Panel 6 (Room 158) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Karen Taylor
Rachel Balko, University of British Columbia
Is It Canadian Enough?: Foreign-Born Winners of the Governor General’s Literary
Awards for Children’s Literature
Karen Taylor, University of British Columbia
Outsiders in Nature: Green Subjectivity of the Adolescent Protagonist in Two
Contemporary Canadian YA Novels
Rachel Yaroshuk, University of British Columbia
Fiddle & Jig: Métis Cultural Representation in Canadian Children’s Books
Panel 5 (Room 157) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding
Akemi Aoki, Université de Strasbourg, France
No Nation: Children in War
Megan Sorenson, University of British Columbia
Authenticity from Many Voices in Hana’s Suitcase
Phoebe Li, University of British Columbia
Survival in the Wilderness – Survival of the Fittest
Panel 4 (Room 156) 12:45 – 1:45 P.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Thaddeus Andracki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Here’s to Overcoming Our Parents’ Dreams for Us”: Gendered Racializations and
“Deviance” in Two Young Adult LGBT Novels
Robert Bittner, University of British Columbia
“Why Can’t I Wear a Dress?”: Perceived Homosexuality and Non-Normative Gender
Performances in Books for Children
Hannah Dyer, University of Toronto/OISE
Queer Desire, ‘Growing-up’ and ‘Becoming’: On Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose (My
Life in Pink)
Panel 3 (Room 158) 9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Kat Thomson, University of British Columbia
A Close Visual Reading of Intrusion and Displacement in Armin Greder’s The Island
Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University
Benjamin, Books and Babes: Theorizing the Covers of Radical Children’s Books
Nathanael Vass, University of British Columbia
Lost Voices: The Jungian Individuation Process in the Anime Films of Makoto Shinkai
Panel 2 (Room 157) 9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding
Elizabeth Kennedy, San Diego State University/University of California – Santa Barbara
“Al otro lado”: Transnational Youth Migration through the U.S.-Mexico Border in Film
Saeyong Kim, University of British Columbia
The Author as Translator: Issues in the Cross-Cultural Retelling of Folktales
Jennifer Mah, University of British Columbia
Coming to Know Our Ways: Aboriginal Epistemology and the 7 Generations Graphic Novels
Panel 1 (Room 156) 9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
Chair: Judi Saltman
Kay Weisman, University of British Columbia
“Why Should James Dobson Get to Have All the Fun?”: Socio-Political Themes in Horn Book Editorials
Nora Timmerman and Julia Ostertag, University of British Columbia
Too Many Monkeys Jumping in Their Heads: Animal Lessons within Young Children’s Media
Barb Dean, University of Northern British Columbia
The Spirit: A Stranger in the Land of Reading Adolescent Fiction
The Stranger in a Strange Land Conference Program is now available, so you can check out all the fascinating topics for April 28. Presenters (apart from the keynote speakers) have been arranged onto panels of three so there should be some good discussion going on. If you haven’t registered to attend yet, you should.