The University of Otago Centre for the Book is delighted to announce its 2015 annual symposium in Dunedin, New Zealand\u2019s UNESCO City of Literature. The event will feature an opening lecture by Julia Marshall, an Otago graduate and editor of the very successful children\u2019s publisher, Gecko Press, on Thursday evening at the Dunedin Public Library. Friday will be devoted to panel presentations at the College of Education on the University campus presenting current research on children\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n
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A Sense of Wonder. Reading, Writing and Publishing Children\u2019s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n 12\u201313 November 2015<\/p>\n Abstracts are invited for twenty-minute presentations on any aspect of children\u2019s literature, though preference will be given to proposals focusing on the following themes:<\/p>\n Collaboration (with illustrators, editors, publisher, marketers)<\/p>\n Relationship of form and content: picture book dualities and constructions of meaning<\/p>\n Role of didacticism in children\u2019s publishing<\/p>\n Reception of particular works, both by critics and young readers<\/p>\n Transmission of children\u2019s titles across time or space<\/p>\n Representations of trauma in children\u2019s literature<\/p>\n Illustrations, binding and advertising of children\u2019s books<\/p>\n Digital media and the future of children\u2019s books<\/p>\n There are no chronological or geographical boundaries to the symposium\u2019s topic: we welcome papers on Aesop, on chapbooks, on Dr. Seuss, on Gecko Press. The language of the conference will be English, but papers on books in other languages are also welcome.<\/p>\n