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
|
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
|
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 – 20:30 | 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
|
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 | 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
|
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
|
ACW 109 |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | Walk to Black Creek Pioneer Village
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| 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)
|
Black Creek Pioneer Village |
Wednesday August 2, 2017
| TIME | EVENT | LOCATION |
| 7:30 – 8:15 | Breakfast
|
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’”
|
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.).
IRSCL CONGRESS 2017 BUILDINGS KEY
