Lecture No. 28 | February, 25 2025
Prof. Evelyn Arizpe
(University of Glasgow, Scotland)
‘Fragments of Utopias’: The Act of Reading in Picturebooks about Libraries

Lecture No. 29 | April 8, 2025
Prof. Jennifer Mooney
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
‘Lad’- dishness in Contemporary Irish YA Fiction

Lecture No. 30 | May, 20 2025
Prof. Elly McCausland
(University of Gent, Belgium)
’No one wants to read about a barnacle’: Reframing ‘uncharismatic’ marine life in children’s literature

Lecture No. 25 | October 16, 2024
Prof. Philip Nel
(Kansas State University, USA)
Getting Personal: Unlearning Objectivity, Anti-Racism, and Stories We Love

Lecture No. 25 | December 2, 2024
Prof. Vanessa Joosen
(University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Writing When Young: Adolescent Published Authors of Children’s Books

Lecture No. 27 | January 30, 2025
Prof. Sara Pankenier Weld
(University of California, USA)
Tolstoy as Teacher, Children’s Writer, and Childhood Studies Pioneer

Lecture No. 19 | December 13, 2023
Prof. Smiljana Narančić Kovač
(University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Why We Always Read Them Again and Other Related Issues: a Semiotic Model of the Picturebook

Lecture No. 20 | January 17, 2024
Prof. Krystyna Zabawa
(Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Children’s Poetry as a Challenge and a Cultural Phenomenon

Lecture No. 21 | March 14, 2024
Dr Ryan Bunch
(Temple University, USA)
Performing the American Fairy Tale: Musicals, Childhood, and The Wizard of Oz

Lecture No. 16 | April 12, 2023
Prof. Kenneth Kidd
(University of Florida, USA)
F is for Florida: Politics and Children’s Literature in the Sunshine State

Lecture No. 17 | May 24, 2023
Gareth Osborne
(Uniwersytet w Cardiff, UK) 
Immersive story worlds as participatory research arenas with children

Lecture No. 18 | June 21, 2023
Prof. Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska
(University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Niflheim and Muspelheim: Children’s Literature of the North and of the South

Lecture No. 13 | November 28, 2022
Dr Anežka Kuzmičova
(Uniwersytet Karola w Pradze, Czechy)
Children’s Perspectives on Becoming Absorbed in Stories

Lecture No. 14 | January 13, 2023
Dr Emily Murphy
(Newcastle University, UK)
Tangled Voices/Hidden Lives: Methodological Possibilities in the Children’s Archive

Lecture No. 15 | March 15, 2023
Dr Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna
(Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu)
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Polish Illustrations (Not) So Different, So Appealing

Lecture No. 10 | May 11, 2022
Prof. Nicola Daly
(Waikato University, New Zeland)
Children’s Literature in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Focus on Language

Lecture No. 11 | June 29, 2022
Prof. Małgorzata Drewniok
(Lancaster University, UK)
What Can Stylistic Approach Add to Analysing Texts Across Media?

Lecture No. 12 | October 24, 2022
Prof. Virginie Iché
(Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, France)
From Metaphorical to Literal Door-openings in Children’s Literature

Lecture No. 7 | January 19, 2022
Prof. Elisabeth Wesseling
(Maastricht University, Holland)
Mermaidology: Twenty-first Century Perspectives

Lecture No. 8 | February 23, 2022
Prof. Marek Oziewicz
(University of Minnesota, USA)
Creating Universal Climate Literacy with Children’s Literature and Media

Lecture No. 9 | April 28, 2022
Prof. Macarena García-González
(Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Towards an Affective Childist Literary Criticism

Lecture No. 4 | October 13, 2021
Prof. Ana Margarida Ramos
(University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Innovation and Experimentation in Portuguese Picturebooks

Lecture No. 5 | December 1, 2021
Prof. Marnie Campagnaro
(University of Padua, Italy)
Architecture and Interior Design in Picturebook

Lecture No. 6 | December 8, 2021
Prof. Anastasia Ulanowicz
(University of Florida, USA)
Bloodlands Fiction

Lecture No. 1 | March 10, 2021
Prof. Marina Balina
(Illinois Wesleyan University, USA)
Writing Ancient History as “Oppositional Enlightenment”: On Historical Novels in Soviet Children’s Literature of the 1960s–1970s

Lecture No. 2 | April 21, 2021
Prof. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
(Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany)
Children’s Films and the Avant-garde

Lecture No. 3 | May 26, 2021
Prof. Monika Woźniak
(University of Rome „La Sapienza”, Italy)
Fanfiction and YA Literature in Poland: A Foray into (Mostly) Uncharted Territory