The second biannual ISSCL conference will take place on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th March 2014 at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University.
The conference theme is ‘Be Merry and Wise: Children’s and Young Adult Literature from Chapbooks to the Digital Age‘.
The keynote speaker, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and Director of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture and Media at The University of Reading, will discuss children’s literature and neuroscience. Panels will address the following issues in youth literature and culture: politics and propaganda; children’s and young adult literature and new media; children’s literature and Irish curricula; centuries of girlhood; changing social and political attitudes and children’s literature; litríocht na n-Óg; folk and fairytales; adult/child relationships and literature for young audiences.
See www.isscl.com for registration information and more details about the programme.