After many months of preparation, the Stranger in a Strange Land Children’s Literature Conference takes place today. As you can see from the program we have an excellent lineup of speakers. We hope to see you down at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC for a jam-packed informative day.
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 11 (Room 157) 3:15 – 4:15 P.M.
Chair: Rob Bittner
Eleanor Crumblehulme, University of British Columbia
Beowulf, the Self-Creating Hero: Robert Nye’s Exploration of Heroism and Identity
Kate Conerton, University of British Columbia
Bellatrix: Stories of a Villain
Kevin Tunnicliffe, University of British Columbia
The Shadow and the Other Mother: A Jungian Reading of Coraline
Panel 10 (Room 156) 3:15 – 4:15
Chair: Eric Meyers
Kathie Shoemaker, University of British Columbia
Visual and Verbal Cohesive Resources used to Construct Coherent Picturebook Texts for
Young Children.
Lindsay Bromley and Alexis Birner, University of British Columbia
Critical Literacy: Using Picturebooks to Read the World
Justin Unrau, University of British Columbia
Unreliable Instructions: Book-Failure and Critical Readership in Fantasy for Young
Readers
Panel 8 (Room 157) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M
Chair: Naomi Hamer
Lindsey Krabbenhoft and Julia McKnight, University of British Columbia
Peeling Back the Layers of Intertextual Adaptation of the Tinkerbell Character in
Contemporary Children’s Texts and Merchandise
Naomi Hamer, University of Winnipeg
Growing Up with the Olsens: A Case Study of Global Distribution and Cross-Cultural
Consumption Within a Teen Franchise
Devon Greyson, University of British Columbia
Navigating Teen Parenthood Online: Grrrl Mom Texts for Support and Resistance
Panel 7 (Room 156) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Eric Meyers
Cynthia Nugent, University of British Columbia
Picturebook Theory and the Touchscreen Picturebook App
Teresa Lin, University of British Columbia
Multimodal Electronic Books and Mobile Apps as Resources for Supporting Struggling
Readers in Secondary Schools
Lindsay Zebrowski, Simon Fraser University
“Beyond the Book”: Preliminary Observations on Childrens’ Engagement with Digital
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 (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