Panel 6: Exploring Canadian Imagery and Content Related to Young People’s Texts

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: War and Survival in Children’s and YA Texts

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: Queer Themes in Children’s and YA Texts

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: Visual Readings of Texts and Manga for Young People

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: Crossing Borders: Migration, Translation, and Graphic Novel Depiction

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: Teaching and Reading Books for Children

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

Conference Details

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Stranger in a Strange Land: Exploring Texts and Media for Young People Across Cultures and Continents is a Peer-Reviewed Graduate Student Conference on Children’s Literature and Cultural Texts with keynote speakers Elizabeth Marshall and Sarah Park held at the University of British Columbia on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

This is a one-day conference showcasing graduate research that explores and questions any facet of children’s literature. We are particularly interested in research that draws
upon the broadly interpreted themes of navigation, exploration, and narrative.

The conference fee of $18 for students and presenters, and $35 for faculty and professionals, includes morning and afternoon refreshments and a catered lunch.