CFP: Young Adult + Series + Romance (proposal deadline December 1)

2023 marks the fortieth anniversary of the initial publication of Sweet Valley High. While Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield may rank amongst the best-known teen romance heroines, the texts themselves exist within a much larger pantheon of series books intended for or read by teens, and featuring romance narratives. The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS) seeks articles for a special issue devoted to young adult series romance. These articles may focus on YA series romance from any historical period or language context, and may derive from any relevant discipline, including interdisciplinary approaches.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

· the relationship between young adult literature, series novels, and popular romance

· ideology within YA series romance

· literary precursors to YA series romance

· midcentury series romances aimed at teens

· 80s and 90s teen romance series, such as Wildfire, Young Love, First Love, or Sweet Dreams series

· legacies of Sweet Valley High or other YA series romance in current YA romance

· positive or problematic representations of identity (including race, gender, sexuality, and disability) within YA series romance

· YA series romance in global perspective

· sex (or potentially the lack of sex) in YA romance series

· ghostwriters and/or corporate constructions of teen romance series

· teen responses to YA romance series

· YA romance series within fanworks and fandom

· teacher or librarian reaction to and/or use of YA romance series

· pedagogical approaches to using YA romance series within the classroom (at any level)

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words, as well as a short bio, to Amanda K. Allen, YA Section Editor, at aallen36@emich.edu. The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2023.

If chosen, final articles should be no more than 10,000 words, including notes and bibliography, and will be due June 1, 2024. Please note that all research articles submitted to this special issue of JPRS will undergo peer review via a double blind, pre-publication peer review policy. Researchers also have the option to participate in our open peer review pilot, should they be interested in a review process in which author and reviewer identity is known to all participants at all stages of peer review. All editorial policies are available on the JPRS site: www.jprstudies.org.

About JPRS: The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal publishing concise and well-written contributions to the study of popular romance media (e.g., love songs; romantic fiction and chick-lit; romance in film and TV, in comics and graphic novels, in memoir and life-writing, in fanfic and other forms of transformative culture,

etc.). We also publish articles on the logics, institutions, and social practices of romantic love in global popular culture.

For more information about this special issue, or about publishing other research in JPRS related to any aspect of young adult romance, please contact Amanda K. Allen at aallen36@emich.edu.

International conference in Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS)

New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation: Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches

22-23 August 2024, Stockholm (Sweden) Deadline for abstract: 30 November 2023

Call for Papers

This conference is organized by a collaboration between Stockholm University, Uppsala University (Sweden), Heriot-Watt University (UK) and the Children In Translation Network at the University of Galway (Ireland) to promote the intersection between Children’s Literature and Translation Studies. We understand this intersection as a space that includes the translation of all forms of multimodal fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults or what Borodo (2007) refers to as “Child-centered Translation Studies” in desire to broaden the field of study to different media. The field of children’s literature has proved a fertile ground for research in translation in recent decades, but the time has come to take stock of past developments and innovations to forge new theoretical and practical paths for the future development of the discipline. Drawing from the first interdisciplinary conference organized in Belgium by KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp in 2017, our goal is to solidify what has been achieved so far and to provide a space for discussion on the future of children’s literature in translation. This workspace will serve as a forum for practitioner and academic voices to work together to share new ideas and to further shape the arena for the discipline. We invite individual and panel proposals on a broad range of topics integrating Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies with a focus on new approaches, creative technologies and the future of translation for children and young adults.

We are especially keen on contributions in the following themes: 1. How translation redefines texts and media for children and young adults 2. Transnational approaches (i.e. investigating translation flows, the role of institutions, agents, translators, publishers, critics and other mediators) 3. The pragmatics of translating 4. Translingualism, Intermedial and multimodal translation 5. Ethics, ideology and power in translation 6. Reception studies 7. Representation, diversity and inclusivity in translation Presentations are expected to be no longer than 20 minutes. Proposals for posters will be considered. Post-graduate and early career researcher proposals are encouraged.

Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) including 5 keywords and a short biography (max. 70 words) by 30th November 2023 to https://forms.gle/YwiwHSdQmvTrKRh58.

Notice of acceptance will be given in February/March 2024.

Link: https://cltsconference.wordpress.com/

Contact: cltsconf@gmail.com

Keynote speakers: Vanessa Leonardi (Sapienza University Rome, Italy), Michał Borodo (Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland)

Invited honorary speakers: Emer O’Sullivan (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany), Gillian Lathey (University of Roehampton, United Kingdom)

Organizing committee (also in the scientific committee): Pilar Alderete Diez (University of Galway, Ireland), Valérie Alfvén (Stockholm University, Sweden), Owen Harrington Fernández (Heriot-Watt university, United Kingdom), Charlotte Lindgren (Uppsala University, Sweden), Sara Van Meerbergen (Stockholm University, Sweden), Scientific Committee Cecilia Alvstad (Østfold university college, Norway), Marcus Axelsson (Østfold university college, Norway), Elke Brems (KU Leuven, Belgium), Ines Costa (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Audrey Coussy (McGill university, Canada), Reglindis De Ridder (Stockholm University, Sweden), Vanessa Joosen (Antwerp University), Yvonne Lindqvist (Stockholm University, Sweden), Jack McMartin (KU Leuven, Belgium), Elin Svahn (Stockholm University, Sweden), Julia Lin Thompson (University of Sydney, Australia)

Conference partly financed by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: https://www.rj.se/en/

Call for Papers: Communication in the Worlds of Children and Youth: Imagination, Language, Performance, and Creative Expression

When considering the worlds of children, researchers may start with communication as a site of inquiry, examining how children and youth share their experiences and perceptions of places, people, ideas, and more through the use of language, performance, and other creative expressions. Communication is also a methodological concern in terms of how child- and youth-focused researchers generate information about and convey communication from or with children and youth. NEOS invites submissions that speak to imagination, expression, and the senses in terms of how children know, experience, and express their perception of the present and envision the future. Submissions may also reflect these themes as they pertain to child-focused methods such as creative approaches that engage with the sensory, multimodal, performative, and participatory.

We invite a range of child and youth studies scholars to submit manuscripts for this issue, and this call for proposals may be of particular interest to (a) communication and performance scholars working with young people, (b) linguistic anthropologists working with young people and language, and (c) ethnographers or child/youth-focused researchers who engage in imaginative and experimental methods concerning how children communicate. Authors may want to consider more multimodal and imaginative inclusions within their text, such as drawings or visual displays of data or findings.

We invite submissions that focus on primary and original research around the themes of the issue: Imagination, Communication, and Expression

• Young people’s imaginative expressions of the present or future that may include and extend beyond engagements with play or leisure

• Children’s engagement with language including language learning, development, socialization, and change

• Exploration of children’s and youths’ perceptions of their worlds and less-than-expected or unexpected means of expression through verbal, bodily, or silent forms of communicating Participatory, Multimodal, and Expressive Methods

• Child- and youth-focused projects that apply and push the conventions of ethnography especially concerning multimodal communication

• The opportunities and challenges of visual and sensory methods in research with young people

• Creative methods that speak to children’s and youths’ “participation” in research and knowledge production including participatory action research, community-based research, and theater or performance-focused projects

• Co-written or co-produced ethnography (as genre) with young people

We invite short-form original research articles (1,200 words max, excluding references) that address the issue’s theme. NEOS also welcomes short pieces (1,200 words max, excluding references) on scholarship and applied research that uplifts racial, economic, and social justice and the dismantling of systemic oppression for a dedicated standing column on anti-racism and equity in child and youth studies. NEOS is an open-access publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). We publish research on childhood and youth from scholars working across the four fields of anthropology, as well from those interdisciplinary fields in conversation with anthropological theories and methods. Articles published in NEOS undergo a doubleanonymous peer-review process. The deadline for submissions is August 16, 2023 (end of the day). Rolling submissions prior to August 16th are also welcome.  While not required, authors are encouraged to submit a brief message about their intent to submit to the Co-Editors by August 2nd, 2023. The NEOS Editorial Team may be reached at acyig.editor@gmail.com

Visit our website for further information on NEOS, as well as submission guidelines and instructions. You may access the submission portal for the Fall 2023 issue here.

CFP: Literature and the Video Essay

CFP: Literature and the Video Essay. Researching and Teaching Literature Through Moving Images

Editors: Adriana Margareta Dancus (University of South-Eastern Norway) and Alan O’Leary (Aarhus University)

This special issue explores how the video essay can function as an academic and pedagogic resource in the study and teaching of literature.
The project seeks to bring together literary and film studies in a new way and targets children’s and youth literature.

Literature and literature instruction are central components in the language subjects. In this special issue, we use the term ‘literature’ in a broad sense to encompass narratives in different genres and media, including picture books, comics, feature and documentary films, narrative apps, and computer games with an intrinsic aesthetical value. Didactic perspectives on literature encompass questions about why and how to teach literature as well as what literary texts to choose from in the language subjects. Further, we adopt a ‘performative’ approach to research whereby the video essay is conceived as a form that generates new theoretical and analytical insights.

Contributors will produce own video essays (5-12 minutes) accompanied by an academic guiding text between 1000-1500 words that fleshes out the relevance of the topic, positions the video essay in a larger academic context, and provides critical reflections on the process of making the video essay.

We welcome contributions in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish.

Abstracts (300 words) and a one page-mood board which visualizes the project should be sent to Adriana.M.Dancus@usn.no by May 31, 2023.

For more information: https://journals.hiof.no/index.php/ELLA/announcement/view/3

Postdoctoral Research Associate Program

Please find the original posting here:
https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/postdoctoral-researchers

The Postdoctoral Research Associate program in the iSchool seeks to provide mentoring and community support to prepare candidates for tenure-stream assistant professor or other permanent appointments inside and outside of academia. Program participants will be given an opportunity to build both their research agenda and their teaching experience under the guidance of a faculty mentor, who will provide individual guidance and support. iSchool-supported postdocs will teach up to one course per semester and serve on at least one service committee.

The School opens both a general call for applicants on an annual cycle each January and off-cycle calls for grant-funded opportunities associated with specific faculty researchers. Watch our jobs page for the latest opportunities.

For questions or further information, please email ischool-postdoc@illinois.edu.

Guidelines

  • The applicant must have obtained their Ph.D. prior to July 1, 2023.
  • Postdocs are normally appointed for one year, starting August 16, 2023, and can be reappointed for a second year.
  • Recipients must be in residence full-time for the duration of the award period.

Application

Applications are submitted through an online form.

Materials should include:

  • Current CV
  • Statement of interest, including reference to any courses the applicant could teach
  • Names of up to three potential iSchool faculty mentors, including any existing relationships
  • Individual Development Plan
  • Mentoring plan, to be developed with potential faculty mentor

Stipend

  • The stipend for the 2023-2024 year is at least $60,000 (for a 12-month appointment) commensurate with experience and responsibilities and includes health benefits.
  • An additional $2,000 is provided for research, travel, and related expenses.

Appointments

Postdoctoral research associates are normally appointed for one year, starting August 16, and can be reappointed for a second year. Off-cycle appointments are possible, and alternative timelines are negotiated on an as-needed basis.
Details about funding and benefits are provided in position descriptions when they are posted.
Renewal Process
Applicants wishing to be considered for a second year in the program will be asked to provide plans for future work as part of their annual report. If an invitation to renew is offered, selected participants will be given a deadline by which to state their intention to return or not.

Job opportunity: Assistant Director, Center for Children’s Books – School of Information Sciences Urbana, IL, United States

Please see the original job ad here:

https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/1456?c=illinois

Assistant Director, Center for Children’s Books – School of Information Sciences

School of Information Sciences

Urbana, IL, United States

Job Summary
The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks an Assistant Director, Center for Children’s Books (CCB) to work with the Director of the Center and the Editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books to develop and implement strategies to retain and grow the CCB’s reputation as a national leader in youth librarianship, children’s materials, and the Youth-Information-Technology triad.

Duties & Responsibilities

Scholarly publications development:

Select digital platform for multimedia student review journal.

Create policy and procedures around a student-driven, staff-guided born-digital book and media review journal to be published semi-annually as a complement to the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.

Editorial Management:

Work with editor of the Bulletin and student leadership to screen new books received (approximately 5000 a year) to select for review those texts that will best complement the titles reviewed by the Bulletin (e.g., new voices, perspectives, presses).

In coordination with student leadership, manage and edit all reviews for publication, including but not limited to proofreading, copy editing, and issue production.

Maintain an extensive knowledge of the genre of children’s literature, its history, its context, and its contemporary characteristics.

Teaching:

Serve as the teacher of record for IS 563 CL, a course on reviewing children’s literature, twice each calendar year.

Collaborate with Academic Affairs in vetting and supervising adjunct instructors teaching 563 CL – “Reviewing Children’s Literature.”

Supervise adjunct instructors of IS 563 CL to ensure curricular consistency and optimum student experience.

Creation, implementation, and promotion of engagement and professional development

Programming:

Design and implement outreach programming and professional development opportunities for CCB stakeholders (iSchool students and faculty, librarians, teachers, parents, youth, authors, researchers).

Collaborate with the iSchool communications staff to promote on social media and print media the CCB’s new and ongoing initiatives.
Physical Demands

  • Sitting : Frequently
  • Reaching : Rarely
  • Grip/Dexterity : Frequently
  • Talking : Frequently
  • Hearing : Frequently
  • Repetitive Motions : Frequently for computer usage
  • Visual Acuity : Frequently for computer usage

Additional Physical Demands
Work is performed in a general office environment.

Working Conditions

  • Humidity : Rarely
  • Temperature Changes : Occasionally

 

 

Minimum Qualifications
• MSLIS or master’s degree in a related field. • One year of experience in scholarly publications, database management and social media management. • Two years of teaching experience. • Two years of book reviewing experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• Significant book reviewing experience.
• Youth Services Librarianship and/or Youth Literature experience.
• Adult education/professional development experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

 

  • Strong project management and communication skills.
  • Excellent teaching record.
  • Deep knowledge of contemporary youth literature and media.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

 

 

Appointment Information
This is a 100% full-time Academic Professional position, appointed on a 12-month basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible after 2/28/2023. Salary is commensurate with experience.

Application Procedures & Deadline Information
Applications must be received by 6:00 pm (CST) on 2/15/2022. Apply for this position using the Apply Now button at the top or bottom of this posting. Applications not submitted through https://jobs.illinois.edu will not be considered. For further information about this specific position, please contact Sara Schwebel. For questions regarding the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

IRSCL Book Award 2022- Applications open

 

This is a call to nominate books for consideration for the IRSCL Book Award 2022. Books considered for the 2022 award must have been published during the period 2020-2022, must not have been nominated for an earlier IRSCL competition, and must deal with research on children’s literature or other forms of cultural texts for young people. Authors can nominate their own books, or IRSCL members can nominate books by other members, as long as those nominating books and the authors of nominated books are IRSCL members whose membership is up to date. Please also note that books authored by the current members of the IRSCL Board are not eligible for the Award.

There are two categories in the competition. One for monographs and one for edited volumes. Please email nominations to Melanie Braith (m.braith@uwinnipeg.ca) cc: to Lorraine Kerslake: kerslake@ua.es) before January 15, 2022, along with an electronic copy of the book (preferred) or, if this is not possible, two copies of the book or confirmation that you have arranged for publishers to send nominated books directly to Melanie (address below). If the book has been published electronically and is available through open access, please include the link in your nomination. Please remember to cc: Lorraine Kerslake (kerslake@ua.es) in your email.

Contact details are as follows:

Melanie Braith

Mailing address for hard copies of books:

The University of Winnipeg
CRYTC, Attn. Melanie Braith
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9
Canada

Open Position: Assistant Professor in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies

To see the original posting and to apply, go to:
Assistant Professor in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies (Literature Program, English Department)
English  Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh  (22007603)
 The Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Global/Transnational Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies to begin in Fall 2023, pending budgetary approval.

We seek candidates with teaching and scholarly expertise in literature, arts, or media for children beyond or in addition to Europe and North America, including in languages other than English. Possible areas of interest include (but are not limited to) transnational circulation, post/decoloniality, and/or translation. We are especially interested in applications from scholars who develop a global perspective on urgent questions about race, gender, disability, and other facets of social justice that are central to contemporary children’s literature studies. The successful candidate will have opportunities for leadership and participation in a growing international partnership bringing together children’s literature scholars in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and curriculum, and candidates should identify their strengths or experiences in this area. The person hired for this position will teach courses in a thriving interdisciplinary undergraduate program in children’s literature and culture, as well as a wide range of other undergraduate literature courses and graduate seminars in their areas of scholarly interest.

Applicants must hold a PhD in English, Literature, or a related field by the time of appointment (September 1, 2023). This position comes with a 2/2 teaching load, with the expectation of service to the Children’s Literature Program and the English Department.

To apply, please supply the following materials by November 1, 2022.

  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Statement of diversity (1-2 pp.) that demonstrates your past and/or potential contributions to diversity and inclusion through teaching, research, and service

As candidates progress through the search process, the committee may request:

  • Writing sample
  • Teaching portfolio
  • Three confidential letters of recommendation

Please contact Sarah Elizabeth Baumann, Office Manager and Assistant to the Chair of English, 526 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, with any questions: sebaumann@pitt.edu. You can also contact Courtney Weikle-Mills, Search Committee Chair, Director of Children’s Literature, and Associate Professor of English, at caw57@pitt.edu for information.

The University of Pittsburgh requires all Pitt constituents (employees and students) on all campuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or have an approved exemption. Visit coronavirus.pitt.edu to learn more about this requirement.

  The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity and diversity. EOE, including disability/vets. The University of Pittsburgh requires all Pitt constituents (employees and students) on all campuses to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or have an approved exemption. Visit coronavirus.pitt.edu to learn more about this requirement. 

Assignment Category Full-time regular
Campus Pittsburgh
Required Attachments Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae, Other (see posting for additional details)
Optional Attachments Letters of Recommendation, Other (see posting for additional details)

 

Children’s Museology: Call for Papers for an edited book

Submissions are invited from researchers, curators, museum practitioners, artists, and other interested parties for an edited book on the emergent field of Children’s Museology, defined as “the production of museum content and programming not just for or about children, but also by and with children in ways that engage them as valued social actors and knowledge-bearers” (Patterson 2020).

Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2022

Contact email: childrensmuseologyvolume@gmail.com

Editors: Monica Eileen Patterson Assistant Director, Curatorial Studies, Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture/Associate Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies) Carleton University Ceciel Brouwer Research Associate Research Centre for Museums and Galleries School of Museum Studies University of Leicester

Focus and key questions • How can children’s active participation and contribution foster change in museum practice? • What are the possibilities and challenges of bringing child-centred praxis into museology? • What examples and future possibilities exist for museums to engage children as valued social agents, knowledge-bearers, and active contributors rather than mere receivers of museum content and programming provided for them by adults? • How can museums better share authority with children and break from the adultdominated status quo? • What can children’s museology do? What is the value and potential impact of this work?

For the past several decades, scholars, artists, and community members have challenged the exclusive traditions upon which museum practice is based. Calls for a ‘new’ (Vergo 1989), ‘critical’ (Shelton 1990), and ‘post’ (Hooper-Greenhill 2000) museology have been accompanied by increasing interventions and demands from members of historically marginalized communities to democratize and diversify all aspects of museum practice, including collections, exhibitions, programming, visitorship, staff, and governance. Through participatory ways of working, much progress has been made in the ways in which museums engage with difference, who is empowered to participate, and how museums harness their resources to combat inequality. Children, however, have rarely been engaged by museums as collaborators or contributors in substantive, non-hierarchical ways, despite their increasing visibility as rights holders, global leaders, and impactful advocates for socio-political change. Outside of the creative spaces of some children’s museums and a few innovative examples of co-production, most cultural institutions continue to view children as mere receivers or consumers of knowledge and programming, or, as Elee Kirk argued, ‘little learners’ rather than active participants and co-creators.

Even when 2 museums include children’s perspectives and cultural production, they often do so as heavy-handed interlocutors, exerting a great deal of curatorial authority. In understanding children to be crucial members of society who hold tremendous capacity for dialogue, creativity, and innovation, the proposed volume explores the largely untapped potential of the contributions that children can make to cultural institutions. It builds on a body of work that has sought to better understand children’s experiences in museums and advocates for taking children’s ideas seriously by providing them with the resources and more direct pathways to participation needed to enrich museum practice in transformative ways. The book’s focus is not just on the value that these collaborations may have for children, but, in turn, on the exciting new possibilities that arise when young people are enabled to reframe or uncover previously hidden histories, create lasting change in how institutions relate to their audiences, and forge more inclusive, engaging, and human-centred museum spaces. We are particularly interested in examples from the global south, historically marginalized communities, and underserved/underprivileged populations. Contributions from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), LGBTQIA2S+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and two-spirit) folks, and people with disabilities/disabled people are especially welcome.

We seek to include a diverse set of studies exploring children’s agentive participation in a wide range of museological sites: from established, well-known galleries and museums to small, independent, local institutions, and everything in between. We are also open to submissions that focus on child-centred museological approaches taking place outside museum walls in vernacular spaces, festivals, community events, commemorations, pop-up or informal exhibitions, cultural programs, and beyond. We welcome experimental and critical perspectives, and encourage contributions that are co-authored with or draw directly on children’s contributions. Other forms of creative response may also be considered. The book aims to make a valuable intervention in several fields including museum studies, curatorial studies, heritage studies, and child studies. The proposal will be submitted to Routledge’s Museum Meanings series. Contributions may explore (but are not limited to) the following topics: • Critical reflections on case studies, methodologies, and theory • New and old forms of child-centred museological praxis – including co-creation, coproduction and co-design with children – both in and outside museum spaces including exhibitions, programming, digital environments, design, and architecture • Children’s involvement in governance, strategic decision-making, and institutional change • Intersectional projects and approaches to children’s museology • Insights and innovation around children and disability, difference, and accessibility • Curatorial dreams that imagine future curatorial interventions or projects (Butler and Lehrer 2016) • Critical curating; curating from the margins • Social justice, difficult knowledge, and contested histories • Ethics, including issues of consent, authorship, and the negotiation of (institutional) censorship in relation to children’s contributions • Perspectives that address current theoretical debates on agency, standpoint theory, ageism, children’s rights, race and racism, decolonisation, and curating • The role of the digital in enabling children and young people to participate more prolifically and publicly 3 Proposal Guidelines Proposals may offer case studies of children’s museology from specific institutions, exhibitions, programs, or initiatives, or present methodological approaches, theoretical analyses, curatorial dreams, personal reflections, or creative works. All museum and gallery types (history, art, science, children’s, etc.), including non-collecting, cultural, and community-based institutions may be explored, in addition to sites and events outside of museum spaces. All ages, from infancy, early childhood, adolescence, and youth are within our purview. Proposals may be grounded in all disciplines, historical periods, and geographical locations, and we welcome submissions from academics, students, museum practitioners from all departments and backgrounds, designers, curators, artists, writers, educators, or others.

If you are interested in contributing, please send a Word compatible doc with the information listed below by March 30, 2022 or get in touch with the editors to discuss your ideas for a chapter at childrensmuseologyvolume@gmail.com.

Your proposal should: • include a 100-word bio for each author; • include a working title; • convey the author’s/authors’ thesis and how the proposed article would relate to the issue’s theme; • indicate the approaches, strategies, or knowledge that readers would take away from the article; • convey how the article would raise questions or illuminate larger issues that are widely applicable (especially if the proposal focuses on a single project); • take into account that articles will be expected to provide critical, candid discussions about issues and challenges Timeline

Abstracts due: March 30, 2022 Invitations to submit full papers will be sent by May 15, 2022

CfP: Because It Lasts: Time and Space in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media

University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 17 June – Sunday 19 June 2022

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for submission: 1 March 2022

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference

From ancient epic tales like Beowulf, The Odyssey, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, where young men adventure through foreign lands, to recent youth movie adaptations featuring time or space travel like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ender’s Game, and Marvel’s Endgame, numerous titles have engaged with the themes of time and space in children’s and young adult literature and media. Time and space are paradoxically tangible yet elusive; we experience them within our everyday life, yet they are never truly in one’s control. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this conflict, forcing nations to close their borders and people to lock themselves within their homes. In times when unprecedented levels of migration and ease of mobility led many to believe that the world did not have many barriers, such a prolonged global confinement has led to increased feelings of loneliness, disorientation, and powerlessness. This, combined with the sense of losing time—or track of it—will definitely affect old and newer generations. Because It Lasts: Time and Space in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media aims to discuss these topics and showcase graduate students’ academic and creative work on the matter.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

· History/ Historicity

· Memory

· Futurity

· Death

· Displacement in time and space

· Diverse experiences of time and space

· Liminality and marginality

· Spatiality and mobility

· Subjectivity, agency, and identity

· Growing up or refusing to grow up, coming of age, anxieties of adulthood

· Homelessness, gendered times and spaces

· BIPOC, diaspora, and immigrant experience

These topics are suggestions, as we are open to proposals on any aspect of time and space in children’s and young adult literature, media, education, and culture.

Academic Paper Proposals

Please send a 250-word abstract, including the title of your paper, 5-8 keywords, and 3-5 academic references. Your name should not appear on the proposal. Attach a 50-word

biography, including your name, preferred pronouns, student status, university affiliation, home country, and email address. Save the proposal and the biography as two separate Word files (.DOC or .DOCX) and use the format “Academic_Name_PaperTitle” in the email subject line.

Creative Writing Proposals

All creative writing genres and forms are welcome, including novel chapters, poetry, picture books, graphic novels, scripts, amongst others. Please send a sample of your work that is no more than 12 pages long, double-spaced. Include the title, a list of references (if applicable), and a 150-word description identifying the topic, genre, targeted age group, and relevance to the conference themes. Your name should not appear on the sample. Attach a 50-word biography, including your name, student status, preferred pronouns, university affiliation, home country, and email address.

Save the sample and description as one Word file and the biography as a separate Word file (.DOC or .DOCX). Use this format “Creative_Name_SampleTitle” for the email subject line.

Participants are welcome to submit both academic and creative proposals. Each proposal will be adjudicated separately, and you may be accepted for one or both streams. Please follow the guidelines for both submissions above and send them in separate emails.

For Out of Province/Country Submissions

For presenters who plan to travel to Vancouver, Canada for this conference, please include “Travel” in the email subject line. e.g. “Travel_Academic_Name_PaperTitle” and we will be in touch with you shortly.

Dates and logistics

Deadline for proposal submission: 1 March 2022

A notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March 2022.

All submissions will be blind reviewed by the members of the Review Committee.

Contact Us · Send all submissions to submit.ubc.conference@gmail.com.

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About Us

The Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (MACL) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is the only graduate program in children’s literature in Canada and one of the most multi-disciplinary children’s literature programs in the world. It is offered through the UBC

iSchool (Library, Archival, and Information Studies) with joint participation from the Department of English Language and Literatures, the Department of Language and Literacy Education, and the School of Creative Writing. As one of the few venues in Canada that showcases emerging scholarship in children’s and young adult literature, this conference provides a platform for new scholars and writers from different backgrounds, especially for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students, and creates cross-disciplinary associations that may inspire new and innovative connections to support writing and research in this area.

About the Conference

The first Graduate Student Conference in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Media and Culture took place in 2008. In addition to paper and creative writing presentations, the conference invites renowned scholars and authors as our keynote speakers. Featured keynote speakers from past conferences include Dr. Maria Tatar, Dr. Philip Nel, Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, Dr. S.R. Toliver, Dr. Angel Matos, Dr. Naomi Hamer and best-selling authors Rachel Hartman and Richard Van Camp. This year, students from the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program at UBC’s iSchool will come together to host the ninth edition of the event.