IRSCL News

 
Members of the IRSCL Board held their 2008 meeting in India, in conjunction with an International Symposium, ‘Bind us Together: Global Perspectives on Multicultural Children’s Literature’ held by the Children’s Literature Association of India (CLAI) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, September 8-10, 2008. Scholars from all over India and from Iran attended this symposium, which was [...]

1. Green Gables to Globalization: Crossover, Canada and Children’s Books
One-day conference to be held on October 18 2008 in The Church of Ireland College of Education, Upper Rathmines, Dublin 6. Queries to: secretary@ibbyireland.ie
2. Childhood in its Time: The Child in British Literature
A two-day international conference to be held at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, [...]

Member Sandra Beckett has published not one but two books in the last two months:
Sandra Beckett, Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives (Routledge)
and
Sandra Beckett, Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural Contexts (Wayne State University Press).
Congratulations, Sandra!

The Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey invites applications for up to three faculty positions. One position will be for an Associate or Full Professor and the other two will be for Assistant Professors.
See the Department’s website for more information.

Members are invited to nominate books published by IRSCL members from 2007-2009, for consideration for the IRSCL Award which will be announced at our Congress in Frankfurt in 2009. Katrien Vloeberghs is the contact person for nominations and copies of books. Her email address is: katrien.vloeberghs@ua.ac.be

In April I reported on the campaign conducted by our Japanese colleagues to prevent the closure of the International Institute for Children’s Literature in Osaka. At the time I sent the Governor of Osaka Prefecture a letter on behalf of IRSCL asking him to reconsider his decision. I’ve now received a letter from Mikio [...]

The following message comes from John Lyon at University of Bristol:
Colleagues may be interested in alerting appropriate students to the following opportunity at Bristol University in the UK:
I’m looking for an early career children’s literature specialist who might be interested in applying for a 3 year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with Bristol as her/his nominated [...]

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.

Our member Jean Webb has established the International Research Centre for Children’s Literature, Literacy and Creativity at the University of Worcester. Please visit the website for more information.