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Call for Papers

The International Committee of the Children's Literature Association is planning a special country focus panel on South Africa, to be presented at the Children's Literature Association Conference in Winnipeg, Canada, June 9-12, 2005. The Committee invites papers that focus on any aspect of South African children's literature. Three or four papers will be selected; the papers should not exceed the twenty-minute reading time.

The Association will sponsor one scholar from South Africa to present a paper at this panel. The winner will receive up to US $1,000 toward documented expenses in connection with the conference (to be given in US dollars during the conference). The candidate must present his or her paper in person and in English.

While the grant will be awarded only to an indigenous scholar, the Committee strongly encourages ChLA members interested in this region to submit papers to this panel.

The paper, with an accompanying cover letter, should be submitted to the Children's Literature Association, P. O. Box 138, Battle Creek, MI 49016-0138, USA; fax: +269-965-3568; or by e-mail: kkiessling@childlitassn.org. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2004.

Call for Papers

Off to See the Wizard: Quests for Memory and Culture in Children's Literature

Saturday, March 19, 2005
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY

Keynote Speakers:

Roni Natov, co-founder of The Lion and the Unicorn, author of The Poetics of Childhood (2003), and Leon Garfield (1994), Professor of English, Brooklyn College

Linda Sue Park, winner of the 2002 Newberry Medal for A Single Shard (2001), author of Seesaw Girl (1999), The Kite Fighters (2000), When My Name was Keoko (2002)

Guest Speakers:

Russell Peck, John Hall Dean Professor of English at University at Rochester Popular children's authors, Vivian Vande Velde, and Mary Jane and Herm Auch

We welcome abstracts on any aspect of children's literature, contemporary, classic, obscure or popular. Papers might focus on illustration; drama; poetry; the picture book; the historical novel; fantasy; science fiction; realism, fairy tales; Disney revisions of history and/or fairy tales; representations of gender, race or class; political activism; or conservatism. We also welcome papers about the study of children's literature.

Please forward abstracts (250-500 words) by November 15, 2004 to: Dr. Laurie Ousley, Department of English and Philosophy, Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623 or lousley@ monroecc.edu.

Conference sponsored by Monroe Community College.

Call for Papers

Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. December 27-30, 2005.

"Children's Literature and Modernism" Stream of consciousness, fragmentation, multi-media experimentation, multiple perspectives, cityscapes, shifting boundaries of time and space, making it new, recycling the old; Modernism pursues new ways of seeing—often through the pages of children's literature.

This panel will explore the role of children's literature in modernist literature and during the modernist period, 1890-1945. Why does Joyce turn to Lewis Carroll? How do Langston Hughes's poems for adults inform his works for children? To what extent—and with what results—do children's book illustrators participate in the modernist project? Possible authors and illustrators include Langston Hughes, H.D., Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Countee Cullen, Winsor McKay, L. Frank Baum, P.L. Travers, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielson, Edward Dulac, Howard Pyle, and many others. The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2005. Send abstracts (350-500 words) by mail or email to:

Karin Westman
westmank@ksu.edu
Kansas State University
Department of English
106 English/ CS Building
Manhattan, KS 66506

Call for Papers

The Fall 2005 issue of Extrapolation will be devoted to Multicultural Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. We are interested in English language fiction, film, and comics, preferably work with both multicultural and genre content. Writers and other artists whose work we would like to see essays on include, but are not limited to: Steven Barnes, Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Brenda W. Clough, Samuel Delany, Tananarive Due, Owl Goingback, Nancy Farmer, Jewelle Gomez, Hiromi Goto, Virginia Hamilton, Los Hernandez Bros., Ernest Hogan, Nalo Hopkinson, Larissa Lai, Walter Mosley, Walter Dean Myers, Jamil Nasir, Greg Pak, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, R. Garcia...