Book
Talk:
Researching Children's & Young Adults' Literature
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The
conference this year is being held in conjunction with Aidan
Chambers’ visit to the Department of Language & Literacy
Education as a Noted Scholar. During his stay
here,
Aidan will
be teaching
a course, “How Writers and Readers Make Meaning in Children’s
and Young Adult Literature: The Journey to Consciousness.”
The
conference is an excellent opportunity to find out what other students
and
researchers are doing in the field of Children’s
and Young Adult Literature. It is also free and includes a light
lunch. There will be a wine and cheese cash bar, where students
and researchers can network and discuss their work in the field.
Conference Program
Print Version
8:30 – 9:15
Registration
9:15 – 10:30 Aidan
Chambers’ Lecture:
Reading and Books in a Digitalizing Culture
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee
10:50 – 11:20
Parallel Session A
Janet Grafton: An (Un)Earthly Magic: Ecocriticism
and Fantasy in Canadian Children’s
Literature
Kari-Lynn Winters: Canadian picture books: Constituting
and interrupting Canada’s
individual and national ideologies
Kathryn E. Shoemaker: Where the ‘New’ Comes
From: A Hallidayan Semiotic Analysis of Illustrations in Maurice Sendak’s
Where the Wild Things Are
11:25 – 12:00
Parallel Session B
Karen Taylor: Nature’s Place in Childhood: An Ecocritical Exploration
of Kit Pearson’s Guests of War Trilogy
Pamela Fairfield: Fear and Foliage: The Role of the Forest in the Picture Books
of Molly Bang
Won Kim: Language through literature: Real language experience in an adult
ESL classroom
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 1:35
Parallel Session C
Pamela Swanigan: UnAmerican Immortalities: Disruptive Depictions of Eternal
Life in 20th-Century Children's Fantasy
Geneviève Brisson: “If Dragons Would Eat Pink Hearts, That Would
Be OK”: Preadolescent Boys’ Paths to Reading
Brianne Grant: Stories of Us: The History of Trauma in
Aboriginal Children’s
Literature
1:40 – 2:10
Parallel Session D
Elizabeth Walker: Bakhtin at Boarding School:
Heteroglossia and Carnival in Willans and Searle’s Molesworth
Series
Shula Klinger: The Kingdom of Strange
2:15 – 3:15
Class Presentation: How Writers and Readers Make Meaning in Children's
and Young Adult Literature: The Journey
to Consciousness
3:30 – 4:30
Plenary Conversation with Aidan Chambers
4:30 – 5:30
Posters, Wine and Cheese (cash bar)
Posters:
Danya David: Journeys of Faith and Survival: An Examination of Three Jewish
Graphic Novels
Jocelyn A Dimm: Dealing With Conflict and Diversity through Imaginative Dramatic
Transactions With Young Adult Literature
Celina
Vergel de Dios: Using Children's Books as a Springboard
for Discussion about Research on Bullying
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