[NIS_GS:] CFP: Children's Lit (grad) (UK) (12/16/05; 4/7/06-4/9/06)

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CHILD AND THE BOOK
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE
7-9 APRIL 2006, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND

Papers are invited for the third annual postgraduate conference, The Child and the Book, to be held at the University of Newcastle in the UK from April 7-9 2006.
This inter-disciplinary event, inaugurated in 2004 at Roehampton University and hosted in 2005 by the University of Antwerp, attracts delegates from all over the world and provides a unique opportunity for postgraduate students to meet, present and discuss their research.
The title for this year's conference is ‘Children's Literature: From the Past to the Future’. Abstracts should in some way address this theme, although, as in previous years, the conference is inclusive to all disciplines and research areas and the final programme will reflect the diversity of current postgraduate studies. Thematic strands might include:
• Literary theory and children's literature
• Gender studies – masculinist, feminist or queer theory approaches
• Ideology and/or reader response
• The voice of the child
• Children's literature in translation
• Publishing and children's literature
• New voices: new trends

This year's conference will span three days and will incorporate a visit to the new Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books (www.sevenstories.org.uk), as well as offering specialist research methods training in Children’s Literature Studies developed by
the Children’s Literature Unit in the School of English at the University of Newcastle. It will also coincide with the annual board meeting of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, whose members will attend the conference.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be emailed to Michele Gill at Michele.Gill@Newcastle.ac.uk. The deadline for all proposals is December 16 2005.

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