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Hello, all! I am in San Antonio at the moment, enjoying my last day at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. I needed my laptop today to take minutes for the committee for which I am interning, so I decided that it was a good time to take advantage of brief wifi access.
This meeting has been mostly work and very little play for me. However, yesterday, I was able to visit the exhibits where I scored a free copy of the Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature and managed to get all of my textbooks for next semester for half price. And, after this meeting, I will finally get a chance to do touristy things like eat on the Riverwalk and tour the Alamo.
I hope to post more soon–if not from San Antonio, then from Boston.
January 24th, 2006
A conference in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Beatrix Potter Society will be held at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst MA, November 4-6, 2005. This conference, focusing on Potter’s relationship with America and Americans, is the first conference held by the Society in the U.S. Two of the scheduled talks, “The Beatrix Potter Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia” by Karen Lightner and “Peter Rabbit Finds Mercury in Retrograde: The Story of the Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen” by Ivy Trent, will discuss American collections of Potter’s works.
For the complete schedule and registration information, visit the Beatrix Potter Society’s events page.
August 21st, 2005
Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature 2005 summer institute and symposium in children’s literature will be held next month. The graduate symposium meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from July 5-28, and the institute will meet from July 28-31. This year’s theme is “Let’s Dance”, and the symposium and institute will examine the relationship between performance and children’s literature.* Speakers include Cornelia Funke (author of Inkheart), Maria Tatar (Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard and editor of Norton’s The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales), and Anita Silvey (author of 100 Best Books for Children). Further information, including a PDF of the brochure and registration form, is available at the Center’s website.
*This seems to be a popular conference topic this year. “Performing Childhood” was the title/theme of the Children’s Literature Association’s annual conference earlier this month in Winnipeg, Canada.
June 30th, 2005
I found about the World’s Fair Symposium today while looking for something on the Getty Research Institute site. It is an Organization of American Historians (OAH) preconference concluding today in San Francisco. It is being held in conjunction with the Special Collections Library at California State University, Fresno, home of the Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, 1851-1940.
I wish I had known about this sooner, as world’s fairs are one of my pet research interests. Anyhow, if you are curious about what world’s fair researchers are studying, the World’s Fair Symposium site (linked above) has a list of presenters and paper topics. And, if you are interested in the history of collecting, the Getty Institute’s Events Related to Collecting page is a great resource for conferences, exhibitions and similar events in this field.
April 1st, 2005
This year’s Children’s Literature New England (CLNE) summer institute, “The Fairy Tale Belongs to the Poor“, will be held in Cambridge at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Neil Gaiman, Susan Cooper, Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes, and many other authors and experts will be speaking at this year’s institute. Unfortunately, since this institute about fairy tales does not belong to the poor, with registration at $1000, I will not be able to attend, but for anyone who may be interested, details about the institute and registration are available at the CLNE website.
I wonder if j will try to get Neil Gaiman to autograph her new copy of The Wolves in the Walls?
March 21st, 2005
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