Programme

Programme

Thursday, September 11, 2014

9.15-10.00      Registration

10.00-10.30    Opening of the Conference
                      Welcome Address Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leonhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
10.30-11.30    Keynote Lecture I  (Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
                      Yael Darr: Nation building and the literary canon for children: The test-case of the Israeli canon for children

Coffee Break   11.30-11.45

Section I:        Theoretical Considerations I (Chair: Anja Müller)

11.45-12.15    Helene Høyrup: The cultural capital of canon formation: Some principles for the study of children’s literature
12.15-12.45    Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Canon and avant-garde – a paradoxical relationship

Lunch:            12.45-14.00

Section II:       Theoretical Considerations II: Project Presentation (Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)

14.00-14.20    Anja Müller: Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Children's Literaure
14.20-14.40    Simone Herrmann: Changing Democratic Values in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Robinsonades for
                      Children: A Case Study
14.40-15.00    Franziska Burstyn: Of Water-Fairies and the North Wind - Divine Mentorship in Victorian Fantasy Literature

Coffee Break   15.00-15.30

Section III:      Changing Criteria in Canonization: Case Studies from Eastern Europe  (Chair: Maria Nikolajeva)

15.30-16.00    Dorota Michulka: On valuable, desired, proper and useful books: Children’s literature canon(s) in Polish education
16.00-16.30    Anna Czernow: The path of forgetting: Historical twists and turns in the Polish canon of children’s literature
16.30-17.00    Svetlana Kalezić-Radonjić: Changing criteria for canonicity – the case of Montenegrin’s children’s novels

Friday, September 12, 2014

8.45-9.30        Registration

9.30-10.30      Keynote Lecture II  (Chair: Anja Müller)
                      Kimberley Reynolds: Firing the canon! Geoffrey Trease’s campaign for an alternative children’s canon in 1930's Britain

Coffee Break   10.30-11.00

Section IV:      Falling Out of the Canon (Chair: Kimberley Reynolds)

11.00-11.30    Jana Mikota: Communist children’s literature, or Canonization and de-canonization in twentieth-century Germany
11.30-12.00    Etti Gordon Ginzburg, M.A.: Women's nonesense vs. literary nonesense: Genre, gender and canon formation -
                      The case of Laura E. Richards
12.00-12.30    Alison Waller: Remembering, rereading, and reviewing the canon: The case of The Secret Garden and forgotten fiction

Lunch:            12.30-14.00

14.00-15.00    Keynote Lecture III  (Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
                      Maria Nikolajeva: Digital canons

Coffee Break   15.00-15.30

Section V:       The Impact of Institutions  (Chair: Yael Darr)

15.00-15.30    Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer: Finally coming together? The bridging role of adolescent literature
15.30-16.00    Erica Hateley: Visions and values: The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s prizing of picture books in the
                      twenty-first century
16.00-16.30    Anne Morey: The Junior Literary Guild and the making of new canonical works
19.00             Conference dinner

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Section VII:     Canonizing Authors  (Chair: Peter Hunt)
9.30-10.00      Sara van den Bossche: The perks of being talked about: On patterns in the canonization processes involving
                      Astrid Lindgren’s works in the Low Countries
10.00-10.30    Michael Düring: Canon formation in the Soviet Union: The case of Swift as author of a children’s classic

Coffee Break   10.30-11.00

11.00-12.00    Keynote Lecture IV  (Chair: Anja Müller)
                      Peter Hunt: The case of canons and classics: The impossibility of definitions?
12.00-12.30    Final Discussion