Virtual Conference Schedule

Morning Panels - 10:30-12:00pm

Models of Femininity and Coming of Age (Hybrid Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Bridget Keown

Featuring:

Eva Ray Pinto - Military Barbie; Sally Pirie - Barbie the Girl-Maker: Transgender girls, their Barbies, and imaginative gender play as we know it; Emily Aguiló-Pérez - Shaping Barbie, Shaping Us: The Brand’s Depictions of Food, Diet, and Exercise; Lauren Deaton - Sophia Coppola's Films

Childish Imaginings and Real-World Horrors (Hybrid Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Alex Aleco

Featuring:

Hebbah Udin - Examining Topsy and Her Legacy Through the Lens of Horror; Eden Mann - Queer Reading of Bloody Mary; Claudia Berman - Masculine Female Heroes: Inspiring or Harmful?; Betsy Kwong - Queer Ecofeminist Reading / YA Fantasy Lit

American Girls, Nostalgia, and the Pleasant Company Universe (Streamed Online Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Matt Lovett

Featuring: Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, Dr. KC Hysmith 

Images of Childhood in a Global Context (Streamed Online Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Tyler Bickford

Featuring: Clara de Moraes Souza - Local and Global Play in the picturebook "La no meu quintal"; Rubén Cristóbal Hornillos and Clara Amselem Sanjuán - The Creation of a Picture Book from a Kinship Model & Childish Irony ; Yoo Kyung Sung - Transitional Mexican Childrens Books; Duan Yuanyuan - Children's Image Analysis of Traditional Chinese children-Playing picture

Growing and Becoming: Global Examples of Childhood Culture (Streamed Online Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Frayda Cohen

Featuring: 

Dalia Mostafa Abdulrahman - THE ARAGOZ IN EGYPTIAN MEDIA: An Educational Perspective on its Cultural Evolution and Impact on Childhood; Erga Heller - Depictions of the Ideal ‘Boyhood’, ‘Girlhood’ and ‘Bravery’ through 80 Years of Illustrating a Hebrew Children’s Poem; Mingzhi Li - The Little Red Guard Journal and the Shaping of Socialist Childhood in the Mao Era; Paige Gray - Jem and the Holograms, Doll Play, and Being

Afternoon Panels - 2-3:30

Playing with the Hood: Facing Trolls, Stalkers and Other Online Monsters (Hybrid Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired By PJ Patella-Rey

Featuring:

Cristina Scheibe Wolff, Katharine Trajano, Elaine Schmitt, Janine Kronbauer 

Molding Young Minds (Streamed Online Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired by Bridget Keown

Featuring: 

Lydia Thomas - Floral Symbolism & Female Confinement in Gatsby Musical; Lina Karanikolaou - Beautiful dolls as main characters in children’s literature: gender depictions in Greek children’s books; Sonia Rupcic -  Boundary Parenting

Experiences of Childhood in Spaces / Times of Crisis (Online) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired By Courtney Colligan

Featuring:

Milan Masat - Childhood Thereisenstadt Periodical; Doris Morgan Rueda - Playtime Boyhood and the call of the outside at Fort Grant Industrial School 1914-1935; Ella Rosman - Between Dire Shortages and "Commodity Fetishism:" The Material Reality of Late Soviet Girlhood; Anu Susan Abraham - South Asian Children and Play in the Time of Conflict

Crafting Theory and the Self Through Childhood Studies (Streamed Online Panel) - Zoom Link Here

Chaired By Maria Ryabova

Featuring:

Vicky Topouza - Beatrice Almagna's What is a Child; Jasmine Skye Taudvin - Paperbag Princess 1980's Abuse; Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo Giorgio Agamben - play, fraught child/adult binary; Cath Ayres - Representations of gender creative girls in picture books; Heidy Valentina Muñoz Pulido: The Little Girls or the Future Domestic Household Managers: Toys and Female Education in Colombia 1886 – 1930