IRSCL

The Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) is affiliated with IRSCL and holds its conferences in alternate years to IRSCL Congresses. Here’s a report by incoming ACLAR President, Liz Parsons: “Other Worlds in Children’s Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination” 27th -29th June. Wellington, New Zealand. The 2008 ACLAR conference was hosted by Victoria University [...]

At the Modernism and Global Media Conference which the Modernist Studies Association will run at Vanderbilt University, Karen Westman is leading a seminar on ‘Children and War’. The deadline for seminar registration is July 28, 2008.

Members Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Astrid Surmatz invite papers for their conference Astrid Lindgren: Internationality and Intermediality, to be held at Växjö University, Sweden, 18-20 September 2008. Keynote speakers include Eva-Maria Metcalf, Maria Nikolajeva and Boel Westin. See the conference website for further information.