Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia

Association for Children’s Literature researchers and creators from and in South Asia. Website:

[Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia @ACLiSA_]

SPEAKER SERIES:

We're celebrating the New Year with a talk by our dear friend of ACLiSA, children's author & feminist historian Dr. Devika Rangachari on the 17.1.26!

To register, please scan the QR code or head to https://t.co/EhU9Ly9jGp

For details: https://t.co/idFAcDVclT

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#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: https://t.co/bdIinHrRwu

[Int'l Research Society for Children's Literature @IRSCL_News]

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: https://t.co/yeYzMIrPqu or scan the QR code

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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: https://t.co/Qu1JNnwW4w

[J Childhood, Education & Society @journal_CES]

#CallforPapers🚨

Thematic issue opens for proposals “Putting Babies at the Centre: Pedagogies of Care”

Issue editors: Dr Jane Dorrian, Dr Joanne Josephidou & Dr Eleonora Teszenyi

Find out more: https://t.co/3PPjFEZ20l

#first1000days #care #babystudies #childhood #earlyyears

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#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: https://t.co/G2dOAqX2oK
Website: https://t.co/ek4PonMwvN

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#CFP: Insects in children’s and young adult (YA) literature
Book to be pitched with Routledge’s “Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture” series
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2026
Deadline for articles: 1 May 2027
[email protected] & [email protected]

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#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
[email protected]

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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: [email protected]
Website: https://t.co/mQoedm2m94

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#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: [email protected]
https://t.co/OQIYmxMrzY

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MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Dublin City University
Website: https://t.co/JzzflpzLTi

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#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: [email protected]

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#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: [email protected]
https://t.co/T1XYC85NSo

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#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: [email protected]

[Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan @ShobhaTharoor]

Friends this book is a keepsake. Do take a look - do pick it up. Do share with your young ones.

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#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: https://t.co/hwBKVn2Fkx

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#CFP: 1st International Symposium on Children’s Literature and Educational Research (CHEDAR)
Online
21-23 April 2026
Deadline: 25 March 2026
Website: https://t.co/OpcmQMZmkK

[The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) @CLPN_ac]

The latest issue of the journal Boyhood Studies is out:

https://t.co/b5121LH6UG

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Doctoral Scholarship at Dublin City University
Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
Website: https://t.co/tYRu04n7B9
DCU is advertising a four-year doctoral scholarship and seeking research proposals that draw upon the university’s special collections

[The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN) @CLPN_ac]

Call for articles: "Transporting Childhood through Play: The Making of the World in Board Games, 19th-21st centuries."

For a special issue of the journal Strenæ - Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects.

Abstracts are due by 8 June.

https://t.co/BYhhogEktZ

[SHCY (@shcy.bsky.social) @shcyhome]

CFP: Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging (deadline July 15 2026): https://t.co/85jiQD6RSc