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After an enriching interdisciplinary conference in 2025, Heavy Childhoods 2026 will run under the title “Curating Future Nostalgia in Heavy Times”
Panel Title:
Transnational Black Childhood and Practices of Maronnage
Conference:
Rutgers University-Camden, Childhood Studies Department
“The Transnational Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire ”
June 11-13th, 2026
Camden NJ
Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, The College of New Jersey, abdurras@tcnj.edu
Panel Description:
Call for Papers—DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Myth and Fairy Tales Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
The Area of Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Popular Culture Association National Conference to be held April 8-11, 2026 in Atlanta, GA.
Educators, librarians, archivists, scholars, independent researchers and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Undergraduates are reminded that there is an entire area devoted to undergraduate presentations in which they should submit. Undergraduates who wish to present a paper, panel or round table must do so under the supervision of a faculty sponsor, who must be included in the proposal submission.
The recent IRSCL 2025 Congress, titled “Borders, Migration, and Liminality in Children’s Literature,” held in Salamanca (Spain), offered a unique opportunity to examine these themes from a multiplicity of perspectives — literary, aesthetic, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical. Building on the dialogues initiated at the congress, this Special Issue invites contributions that explore how children’s and young adult literature (and related media) negotiate, represent, and theorize experiences of migration and border-crossing, and how they open up liminal spaces for the redefinition of childhood in a changing world.
Call for Papers for a in person panel on 21st Century Latinx Children’s Literature and Media at the 2026 Annual MELUS Conference scheduled for Thursday, April 30 - Saturday, May 2, 2026.
According to the last three U.S. Census reports, the demographic of Latinx/Hispanic children has grown. Most recently, Latinx children account for about 1 in 4 of all children in the United States.
Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Foreign Studies (IFS)
About the Journal
Filmed and produced in Pittsburgh, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is considered a classic of U.S. children’s television. In each episode, Mister Rogers talked with and learned from his (sometimes celebrity) neighbors before taking viewers on a Trolley ride into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where hand puppets like Daniel Tiger and X the Owl sang, explored, and learned together. Through stories, songs, conversations, and educational video segments, the show invited children to learn about the world around them as well as the complex universes inside themselves.
Call for additional chapters for an edited collection (under consideration by publisher): proposals due November 16, 2025
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship
In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?
Conference:
Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
May 28–30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
Roundtable Format:
This will be proposed as a roundtable.
I am looking for 4–6 participants to give short (5–10 minute) provocations or reflections that will spark an open discussion.
Organiser Contact Info:
Samira Abdur-Rahman, Assistant Professor of Literature and the Environment, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)
Roundtable Description:
The Diaspora Child Strikes Back is a multidisciplinary conference held in-person in Camden, NJ, USA, from June 11-13 2026.
The 2026 CLA Online Research Conference, co-sponsored by the Children's Literature Assembly of NCTE and the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia, will be held on Friday, February 20th, 2026. The theme of the conference is Care, Advocacy, and Children's Literature Research in Theory and Praxis.
The conference will feature research presentations, a journal editor session, and a keynote talk from Dr. Jonda McNair, Charlotte S. Huck Endowed Professor of Children’s Literature, The Ohio State University.
Call for Papers
Pets and Pet-Owner Relationships in Literary Texts of the Long Eighteenth Century
(Edited Collection)
In the mid-nineteenth century, the literacy rates among women and girls were on the rise. This was due to changing attitudes toward educating girls and women and the increasing popularity and availability of reading materials aimed at girls and women. Authors such as Lydia Maria Child, Louisa May Alcott, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E.D.E.N. Southworth, L.T. Meade, and Sarah Tytler wrote works specifically for girls, from novels and short stories to periodicals and conduct manuals.
EXTENDED DEADLINE (OCTOBER 1, 2025) - Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre
Reading as a Political Act (Roundtable, NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2025
From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).
This edited volume seeks to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the profound and often overlooked impacts of climate change on children in India. As highlighted According to UNICEF, India ranks among the most vulnerable countries to climate shocks, with Millions of children are affected by extreme weather events annually. This volume aims to move beyond a general understanding, and delve into the specific mechanisms through which Climate change threatens the health, safety, education, and long-term well-being of India's children.
Call for articles for the English Record's 2026 issue!
How do ELA teachers create moments of joy for their students, their communities, and themselves? How do ELA teachers support learning that centers justice in today’s classrooms, especially in this current political climate? What other questions, insights, and ideas about joy and justice do you have as an ELA teacher? We enthusiastically invite classroom teachers, department leaders, building and district administrators, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and students to submit manuscripts.
More info here: www.nysecteach.org/news/the-english-record/
AATSEEL 2026: New Orleans, LA - February 19-22 (Sheraton New Orleans)
When taking stock of the figures that dominated late Soviet popular culture, one would be remiss not to mention Cheburashka, Vinni-Pukh, and the Bremen Town Musicians alongside the likes of Alla Pugacheva and Viktor Tsoi. Animation represented a massive undertaking in the Soviet Union, with state funded animation studios found across republics. Both viewers and scholars alike have been drawn to Soviet animation’s diversity in style and ability to address what scholars such as Larissa Tumanov have termed a “dual audience” of children and adults, often concealing more subversive messages behind an innocent storyline.
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In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.
Second Conference of the European Children’s Literature Research Network.
Munich, Schloss Blutenburg, International Youth Library
19-21 October 2026
After an enriching conference in 2025, Heavy Childhoods 2026 will run under the title “Curating Future Nostalgia inHeavy Times”
Note: All abstracts must be submitted through the Annual Meeting and Membership portal at https://www.xcdsystem.com/asecs/member/
You do not need to be a member to submit an abstract through the portal; however, you must be a member of ASECS to present at the conference. The panel chair cannot submit the abstract on your behalf.
Call for Papers:
Global Committee Panel on
"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:
Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"
Deadline: September 30, 2025
11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)
Children's Literature Association Conference
May 28-30, 2026
Omni William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dime Novels and Juvenile Series Books area is accepting proposals for presentations at the next PCA/ACA annual conference, to be held in Atlanta, GA from April 8-11, 2026.
Remembering the Middle Ages: Memories of the Medieval Across Time and Space (Roundtable) (Hybrid)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Arthurian Society-North American Branch, International Association for Robin Hood Studies
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Siân Echard, University of British Columbia; and Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University
Call for Manuscripts, Study & Scrutiny, Volume 8
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: DECEMBER 15, 2025
CLIMATE, JUSTICE, AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: CENTERING INTERDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE LITERACY LEARNING
37th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference
DeLand, Florida
April 17-18, 2026
Call for Papers
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.
Topics might include the following:
Medieval Classics (Re)Illustrated: A Medieval Comics Project Team-up (Hybrid)
61st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), Thursday, 14 May, through Saturday, 16 May, 2026
Co-sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, International Arthurian Society/North American Branch, International Society for the Study of Medievalism
Co-organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Siân Echard, University of British Columbia