The Finnish Institute for Children’s literature organizes events, seminars and exhibition for professionals working with children’s literature.
Autumn 2023: Lecture series on youth literature and research
Open lectures in Zoom 13.9.–22.11.2023 Wednesdays at 14.15–15.45 PM (EET)
ZOOM-link: https://zoom.us/j/98775137046?pwd=L1BuWmQxT3pkV0Yza3NpQTBhay8zQT09
Meeting-id: 987 7513 7046 / Passcode: 136790
Whole lecture seriers program in Finnish
Lectures in English:
20.9. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold: Women of Colour in UKYA: subverting stereotypes and expanding identities
Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold is a Senior Lecturer in Children’s and YA Literature at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches and researches children’s and YA literature and book culture. Her research centres on literary/cultural sociology – looking at the experiences of readers and authors from socially marginalised groups – and inclusive children’s and YA literature. Melanie’s most recent work has focused on the representation of people of colour, and the experiences of authors and readers of colour. Melanie has published widely on the topic; alongside numerous publications about contemporary book culture. Her book Inclusive Young Adult Fiction, was published by Palgrave in 2019. Melanie is on the Advisory Boards for the CLPE Reflecting Realities project, the Pop-up Pathways into Children’s Publishing project, and works with a number of cultural organisations across the UK.
4.10. Lydia Wistisen: Too Much Feeling: Post-War YA and Changing Norms of Emotion and Adulthood
Lydia Wistisen is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is a part of their research group of children’s and young adult literature. Her research covers Swedish YA and urbanity, Swedish, Danish, and American depictions of youth, as well as 1960s and 70s children’s literature. She is currently working on an externally funded project called “The Child in the Wasteocene: Trash Thematics, Waste Aesthetics, and Environmental Ethics in Swedish Children’s Culture 1969–1977”
15.11. Rikke Platz Cortsen: Comics as youth and young adult literature
Dr Rikke Platz Cortsen is Assistant Lecturer at University College Copenhagen, Denmark where she researches and teaches Danish at the College of Teacher Education. Her PhD thesis is on temporality and spatiality in comics, and she has published a number of articles and books on comics and graphic novels and how they can be used in education. She is particularly interested in artistic and creative methods in working with comics as literature.
2021: Introduction to Children’s literature research
Lectures in English in Youtube:
Human animals or animal humans? Antropomorphism in children’s literature
Maria Lassén-Seger, dosentti, Åbo Akademi
Radical children’s literature and cultural transformation
Kim Reynolds, professor, Newcastle University, UK
Ecocritical cartography of children’s and YA literature
Nina Goga, professor, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Norway
