CCB Schedule

Monday, October 21, 2024
  • Gryphon Lecture: Rethinking the Influence of Religion and Religious Identity in Contemporary US Children's Literature - Anastasia Ulanowicz

    Monday, October 21, 2024
    https://illinois.zoom.us/j/83565379228?pwd=rwZTMrbRTrldNRod6N0oZa2fmtjuct.1

    Anastacia Ulanowics is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her books include Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images (2013) and, with Manisha Basu, the co-edited volume The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger (2018).

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Monday, November 4, 2024
  • "Where the Wild Things Are: North America's Cultural Influence Over the Brazilian Editorial Market"

    Monday, November 4, 2024  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-ugpzgsE9UC4pitG2tNZwQbdiWBfpNR

    Isabel Lopez Coelho is the author of The Representation of the Child in Children's Literature (2020). For twelve years, Coelho ran the Children's and Young Adult Literature division at Cosac Naify publishing house in Brazil. She is currently a postdoctoral student at PUC-SP and publisher at FTD Educação.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
  • Religion and Culture in Fantasy

    Tuesday, February 18, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtdu-prTwuHtUGu51MpeSJB47mLaZCdVWz

    Part one of two sessions focusing on religion and culture in fantasy. The following authors are participating in this discussion: Aden Polydoros, Kwame Mbalia, Radiya Hafzia

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
  • Religion and Culture in Fantasy

    Wednesday, February 19, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeqqqjksGdctXLoPzEkVVkGCsufJ3w75

    Part two of two sessions focusing on religion and culture in fantasy. The following scholars are participating in this discussion: Taylor Driggers, Michelle Chan, and Sarah Winters.

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