The eleventh biennial international conference
of the Australasian Children’s Literature
Association for Research (ACLAR)
Emotional Control: Affect, Ideology and Texts for Young People
Waterfront Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
June 30 – July 2, 2014
Waterfront Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
June 30 – July 2, 2014
proposal deadline: February 28, 2014
Keynote speakers:
Professor John Stephens (Macquarie University)
Dr Juanita Ruys (University of Sydney)
Professor John Stephens (Macquarie University)
Dr Juanita Ruys (University of Sydney)
Over the past two decades, studies of affect and emotion have expanded beyond the field of psychology and been embraced by disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Theorists of affect are concerned with the ways embodied forms of knowing and feeling interconnect with the aesthetic, ethical and ideological, including their effect on texts. According to Grossberg (1992), ‘affect is the missing term in an adequate understanding of ideology.’ The 2014 ACLAR conference explores affect and emotion, with a particular emphasis on how theories of emotion and affect might extend research on the ideological agendas encoded in texts for children and young adults.
Abstracts that address the conference theme are welcome and the full range of children’s texts and media may be examined. Papers may engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics:
