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The International Research Society for Children's Literature is an international scholarly organization established to support and promote research in the field of children's literature.
Visit us here: https://www.irscl.org/
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Online Talk: “Let’s look at East German Picturebooks Depicting Architecture, Traffic, and Design of Childhood!” by Prof. Jörg Meibauer
University of Wrocław
9 December 2025 6:30 p.m. Warsaw time
Please register using this link: forms.office.com/e/xptNhFNUN5 or scan the QR code
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#CFP: "Beyond ‘bringing books and children together’: Critical approaches to reading promotion and literacy in Latin America"
Special Issue of The Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies
Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026
Email: criticalreadingcfp@gmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Online webinar: Publishing Children’s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
Thursday 11 December 5pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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#CFP: Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People
2026 UBC Graduate Student Research Conference on Children’s Literature and Media
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada
July 17th & 18th, 2026
Deadline: January 30, 2026
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Online book launch: The Green Dialogues: Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s Literature in Education
by Marnie Campagnaro, Lea Ferrari, Nina Goga, Mariona Graell, Maria Pujol-Valls, Elin Stengrundet and Gro Ulland
Date: December 2nd, 2025
13:00–15:00 CET
www.survey-xact.no/LinkCollecto...
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#CFP: seminar Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2026
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
in cooperation with Stockholm University and the University of Wrocław
August 26–28, 2026
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Email: clts@upol.cz
Website: clts.upol.cz
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Online Talk: “Exploring Nature in Ukrainian Children’s Literature: Environmental Stories and Chornobyl Memory" by Maryna Vardanian
University of Wrocław
25 November 2025
4 p.m. Warsaw time
Register using this link: forms.office.com/e/k83vY65RSn or scan the QR code on the poster
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#CFP: "Cultural Memory and the (Croatian) Children’s Literature Canon"
Croatica et Slavica Iadertina
Deadline for full articles: 1 April 2026
Email: csi.unizd@gmail.com
Website: hrcak.srce.hr/csi
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Online Talk: “Child and youth authorship for climate literacy”
with Aneesa Jamal, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and The Young Climate Authors
Moderated by Tanu Biswas, University of Stavanger
13 November 2025, from 14 to 16
Zoom link: stavanger.zoom.us/j/6820920771...
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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In person symposium: "Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children's Literature"
The University of Edinburgh
Date: 12 December 2025
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#CFP: seminar "Humour in Children's Literature and Media" as part of the ESSE 2026 Conference
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
31st August - 4th September 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Email: tothzsofianna@gmail.com; wieczorkiewicz@amu.edu.pl
Website: www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par...
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#CFP: Edited Collection on Waste and Children’s Culture: Thematics, Aesthetics, Ethics
Abstracts Deadline: November 30, 2025
Email: Lydia Wistisen, lydia.wistisen@littvet.su.se
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The registration for "Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (12-14 November) is now open.
This online conference is hosted by the University of Münster. Registration is free.
To register and read the program: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3701/
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Summer school: Children's Literature Summer School
University of Antwerp
29 June - 3 July 2026
4 scholarships for PhD students with no or limited funding
Email: childlit@uantwerpen.be
Website: www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-wi...
October 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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#CFP: Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature
IRCL Special Issue
Deadline: November 15 2025
Email: Johari Murray (jnals.cc@gmail.com) and Izaskun Elorza (iea@usal.es); and Roxanne Harde (rharde@ualberta.ca)
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#CFP: "Darkness in Children’s and Young Adult Literature"
Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research
Deadline for abstracts: February 1, 2026
Email: barnboken@barnboksinstitutet.se
Website: barnboken.net/index.php/cl...
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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#CFP: The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader, Volume II
Desire, Difference, and Disruption
Edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren
Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2025
Email: Alison Halsall (ahalsall@yorku.ca) and Jonathan Warren (jwarren@yorku.ca)
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#CFP: "Youth Writers and Their Worlds"
Ninth International Society of Literary Juvenilia Conference (ISLJ)
Valparaiso University, USA
April 16 - 18, 2026
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Email: ISLJConference2026@valpo.edu
Website: juveniliastudies.com/conferences/
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Webinar: The Child in African Literature: Possibilities, Silences, and Interventions
Book O'Clock in collaboration with the Children’s Literature, Media, and Cultural Entrepreneurship (CLMCE) Erasmus Mundus International Master’s programme
7 November 2025
4:00–6:00 PM GMT
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October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Excited to see submissions for this special issue of Children's Literature in Education, which I am editing with Hazel Sheeky-Bird! Our work on the Aidan and Nancy Chambers archive (held at Seven Stories in the UK) highlighted how important they both were to children's lit #kidlit #aidanchambers
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#CFP: Aidan Chambers Memorial Issue
Children's Literature in Education
Guest editors: Dr Lucy Pearson (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Hazel Sheeky-Bird (Independent Scholar)
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Email: CLEChambersMemorial@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Online webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Seminar series on translation for children
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
Thursday 23 October 5pm UK
Website: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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#CFP: The Everyday Horror of American Life: The Rhetorical Vision of Stephen King
Edited book
Deadline for chapters: January 1, 2026
Email: Jeanie Wills (jeanie.wills@usask.ca) and Roxanne Harde (rharde@ualberta.ca)
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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#CFP: DIASPORA(S), EXILE, NOMADS AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Child and the Book Conference
Department of Primary Education, School of Education
University of Crete, Rethymnon
May 29-31, 2026
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Email: cbc2026@uoc.gr
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#CFP: (Re)thinking the Borders in Children’s Nonfiction
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
17–19 September 2026
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Website: websites.auth.gr/nonfictionco...
Email: nonfictioncongress-2026@nured.auth.gr
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#CFP: "Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature"
IRCL Special Congress Issue 20.2 (2027)
Deadline for full articles: November 1, 2025
Email: jnals.cc@gmail.com, iea@usal.es, and rharde@ualberta.ca)
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM