD. Papers should stay within the period specified.
Please send 250 word abstracts for 20 minute presentations by 15th December 2008 to
Astrid Lindgren: Internationality and Intermediality
International Conference
Växjö University, Sweden
18-20 September 2008
Speakers include Eva-Maria Metcalf, Maria Nikolajeva and Boel Westin
9th Seminar of the Finnish Fantastic Researchers
'Utopias and young adult literature: Researching the Fantastic'
Tampere, Finland
24-25 July, 2008
Speakers include Farah Mendlesohn, Matti Savolainen, Liisa Rantalaiho, Frans Mäyrä, Markku Soikkeli and Irma Hirsjärvi.
Enquiries to Markku Soikkeli: markku.t.soikkeli@uta.fi OR csmaso@uta.fi
International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes Symposium 'Language, Literatures and the Media'
July 9-11, 2008
Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique ( LYON. France), organised by the Charles Perrault International Institute (French-English simultaneous translation)
Enquiries to: Professor Jean Perrot : communication.iicp@club-internet.fr
8th International Conference of the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR)
'Other Worlds in Children’s Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination'
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
27-29 June 2008.
Plenary speakers include Rod McGillis and Bernard Beckett, one of New Zealand’s leading writers for young adults (books include Jolt, Home Boys and New Zealand Post Book Award winner Genesis).
Enquiries to Anna Jackson: anna.jackson@vuw.ac.nz.
Children's Literature Association Conference 'ReImagining Normal'
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA
12-15 June 2008
Plenary speakers include Eric Rohmann, Betsy Hearne (Francelia Butler lecture), Violet Harris, Janice N. Harrington and Peter Dickinson (winner of the 2008 Phoenix Award for Eva).
Enquiries to: ChLA2008@ilstu.edu
The Center for Children's and Young Adult Fiction at the University of Wroclaw, Poland 'Relevant Across Cultures: Visions of Connectedness and World Citizenship in Modern Fantasy for Young Readers'
University of Wroclaw, Poland
28-31 May, 2008
Speakers include Brian Attebery, American critic and scholar, author of The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature (1980), Strategies of Fantasy (1992), and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002).
Enquiries to Conference secretary, Agata Zarzycka: agata@proteus.pl
The 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Delightful Horror and the Sense of Wonder: Appreciating the Sublime in the Fantastic
March 19-23, 2008
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
2007 Congress, Kyoto, Japan
Power and Children's Literature: Past, Present and Future. Get the full conference Report here.