IRSCL News

The Association for Research in Cultures of Young People held its inaugural meetings at the June 2008 Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The new Association aims to promote research, in Canada and internationally, across a range of disciplines and to create opportunities for [...]

Our member Maria Nikolajeva (IRSCL President 1993-1997) has been elected to a new position as Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education at University of Cambridge, UK. Currently Professor at the Department of Literature and History of Ideas, Stockholm University, Maria will be linked to the PLACE (Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in [...]

On April 1 I asked for support for the International Institute for Children’s Literature in Osaka, which is in danger of being closed down by the governor of Osaka prefecture. Mikio Mukogawa, the Director of IICLO, reports that 32 organisations (including IRSCL) sent letters asking the governor to reconsider. In addition, many individuals have signed [...]

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. See the conference website for information.

Congratulations to IRSCL members Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Ulyana Hnidets (National University, Lviv, Ukraine), who have successfully defended their doctoral theses. Well done, doctors!

By now IRSCL members should have received an email from Tomoko Masaki, alerting them to the possibility that the International Institute of Children’s Literature, Osaka (IICLO) will be closed down and its collection dispersed through the Osaka Prefectural Library. IRSCL has multiple associations with IICLO. Many of us visited the Institute during our Congress in [...]

I’m Clare Bradford, President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature. This blog is intended for anyone interested in IRSCL and its work for research in children’s literature. Our ‘old’ website (www.irscl.ac.uk) has now been archived (see Archive), and we have a new look as well as a new logo. Please feel free to [...]