‘The Child and the Book ’
7 - 9 April 2006, Newcastle University
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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.
We are delighted to announce that Pied Piper Publishing (an independent publishing company concentrating on texts on children's literature) are sponsoring the wine reception on Friday night for all participants.
The deadline for papers has now passed. The title for this year's conference
is ‘Children's Literature: From the Past to the Future’. The conference
is inclusive to all disciplines and research areas and the final programme will
reflect the diversity of current postgraduate studies. Thematic strands will
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.
