Panel 12: Imagination, Ideology, and Teaching the Future

Panel 12 (Room 158) 3:15 – 4:15 P.M.
Chair: Judi Saltman

Katie Kinsley, University of British Columbia
Imagining the Future: Advocating with Children’s Literature

Viktoriya Yakolyeva, University of Alberta
Toreadors in a Strange Land: The Analysis of Ideological Messages in a Book for
Children

Laura Quintana Crelis, University of British Columbia
Mise-en-abyme in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Arabian Nights

Panel 9: Technology, Fantasy, and Escape in Young People’s Literature

Panel 9 (Room 158) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Rick Gooding

Leanne Hooper, University of Roehampton
Travel, Teens, and Tethering: Exploring Cell Phone Use in Childhood Journeys in
Ostrich Boys and Unhooking the Moon

Phil Gough, Currently Unaffiliated
Ghost in the Machine: Displacement and Embodiment in Mary E. Pearson’s The
Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Fox Inheritance

Alethia Shih, University of California, Los Angeles
Lands Beyond Home: The Distance Between Child Protagonist and Reader in The
Phantom Tollbooth

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 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