Pippi to Ripley 4: Sex and Gender in Children’s Literature, Fantasy, Science
Fiction, and Comics
Deadline:
January 15, 2017
Location:
Ithaca College, NY
Dates:
April 21–22, 2017
Description:
Pippi to Ripley 4 is an interdisciplinary conference with a
focus on women and gender in imaginative fiction. We invite papers devoted to
fictional characters in all media, including: comics, films, television, and
video games as well as in folklore, mythology, and children's and young adult
literature. This year’s conference includes a special focus on:
Fan Intersectionality: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Fan
Communities
Keynote Speaker: SAMMUS performs her
acclaimed nerdcore hip-hop and talks about race, geekdom, and feminism.
Special guest: Breakout YA author LJ
Alonge, author of the graphic novel series Blacktop.
How to apply: Please send a
300–500-word abstract to Katharine Kettridge, Ithaca College, Department of
English at kkittredge@ithaca.edu.
For more information: PDF
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CFP—Betwixt and Between:
Boundaries and Peripheries in Children’s Culture
Irish
Society for the Study of Children’s Literature Conference 2017
Deadline: January 16, 2017
Location: Dublin City University,
All Hallows Campus
Dates: April 28–29 2017
Description: Boundaries,
both physical and abstract, abound in children’s literature, as factors
including age, gender and class have infuenced, and continue to limit, texts
provided for children, and how and where those texts are consumed. Critical
debate about the content and purpose of books, films and other media
productions for young readers is ongoing, as long-established links between
socialisation and children’s literature are interrogated and re-imagined to
reflect changing social conditions and moral codes. Although children’s
literature has moved from the margins and is now an established field of
academic study, peripheries, too, persist and proliferate. Translated texts,
which cross linguistic boundaries, and those produced in minority languages,
such as Irish, seldom receive extensive exposure or critical attention. With
the advent of digital media, the printed book is itself becoming increasingly
marginalised.
Proposals are invited on the
overall theme and associated topics in the context of both Irish and
international literature for children, and also in relation to print and other
media.
Keynote Speaker: Emerita Professor Máire
Messenger Davies
How to apply: Proposals of 300 words
maximum should be sent to the conference co-organiser, Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn at
caoimhe.niclochlainn@dcu.ie and be CC-ed to committee@gmail.com.
Subject line should read “ISSCL Proposal.”
For more information: http://crytc.uwinnipeg.ca/portal/node/1419
Website:
https://issclblog.wordpress.com
