Conference Panels
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Keynote Address
"Creating a Literary Child: A Historical Context for the Children's Literature Canon," Paula Fass (Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley), author of Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (NYU Press, 2006)
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Intersecting Canons
"The Spider's Web: Children's Books into Children's Literature," Anne Lundin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Oxford School of Children's Literature," Maria Cecire (Keble College, Oxford University)
"Peter Pan and 'Children's Literature,'" Martha Stoddard Holmes (California State University, San Marcos)
Moderator: Sharon Goetz (University of California, Berkeley)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Children's Literature and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
"José Vasconcelos's Lecturas clásicas para niños and the Making of Childhood in Post-Revolutionary Mexico," Beatriz Alcubierre Moya and Rodrigo Bazán Bonfil (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico)
"Pulgarcito: Mexico's Nationalist Art Program Magazine for Children, 1925-1932," Elena Jackson Albarrán (University of Arizona)
Moderator: Marcelle Maese-Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Transnationalism, Imperialism, Identity
"Revisiting the Snow Queen in Spain," Emilie L. Bergmann (University of California, Berkeley)
"Adult Imperialism in Children's Moral Development," Tiffney Mortensen (California State University, Northridge)
"New Mythical Heroes in the Muslim Arab World," Monia Hejaiej (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) "Black Boys and Learning to Be One: The Politics of Pedagogy and African 'Boy' Novels," Aaron Bady (University of California, Berkeley)
Moderator: Christine Hong (University of California, Berkeley)
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Emerging Canons
"First Blood: Coming of Age for the Cross-Dressed Heroine in YA Literature," Rebecca Fraimow (Stanford University)
"A Mouse and a Swan: Two Disabled Heroes of Canonical Children's Literature," Amelia Brown (California State University, San Marcos)
"Gossip Girls and Shopping Princesses: Clique Lit and the Book Packager that Created the Genre," Johanna Koljonen (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University)
Moderator: Sue Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)
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