Bulletin Board

Announcement

Outgoing editors of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly Roberta Seelinger Trites, Joel D. Chaston, and Anita Tarr, extend their congratulations to the new editorial staff of the Quarterly. Richard Flynn, Georgia Southern University, will serve as editor, and his associate editors will be Katharine Capshaw Smith of Rhode Island College, Kenneth Kidd of the University of Florida, and Caren Town of Georgia Southern.

Call for Papers

The Children's Literature Association's 2005 conference will be held 9-12 June 2005 at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People in Winnipeg, Canada. The conference theme will be "Performing Childhood," and papers that explore the interrelationships between performance and children's literature are invited. Proposals for papers should be approximately two pages in length, should clearly indicate the primary texts being considered and the argument being developed or the questions being posed, and should demonstrate that the paper is suitable for presentation within twenty-five minutes. Proposals for panels should include a list of presenters, proposals for all of the papers to be presented and/or a detailed explanation of the format the panel will take. At the time of presentation, all presenters must be members of ChLA. Proposals should be submitted online; forms will be available in July. The deadline for submission is 30 Nov. 2004.

For more information, please see the conference website, http://chla.uwinnipeg.ca/, or contact the chair of the paper selection committee:

Professor Perry Nodelman
Department of English
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 2E9 Canada
FAX (204) 774-4134

Call for Papers

The Sixth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature will be in Nashville, Tennessee, 31 March - 2 April, 2005. This year's keynote speaker will be Donnarae MacCann. Please submit three copies of proposal or paper to Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, P.O. Box 70, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132 or edonovan@mtsu.edu or mhixon@mtsu.edu or marchant@mtsu.edu by 30 Sept. 2004.

Call for Papers

The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association invites papers on the topic of "Infantuation: Childhood, Youth, and Nineteenth-Century Culture" for a conference in Augusta, Georgia, and Aiken, South Carolina, 10-12 March 2005. During the nineteenth century, one couldn't turn a corner—or a page—without some broom-wielding urchin, be-ribboned cherub, or herd of baby buggies getting in the way. How much of this was due to an actual change in population and how much of it was the result of a shift in cultural focus? The NCSA invites proposals for papers addressing ways in which the nineteenth century developed, interpreted, or invented infancy, childhood, adolescence, and youth both as ontological categories and as phases in human and national development.

Proposals should consist of a one-page, single-spaced abstract (12 point font), with the title of the paper and author as heading; the paper must be able to be presented within 20 minutes. Proposals should be accompanied by a one-to-two page vita. Send materials to Program Director Ann Ross. E-mail submission to <annrossphd@hotmail.com> (or <aross@csudh.edu> ) is preferred; for "snail" mail, address to Ann Ross / Dept. of English / California State University, Dominguez Hills / 1000 E. Victoria Street / Carson, CA 90747-0005. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2004.

Further information about registration and accommodations will be available in the Fall from Local Arrangements Director Suzanne Ozment, who may be contacted at <suzanneo@usca.edu> or Office of Academic Affairs, University of South Carolina, Aiken, SC 29801.

Announcements

The Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association recognizes books of exceptional merit. First presented in 1985, the award is given to an author, or the estate of an author, for a children's book first published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award at publication but that has been deemed worthy of special attention given the perspective of time. The 2004 Phoenix Award went to Berlie Doherty for White Peak Farm (Methuen, 1984; Orchard, 1984). The Honor Book is Brian Doyle's Angel Square. (Douglas & McIntyre, 1984).

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