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Past International Panels at the ChLA Annual Conference

2022 Dreams in Children's & YA Literature

Emory, Georgia Tech, and SCAD (Atlanta, GA)

Reham Almutairi

"Your Wish is Not My Command: Arab Youth Fighting for their Dreams in Shubeik Lubeik"

Marina di Marco

"A Child 'Lighter Than His Sleep': Nightmares and Dreams that Shape the Future in Latin-American Contemporary Cradlesongs"

Atanu Bhattacharya and Preet Hiradhar

"The Dreaming Subject: Early Speculative Fiction in Colonial Bengal"

2021 Korean Children's Literature

Virtual Conference

HyugJun Kwon, Gongju National University, Korea

"A Study on the Development and Recent Trends of Ecological Picture Books in Korea"

Jang Jeung-Hee, Seoul National University, Korea

"Three Ecological Views on Korean Children's Literature: From April Last Night (Bang Jung-hwan) in the 1920s to The Forest of Mago (Jang Sung-yu) in the 2000s"

Dafna Zur, Stanford University

"Police Dreaming DMZ: A Guide to Division for the South Korean Child"

Yeojee Lim, panel discussant

 

2020 Conference

Canceled due to COVID-19

2019 BAME Children's Literature

IUPUI & IU East (Indianapolis, IN)

Chair: Karen Sands-O'Connor, SUNY Buffalo State

Patrice Lawrence, award-winning British author

"Well, If I Can Do It… Not Everyone Can"

Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University College-London

"Be The Change: Author and Publisher Activism in the Monochrome UKYA market"

Aishwarya Subramanian, Independent Scholar

"Police Violence in the 'Multicultural' Londons of Farrukh Dhondy and Michael de Larrabeiti"

2018 German Children's Literature

Texas State University (San Antonio, TX)

Chair: Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp

Ada Bieber, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

"Somewhere In Berlin: Film Portrayals of Youth From Weimar to the Wall"

Ute Dettmar, Goethe University Frankfurt

"Comedy in German Children's Literature"

Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University

"Refugee Children at Sea: Kinder auf der Flucht Then (1939) and Now (2018)"

2017 Cuban Children's Literature

University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)

Chair: Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp

Translator: Aimee Frier, University of South Florida

Luis Cabrera Delgado, children's writer, Havana, Cuba

"Conversation with the Author: Cuban Children’s Literature Today"

Zeila Frade, Belen Jesuit Prepatory

“Comics, Pioneros y Mas: An Ideological Approach to the History of Cuban Children’s Literature"

Niall Nance-Carroll, Illinois State University

“From Cuba to Miami to Living Rooms around the Nation: Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? and 1970s Optimistic Views of a Multicultural US Future”

 

2016 Japanese Children's Literature

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Fumiko Ganzenmueller, International Youth Library

& Junko Yokata, National Louis University

“Artistic Tradition in the Development of Japanese Picturebooks”

Shino Sugimura, Kyoritsu Women’s University

“‘New’ Nostalgia of Mamoru Hosoda’s Animated Films”

Helen Kilpatrick, University of Wollongong

“Animated Animal Trauma: An Activist Response to the Disaster of Fukusima, 2011”

2015 Italian Children's Literature

Longwood University (Richmond, VA)

Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

Giorgia Grilli, University of Bologna, Italy

“Italian Children’s Literature: Past History and Present Challenges”

Maria Rosa Truglio, Pennsylvania State University

“A Beatrice for Modernity: Girls in Italian Children’s Literature, 1890-1921”

Lindsay Myers, The National University of Ireland, Galway

“Historicized Fiction or Fictionalized History? Lia Levi’s First-World War Novel Cecilia va alla guerra (2000)”

2014 Polish Children's Literature

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

Chair: Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota

Dorota Michulka, University of Wroclaw, Poland

“Looking for Identity? Polish Children Literature Then and Now”

Ada Bieber, Humboldt-University of Berlin

“Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Picture Books in Poland”

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland

“Dorota Terakowska’s Ruler of Levav as A Polish Radical Fantasy for Young Readers”

2013 Croatian Children's Literature

University of Southern Mississippi (Biloxi, MS)

Chair: Marek Oziewicz, University of Wroclaw

Smiljana Narančić Kovač, University of Zagreb

“Glimpses into Contacts between Croatian and Anglo-American Children’s Literature through Translations”

Željka Flegar, University of Osijek

“Love and Death in Croatian Children’s Literature”

Berlslav Majhut, University of Zagreb

“Croatian Children’s Literature on the Verge of a New Period”

2012 Philippine Children's Literature

Simmons College (Boston, MA)

Chairs: Marek Oziewicz and Lara Saguisag

Virgilio S. Almario, Adarna House, Inc. / University of the Philippines

“Filipino Children’s Literature Today”

Christine Siu Bellen, Hong Kong Baptist University and Ateneo de Manila University

(Paper presented by Lara Saguisag, Rutgers University-Camden)

“Agricultural Landscape, Labor, and The Production of Children’s Literature in Bicol”

Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal, Nanyang Technical University

& Jesus Federico Hernandez, Nanyang Technical University

“Finding Magic and Marvel in Ordinary Things: Narrative Themes of Award-Winning Picture Books for Children in the Philippines from 1991-2011”

2011 Taiwanese Children's Literature

Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)

Chair: Andrea Mei-Ying Wu

Wei-ching Lai, National Taipei University of Education

“From Harry Potter to ‘Trip You Over’: The Traveling of a British Fantasy to Taiwan”

Shuhwa Snai Wu, National Tainan University

“Writing Aboriginality: Taiwanese Aboriginal Children’s Literature”

Min-Ling Tsai, National Taipei University of Education

“Taiwanese Young Children’s Representation of Children in Personal Narratives”

2010 Russian Children's Literature

Eastern Michigan University (Ann Arbor, MI)

Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, Christopher Newport University

Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University

“Little Heroes of the Big War: Narrating WWII for Russian Children”

Caterina Balistreri, University of Exeter

“Our Soviet Childhood, Two Autobiographical Novels for the Children of Today’s Russia: A Comparison”

Jane Rosen, Department of Printed Books, Imperial War Museum

“Baba Yaga in Brixton: the Children’s Library at the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies, London, 1924-2010”

 

2009 Brazilian Children's Literature

University of North Carolina - Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)

Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg

Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg

“A Brief History of Children’s Literature in Brazil”

Odete Burgeile & Ana Maria G. C. Aguilar, Federal University of Rondônia (UNIR/Brazil)

 “Children Literature and the Indigenous Culture Revitalization in the Inclusive School”

 

2008 Icelandic Children's Literature

Illinois State University-Normal (Normal, IL)

Chair: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg

Anna Heiða Pálsdóttir, University of Iceland

“Dead or Alive? Landscapes in Icelandic Children’s Literature”

Dagný Kristjánsdóttir, University of Iceland

“Nonni: Reinventing Childhood”

Tanja Nathanael, San Jose State University

“Crossing Borders: Icelandic Children’s Literature and the American Market”

2007 Mexican Children’s Literature

Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA)

Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg 
Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow

"Invitations to the Reader: Authorial Voices and Response-Inviting Structures in Contemporary Mexican Fiction for Children"

Sarah Corona, Universidad de Guadalajara

"Entre voces…Mexican Histories from Indigenous Voices"

Craig Werner, Buffalo State College

"An Inquiring Mind in a Borderless Homeland: Richard Rubio in José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho"

2006 Speaking Absences: Iranian Children’s Literature

California State University, Northridge (Manhattan Beach, CA)

Chair: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg 

Zohreh Ghaeni, Institute for Research on the History of Children’s Literature in Iran 

"A Historical Approach to the Concept of Childhood and Modern Children’s Literature in Iran" 

Respondent: Kevin Shortsleeve, University of Winnipeg 

Niloofar Mahdian, Children’s Book Council of Iran 

"Children’s Literature in a Revolutionary Era" 

Respondent: Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg 

Leili Hayeri Yazdi, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children 

"An Overview of Active Iranian Writers of Children’s and Young Adult Literature" 

Respondent: Claire Malarte-Feldman, University of New Hampshire

2005 South African Children’s Literature

University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB)

Chair: Maria Nikojaleva, Stockholm University

Elwyn Jenkins, University of South Africa

"Jamie: A Window on the Mid-Twentieth Century"

Althea Tait, Morgan State University

“Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines: an Expose of Imperial Domestication”

2004 Finnish Children’s Literature

Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University Fresno (Fresno, CA)

Finnish Children's Literature Program I: An Overview

Chair: Rosemary Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Rosemary Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

“An Australian in Moominland: ‘Plenty of Things…to Discover in the Valley’”

Janina Orlov, Stockholm University, Sweden

“Creating the Eternal Farewell: Reflections on Tove Jansson’s Moomin Novels”

Elina Drucker, Stockholm University, Sweden

“Images within Images in Tove Jansson’s The Book about Moomin, Mymble and My

Finnish Children’s Literature Program II: Remembering Tove Jansson

Sophia Jansson-Zambra, Art Director, Moomin Characters, Ltd.

“Moomin Wisdom, Something We Could All Possess”

2002 Australian Children’s Literature

Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School (Kingston, PA)

Chair: Rosemary Johnston, Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Rosemary R. Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

“Adventures in Wonderland: Australian Children’s Literature”

Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

“Transformative Fictions: Postcolonial Encounters in Australian Texts”

2000 Indian Children’s Literature

Ferrum College, Hollins University, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, and Virginia Tech (Roanoke, VA)

International Panel I: The Hans Christian Andersen Awards

Chair: Meena Khorana, Morgan State University

Meena Khorana, Morgan State University

“The Best of the Best: Author and Illustrator Finalists for the 2000 Andersen Awards”

Maria Nikolajeva, University of Stockholm/San Diego State University

“The Power of Language: Ana Maria Machado”

Jean Perrot, Universite de Paris-Nord

“Anthony Browne’s English Promenade”

International Panel II: Visions of India, Social and Cultural Identities

Chair: Diana Chlebek, University of Akron

Ariko Kawabata, Aichi Prefectoral Univeristy, Japan

“The Story of the Indian Gentleman: Recovery of English Masculine Identity in A Little Princess

Judith Plotz, George Washington University

“The Crack-up: The Child’s Voice in the Broken World of K. B. Vaid’s Beero Novels”

Anita Mannur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Hindu-scapes, Comic-scapes: Negotiating the Popularity of Amar Chitra Katha

Jilaine Johnson, Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand

“Romanticism or Reality: An Exploration of Chandra by Frances Mary Hendry”

1999 African Images/Images d’Afrique

ChLA/IRSCL Joint Conference (Calgary, AB)

Chair/Présidente: Lois Kuznets, San Diego State University

Ingrid Johnston and Jyoti Mangat, University of Alberta

“Adolescent Readers Responding to Authorial Voice, Culture and Language in African Novels”

Thomas van der Walt, University of South Africa

“Crossing the Rubicon At Last: The Emancipation of Afrikaans Children’s Literature”

Ellwyn Jenkins, Vista University, South Africa

“Making Peace with the San”

1998 

ChLA/Institut International Charles Perrault Joint Conference

(Paris, France)

Hans Christian Andersen Award Panel

Chair: Meena Khorana

Meena Khorana, Morgan State University

“The 1998 Andersen Awards: History, Process, Nominees”

Karen Patricia Smith, Queens College Graduate School

“Katherine Paterson: Literary Pilgrimage to the Gates of Excellence”

Michael Scott, Joseph Rutgers University

“Winner of the 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award Tom Ungerer: ‘I Am an “Agent Provocateur”’”

Images of Nations I

Chair: Susan Gannon

Astrid Surmatz, Universität Goettingen – Allemagne

“Sandinavian Children’s Literature, Media and Globalisation”

Miyuki Sr. Kumasaka, St. John Delany Ph.D. Pace University, NY

“The Portrayal of Japan in Japanese Folk Tales Published for Children in the United States”

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Universität Tübingen

“Children’s Literature and Pan Africanism: Aesthetics of Negritude in Pipo and Fifina, Cuentos Negros de Cuba and Petits Contes Négres pour les Enfants Blanc”

 

Images of Nations II

Chair: Thomas Cragin

Margarita Slavova, University of Plovdiv-Bulgarie

“Images of Arts in Children’s Literature: The Case of the ‘Moonlight Room’ by Valeri Petrov

Jo Hea Soog, Pusan National University—Corrée

“The Changing Image of Childhood Reflected in Illustrations of Korean Primary School Textbooks for First, and Second Graders: from 1946 to 1995”

Nadia El Kholy, Université du Caire—Egypt

“Images of Readers”

1997

University of Nebraska at Omaha (Omaha, NE)

International Session, Part One

The European Child’s Experiences in the City

Chair: Meena Khorana, Morgan State University

Hamida Bosmajian, Seattle University

“The European Child’s Experience in the City of Berlin 1932: Agitated Alienation in de Hitlerjunge Quex”

Christine Lac, St. Olaf College

“Children in the City of Lights: Divalence and Ambivalence of Paris in Segur’s Novels”

Diana Chlebek, University of Akron

“The Child in the Warsaw Ghetto: City as Haven and Hell”

 

International Session, Part Two

Asian and African Children in the City

Chair: Bill Finlaw, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Judith Plotz, The George Washington University

“Childhood Modernized, Urbanized, and Nationalized: Desai’s The Village by the Sea

Clayton MacKenzie, Hong Kong Baptist University

“Urban Reality and Village Heritage: Issues Facing Children’s Literature in East, West, and Central America”

Patricia Kuntz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“City Children in African Literature”

 

International Session, Part Three

Chair: Christine Lac, St. Olaf College

Kathleen M. Glenn, Wake Forest University

“The City Transformed: Urban Reality and Fantasy in The Nest of Dreams

Joan Gibbons, The University of Waikato

“The New Zealand Child in the City"

Liora Stavchansky

“Dreams of Childhood in a Mexican Text”

1996 International Children’s Literature

UNC Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)

Chair: Donna R. White, Clemson University

Grace Masselos, University of Woolongong

“Children’s Literature: Then and Now—An Australian Context”

Teya Rosenberg, University of Alberta

“The Truly Australian Hero? The Paradox of Patricia Wrightson’s The Book of Wirrun

Gwendolyn Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“Dutch Children Literature: Prenpenboeken—Kinderboeken—Jeugdboeken”

1995

University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)

Creating a Nation I

Chair: Jack Yeager, University of New Hampshire

Jean Perrot, Université de Paris-Nord, France

“The USA in French Children’s Literature”

Luisa Del Giudice, UCLA

“Tomie de Paola and the Writing/Illustrating of Italian Folk Culture for Children”

Elizabeth Pandolfo, Virginia Tech

“World War II in Japanese Children’s Literature: A Modern Mythology”

 

Creating a Nation II

Chair: William Moebius, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Joel Chaston, Southwest Missouri State University

“Little Houses in the Canadian Wilderness: Blades, Kurelek, and Frye’s ‘Garrison Mentality’”

Patricia Johnston, University of New Brunswick, Canada

“Evidence of Nation in Canadian Folk and Fairy Tales”

Valerie Krips, University of Pittsburgh

“Lore as Lack and Lure: The Child as Meaning-maker in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising

1994 International Landscapes

Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)

Chair: J.D. Stahl, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Elizabeth Hill Askey, Madison, Wisconsin

“Oh, Landscape is Critical: Patricia Wrightson’s Use of Landscape”

Karen Hoyle, University of Minnesota

“A Sense of Place: Contemporary Japanese Settings in Books by Three Japanese-American Immigrants”

Tara L. Rivera, Purdue University

“The Puerto Rican Place in Children’s Literature: A Conflict in Culture”

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