Programme

IRSCL17 Schedule (Updated July 25) (PDF)

Roundtables Info Sheet (PDF)

IRSCL Congress 2017 Schedule of Papers (PDF)

IRSCL Congress 2017

Saturday, July 29 to Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Keele Campus, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Possible & Impossible Children: Intersections of Children’s Literature & Childhood Studies”

NOTES:

The final schedule will be available in Congress delegates’ bags at registration
as well as on the Congress website and in the Congress app.

See Chart of Building Names and Codes and Map Locations at the end of the
Schedule.

For help, please look for one of our red-shirted assistants!

Schedule (Updated July 25, 2017)

Saturday, July 29, 2017

TIME EVENT LOCATION
13:00 – 19:30 Registration

Gales Gallery, directly off the ground-floor foyer of Accolade West

ACW Gallery
16:00 – 16:30 Welcome Ceremony

  • Land Acknowledgement
  • Amy Desjarlais, Knowledge Keeper
  • Convenors Cheryl Cowdy & Peter Cumming & Organizing Committee Member Geneviève Brisson
ACW 109
16:30 – 17:50 Welcome from IRSCL President Elisabeth Wesseling

KEYNOTE 1: Past Presidents of IRSCL

Sandra Beckett, Clare Bradford, Mavis Reimer, Kimberley Reynolds, John Stephens / Moderator: Elisabeth Wesseling

ACW 109
18:00 – 19:30 Opening Reception

Welcomes from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TEL / DB – Foyer
19:30 – 21:00 Graduate Student / Junior Scholar Meet & Greet Pub
(for those who signed up during online registration)
STC –The Underground
19:30 - (Dinner and free time)

See suggestions of on-campus and off-campus places to eat linked under “Facilities at York University” and in the Congress app.

 

Sunday, July 30, 2017

TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 – 8:15 Breakfast

  • Continental breakfast for those staying in Pond Road Residence
  • Hot breakfast for those staying in Schulich Executive Learning Centre
 

PON ELC

8:30 – 9:40 KEYNOTE 2: Peter Hunt, “From Librarianship to Childhood Studies: The Curious Journey of Children's Literature” / Introduction by Jean Webb ACW 109
9:40 – 10:00 Morning Refreshment Break ACW Foyer
10:00 – 19:00 Book Fair – Academic & children’s books, comics & graphic novels, souvenirs – in Gales Gallery, right off the ACW Foyer ACW Gallery
10:00 – 12:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 1 (4 papers per stream) –see Schedule of Papers for panel titles, paper titles, presenters, and room numbers ACW & VH
12:00 – 12:15 Walk to Winters College Dining Hall for lunch
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

“M(e[a]t) a Professor” Mentor-Mentee Lunch (at numbered tables for people who signed up during online registration)

WC WC
13:15 – 13:30 Walk to Accolade West
13:30 – 15:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 2 (3 papers per stream) –see Schedule of Papers ACW & VH
15:00 – 15:20 Afternoon Refreshment Break ACW Foyer
15:20 – 16:50 Concurrent Papers: Session 3 (3 papers per stream) –see Schedule of Papers ACW & VH
16:50 to 17:00 Walk to Roundtable 1
17:00 – 18:30 Roundtable 1: “Indigeneity & Children’s & Young Adult Literature”

Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, Christy Jordan-Fenton, Drew Hayden Taylor, Cuauhtémoc Germán Cuaquehua Calixto (Cuauhtémoc Wetzka) / Introduction by David McNab

ACW 109
18:30 – 19:00 Book-signing in Gales Gallery, ACW ACW Gallery
18:30 – 20:00 Reception, New Children's Literature Collection, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, Rm 305 Scott Library SCL
SCL
18:30 - (Dinner and free time)

 

Monday, July 31, 2017

TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 – 8:15 Breakfast

  • Continental breakfast for those staying in Pond Road Residence
  • Hot breakfast for those staying in Schulich Executive Learning Centre
 

PON ELC

8:30 – 9:40 KEYNOTE 3: Suzanne Pouliot, “Réception critique des oeuvres publiées en littérature pour la jeunesse de 1920 à 2000, au Québec” / Introduction by Geneviève Brisson / Presented in French, with simultaneous interpretation to English:

Please arrive in time to pick up a receiver and headphones for the session.

ACW 206
9:40 – 10:00 Morning Refreshment Break ACW Foyer
10:00 – 14:00 Book Fair – Academic & children’s books, comics & graphic novels, souvenirs ACW Gallery
10:00 – 12:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 4 (4 papers per stream) –see Schedule of Papers for panel titles, paper titles, presenters, and room numbers ACW & VH
12:00 – 13:00 Box Lunch

People may take their box lunches to the special meeting room (see below), to their residence room, or to their excursion in downtown Toronto

ACW Foyer
12:15 – 13:30 Special Meeting on the “Statement of IRSCL Principles”

Open to all to discuss draft document on “IRSCL Principles,” created in response to current disturbing political contexts within which we—and children—live.

ACW 206
12:00 – 13:45 Presto Card included with Congress registration

Will get you by Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) buses and subway to downtown Toronto for organized excursions and/or individual sightseeing.

Our friendly student guides are glad to guide you.

Toronto!
15:00 – 18:30 Excursions in Downtown Toronto

1) Toronto Public Library – see details below (by signup at online registration: no spaces remaining)

2) Toronto International Film Festival – see details below (by signup at online registration or on-site registration: spaces still available)

3) See Toronto!

Toronto!
1) Toronto Public Library (Lillian H. Smith Branch)

15:00 – 16:00 Tours of Collections: Osborne Early Children’s / Canadiana / Lillian H. Smith (since 1910) / Merrill Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy

16:00 – 17:30 Roundtable 2 “The Medium & The Messengers: Local Artists, Globalized Genres, and Transnational Audiences”: Zetta Elliott, Shauntay Grant, Rukhsana Khan, Vivek Shraya. Moderator: Gurbir Jolly.

17:30 – 18:30 Reception and Book Sale and Signing

TPL
2) Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox

15:00 – 17:15 Roundtable 3 “Mediated Possibilities: Young People as Creators, Producers and Audiences of Film”: youth filmmakers Carol Nguyen (How Do You Pronounce Pho? and Uprooted), Julianna Notten (Earth to Avery), Haya Waseem (Shahzad), and Elizabeth Muskala, TIFF Director of Youth Learning and TIFF Kids. Facilitator: Natalie Coulter.

17:15 – 18:30 Reception

TIFF
3) See Toronto! With your Presto Card

See “Things to See and Do in Toronto

Toronto!
19:00 - ? Graduate Student & Junior Scholar Pub Night

The Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison Ave, Toronto, M5R 2S1 (reservations have been made for the numbers who signed up during online registration: speak to our on-site Registration Desk if you wish to add your name to the list)

Toronto!

Tuesday August 1, 2017

TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 – 8:15 Breakfast

  • Continental breakfast for those staying in Pond Road Residence
  • Hot breakfast for those staying in Schulich Executive Learning Centre
 

PON ELC

8:30 – 9:40 Keynote 4: Robin Bernstein, “Children, Literature, Things”

Introduction by Phil Nel

ACW 109
9:40 – 10:00 Morning Refreshment Break ACW Foyer
10:00 – 16:00 Book Fair – Academic & children’s books, comics & graphic novels, souvenirs – in Gales Gallery, right off the ACW Foyer ACW Gallery
10:00 – 12:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 5 (4 papers per stream) –see Schedule of Papers for panel titles, paper titles, presenters, and room numbers ACW & VH
12:00 – 12:15 Walk to Winters College Dining Hall for lunch
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch WC
13:15 – 13:30 Walk to Accolade West
13:30 – 15:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 6 (3 papers per stream) – see Schedule of Papers ACW & VH
15:00 – 15:20 Afternoon Refreshment Break ACW Foyer
15:20 – 16:35 IRSCL Members’ Meeting

  • Board Reports Election of Board
  • Presentation of Awards
ACW 109
16:35 – 17:00 Walk to Black Creek Pioneer Village

  • 20-minute walk
  • Student guides in red shirts!
17:00 – 18:00 Walk around Black Creek Pioneer Village

Open to all Congress delegates, not just those attending Congress Dinner

Pioneer brewery, gift shop, old buildings, beautiful setting: they’re keeping the village open just for Congress delegates!

Black Creek Pioneer Village
18:00 – 20:30 Congress Dinner
(for those who have registered online)

  • Pre-Dinner Drinks / Dinner / Post-Dinner Drinks Honouring Jack Zipes
  • Presentation by the Congress 2019 Convenors (Stockhom 2019!)
Black Creek Pioneer Village

 

Wednesday August 2, 2017

TIME EVENT LOCATION
7:30 – 8:15 Breakfast

  • Continental breakfast for those staying in Pond Road Residence
  • Hot breakfast for those staying in Schulich Executive Learning Centre
 

PON ELC

NOTE: Please note that Wednesday we are in a different building: Curtis Lecture Halls.
8:30 – 9:40 Keynote 5: Daniel Goldin Halfon and Michèle Petit in Conversation with Evelyn Arizpe, “Poverty and Riches in Children’s Literature and the Promotion of Reading: Taking paths back and forth between Latin America and the ‘First World’”

  • Presented in Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation to English:
  • Please arrive in time to pick up a receiver and headphones for the session.
CLH “I” (2nd &

3rd floors of Curtis Lecture Halls, Room “I”)

9:40 – 10:00 Morning Refreshment Break CLH 2nd-Floor Foyer
10:00 – 12:00 Concurrent Papers: Session 7 (4 papers per stream) – see Schedule of Papers

Please note change of rooms for Wednesday: most breakout rooms are in Vari Hall but a couple are in Ross South.

VH & RS
12:00 – 13:00 Box Lunch

Pick up your box lunch in the foyer, and then come join us for two exciting showcase panels in CLH Room “I”

CLH 2nd-Floor Foyer
12:15 – 13:45 Two Special Showcase Panels

1) Research Centres: Children’s & Young Adult Literature and Childhood Studies

CLH “I”
2) Journal Publishing: Children’s & Young Adult Literature and Childhood Studies
13:45 – 14:15 Closing Remarks

IRSCL Congress 2017 Convenors & Organizing Committee IRSCL President Elisabeth Wesseling

IRSCL Congress 2019 Convenors

CLH “I”
14:15 - Goodbyes, Sightseeing, & Return Travel

NOTE: By special arrangement with York University’s Accommodation & Conference Services, checkout time on Wednesday, August 2 only will be any time before 16:00 (4:00 p.m.).

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