Past Events

For recordings of past events, see our mediaspace channel.

2021

Thursday, January 28: Angel Matos, Bowdoin College, “Queer Young Adult Novels that Sadden and Hurt: Adam Silvera’s Oeuvre and the Politics of Unhappiness”

Thursday, 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”

Thursday, March 11: The Data-Sitters Club, “Tropes and Tribulations: Exploring Computational Text-Analysis with the Data-Sitters Club” – The Data-Sitters Club Lecture Transcript

Thursday, April 15: 2021 Gryphon Lecture – Matthew Grenby, “Going Global: Transnational Networks and the Spread of Early Modern Children’s Books” – 2021 Gryphon Lecture Transcript (*Note – To view this transcript, you must log in with a UIUC Net-ID and password)

2020

Thursday, September 17: Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London, “Book Audio”

Thursday, October 8: Victoria Ford Smith, University of Connecticut, “A Nasty, Biting Thing: The Wayward Child as Collaborator”

Thursday, November 12: Sarah Park Dahlen, St. Catherine University, “(Re)Presenting Korea: The Carpenters and the White American Imaginary”