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2024
Friday, June 28th
11:00 AM

Panel: Valuing the Working Class

A Bird on Water Street and Climate Change

Elizabeth Dulemba, Hollins University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Valuing the Working Class

'[P]eople lacking in material things’: Valuing the Working Class in Lenski’s Regionals

Maggie Morris Davis, Illinois State University

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: Valuing the Working Class

“The Price Was Always Remembering to Be Grateful”: Charity, Help, and Pride in Cynthia Voigt’s Homecoming

Allison Estrada-Carpenter, Texas A & M University - College Station

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

1:15 PM

Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Connecting Enviromental Justice to Black Speculative Fiction: Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ninth Ward

Julianna Lopez Kershen, University of Oklahoma

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Creative Disruptions: Protest Art and Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince

Amanda M. Greenwell, Central Connecticut State University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Examining Blackness, Black Girlhood, and Identity in A Song Below Water

Christian Hines, Texas State University - San Marcos
Jenell Igeleke Penn, The Ohio State University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Reading and Engaging with Kacen Callender's Moonflower through Intersectional Pedagogies

Meghna Prabir, Christ University, Bangalore

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Teaching Counterstorytelling with Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone

Tabitha Lowery, Coastal Carolina University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

4:15 PM

Panel: The Values in Girls’ Storytelling Voices

Garth Williams Made Me Cry and Now I’m an Illustrator

Mary Jane Begin, Hollins University and Rhode Island School of Design

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel: The Values in Girls’ Storytelling Voices

Striking Out the Boys; Or, How I Let the Girl I Was Become a Narrator

Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Hollins University

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel: The Values in Girls’ Storytelling Voices

Valuing Girlhood in Wilder's Little House

Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Hollins University

Zoom

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Saturday, June 29th
1:15 PM

Panel: Representing Disability and Neurodiversity

Authentic Disability and Neurodivergence Representation in Middle Grade Literature

Nicole Panteleakos

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Representing Disability and Neurodiversity

How Do Children’s Fiction Picture Books Normalize and Perpetuate Biases about Dyslexia by Othering (Dis)Ability and Neurodiversity?

Elizabeth Green, Montana State University

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Panel: Representing Disability and Neurodiversity

’I’m glad now I lost my legs for a while’: Disability in American Girls’ Literature

Ashley N. Reese, University of South Florida

Zoom

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

2:45 PM

Panel: Border Crossing

El Otro Lado: The Border in Children’s Literature

Lourdes Marquez, Hollins University

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Border Crossing

The Border Crossed Us: Children's Literature of the Chicano Movement

Cristina Rhodes, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel: Border Crossing

The Make Way for Books App, a Bilingual Early Literacy Resource

Fernando Gonzales, Make Way for Books

Zoom

2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Sunday, June 30th
11:00 AM

Panel: South Asian Literature for Young Readers

Indian Picturebooks in English and the Case of Representation of Intersectional Diversity

B. Sai Harshitha, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: South Asian Literature for Young Readers

South Asian American Literature and Immigration: How Geographical shifts, Politics, and Migration Today Shape the Literary World for the Children of Tomorrow

Pooja Makhijani

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Panel: South Asian Literature for Young Readers

The MUHA Model for Contemporary Children’s Literature

Sowmya Srinivasan, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

Zoom

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM