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Announcements

Children's Library of Peace

The Town Library in Vinkovci, Croatia, was completely destroyed in the war September 16, 1991. The Vienna librarians have presented Vinkovci with a bookmobile to visit villages with ruined libraries. The Children's Library of Peace, a completely new library affiliated with the Town Library in Vinkovci, will be a book collection in all the European languages dealing with peace and tolerance, from picture-books to juvenile books for secondary schools. The library will compile a bibliography, promote reading of literature on this theme, award authors, and prepare fragments to be published in textbooks and journals for children. The collection will be utilized by researchers and editors of children's series, and by other libraries to organize occasional exhibitions, and will organize meetings with children, lectures, and other activities. We are asking you to respond to our invitation.

National and University Library
The Children's Library of Peace
(Vinkovci)
Marulicev trg 21, Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. 041/428-440; fax 041/426676

Paper Call

MLA Division on Children's Literature. Writers of Color: Issues of Gender. December 1994 Meeting, San Diego. Deadline: March 1, 1994.

• • si(g)nifying gender

• • growing up male or female in bicultural "borderlands"

• • autobiography and gender

• • the recuperation of an unrecorded history-did it have a sex?

Send paper or detailed abstract to:

Margaret R. Higonnet
Department of English
University of Connecticut
Storrs CT 06269-1025.

Session Paper Call

Paper proposals are solicited for a session on "Representations of American Places Abroad" for the 1994 Children's Literature Association International Meeting at Springfield, Missouri. The International Committee of the Children's Literature Association will sponsor a session on the subject of how American places appear in children's literatures abroad. How do selection, translation, cultural conventions and stereotypes affect the representation of American regions, cities, or landscapes in children's literature of other countries? 1-2 page proposals (250-500 words) should be sent to the session chair, J.D. Stahl, Dept of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 USA by October 15, 1993.

Paper Call

3rd Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Generating Culture —Childhood, Market, State, March 10-12, 1994, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Deadline: October 31, 1993.

Potential Session Topics: Innocence & Utopia; Children and Public Policy: War, Famine, Holocaust; Media Violence; Commodities/commodification: Food, Music, Clothing, Toys; Institutional Barriers: Integration, Apartheid, Reservations; Childhood Transported: Bussing, Transportation of Children to the Colonies; Fundamentalism & Religion; Imitations and Revision of Classic Texts; Series Books; Nonwestern Childhood; Feminist (Re)Visions; Sexuality; Infantilization, Dependency; Folklore & Humor of Childhood; Environmentalism; Social Policy: Children's Rights, Juvenile Delinquency, Abuse; Politics of Youth Culture; Status of Children's Writers; Social and Critical Theory.

Send 1-2 Page abstracts, 15-minute papers, or panel proposals to:

Don Hedrick,
Carolyn Sigler, or Naomi Wood
The Program in Cultural Studies
English Department
Denison Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
(913) 532-6716
FAX (913) 532-7004;
E-Mail: HEDRICK@KSUVM.KSU.EDU

Paper Call

Thomas H. Raddall Symposium: The Child in Atlantic Literature and Culture, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 23-25 September 1994. Please send proposal for 20-minute papers to:

Hilary Thompson
Department of English
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,
Canada BOP 1XO
FAX: 902 542-4727
Tel: 902 542-2201 ext 442

Paper Call

The Lion and the Unicorn will accept manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special issue on Nancy Drew, Spring 1994. Deadline: September 1, 1993. Essays that deal with Nancy Drew and the literary and cultural aspects of the Nancy Drew phenomenon; the social and cultural experience of reading Nancy Drew and other series fiction; the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its relationship to its readers, authors and the marketplace; the translation of Nancy Drew into other media; and the work of Mildred Wirt Benson are welcomed. Manuscripts should be 3500-500 words, double-spaced. MLA Style Manual, 1985. Send 4 copies to:

Nancy Romalov
Nancy Drew Manuscripts
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Paper Call

The CLA Bulletin, Summer issue, 1994: Children's Literature and Basal Readers. Deadline: February...