Call For Papers, Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and Youth

CALL FOR PAPERS Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and Youth Inaugural Conference The Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People 20-22 October 2016 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC Unceded Coast Salish Territory–Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations Confirmed Keynotes Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Professor, Chair of Modern Media and Culture, Brown University) Steven […]

Call For Papers, Many Worlds to Walk In: Exploring Diversity in Children’s Literature, Librarianship, and Education

Many Worlds to Walk In: Exploring Diversity in Children’s Literature, Librarianship, and Education Call for Paper Proposals Deadline for submission: February 15, 2016 A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture University of British Columbia – Saturday, April 30, 2016 Many Worlds to Walk In: Exploring Diversity in Children’s Literature, Librarianship, and […]

Comics Read but Seldom Seen

The 12th UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Comics Read but Seldom Seen: Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media,” will be held on April 10th–12th, 2015. Panels and presentations commence on Friday, April 10th at 11:00am and continue until 2:00pm on Sunday, April 12th. The keynote lectures will be held in Ustler […]

Changing The Game: Digital Assembly Spring 2015 Workshop

University of Florida, Dauer Hall, Room 215 Thursday, February 19th, 4 pm – 7 pm Friday, February 20th, 9 am – 12 pm The Digital Assembly’s Spring 2015 workshop introduces contemporary approaches to studying digital games and demos how to design and modify game hardware and software. This workshop is free and open to the public, […]

Boyhood Studies

Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments. Boyhood Studies is committed to a critical and international scope and solicits both articles and special issue […]

Coming Soon to UF: Jessica Oreck

Filmmaker Jessica Oreck will be visiting UF for a screening of her latest work, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga. A follow-up to her documentary Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Ms. Oreck’s newest film is set in Eastern Europe, telling a story that mixes narrative and documentary elements including an animated tableaux. Her film will be screened on January 13, […]

Dec. 12th CFP Deadline, Extending Play: The Sequel

Extending Play: The Sequel Are we the species that plays—or are we better understood as the species that repeats? Walter Benjamin suggests that, “For a child repetition is the soul of play.” Is play always at its core a form of re-play, an iteration of an earlier moment that resists a complete recurrence, yet is […]

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)

Recent Game Release: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) Built in partnership with the Alaska Native community, Never Alone is an atmospheric puzzle platformer that explores the harsh and vibrant world of Alaska Native stories. Delve deeply into the traditional lore of the Iñupiat people of the Arctic for a game experience like no other. To visit […]

Children and Borders

New Publication: Children and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan) Edited by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou This edited collection brings together scholars whose work explores the entangled relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children’s lives and how in turn children […]

Play and Folklore

Issue 62 of Play and Folklore can now be viewed on the Museum Victoria website — here. Play and Folklore is a forum for discussion about childhood and children’s culture. It publishes articles, letters, memoirs and research studies that examine what children do when largely free of adult direction or control – their colloquial speech, […]

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