CBC2019
Deadline for abstract submission is extended to 1 December 2018.
The 14th International Child and the Book Conference Beyond the Canon (of Children’s Literature) is co-organised by the Croatian Association of Researchers in Children’s Literature and the University of Zadar. It is hosted by the University of Zadar, Department of Teachers and Preschool Teachers Education and Department of Teacher Education Studies in Gospić.
Special discussion groups for students will be organised.
Editors of academic journals focusing on children’s literature scholarship will present their publications in a special session.
The official languages of the Conference are English and Croatian.
Conference Dates
Wednesday 8 May – Friday 10 May 2019
Post-Conference Event
The post-conference event Children’s Literature Scholarship in Europe takes place on Saturday 11 May 2019. Its format will be a roundtable. More details can be found here.
Conference Venues
University of Zadar, Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV 2; Museum of Ancient Glass, Poljana Zemaljskoga odbora 1, Zadar, Croatia.
A Brief History of CBC
The International Conference The Child and the Book, launched in London in 2004, has since taken place in different countries (Belgium, UK, Turkey, USA, Canada, Norway, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Poland and Spain). It gathers scholars and students focusing on children’s and young adult literature, who exchange experiences, insights and knowledge in this interdisciplinary field.
Conference Theme
The Conference raises questions following recent research on the canon of children’s literature, focusing on exclusion from the canon, i.e. on literature and related phenomena and forms of expression which remain beyond the canon. Read more.
Keynote Speakers
Marina Balina, Isaac Funk Professor and Professor of Russian Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA.
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Call for Papers
We invite proposals for papers to be presented in English or Croatian. The presented papers will be 15 minutes maximum, followed by 5 min discussion time.
For a paper proposal, please submit an abstract of 200-500 words and up to 5 keywords. The submission deadline is 15 November 2018. All proposals will be reviewed, and the authors of the proposals will receive notification of acceptance by 15 January 2019. To submit paper proposals or panel proposals, please fill in the interactive submission form at this link.
Panel proposals may consist of either three or four papers or be in a roundtable format. Panels should consolidate papers with focus on the Conference main theme. The panel organiser should invite participants and evaluate each paper in the panel, but the panel as a whole and its individual papers will also be reviewed by external evaluators. For a panel proposal, the panel organisers should submit a short overview statement of the panel theme (200-500 words), a list of participants, and the (working) titles of their papers. The deadline for panel theme submission is 1 November 2018. The panel proposals will be reviewed, and the panel organisers will receive a preliminary panel approval notification by 10 November 2018.
The list of accepted panels will be published on the Conference website.
Individual authors may submit final versions of their paper proposals by 1 December 2018. Based on the reviews, the CBC2019 Programme and Advisory Board may approve the whole panel as proposed or accept some individual papers for inclusion elsewhere in the programme.
Please find the CFP in PDF format here.
A Note for Students
Graduate and postgraduate students are warmly invited to submit proposals. Special advisory sessions supervised by experienced researchers will be organised. The conference supports young researchers.
A Note for Journal Editors
Please inform us of your intention to present your journal by sending details about it and the link to the journal website to the following address: childbook2019@gmail.com.
Contacts and General Information
In the coming months, we will be updating different details on the Conference website: http://cbc2019.hidk.hr/
Should you have any further inquiries or require additional information, please contact us at the following email addresses: childbook2019@gmail.com; narancic-kovac@ufzg.hr; rbacalja@unizd.hr.
On behalf of the Organising Committee
Smiljana Narančić Kovač and Robert Bacalja, conveners
Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2018
Deadline for panel theme submissions: 1 November 2018
The Call for Papers with submission guidelines in PDF format is here.
All abstracts should be submitted here.