#CFP: “Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People” Online conference
11-12 February 2026
University of Münster
Deadline: 31st August 2025
Website: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
For more information: https://x.com/IRSCL_News/status/1930599773058261404?t=cwBJcMGEnx-UfnZ05cPdlw&s=19
CFP : Stories of the Land and the Land of the Stories: Highlighting Critical Indigenous Literacies
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025
full name / name of organization: Modern language Association
contact email: smondal@ithaca.edu
For more info : https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/16/stories-of-the-land-and-the-land-of-the-stories-highlighting-critical-indigenous?fbclid=IwY2xjawI3RLhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe8xwwF6Ld1uAR4Yk7oHK3gt8PnaUY-2B1ESDVfKg5DT_qYXaWuEpy6Z_Q_aem_PnPLCl45F_L7cMay-AMBCg
CFP
Conference CFP
Cultural Production of Childhood: Adult Imagination, Children’s Intervention and Agency
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
27–28 February 2025
Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2025Contact: juclrsf@gmail.com
For more details : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/157tj9NkL1/?mibextid=oFDknk
Virtual conference
ChLA 2025 Virtual Conference
June 9-14, 2025
ChLA 2025 – Shortcuts and Tesseracts: Time/Space in Children’s Literature and Culture
Scholars of youth literature, media, and culture have long been exploring the various ways children’s and young adult texts force new considerations of time and space. As we gather in virtual space for ChLA 2025, we invite presentations around these two topics. There will be diverse opportunities for engagement and the conference may include online workshops or conversation sessions in lieu of our traditional themed lunches, for example. We hope to accommodate as many time zones as possible, as we value our international community of scholars.
For more details : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19pKf8U59h/
- CFP: Diversity Committee of the Children’s Literature Association
“One Day and Someday and Now”: Exploring Time in Diverse Youth Literatures
Virtual Conference, June 9-14, 2025
Submission deadline for proposals: November 11th, 2024
Email: capshaw@uconn.edu
In Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, the poem “What I Believe” concludes with a meditation on time: “I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.” The Diversity Committee invites submissions that explore the role of time to diverse youth literatures, especially in terms of disrupting or questioning the temporal logics of white supremacy, capitalism, settler colonialism, and other oppressive forces. Papers might consider the ways texts reshape time as a means to claim sovereignty and self-determination, reanimate submerged histories, resist or reconsider teleologies of growth and progress, or dream of future possibilities for social justice. Examinations of temporalities and related spatialities in children’s literature and young adult texts may enable fresh juxtapositions or interrogations of time’s possibilities. The Diversity Committee welcomes insights and perspectives on a variety of topics, including the role of diverse characters within specific time periods, the impact of time on group identification, resistant patterns in time, temporal diversity, time in speculative fiction, time and ecological crises, queer temporalities, linkages of historical moments or eras, age as an unstable category that intersects with temporality, genre as interrogating the constraints of time, and more.
For more details : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15SUyd2FsK/
Website: https://www.childlitassn.org/2025-virtual-conference
Webinar: “Unruly Books: Translating hybrid picturebooks for teens and adults”
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing of the University of Reading in partnership with
Outside in World
Date: 4 December 2024
Time: 5 p.m. UK time
To register:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforbooksculturesandpublishing/1467924
Website:
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/unruly-books-tr
anslating-hybrid-picturebooks-for-teens-and-adults/
For More information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/152Eo2LPvp/
● Summer school: Children’s Literature Summer School
University of Antwerp
30 June – 4 July 2025
Spaces are limited and divided on a first-come, first-served basis
2 scholarships for PhD students with no or limited funding
Email: childlit@uantwerpen.be
Website:
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/childrens-literature/programme/conte
nt-description/
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CPppdGpXZ/
● Hybrid symposium: “Research Consortium on Global/Transnational Children’s
Literature”
The University of Pittsburgh’s Children’s Literature Program
Date: August 14-15 2024
Website:
https://www.childrenslit.pitt.edu/event/research-consortium-globaltransnational-childrens-liter
ature
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18bu1CyqAd/
● Conference: Crip Kid Lit: Critical Approaches to Disability in Children’s and Young
Adult Literature and Media
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK and online
Date: 19-20 April 2024
Website:
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41041/#description
Registration:
https://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/crassh/events/crip-kid-lit-confer
ence-april-2024
Email: cripkidlit@gmail.com
The deadline for registration is Friday 12th April for in-person attendees and Thursday 18th
April for online attendees.
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JP8UaP3x2/
Seminar :
Oxford history of childhood seminar held on 30 October, 11.30-12.45 BST.
Shreya Kundu (Ashoka University) will speak on: ‘“Are these the same children?”: Categorising Indian Childhood in the (De)legitimisation Debates on Child Labour in the Factories, 1870s-1940s’.
The seminar to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford (Sophia Sheppard Room) and online. Link to join:
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HPZYinUUU/
Seminar : The next session of the 2023 YASA Seminar Series, organized by the YA Studies Association, will be held on Monday 9 October at 16:00 BST/11:00 EDT/02:00* AEST.
Please note that the event will be for members only (included in your membership fee).
The presenters will be Protichi Chatterjee and Cassandra Whisenant.
If you have any questions, please feel free to write at yastudiesassociation@gmail.com.
https://yastudiesassociation.com/seminar-series/
Seminar: The YA Studies Association is thrilled to announce that the first session for the 2023 YASA Seminar Series will be held on Monday 25 September at 10:00 BST/05:00 EDT/19:00 AEST.
The presenters are Kelly Beestone, and Elizabeth Little and Kristine Moruzi.
The programme is attached below. Please note that the September panel is open to the public, but October and November will be for members only (included in your membership fee).
Tickets and more information for September are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/yasa-seminar-series-2023-september-tickets-710479101117?aff=oddtdtcreator
If you have any questions, please feel free to write at yastudiesassociation@gmail.com.
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