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>From: "Valerie Coghlan" <[log in to unmask]>
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>IRSCL
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>INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
>17th biennial congress
>Expectations and Experiences:
>Children, childhood and children's literature
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>Trinity College Dublin
>13th to 17th August 2005
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>Keynote Speakers
>Anne Higonnet
>Declan Kiberd
>Paul Muldoon
>Michael Rosen
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>www.irscl.ac.uk <http://www.irscl.ac.uk>
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>               Proposals are invited for papers and panels exploring
>the IRSCL 2005 conferences theme, 'Expectations and Experiences:
>Children, Childhood and Children's Literature'. Aspects of the theme
>which the conference will focus on include the topics of childhood
>and families, childhood and morality, childhood on display and
>childhood and theory.
>
>               Strand A. Childhood and families
>                       1.      Generations: definition of
>generations by age, experience, responsibility, interaction. Models
>and representation of parents, grandparents, extended families.
>Relations between the age groups as markers of social change.
>               2.      Alternative families: adoption, fostering,
>same-sex parents, growing up
>                               in care, children caring for
>children, children alone, substitute parents/families.
>               3       Nation as family: switching/regaining
>cultures, immigrants/emigrants, choosing between competing cultures.
>Competing notions of family among different cultures. 'Belonging' in
>terms of family and in terms of nation.
>4.     Families of writers: comparing the work of writers who are related to
>               each other.
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>               Strand B. Childhood and morality: message and medium
>                       1.      Discovering responsibility: visual,
>oral, written & multimedia texts for children as a means of
>exploring issues of right and wrong
>                       2.      Protecting children: censorship.
>Changing notions and areas of censorship.
>                       3.      Innocence and experience: religion(s)
>in visual, oral, written & multimedia texts for children.
>                       4.      Celebrating adolescence: texts
>reflecting the specific concerns of adolescents.
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>               Strand C: Childhood on display
>                       1.      The representation of childhood in
>picture books/illustrated books/comics for children.
>                       2.      The representation of childhood in
>film/TV for children.
>                       3.      The representation of childhood in
>stage productions for children.
>                       4.      The representation of childhood in
>non-fiction; history, science books, information leaflets for
>children. How does non-fiction construct images of childhood?
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>               Strand D: Childhood and theory
>       1.      Theories of childhood; development, gender, class,
>race, and how these relate to models in fiction.
>       2.      Theories of literature and childhood as they relate
>to children's literature.
>       3.      Theories of play and playfulness in relation to
>children's literature
>       4.      Theories of oral culture: folklore and storytelling
>as they relate to visual, oral, written and multimedia texts for
>children .
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>Proposals should be approximately 300 word in length they should
>indicate the title of the proposal, the primary texts under
>consideration, a description of the paper content  and the arguments
>to be developed.
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>Proposals for panels should include a list of all presenters,
>proposals for all the papers to be presented and an outline of the
>form which the panel will take.
>
>Proposals must adhere to the theme of the congress and should
>indicate under which strand of the theme they should be considered.
>Work presented must be new which means it should not previously have
>been presented in public in any form.
>
>Twenty minutes will be allocated for each paper, and up to two hours
>for each panel presentation. In the case of panels no presenter
>should speak for more than 20 minutes and time must be allocated for
>discussion.
>
>For poster presentations of work in progress authors will have 10
>minutes to present their topic based on a poster. Contributions for
>these sessions may be less fully developed pieces of research than
>the papers presented in the 20 minute formal papers and those who
>attend the poster presentastions will be invited to respond to them
>to help improve the work in progress by, for example, making
>bibliographical recommendations or offering ideas about methodology.
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>Proposals should indicate if the modes of presentation involve the
>use of DVD, video or other non-print media.
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>The closing date for proposals is January 31 2005
>
>All proposals will be reviewed before acceptance and notification of
>acceptance or otherwise will be given by April 30 2005.
>
>Criteria for acceptance includes:
>       *       Adherence to congress theme
>       *       Originality of research
>       *       Clarity of description
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>Proposals should be submitted electronically in Word format. The
>name and contact details of the person submitting the proposal or
>the leader of the proposed panel should be indicated clearly at the
>top of the proposal.
>
>Please send proposals to:
>Valerie Coghlan,
>The Church of Ireland College of Education,
>96 Upper Rathmines Road,
>Dublin 6,
>Ireland.
>Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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