Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Robert Gadowski, Blanka Grzegorczyk and Mateusz Świetlicki participated in the 22nd Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, which was held at the University of Worcester on 8-12 August, 2015. The congress was organized by the International Forum for Research in Children’s Literature, led by Prof. Jean Webb. Its main theme was “Creating Childhoods.” The congress was attended by 300 children’s literature scholars, including 6 participants from Poland. Blanka Grzegorczyk and Mateusz Świetlicki were awarded the IRSCL travel grants to participate in the congress.
The members of the Center presented the following papers:
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak: Childhood, Utopianism and Literature: Young Readers of Radical Fantasy Fiction Comment on the Future
Robert Gadowski: The Child’s Posthuman Bio-Spirituality in Neal Shusterman’s Unwind Series
Blanka Grzegorczyk: “Through Warped Glasses”: Representations of Terror and Counter-Terror in Catherine Bruton’s We Can Be Heroes and Alan Gibbons’s An Act of Love
Mateusz Świetlicki: Children of the Empire or Children of the Revolution? An Overview of the Contemporary Ukrainian Book Market
Justyna and Robert on the Sabrina bridge, on the way to the campus.
Mateusz and Robert, the Sabrina Bridge
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Robert Gadowski, Blanka Grzegorczyk i Mateusz Świetlicki wzięli udział w 22. Kongresie International Research Society for Children’s Literature, który odbył się na University of Worcester w dniach 8-12 sierpnia bieżącego roku, a został zorganizowany przez the International Forum for Research in Children’s Literature, kierowane przez prof. Jean Webb. Tematem przewodnim obrad było „Creating Childhoods.” W kongresie wzięło udział około 300 badaczy literatury dziecięcej, w tym 6 osób z Polski. Blance Grzegorczyk oraz Mateuszowi Świetlickiemu zostały przyznane granty podróżne IRSCL.
Członkowie Pracowni wygłosili następujące referaty:
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak: Childhood, Utopianism and Literature: Young Readers of Radical Fantasy Fiction Comment on the Future
Robert Gadowski: The Child’s Posthuman Bio-Spirituality in Neal Shusterman’s Unwind Series
Blanka Grzegorczyk: “Through Warped Glasses”: Representations of Terror and Counter-Terror in Catherine Bruton’s We Can Be Heroes and Alan Gibbons’s An Act of Love
Mateusz Świetlicki: Children of the Empire or Children of the Revolution? An Overview of the Contemporary Ukrainian Book Market
