Past Events

For recordings of past events, see our mediaspace channel.

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.

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. *Note – To view this recording on mediaspace, you must log in with a UIUC Net-ID and password)

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”  – 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) 

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”