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2012 Graduate Student Children's Literature Research Conference
This conference will showcase graduate research that explores and questions any facet of children’s literature or texts. We are particularly interested in research that draws upon the broadly interpreted themes of navigation, exploration, and narrative. We strongly encourage creative writing students to present their work as well.
Topics could include, but are not limited to:
- The child or young adult as explorer/explored, navigator/navigated
- Childhood and adolescent development
- Children, young adults, and cross-cultural exposure
- Multilingual or translated texts
- Navigating (or negotiating) identity, gender, race or religion as a child or young adult in an adult world
- Exploring place: the child as traveller/runaway/adventurer in a strange land
- Race and ethnicity in children’s and young adult texts
- Cultural, physical, psychological, ideological, or literary restrictions and barriers to exploration and imagination
- Childhood feelings of displacement or not fitting in
Papers on any children’s or young adult genres are welcome as are papers that discuss other children’s texts such as film, virtual texts, or graphic novels. Though the topics above are a guideline for the proposals we would like to see, we are eager to receive and review paper proposals on any topic related to children’s and young adult texts. All paper presentation submissions will be peer reviewed by professors in LLED, SLAIS, ENGL and CRWR, and each of the presentations held during the day of the conference will be chaired and moderated by UBC faculty from the various departments.
The 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies
Chinese through the Americas 华人在美洲的流转
The University of British Columbia Library and the Ohio University Libraries will jointly host the 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries on Chinese Overseas Studies in Vancouver, Canada, from May 16th to 19th, 2012.