For recordings of past events, see our mediaspace channel.
Fall 2024
August 28: Fengxia Tan: Representation of Zen Buddhism in Picturebooks from America and China.
September 24: Religion and Culture in Youth Literature Publisher Roundtables (Recording available here).
October 21: Gryphon Lecture – Anastasia Ulanowicz: “Rethinking the Influence of Religion and Religious Identity in Contemporary US Children’s Literature.” (Recording available here).
November 4: Isabel Lopes Coelho: “Where the Wild Things Are: North America’s Cultural Influence Over the Brazilian Editorial Market.” (Recording available here).
Spring 2024
March 4: Data Mining, Digital Humanities and Children’s Literature (Recording available here).
March 21: Gryphon Lecture – Katharine Capshaw: “Grappling with Martin Luther King Jr. in Youth Literature: Sequence as Resistance”(Recording available here.)
Fall 2023
September 14: Christopher Paul Curtis’ Morning Address from 16th St. Baptist Church Livestream Watch party. (Recording available here.)
December 4: Writing and Illustrating Civil Rights Childhoods: Author-Artist Panel (Recording and transcript available here— requires UIUC authentication)
Spring 2023
February 13: Emerging Scholars Panel: Asian American Youth Literature (Zoom recording available here.)
March 7: Roundtable: The History of Changing U.S. History Instruction (Zoom recording available here.)
March 20: 2023 Gryphon Lecture – Sohyun An: “Implementing the TEAACH Act: Using Asian American Children’s Literature as a Tool to Resist America’s Long History of Anti-Asian Violence” (Zoom recording available here.)
April 4: A Conversation with Award-Winning Writer Paula Yoo (Zoom Recording available here.)
Fall 2022
September 27: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – Impossible Moon by Breanna McDaniel and Tonya Engel, and A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin.
September 28: “How Youth Literature Can Support the Teaching of Asian American Community History” with authors Adib Khorram, Andrea Wang, Minh Lê, and Rajani LaRocca. (Zoom recording available here.)
October 25: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho.
November 1: A Conversation Between Award-Winning Writer Christina Soontornvat and Professor Sarah Park Dahlen (Zoom recording available here.)
November 3: The Bulletin Brown Bag: The Art of Reviewing Youth Literature (Zoom recording available here.)
November 10: The Bulletin Brown Bag: A Discussion with Sensitivity Readers (Zoom recording available here.)
November 17: The Bulletin Brown Bag: Librarians and Collection Development (Zoom recording here.)
November 29: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis.
Spring 2022
February 11: Leanne Bowler, Pratt Institute, “After-School Data Literacy Programs for Youth at the Public Library” (*Note – To view this recording on Mediaspace, you must log in with a UIUC Net-ID and password)
February 23: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
March 2: Sensitivity Reading Panel
March 30: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee. With special guest, Lisa Yee.
April 8: “Picturing Young, Gifted, and Black: Phillis Wheatley’s Image and the Creative Black Child.” Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
April 11: Panel – Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Literature: APALA’s Evaluation Rubric. – More Information
April 20: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zobio. With special guest, Ibi Zobio
May 18: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen (ABCCD) – Troublemaker by John Cho. With special guest, Alvina Ling.
June 15: A Book Club with Ms. Edith Campbell and Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen: Moonwalking by Zetta Elliot and Lyn Miller-Lachmann. With special guests, Zetta Elliot and Lyn Miller-Lachmann.
Spring 2021
January 28: Angel Matos, Bowdoin College, “Queer Young Adult Novels that Sadden and Hurt: Adam Silvera’s Oeuvre and the Politics of Unhappiness”
February 18: Lynne McKechnie, University of Western Ontario, “‘I Readed It’ (Marissa, Four Years): What the Research and the Children Themselves Tell Us About the Experience of Reading”
March 11: The Data-Sitters Club, “Tropes and Tribulations: Exploring Computational Text-Analysis with the Data-Sitters Club”
April 15: 2021 Gryphon Lecture – Matthew Grenby, “Going Global: Transnational Networks and the Spread of Early Modern Children’s Books” – 2021 Gryphon Lecture Transcript (To view this transcript, you must log in with a UIUC Net-ID and password)
Fall 2020
September 17: Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London, “Book Audio”
October 8: Victoria Ford Smith, University of Connecticut, “A Nasty, Biting Thing: The Wayward Child as Collaborator”
November 12: Sarah Park Dahlen, St. Catherine University, “(Re)Presenting Korea: The Carpenters and the White American Imaginary”