Monday, May 30, 2011

Morning? 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.? 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.?

Launch of Display of Atlantic Canadian Children’s Books, including School Picture-Book Project, Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection, UNB Libraries

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

ARCYP Supper Executive Meeting

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

11E – Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

Commotions: Geographies of Migration and Young People’s Cultures

Chair: Louise Saldanha (Grande Prairie Regional College)

1. Mason, Derrit (U of Alberta)

Queer Youth, Mobility, and the Narratives of It Gets Better

2. Moruzi, Kristine (U of Alberta)

Settling in the Colonies: Periodicals and the Construction of Colonial Girlhood

3. Verrall, Krys (York U) and Lisa Wyndels

Waiting for my Children: Children's Culture and the Problem of Absence

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.

12E - Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

Representations of Child Soldiers

Organizer: Peter E. Cumming (York U)

1. Burrows, Brendan (U of Ottawa)

Saving Africa: Looking through Ideological Representations of Child Soldiers in Blood Diamond (2006) and Ezra (2007)

2. Morrison, Kaelyn (U of Toronto)

Youth and (Non-)Culpability: The Importance of Age in African Child Soldier Narratives

3. Roberts, Jessica (Queen’s U)

Child Victims, Child Soldiers:  Western Intervention in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone and Emmanuel Jal's War Child

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) – Annual General Meeting / Brown Bag Lunch

2:00 – 3:40 p.m.

13A - Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

Young People’s Cultures and Games, Gaming, and Play

Chair: Stuart Poyntz (Simon Fraser U)

1. Cowdy Crawford, Cheryl (York U)

Urban Spaces and the Visual Poetics of Play in Two Canadian Graphic Novels for Children

2. Fisher, Stephanie (York U), Jennifer Jenson (York U), and Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser U)

Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls' Gameplay

3. Grimes, Sara (U of Toronto)

Play, Create, Share: Support (and Enclosure) for Children's Creative, Collaborative Play within Commercial "UGC" Games

4. Hamer, Naomi (U of Winnipeg)

 The Cross-Media Play Cultures of Tween Franchises: Theorizing Cross-Media Play as a Critical Literacy Practice

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

14A - Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

Roundtable on “Theorizing Young People”

Chair: Mavis Reimer (U of Winnipeg)

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Joint ACCUTE / ARCYP Session

Post-Roundtable Informal Reception