35.1731, Calls: 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Congress: Borders, Migration and Liminality in Children’s Literature

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Subject: 35.1731, Calls: 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Congress: Borders, Migration and Liminality in Children’s Literature

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Date: 10-Jun-2024
From: Vasilica Mocanu [vasim2 at usal.es]
Subject: 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Congress: Borders, Migration and Liminality in Children’s Literature


Full Title: 27th Biennial International Research Society for
Children's Literature (IRSCL) Congress: Borders, Migration and
Liminality in Children’s Literature
Short Title: IRSCL 2025

Date: 21-Jun-2025 - 25-Jun-2025
Location: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Contact Person: Vasilica Mocanu
Meeting Email: irscl at usal.es
Web Site: https://irscl2025salamanca.usal.es/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children’s
Literature (IRSCL) Congress will take place on 21-25 June 2025 at the
University of Salamanca (Spain).

The theme for the 27th biennial IRSCL Congress addresses borderlands,
migration, and liminality in children’s literature. Borders may serve
as geographical boundaries, imposing limitations on interaction with
the environment or as political barriers that limit free movement and
can result in harsh or traumatic experiences. Yet, borderlands can
become wonderlands, as rich spaces of liminality where limits are
negotiable and identities become blurred, transient, and recycled.

Borderlands and liminality appear in children’s literature in a
variety of ways, such as thresholds between different languages,
genres, crossover narratives, transitional periods from childhood to
adulthood, or the blurring frontiers between the human and the
more-than-human.

Borders can set limits to freedom of movement for territorial and
political reasons. We must acknowledge a wide multiplicity of borders,
such as geographical, legal, linguistic, economic, or cultural, with
new types of emerging borders arising with life changes and
challenges. The triggers for human migration can be multifaceted,
ranging from escaping conflict to searching for new opportunities. In
the Anthropocene, economic growth forces human displacement and
challenges ecosystems, leading to the need for continuous adaptation
by both human beings and other species.

The congress theme aims to stimulate discussion about these topics. We
invite papers that engage in discussion on the representation,
production and/or reception of migration, borders, and liminality in
different genres (fairy tales, fantasy, novels, poetry, biographies,
fiction) and formats (picturebooks, graphic novels, digital
narratives, films, books) found in children’s literature. We encourage
approaches including, but not limited to, ecocriticism, posthumanism,
materiality, aesthetics, multimodality, discourse analysis, critical
content analysis, equity, diversity, and social justice. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to, these listed below:

— Decolonial, Postcolonial and Anti-Colonial approaches

— Borders of childhood and coming-of-age narratives

— Human and more-than-human migratory journeys

— Oneiric, ephemeral, and transient spaces

— Impacts of the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene

— Shapeshifting, transgressions, and crossing thresholds

— Forced displacement and forced return

— Emigration, diasporas, and belonging

— Borders between languages and dialects, including translanguaging

— Human, cyborg, and hybrids

— Gender identities

— Third space and other liminal dimensions

— Networks as agents of change and transformation

Call for Papers:

PARTICIPATION OPTIONS

Oral paper: For participants who wish to present a paper (20 minutes)
in person, followed by questions and discussion.

Virtual poster: This is the ideal option if you are unable to present
your work in person. Once the proposal is accepted, the (pdf) poster
and a short video recording (5’ long) must be uploaded to be displayed
in the congress virtual gallery from 21 to 25 June. Congress
participants will be able to access posters and recordings, interact
with comments or questions in a chat, and vote for the Best Poster of
the Congress.

Special event: This option includes any other types of activities of
relevance to the congress theme and to the IRSCL. Examples may include
exhibitions, book launches, storytelling activities, art performances,
roundtables, or networking activities, to name but a few.

Thematic panel: It is possible to include a thematic panel with a
number of presentations (20 minutes each) around a relevant topic. In
this case, the panel Convenor will send an email message to
irscl2025 at usal.es before 30 June detailing the title of the panel, a
short description, and the participants’ names.

SUBMISSIONS

For paper and poster submissions, it is necessary to send an abstract
(250 words max.). For a special event, it is necessary to submit an
abstract describing the activity, the required materials (and who
provides them), the estimate space required, the duration of the
activity, and the target audience. Abstracts must be submitted in
English or Spanish via Oxford Abstracts from 15 May to 15 September.



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