Featuring Keynote Speaker: Our very own Dr. Phillip Serrato!
Where: University of British Columbia
When: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Proposal Deadline: January 15th, 2014
Website: http://blogs.ubc.ca/iwillbemyself/
"I Will Be Myself": Identity in Children's and
Young Adult Literature, Media and Culture is a one-day conference showcasing graduate
student research that explores, questions, and analyzes the issues
surrounding identity in various elements of children's and young adult literature.
You are invited to submit an academic paper proposal or a creative writing
submission that contributes to the existing body of literature and research
in the area of children's and young adult literature studies, which
includes novels, films, apps, and picturebooks, as well as other culturally produced
modes of children's literature. We are particularly interested in
research and creative pieces that draw upon broadly interpreted themes of
identity, which can include liminality, hybridity, Otherness or Othering,
gender, and transformation.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Identity as a critical lens for reading children's and young adult
- literature
- The child or young adult choosing or combining identities
- Issues of hybridity: hybridity of genre, multimodality, cultural
- identity, racial identity, sexual identity
- How 'otherness' shapes identity in materials for children and youth
- Negotiation of self and Other as represented in cultural texts
- Liminality and other states of 'being in between'
- Indigenous identities
- National identities
- Boundaries, their creation and transgression
- Multiple, cross-cultural, and/or transnational identities
- The role of identity in constructing literature and literacies
- Reconstructive identity and multiple selves
- Imagined identities: dreams, fantasy and desire
- The cultural markers of childhood and adolescence
- Identity and performativity: a gendered discourse
- Fluid subjectivities; multiplicity of selves
- The pedagogical implications of identity in various stages of
- literacy
- Virtual selves in virtual worlds
- The 'coming of age' trope in 21st century literature
- Neoliberal capitalism and the individualistic 'I'
- Identity embodied: mixed abilities represented in YA and children's
- literature
- Marginalised identities represented in works of fiction for youth
- Eco-critical understandings of subjectivity
- Interwoven subjectivities and the individualistic 'I'
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. The topics
above are a guideline for the proposals we would like to see, but we are eager to receive and review paper proposals
on any topic related to children's and young adult texts.
Please send a 250 word abstract that includes the title of
your paper, a list of references in MLA format, a 50-word biography, your
name, your university affiliation, email address, and phone number to
the review committee at submit.ubc.gradcon@gmail.com. Please include
"Conference
Proposal" in the subject line of your email.
The conference fee of $18 CAD for students and presenters,
and $35 CAD for faculty and professionals, includes morning and afternoon
refreshments and a catered lunch. Please
visit our website for more information: http://blogs.ubc.ca/iwillbemyself/
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