Assoc. for Children’s Literature in South Asia

SPEAKER SERIES: We're celebrating the New Year with a talk by our dear friend of ACLiSA, children's author & feminist historian Dr. Devika Rangachari on the 17.1.26! To register, please scan the QR code or head to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… For details: aclisa.in/2025/12/22/aut…

Online webinar: Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World University of Reading 23 April 5pm UK Registration link: tickettailor.com/events/centref…

#CallforPapers🚨 Thematic issue opens for proposals “Putting Babies at the Centre: Pedagogies of Care” Issue editors: Dr Jane Dorrian, Dr Joanne Josephidou & Dr Eleonora Teszenyi Find out more: j-ces.com/index.php/jces… #first1000days #care #babystudies #childhood #earlyyears

#CFP: The Boundaries of Fan Studies and Fandom Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2026 (virtual) October 22-25, 2026 Deadline: Friday, May 8 2026 Sumbission link: forms.gle/PjYFjGKsPVCmws… Website: #conference" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fsn-northamerica.org/#conference

#CFP: Insects in children’s and young adult (YA) literature Book to be pitched with Routledge’s “Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture” series Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2026 Deadline for articles: 1 May 2027 hagl@hvl.no & melanie.duckworth@hiof.no

#CFP: Childhood and the Female Pen: Women Writers and Translators for Children and Young Adults in Britain and Europe from the 18th to the 21st Centuries GRIC, Le Havre Normandy University, France 5-6 May 2026 Deadline: April 13, 2026 virginie.douglas@univ-lehavre.fr

Grant opportunity: Louise Seaman Bechtel Travel Grant program The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida Deadline: April 30, 2026 Amount: up to $2500 Email: lib-Baldwin@uflib.ufl.edu Website: sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/research-teach…

#CFP: Energy perspectives on children’s and YA literature Bergen, Norway, hosted by the research group NaChiLitCul, at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). 26-27 November 2026 Deadline: June 1st, 2026 Email: NaChiLitCul-konferanse@hvl.no hvl.no/en/research/co…

MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Dublin City University Website: …hildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com

#CFP: Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination - An International Conference The University of St. Michael’s College October 23–24, 2026 Deadline: March 31, 2026 Email: usmc.principalsoffice@utoronto.ca

#CFP: Returning to the Shelf. Memory, Reading, and the Afterlives of Childhood Books Edited volume to be published with University Press of Mississippi Editors: Erin Spring and Ashley Reese Deadline: 31 March 2026 Email: erin.spring@ucalgary.ca upress.state.ms.us/News/2026/Retu…

#CFP: Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: Mapping “Animating Childhood” Los Angeles 7-10 January 2027 Deadline: 15 March 2026 Email: westmank@ksu.edu

Friends this book is a keepsake. Do take a look - do pick it up. Do share with your young ones.

#CFP: 100 Years of 100 Acres: The natures of Winnie-the-Pooh: a centenary celebration Homerton College, Cambridge Saturday 11th July 2026 Deadline: midnight UK time on Sunday 29th March 2026. Website: homerton.cam.ac.uk/events/100-yea…

#CFP: 1st International Symposium on Children’s Literature and Educational Research (CHEDAR) Online 21-23 April 2026 Deadline: 25 March 2026 Website: cedarsempozyum.com/about/

The latest issue of the journal Boyhood Studies is out: berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

Doctoral Scholarship at Dublin City University Email: jennifer.mooney@dcu.ie and keith.osullivan@dcu.ie Website: dcu.ie/english/childr… DCU is advertising a four-year doctoral scholarship and seeking research proposals that draw upon the university’s special collections

Call for articles: "Transporting Childhood through Play: The Making of the World in Board Games, 19th-21st centuries." For a special issue of the journal Strenæ - Research on Children’s Books and Cultural Objects. Abstracts are due by 8 June. journals.openedition.org/strenae/12618

CFP: Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging (deadline July 15 2026): academia.edu/164866986/CFP_…

#CFP: Translational Convergences and Divergences in the Global Children’s Literature Special Issue for Children's Literature in Education Deadline: 1 May 2026 Email: cletranslations2027@gmail.com Website: link.springer.com/collections/fa…

PARTITION LITERATURE DRIVE Partition Literature focuses on the division of British India into India and Pakistan, particularly the events leading up to it and the suffering of refugees. This drive is meant to be an introduction to those interested. drive.google.com/drive/folders/…