Morning Panels - 10:30-12:00pm
Models of Femininity and Coming of Age (Hybrid Panel) - Barco Law G20 - 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) - Barco Law G12 - Zoom Link Here
Chaired by Alex Aleco
Featuring:
Hebah Uddin - 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) - WPU 527 - Zoom Link Here
Chaired by Matt Lovett
Featuring: Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, Dr. KC Hysmith
Images of Childhood in a Global Context (Streamed Online Panel) - WPU 540 - 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
From Mailboxes to Memories: American Girl’s Storytelling through Catalogues - WPU 837
Chaired by Dominique Brown
Featuring: Janine Napierkowski and Blake Changnon
Talking With Toys: Growing Up With Interactive Toys - CL402E
Chaired by PJ Patella-Rey
Featuring:
Zachary Horton - Autonomous Play: Theoretical Approaches to Kinetic Toys; Sean Nonnenmacher - Speech of Talking Toys (80s 90s); Mark Best - Weird, Nutty, and Mad: A Plastic Primer for the 1960s Counterculture; Stephanie Espie - Trinidad and Tobago School Panorama
Growing and Becoming: Global Examples of Childhood Culture (Streamed Online Panel) - CL402 - 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
Lunch - Lunchtime talk by Corinne T. Field, PhD, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia; boxed lunches to be provided - WPU Assembly Room
Afternoon Panels - 2-3:30
Playing with the Hood: Facing Trolls, Stalkers and Other Online Monsters (Hybrid Panel) - Barco Law G20 - Zoom Link Here
Chaired By PJ Patella-Rey
Featuring:
Cristina Scheibe Wolff, Katharine Trajano, Elaine Schmitt, Janine Kronbauer
Molding Young Minds (Streamed Online Panel) - Barco Law G12 - 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) - WPU 527 - 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) - WPU 540 - 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
Identity, Self, and Navigating Social Environments - WPU 837
Chaired By Alonna Carter-Donaldson
Featuring:
Christina Frasher Lab - Riley Pointkowski, Michael Hughes, Steph Le
Exploring the Past Through the Page - CL402
Chaired By Heather Reel
Featuring:
Marianne Novy - Childhood play in adoption memoirs; Allison Giffen - The Figure of the Black Boy in Saint Nicholas Magazine; Emma McNamara - Little Women, Babysitters Club, Pretty Little Liars Whole Girls; Bethany Kaser - FHB Racketty Packetty House, love, class, and social rules; CE Mackenzie - Nostalgia in the Name of Trans Joy
The Potential Power… and Pitfalls… of Picturebooks in Childhood- CL402E
Chaired by Frayda Cohen
Featuring:
Caitlin Forbes Spear Lab - Stephany Rocio Andrade, Eliza J Callahan, Lauren Elizabeth Deaton, Shanmayee Devarapalli, Tanisha Pagadala, Samantha R Eraz
4:00-5:30pm
Closing talk by Susan Miller, PhD, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University- CL G24
5:30-7:00 - Reception, Hillman Library