The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) supports scholarly inquiry into literary, media, and other cultural texts for children and youth. The Centre provides a focus for research in the field in the Department of English and more broadly at the University of Winnipeg, houses the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, facilitates the development and management of collaborative national and international research projects, hosts visiting speakers and researchers, and maintains links with other research centres in children's studies internationally... more
On Friday, November 6, the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is sponsoring a roundtable discussion entitled Million Dollar Questions and Answers on the film Slumdog Millionaire. Based on Vikas Swarup’s gritty novel Q & A and dubbed “The Feel-Good Film of the Decade,” the film raises a multitude of questions about globalization and poverty, economic development and exploitation, entertainment and representation, shared hopes and fears for the future. For more details about the roundtable, click here.
The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures is sponsoring a University of Winnipeg speaker series entitled Shelter. Over the months of October, November, January and March, speakers will explore the representations of shelter and its lack, the social and political discourses surrounding these representations, and the affect attached to the idea of home. For more details, click here.
The second lecture in the series is "The Denigration of Public Housing, and an Alternative Approach to its Revitalization" by Dr. Jim Silver on November 27.
Find out more about the first lecture in the series in the Resources section.
The first issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is out now! See Jeunesse's website for more information about this issue, how to submit articles and how to subscribe.
To renew your IRSCL membership please click here.
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CFP: Nationalism(s) and Cultural Memory in Texts of Childhood
October 20, 2009
This proposed collection of essays seeks to address the interplay between nationalism (or nationalisms) and cultural memory in a range of texts for or about young people, including books, periodicals, films, television series, games, tourism sites, websites, and archives.
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First Visiting Trudeau Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Clare Bradford
September 14, 2009
Dr. Clare Bradford has been awarded the first $225, 000 Trudeau Visiting Fellowship Prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. A professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Bradford will be a Visiting Professor of literary studies at The University of Winnipeg in the 2009-2010 academic year, and the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures will be hosting her.
To find out more, please click here.Eco-Childhood: The Child, Ecology, and Eco-criticism - Call For Papers for ARCYP Session at 2010 ACCUTE Conference
September 3, 2009
In the new environmental movement there is a great deal of discourse around saving the environment for children. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is now a picture book intended to teach young readers about the dangers of global warming. Many environmental groups have created educational programs designed to warn children of our destructive lifestyles.
To find out more, please click here.Hope and Change?: Young People’s Cultures and Social Justice - Call For Papers for ARCYP Session at 2010 ACCUTE Conference
September 3, 2009
It is often claimed that young people are our future. “Hope and change” have long been associated with young people, but they have also become shimmering catchphrases in political discourses promising some brighter future.
To find out more, please click here.The Child and the City - Call For Papers For ARCYP Session at 2010 ACCUTE Conference
September 2, 2009
Close to 80% of citizens live in urban spaces in Canada, just one of many nations and regions where urbanization is a primary fact of young people’s lives and where many young people’s identities are defined by their experience of living in cities.
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