UPDATE: Children's Literature and Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults' and Children's Culture (9/10/04; 10/21/04-10/23/04)

The submissions due date hasa changed from 09/06/04 to 09/10/04. The due
date for abstracts for this conference is now 09/10/04. Thank you.

Children's Literature and Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults' and
Children's Culture
October 21st-23rd, 2004
Keynote Speakers: Michael Moon and Jim Provenzano
 
Discussions of audience, intention, and appropriateness often center on a
distinction between the adult and the child. And while this distinction is
strictly policed, it is not easily defined nor exactly clear. Children's
and adults' cultures intertwine with one another daily through literature,
art, video games, music, film, and numerous other cultural devices. The
purpose of this conference is not to define the intersections of children
and adults, but rather to explore what occurs within "cultures" or
"cultural" media when children and adults converge, whether as participants,
consumers or producers.
 
Possible paper topics are (though not limited to):
'Cultural' media and their effects on the various definitions of childhood
The audience of children's literature The rise of the child through
literature, art, science, film, gaming. Children's popular culture and its
adult inhabitants Adults' popular culture and its child inhabitants Critical
approaches to perspectives of youth culture Children and race, class,
sexuality, and non-normative sexualities Commercialization and children's
culture Transmissions of knowledge between children and adults
 
We invite papers and/or presentations that investigate these notions from a
variety of perspectives, including American and British literature and
culture, Film and Media studies, History, Romance Languages, German and
Slavic Languages, Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Arts, Architecture, Music,
Art and Art History, and Political Science.
 
The deadline for proposals is September 10, 2004. Proposals must include
your name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, institutional
affiliation, technology requests, presentation title, and 300-word abstract.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please submit your proposals
to:

Aaron Talbot, EGO Co-President
Department of English
4008 Turlington Hall
PO Box 117310
Gainesville, FL 32611-7310
 
Electronic submissions are preferred, but not required. Please send
electronic submissions via plain-text email. In other words, copy-and-paste
your abstract into your email client and send it that way. Panel proposals
are also welcomed and encouraged.
             
For any further information contact EGO Co-President Aaron Talbot at
atalbot_at_english.ufl.edu

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