Online seminar
“Eleonora Duse e la letteratura per l’infanzia”
ICONICs
20 Aprile 2026 Ore 18:00–19.00 (CET time) Online via Zoom
Speaker: Prof.ssa Maria Pia Pagani (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
To get the link, write to: stayiconics@gmail.com
#CFP: “Home-Making: Reinventing Home in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TAELS)
Sousse, Tunisia
20-21 November 2026.
Deadline: 30 June 2026
Website: www.taels.org
Online Talk: “Narrating the Nation: Navigating Neoliberal Spaces in the New Wave of Egyptian Children's Literature” by Dr. Yasmine Motawy
University of Wrocław
April 20, 2026 6.00 p.m. Warsaw time
Please register using this link: forms.office.com/e/KAx6Kh0ksr or scan the QR code on the poster
#CFP: Children's Literature as World Literature (Roundtable)
PAMLA conference (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
Seattle, WA
Nov. 12-15, 2026
Website: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20099
Online event: “In conversation with graphic novelists Jes and Cin Wibowo"
Visual Storytelling and Activism series organized by NTNU's research groups TransLit and CLEAR: Children’s Literature Education and Research
April 29, 2026, 11 am
Registration link: ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Online webinar: Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
23 April 5pm UK
Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Practice in the Elementary Education Program
The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies (TLS) in the College of Education at the University of Arizona
Website: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Email: maurav@arizona.edu
#CFP: The Boundaries of Fan Studies and Fandom
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2026 (virtual)
October 22-25, 2026
Deadline: Friday, May 8 2026
Sumbission link: forms.gle/PjYFjGKsPVCm...
Website: fsn-northamerica.org#conference
#CFP: Insects in children’s and young adult (YA) literature
Edited book to be pitched with Routledge’s “Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture” series
Deadline for abstracts: September 1 2026
Deadline for articles: 1 May 2027
Email: hagl@hvl.no & melanie.duckworth@hiof.no
#CFP: Childhood and the Female Pen: Women Writers and Translators for Children and Young Adults in Britain and Europe from the 18th to the 21st Centuries
GRIC, Le Havre Normandy University, France
5-6 May 2026
Deadline: April 13, 2026
virginie.douglas@univ-lehavre.fr
#CFP: Two Decades of Innovation and Influence: Polish Picturebooks
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature
Deadline for articles: 1 June 2026
Email: bookbird.editors@gmail.com
Website: www.ibby.org/bookbird
Grant opportunity: Louise Seaman Bechtel Travel Grant program
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Amount: up to $2500
Email: lib-Baldwin@uflib.ufl.edu
Website: sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/research-tea...
Online Talk: “International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies” by Dr. Anna Finozzi
International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies
University of Wrocław
March 25, 2026
7.00 p.m. Warsaw time
Register using this link: forms.office.com/e/hj6hxrshe2
Attn #kidlit @irscl.bsky.social folks. I am in the beginning stages of a book proposal for @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social series Literatures & World Literature www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/li...
Proposed title: Children's Literature as World Literature. Looking for input! Respond if interested.
#CFP: Transporting Childhood through Play: the Making of the World in Board Games, 19th-21st centuries
Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance
Deadline: June 8, 2026
Website: journals.openedition.org/strenae/12618
#CFP: Energy perspectives on children’s and YA literature
Bergen, Norway, hosted by the research group NaChiLitCul, at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL).
26-27 November 2026
Deadline: June 1st, 2026
Email: NaChiLitCul-konferanse@hvl.no
Website: www.hvl.no/en/research/...
MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Dublin City University
Website: dublincityuniversitychildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com
Online roundtable: Publications, Projects, and Post-PhD Life
ISSCL
27 March 2026, 2 pm CET
Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/publicatio...
#CFP: Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination - An International Conference
The University of St. Michael’s College
October 23–24, 2026
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Email: usmc.principalsoffice@utoronto.ca
#CFP: Tribute to Jules Verne
KEIMENA/TEXTS for the research, theory, critique and didactics of Children's Literature
Deadline for articles: April 30, 2026
Website: journals.lib.uth.gr/index.php/ke...
#CFP: Returning to the Shelf. Memory, Reading, and the Afterlives of Childhood Books
Edited volume to be published with University Press of Mississippi
Editors: Erin Spring and Ashley Reese
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Email: erin.spring@ucalgary.ca
www.upress.state.ms.us/News/2026/Re...
#CFP: Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: Mapping “Animating Childhood”
Los Angeles
7-10 January 2027
Deadline: 15 March 2026
Email: westmank@ksu.edu
#CFP: Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: Mapping Los Angeles in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum
Los Angeles
7-10 January 2027
Deadline: 18 March 2026
Email: McNamara.Emma.K@gmail.com
#CFP: 100 Years of 100 Acres: The natures of Winnie-the-Pooh: a centenary celebration
Homerton College, Cambridge
Saturday 11th July 2026
Deadline: midnight UK time on Sunday 29th March 2026.
Website: www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/events/100-y...
Doctoral Scholarship at Dublin City University
Email: jennifer.mooney@dcu.ie and keith.osullivan@dcu.ie
Website: www.dcu.ie/english/chil...
DCU is advertising a four-year doctoral scholarship and seeking research proposals that draw upon the university’s special collections
#CFP: 1st International Symposium on Children’s Literature and Educational Research (CHEDAR)
Online
21-23 April 2026
Deadline: 25 March 2026
Website: cedarsempozyum.com/about/
Online Launch Event to celebrate the publication of the Special Section 'Reflecting on “The Teen Whisperer”: Twenty Years of John Green', edited by Dr. Jennifer Gouck
International Journal of Young Adult Literature
7-8pm GMT 3rd March 2026
Registration: forms.office.com/e/PU3yX9BpdN
#CFP: Children’s and Young Adult Literature Research – Then, Now, and in the Future
Barnboken: Journal of Children’s Literature Research
Deadline: 31 May 2026
barnboken.net/index.php/cl...
#CFP: Translational Convergences and Divergences in the Global Children’s Literature
Special Issue for Children's Literature in Education
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Email: cletranslations2027@gmail.com
Website: link.springer.com/collections/...
#CFP: Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: “Postcolonial Fantasy for Young People”
Los Angeles
7-10 January 2027
Deadline: 1 March 2026
Email: amadan@ksu.edu