Call for papers
The 7th International conference of the European Network of Picturebook Research aims at being a conference, where analytical perspectives, methods, and frameworks are examined, tested and developed.
We invite papers related to the overall theme of the conference. Possible areas for investigation include, but are not restricted to:
- The utilization of verbal, visual, audial, tactile and other multimodal strategies in nonfiction picturebooks
- The presentation of knowledge in nonfiction picturebooks
- The implied reader in nonfiction picturebooks
- Nonfiction picturebooks across time, cultures, and languages
- Picture dictionaries, concept books, and alphabet books
- Digital nonfiction picturebooks
- The paratexts of nonfiction picturebooks
- Nonfiction picturebook artists and artistic strategies
Submission
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and a short biography of 100 words as two attached Word documents to Nina Goga, ngo@hvl.no. E-mails should have the subject line: Conference nonfiction picturebooks.
Abstracts should include the following information:
- Author(s)
- Affiliation as you would like to appear in the programme
- E-mail address
- Title of proposal
- Text of proposal
- Selected bibliography with academic sources (3-5 references)
- Areas of interest
- Five keywords
All abstracts and papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English. Papers will be 30 minutes maximum followed by a 10 minutes discussion.
- Deadline for abstract submission: December 15, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019
Reading Committee
All submissions are blind reviewed by the members of the Reading Committee:
Evelyn Arizpe (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Malgorzata Cackowska (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Marnie Campagnaro (University of Padova, Italy)
Elina Druker (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Cecilia Silva-Díaz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)