[ecrea] CFP “Stranger in a Strange Land”: Exploring Texts and Media for Young People across Cultures and Continents

The following CFP for the UBC Graduate Student Children's Literature 
Research Conference has a new submission deadline: MARCH 19, 2012.

If you are a graduate student, please consider submitting a paper to 
this conference.  Not only will it look great on your CV, but it will 
help us show the academic community the quality research that is coming 
out of the brilliant minds of current graduate students!

If you are a professor, librarian, or if you are just interested in 
Children's Literature, please consider registering to attend this 
one-day conference at the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver, BC.  If you 
are a teacher or professor, please also consider passing the following 
information on to your grad students and encouraging them to participate 
as a way of making their contribution to the field more visible.

Thank you all for your help in promoting this important field of 
research and this conference.

*“Stranger in a Strange Land”:*

*Exploring Texts and Media for Young People across Cultures and Continents*

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*Call for Paper Proposals*

*DEADLINE: March 19, 2012*

A Peer Reviewed Graduate Student Conference on Children’s Literature and 
Cultural Texts

With keynote speakers* Dr. Elizabeth Marshall and Dr. Sarah Park*

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The University of British Columbia

*Saturday, April 28, 2012*

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This is a one-day conference showcasing graduate research that explores 
and questions any facet of children’s literature. You are invited to 
submit a paper proposal that contributes to and extends existing 
research in the area of children’s texts, which may include novels, 
film, picture books, and other culturally produced modes of children’s 
literature. We are particularly interested in research that draws upon 
the broadly interpreted themes of navigation, exploration, and narrative.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

· The child or young adult as explorer/explored, navigator/navigated

· Displacement or unwilling transportation to foreign spaces

· Childhood and adolescent development

· Children, young adults, and cross-cultural exposure

· Multilingual or translated texts

· Navigating (or negotiating) identity, gender, race or religion as a 
child or young adult in an adult world

· Exploring place: the child as traveller/runaway/adventurer in a 
strange land

· Race and ethnicity in children’s and young adult texts

· Cultural, physical, psychological, ideological, or literary 
restrictions and barriers to exploration and imagination

· Childhood feelings of displacement or not fitting in

Papers on any children’s or young adult genres are welcome as are papers 
that discuss other children’s texts such as film, virtual texts, or 
graphic novels.  The topics above are a guideline for the proposals we 
would like to see, but we are eager to receive and review paper 
proposals on any topic related to children’s and young adult texts.

Please send a 250-350 word abstract, the title of your paper, a 50-word 
biography, your name, your university affiliation, email address, and 
phone number to Robert Bittner at (ubc.conference2012 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(GradConference2010 /at/ gmail.com)> by *March 19, 2012*. Please put 
“Conference Proposal” in the subject line of your email.

If you would like your paper to be considered for publication in the 
/Journal of Graduate Research in Young People’s Materials and Culture/, 
please send a complete and polished copy of your paper to the editors at 
(jgr.submission /at/ yahoo.ca) <mailto:(jgr.submissions /at/ yahoo.ca)> by *June 15, 
2012*.  Include the same information as your conference proposal, but 
attach the full text as well.  All submissions to /JGR/ are peer reviewed.

The conference fee of $18 for students and presenters, and $35 for 
faculty and professionals, includes morning and afternoon refreshments 
and a catered lunch.  Please visit our website for more information: 
http://blogs.ubc.ca/childlitconference2012/