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2022
Thursday, July 7th
7:30 PM

Keynote

The Importance of Windows and Mirrors

Grace Lin

VAC Auditorium and Zoom

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Friday, July 8th
11:00 AM

Panel: Historical Perspectives

'I thought maby you might help as you other Little Children': Rereading Depression-era Children

Maggie Morris Davis

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Historical Perspectives

Social Responsibility and Young Adult Literature: Flattening Native Americanness with Marginalizing Tropes

Vandy Pacetti-Donelson, United States Sports Academy

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Historical Perspectives

The Search for a Sensitivity Reader - More than Sixty Years Ago

Claudia Mills, Hollins University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

1:15 PM

Workshop: "But It Was a Different Time Then!" Own and Other Voices in Wilder’s Little House books: teaching and talking about Wilder, Lane, and beyond.

"But It Was a Different Time Then!" Own and Other Voices in Wilder’s Little House books: teaching and talking about Wilder, Lane, and beyond.

Dawn Sardella-Ayers, Hollins University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

2:45 PM

Panel: Reading Classics through Other Eyes

Becoming Real through Matter that Matters: A Diffractive Reading of The Velveteen Rabbit

Adrianna Zabrzewska, Polish Academy of Sciences

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Reading Classics through Other Eyes

"For Nursery Magic Is Very Strange and Wonderful": The Queer Space of the Nursery in The Velveteen Rabbit

Karlie Herndon, University of Southern Mississippi

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Reading Classics through Other Eyes

Illustrations and the Eco-Reality of The Velveteen Rabbit

Wenduo Zhang, Simmons University

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Reading Classics Through Other Eyes

Metamorphosis: The Disabled Toy Made "Real" as an Eternally Abled Rabbit

Kara Kay Keeling, Christopher Newport University
Scott T. Pollard, Christopher Newport University

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Reading Classics through Other Eyes

"Real" Stuffed Animals: Rabbit Tales in the Anthropocene

Jiwon Rim, Seoul National University

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Reading Classics through Other Eyes

Whiteness and the Selective Tradition in The Velveteen Rabbit

KaaVonia Hinton, Old Dominion University

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

4:15 PM

Panel: Children Not Seen or Heard

A House Divided: The Challenge of Rural Diversity in Children's Literature and Culture

Carl F. Miller, Palm Beach Atlantic University

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel: Children Not Seen or Heard

Supported by Story: The Importance of Neurodivergent Representation in Middle Grade Fiction

Rebekah Lowell

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel: Children Not Seen or Heard

The Taboo of Teen Bodies: How Adolescents View Themselves Through Casting Choices in Young Adult Literature Screen Adaptions

Heather J. Matthews, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Keynote

American Historical Narratives and the Politics of Indigenous Representation

Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University

Zoom

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Saturday, July 9th
11:00 AM

Workshop: Anthropomorphism and Animal Others

Don't throw the tiger out with the bathwater: Intersections of anthropomorphic and diverse children's literature

Sarah Jackson, Millersville University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Workshop: Anthropomorphism and Animal Others

The Ugly Side of Cute Picture Books about Animals

LIsa Rowe Fraustino, Hollins University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

1:15 PM

Workshop: What Does Critical Race Theory Have to Do with Children's Literature?

What Does Critical Race Theory Have to Do with Children's Literature?

KaaVonia Hinton, Old Dominion University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

2:45 PM

Panel: Self-Creation

Connections: Choosing and Shaping our Reading and Writing Selves

Uma Krishnaswami, Vermont College of Fine Arts

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Self-Creation

Identifying and Healing Writerly Fragmentation

Liz Parker Garcia

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Self-Creation

Writing Cross Culturally in the Era of WNDB

Dhonielle J. Clayton

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

4:15 PM

Workshop

Workshop: Guided Exercises and Sharing

Liz Parker Garcia
Uma Krishnaswami
Dhonielle Clayton

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Keynote

Kid Lit Steps Toward a Multilingual World

Sara Lissa Paulson

Zoom

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Sunday, July 10th
11:00 AM

Panel: Sociocultural Constructions of Identity

Changing Affinities: How Multiverse World-Building Promotes a Self-Awareness of Alienation Cognition

Julia Jin Wang, University of Cambridge

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Sociocultural Constructions of Identity

Existing between Possibility and Impossibility: The Othered Indian Children's Literature of the Pre-Colonial Era

Diti Vyas, Anant National University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Sociocultural Constructions of Identity

From Esperanza to Guero: Crossing the Border to Home

Sue Corbin, Notre Dame College

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

1:15 PM

Reading Group for The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Reading Group for The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate: Discussing the Intersection of Girls, Race, and Historical Fiction

Ashley Reese, University of South Florida

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM