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.
Spring 2024
March 4: Data Mining, Digital Humanities and Children’s Literature (Recording available here). (Transcript in progress.)
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 (Transcript available here.) (Zoom recording available here.)
March 7: Roundtable: The History of Changing U.S. History Instruction (Transcript available here.) (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” –(Transcript available here.) (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. (Transcript available here.) (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 (Transcript available here.) (Zoom recording available here.)
November 3: The Bulletin Brown Bag: The Art of Reviewing Youth Literature (Transcript available here). (Zoom recording available here.)
November 10: The Bulletin Brown Bag: A Discussion with Sensitivity Readers (Transcript available here.) (Zoom recording available here.)
November 17: The Bulletin Brown Bag: Librarians and Collection Development (Transcript available here.) (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
Spring 2021
March 11: The Data-Sitters Club, “Tropes and Tribulations: Exploring Computational Text-Analysis with the Data-Sitters Club” – The Data-Sitters Club Lecture Transcript
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)