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Call for Papers: Perspectives on Childhood in Illustration and Imagery
Papers are welcome for this strand of the conference 'Open to View: Popular
Fiction and Visual Narrative' to be held 19th-20th November 2005 by the
Association for Research in Popular Fictions (ARPF) at Dean Walters
Building, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Papers should be on perspectives of childhood in illustration and imagery,
or illustrated texts for children and young adults.
All papers on the topic of childhood (for example, girlhood, boyhood, young
adulthood) will be considered. However, papers addressing the following
themes and issues will be especially welcome.
Texts about children and young adults, for example:
- The child in advertising, TV, film, fine art, photography.
o Concepts and constructions of the child (e.g. the Romantic
Child, violence and the child, nostalgia, ethnicity, diversity)
o Historical viewpoints on childhood
o Common themes surrounding childhood e.g. the family, school, peers,
the child's relationship with the media
Texts produced and marketed for (or appropriated by) children and young
adults, for example:
· Picture books, video games, toys, information books, comics and
graphic novels
o Ideologies surrounding the child
o Message and medium
o How texts work (eg interplay between words and pictures in picture
books)
o Perspectives on the implied child reader
Issues to do with teaching and learning: challenges and issues when
teaching
Childhood in illustration and Imagery to students at undergraduate level,
for example:
· Teaching visual literacy to non-specialists
· Introducing students to historical representations of childhood
· Helping students to perceive varying views of the child
· Supporting students in interdisciplinary study
Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Dr. Mel Gibson at:
[log in to unmask] or by post to Dr. Mel Gibson, Northumbria University,
Childhood and Family Studies, Coach Lane campus (East), Coach Lane, Benton,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7XA by 1st September 2005.
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