2019 Children's Literature Association Conference

2019 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE JUNE 13-15, 2019 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA | WESTIN INDIANAPOLIS Hosted by IUPUI & IU East The 46th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 13-15, 2019 1 NEW FROM THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI | www.upress.state.ms.us 30% Conference discount and 2 @upmiss FREE SHIPPING in the U.S. WELCOME TO THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSOCIATON CONFERENCE INDIANAPOLIS CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, IU East Megan Musgrave, IUPUI Carrie Sickmann, IUPUI CONFERENCE PLANNING INTERN: Kathryn Hampshire, IUPUI SUPPORT: LOGO DESIGN AND ARTWORK: Indiana University Office of the Vice Chancellor The 2019 conference logo was designed by IUPUI for Research student Kennedy Franklin, based on an original painting by Indiana artist Daniel Moosbrugger. IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Edith Millikan, IUPUI School of Liberal Arts SOCIAL MEDIA SPECIALIST: Office of Research Michelle Maloney-Mangold Eric L. Hamilton, IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Finance Team ONSITE BOOK SALES: Dr. Daren Snider, Dean of the School of Humanities Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave. and Social Sciences, IU East indyreadsbooks.org IUPUI Office of Adaptive Educational Services ONSITE WELCOME TEAM: Indiana University Consortium for the Rebecca Acker Michelle Maloney-Mangold Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society Heather Blair Melissa Mosley Katie DeArmitt Bayleigh Saulmon Paige Gray Steve Wolcott Kathryn Hampshire Steven Zimmerly 2018 CONFERENCE PAPER SELECTION COMMITTEE: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Megan Musgrave, Carrie Sickmann, Susan Stewart, Annette Wannamaker The 46th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 13-15, 2019 3 SPECIAL THANKS First, we would like to thank you, the ChLA members, whose commitment to developing and deepening the connections between children’s literature, scholarship, and civic engagement has inspired this year’s theme, Activism & Empathy. We are indebted to IUPUI, IU East, and the following individuals and organizations who made it possible for us to gather in Indianapolis and discuss how children’s and young adult literature can foster compassion and civic action in a time when empathy can be hard to find. Alisa, Megan, and Carrie would like to thank the intrepid advisors who guided us during the last two years: Annette Wannamaker, your vast knowledge of all things ChLA buoyed us at every moment along this journey. Thank you for your wisdom, patience, and unflappable sense of humor. To our fearless leader, ChLA President Katharine Capshaw, you have been an invaluable source of insight and rationality. In particular, you helped us work toward our goal of improving the accessibility and inclusivity of our conference. To that end, many thanks to Michelle Pagni Stewart, ChLA’s first Conference Accessibility Liaison, for helping to ensure that all members of ChLA have the best conference experience we can provide. Special thanks, too, to Michelle Abate, who served as an ad hoc advisor and reminded us that daily tears are a normal response to the trials of conference planning. You were right; we survived. Jamie Reed—keeper of all knowledge and guardian of our collective sanity—we are eternally grateful for your patience, sense of humor, and eerie ability to finish our every thought and sentence. Many thanks to you, Beth Chitnis, and the members of the Meeting Expectations! team for your constant availability and responsiveness. To our smart and capable conference intern Kathryn Hampshire: we could not have pulled this off without you. From locating sustainably-produced swag, to scanning each abstract to compile our retail book list, to organizing our volunteer team, you have been indispensable this year. A thousand thanks for your inexhaustible patience and good humor. Thank you to the spectacularly talented Michelle Maloney-Mangold, whose social media strategy has exceeded our wildest expectations and generated buzz about our conference and our city. We would also like to thank Meredith Hylton and Indy Reads Books for providing our onsite retail book sale and supporting the authors and illustrators whose work enables the very existence of our organization. We are so pleased that this book sale directly supports Indy Reads, a non-profit organization working to empower families to reach their full potential and achieve 100% literacy for all. We are proud that our marvelous conference logo showcases two Indiana artists: Daniel Moosbrugger, whose original painting inspired the idea, and IUPUI Herron School of Art student Kennedy Franklin, who developed that image into a graphic that so beautifully captures the spirit of our conference. It has been especially important to us to feature children at our conference. We are therefore delighted to welcome the Richmond Bands of Mercy children’s choir to sing at our Membership Reception, and members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis to enjoy readings by our Phoenix authors. We thank Heather Blair and the Indiana University Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society for their generous support of our Phoenix events. We end as we began, by thanking you, our diverse colleagues, featured speakers, and invited guests for traveling to Indianapolis to share your talents and scholarship. For longtime members, we hope that like us, you feel like you have returned home to your ChLA family. For those of you attending this conference for the first time, we hope you discover a new home in the community of ChLA. 4 ACTIVISM AND EMPATHY In 1960, Ruby Bridges broke the color line in a • How are activism and empathy represented in segregated Louisiana school system. In Indiana in the or created by children’s literature and culture? 1980s, Ryan White challenged cultural stigmas against individuals living with AIDS. In 2012, Malala Yousefzai • How are political, social, or environmental survived an assassination attempt in Pakistan to struggles portrayed in children’s literature become a global voice for young women’s access to from classics to twenty-first century books? education. In 2018, American high school students are • How does children’s literature and culture active contributors to Black Lives Matter and other raise awareness and promote advocacy for movements for social change, and are organizing people who have been silenced or ignored? nationwide protests against gun violence in their How does it encourage readers to empathize schools and communities. Children around the world with those who have been marginalized due to today live at the front lines of battles created by their race, ethnicity, nationality, class, culture, adults. In a world divided by war, political tensions religion, gender, sexuality, age, and/or ability? and environmental crises, ChLA invites you to reflect on the role of children and children’s literature in • How is activism presented as protest, engaging with political concerns, promoting activism disruption, and resistance? Conversely, and/or cultivating empathy. How can we as scholars how does activism create community? of children’s literature and culture listen to and amplify voices that have historically been silenced or • What literary figures emerge from the past ignored due to marginalization in its many forms? and present to serve as models of activism and empathy for readers today? We are delighted to host the 2019 conference in Indianapolis, where you can explore exhibits on • How do reading and writing function as forms of the child-activists mentioned above at the world- activism or empathy? What is the role of empathy renowned Indianapolis Children’s Museum. We are in cultivating discourse and communication? especially proud to announce that our Francelia • What literary genres have been successful, or less Butler Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Michelle H. successful, in raising global awareness—picture Martin, a leader in promoting children’s literacy, books, graphic texts, historical fiction, realistic activism, and political power throughout her career fiction, dystopian or speculative fiction, or other? as a teacher and scholar of children’s literature. • What other media have allowed children We open this call for papers to an expansive array to address world problems, both in fiction of topics covering the cultural and political impact and in real life — music? graphic art? film? of children’s literature and culture of the past and journalism? performance? social media? present. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches, including the visual and performing arts. We welcome • What is the role of digital culture in promoting a variety of formats, including individual papers, or disrupting activism and empathy-building? composed panels, or roundtables. Presentations might address questions like the following: • How have children made an impact as participants or leaders in social, political, or environmental movements of the past or present? • How are children and children’s literature and culture used across the historical and political spectrum for a variety of political purposes? The 46th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference | June 13-15, 2019 5 OFFICERS & EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS: Katharine Capshaw, University of Connecticut, President Karen Chandler, University of Louisville, Vice President/President-Elect Teya Rosenberg, Texas State University, Past President Eric Tribunella, University of Southern Mississippi, Treasurer Kristin McIlhagga, Oakland University, Secretary BOARD MEMBERS: Thomas Crisp, Georgia

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