Global Childhood Media RFG

04 Feb

Research Focus Group Talk: Childhood and the Role of Adults in the Identity Formation of Children in Ghanaian Children’s Literature

The perception of childhood seems to vary across cultures and literature is a key conveyor of cultural heritage. heritage. In this talk, Clara Asare-Nyarko will explore childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children in Ghanaian children’s literature. Although the development of...

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26 Jan

Research Focus Group Event: Childhood Studies Open House

Are you interested in: – children’s media, literature, and culture – historical childhoods – children’s rights – education – child pyschology – sociology of childhood The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes graduate and undergraduate students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Free...

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20 Jan

Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing, Generation Z, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave

The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book, Children’s Picture...

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10 Oct

Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast

This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks, illustrated editions, and comics, this moral framework is often softened, secularized,...

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27 May

Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase

Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella...

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14 Apr

Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child

How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies...

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27 Feb

Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom

Literature, and children’s literature specifically, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases, such as sickle cell, HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of...

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28 Jan

Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture

The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s...

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18 Dec

Research Focus Group Talk: The Child Labor Issue as Depicted in the TV Cartoon Meena Ki Kahani

In this talk, Dr. Jawa Jha focuses on child labor, particularly the issues faced by the girl child as depicted in the TV cartoon series Meena Ki Kahani (Stories of Meena), broadcast in India. This presentation is divided broadly into three main sections. The first...

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11 Dec

Research Focus Group Talk: Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness

As part of a new lecture series, Children’s Literature, Cultural Preservation, and Language Revitalization, the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Prof. Nicola Daly entitled "Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness." In this...

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20 Nov

Research Focus Group Talk: Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic

As part of a new lecture series, "Children's Literature, Cultural Preservation, and Language Revitalization," the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Indigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova (Dolgan) entitled "Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic." Indigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova...

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23 Oct

Research Focus Group Talk: Children’s Literature from the Himalayas: Gesar Stories, Cultural Authenticity, and Folkloresque

Gesar is a warrior-like king in the realm of Ling and the protagonist of a voluminous folkloric poem that many Tibetan bards have performed for centuries. With Gesar’s increasing fame in modern times, the orature has become a quintessential representation of Tibetan culture. By comparing...

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22 Oct

Research Focus Group Event: Global Childhood Media: Open House

Join our Research Group! Open to Undergraduates! Are you interested in: - children’s media, literature and culture historical childhoods - children’s rights - education - child pyschology - sociology of childhood - or anything else child-related? The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies...

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22 Oct

Research Focus Group Talk: Key Readings on Adaptation for Children

This talk by Martina Mattei will explore key concepts from The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture, focusing on Chapter 27 ("Translation") and Chapter 29 ("Adaptation"). It will address how children's literature is translated and adapted across different cultures and media, examining the balance...

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05 Jul

Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group

The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group takes an interdisciplinary perspective on childhood in literature, culture, media, and society. We suggest that childhood is best approached methodologically from the vantage point of diverse global traditions, while considering the media and social construction of childhood mediated...

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