At the ninth biennial conference hosted by the L.M. Montgomery Institute (University of Prince Edward Island), we invite you to consider L.M. Montgomery and the matter of nature. In recent years, the matter of nature has been the subject of much contested debate and theoretical innovation across disciplines. While multiple romanticisms have informed L.M. Montgomery’s […]
Jacqueline Rose’s The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction first appeared in 1984, at a time when the study of children’s literature was just beginning to take off in academic departments. It was a formidable gauntlet, lauded by some, castigated by others, and mistunderstood by many, but it has more than […]
The 2010 World Summit on Media for Children and Youth in Karstad, Sweden will be a summit for 2000 delegates from 100 countries with a focus on preparing with children for a new media world in the twenty-first century. It will offer opportunities to network, to be part of debates, to be interactive and to […]
Liverpool John Moores University’s international conference on The Theory and Practice of Working With Children and Young People is taking place from June 23 to 25, 2010 in Liverpool. The five conference themes are: Evidence Based Practice Growing up in the globalised ‘risk’ society Participation Higher Education Health and Well-Being Participation The link to the […]
Deadlines: 15 November 2009 and 1 February 2010 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. The overall collection will be concerned with the […]