CFP: Children, Childhood, and Children's Literature (Ireland) (1/31/05; 8/13/05-8/17/05)

IRSCL

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
17th biennial congress
Expectations and Experiences:
Children, childhood and children's literature

Trinity College Dublin
13th to 17th August 2005

Keynote Speakers
Anne Higonnet
Declan Kiberd
Paul Muldoon
Michael Rosen

www.irscl.ac.uk <http://www.irscl.ac.uk>

CALL FOR PAPERS

                Proposals are invited for papers and panels exploring the IRSCL 2005 conferences theme, 'Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature'. Aspects of the theme which the conference will focus on include the topics of childhood and families, childhood and morality, childhood on display and childhood and theory.

                Strand A. Childhood and families
                        1. Generations: definition of generations by age, experience, responsibility, interaction. Models and representation of parents, grandparents, extended families. Relations between the age groups as markers of social change.
                2. Alternative families: adoption, fostering, same-sex parents, growing up
                                in care, children caring for children, children alone, substitute parents/families.
                3 Nation as family: switching/regaining cultures, immigrants/emigrants, choosing between competing cultures. Competing notions of family among different cultures. 'Belonging' in terms of family and in terms of nation.
4. Families of writers: comparing the work of writers who are related to
                each other.
                         
                Strand B. Childhood and morality: message and medium
                        1. Discovering responsibility: visual, oral, written & multimedia texts for children as a means of exploring issues of right and wrong
                        2. Protecting children: censorship. Changing notions and areas of censorship.
                        3. Innocence and experience: religion(s) in visual, oral, written & multimedia texts for children.
                        4. Celebrating adolescence: texts reflecting the specific concerns of adolescents.
                 
                Strand C: Childhood on display
                        1. The representation of childhood in picture books/illustrated books/comics for children.
                        2. The representation of childhood in film/TV for children.
                        3. The representation of childhood in stage productions for children.
                        4. The representation of childhood in non-fiction; history, science books, information leaflets for children. How does non-fiction construct images of childhood?
                         
                Strand D: Childhood and theory
        1. Theories of childhood; development, gender, class, race, and how these relate to models in fiction.
        2. Theories of literature and childhood as they relate to children's literature.
        3. Theories of play and playfulness in relation to children's literature
        4. Theories of oral culture: folklore and storytelling as they relate to visual, oral, written and multimedia texts for children .

Proposals should be approximately 300 word in length they should indicate the title of the proposal, the primary texts under consideration, a description of the paper content and the arguments to be developed.

Proposals for panels should include a list of all presenters, proposals for all the papers to be presented and an outline of the form which the panel will take.

Proposals must adhere to the theme of the congress and should indicate under which strand of the theme they should be considered. Work presented must be new which means it should not previously have been presented in public in any form.

Twenty minutes will be allocated for each paper, and up to two hours for each panel presentation. In the case of panels no presenter should speak for more than 20 minutes and time must be allocated for discussion.

For poster presentations of work in progress authors will have 10 minutes to present their topic based on a poster. Contributions for these sessions may be less fully developed pieces of research than the papers presented in the 20 minute formal papers and those who attend the poster presentastions will be invited to respond to them to help improve the work in progress by, for example, making bibliographical recommendations or offering ideas about methodology.

Proposals should indicate if the modes of presentation involve the use of DVD, video or other non-print media.

The closing date for proposals is January 31 2005

All proposals will be reviewed before acceptance and notification of acceptance or otherwise will be given by April 30 2005.

Criteria for acceptance includes:
        * Adherence to congress theme
        * Originality of research
        * Clarity of description

Proposals should be submitted electronically in Word format. The name and contact details of the person submitting the proposal or the leader of the proposed panel should be indicated clearly at the top of the proposal.

Please send proposals to:
Valerie Coghlan,
The Church of Ireland College of Education,
96 Upper Rathmines Road,
Dublin 6,
Ireland.
Email: vcoghlan_at_cice.ie <mailto:vcoghlan_at_cice.ie>
Received on Mon Oct 11 2004 - 10:56:56 EDT