Material Culture, Labor and Childhood Identities
updated:
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 4:05pm
Children's Literature Association MLA 2019
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Material Culture, Labor and Childhood Identities
childrens literature
Comics Arts Conference San Diego
updated:
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 10:16am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, February 1, 2018
The Comics Arts Conference is now acception 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, panels, and poster sessions taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA, July 19 - 22, 2018. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.
Selling Childhood
updated:
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 10:18am
Modern Language Association Convention 2019
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Call for Papers
Modern Language Association Convention
Chicago, IL
January 3rd – 6th, 2019
Selling Childhood
Arguably, Western culture has been selling the concept of childhood from its inception. In the eighteenth century, figures like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau persuaded their peers to buy the new idea that childhood constituted a distinct phase of human development.
Conversations in Literature
updated:
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 9:37am
African American Literature/ SCMLA
deadline for submissions:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
We are interested in reading your abstract of 500 words or less surronding A.A. Literature, Culture and the Experience. The topic is open! We look forward to reading your submissions.
This year the SCMLA will host this event on October 11-14 in San Antonio, TX!
Please submit your abstracts to:
Chair
Christel Woods sapoet77@gmail.com
Secretary
Stewart Habig
Deep In The Heart Of Texas!
updated:
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - 9:37am
WOMEN’S CAUCUS OF THE SCMLA/ South Central Modern Language Assoc.
deadline for submissions:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
This is an open CFP for the Women's Caucus of the SCMLA hosted in San Antonio, TX!
We are asking for an abstract of 500 words or less explaining your area of interest.
The interest should be an interesting surronding women in some capacity.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
Chair
Christel Woods sapoet77@gmail.com
Secretary
Sarah Gray
MLA 2019: Visuality, Race, and Childhood in the Golden Age of American Print Culture
updated:
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 3:58pm
Shawna McDermott / University of Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the 2019 MLA Conference in Chicago, IL. This non-guaranteed panel is co-sponsored by the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) and The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). Please send abstracts to panel presider Shawna McDermott at smm222@pitt.edu by March 1st, 2018. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words.
Visuality, Race, and Childhood in the Golden Age of American Print Culture
Climate Change in Children’s and Young Adult Fiction (MLA 2019)
updated:
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 1:14pm
Clare Echterling / Children's Literature Association
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Children’s Literature Association non-guaranteed session on children’s and young adult climate fiction (“cli-fi”) at MLA, Chicago, 3-6 January 2019.
Neglected Newberys: A Critical Reassessment at the Centennial
updated:
Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 10:36am
Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl
deadline for submissions:
Sunday, April 1, 2018
CFP: Neglected Newberys: A Critical Reassessment at the Centennial
Volume editors: Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl
In anticipation of the one hundredth anniversary of the American Library Association’s Newbery Medal (1922-2022), submissions are welcomed for a volume devoted to critically-neglected Newbery Award-winners.
About the Volume
Iranian children and young adult literature and film
updated:
Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 11:50am
Persian Literary Studies Journal (PLSJ)
deadline for submissions:
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Persian Literary Studies Journal special issue:
Call for papers for a special issue on Iranian children and young adult literature and film. The editor invites papers for a special issue on different aspects of Iranian children and young adult literature and film. Manuscripts (text, quotations, and endnotes) should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words following the MLA Style Sheet, 8th edition. Please submit through http://plsj.shirazu.ac.ir. Deadline for submission, April 1, 2018.
Contact Info:
Editor: Farideh Pourgiv, Shiraz University
TAIWAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
updated:
Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 12:09pm
Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA)
deadline for submissions:
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
TAIWAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (TCLRA)
台灣兒童文學研究學會(TCLRA)
8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 第八屆年度會議
CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)
An international one-day conference hosted by