Looking
for something to delve into and contribute brilliant scholarly children’s literature insight to? Here are a few up and coming events in 2015
still looking for abstracts or proposals:
"Give
me liberty, or give me death!":
The High Stakes and Dark Sides of
Children's Literature
Conference is looking to discover death and
mortality, the darker side of children’s literature.
Hosted by
Longwood University
June
18-20, 2015
Richmond,
Virginia
Omni
Richmond Hotel
Abstracts or panel descriptions should be between
300-350 words and will be accepted from October 15, 2014 through January 15,
2015.
This conference is looking to discover James Fenimore Cooper’s influence on children’s literature or YA literature where through his work or what his work inspired.
Hosted By: The James Fenimore Cooper Society
Boston, Mass
May 21-24, 2015
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief cv (2-3 pages) by January 2, 2015.
http://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/cfp%20-%20jfcooper%20ala%202015.pdf
Pippi to Ripley3/ITHACON40:
Women & Gender in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children’s Literature and Comics.
ITHACON is one of North America’s longest-running comic book conferences. Pippi to Ripley 3 will be joining ITHACON to discuss women and gender through science fiction and fantasy in a wide variety of medias, such as comic books and films.
Hosted by: Ithaca College
May 1-2, 2015
Please send a 300-500 word abstract by January 15, 2015 http://www.childlitassn.org/assets/docs/cfp%202015%20ithacon40.pdf
Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling
Fairy Tales and Fantasy PGR Symposium
In honor of
Alice and Wonderland’s 150th
anniversary, this conference will cover the topics of wonder lands in fairy
tales and fantastical literature and looking at the reading and oral telling of
these tales.
Hosted by
the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Fantasy
23 May
2015
University
of Chichester
Please submit abstracts of no
more than 300 words (or panel proposals of 1000 words) and a short personal bio
to the organizers.
For more information or other possible events visit:
http://www.childlitassn.org/calls-for-papers
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