Conference Schedule

All events take place in the Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall. Coffee and snacks will be available before the conference and throughout the day in the English department lounge, 330 Wheeler Hall.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Coffee break
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Opening remarks
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Keynote address: "Creating a Literary Child: A Historical Context for the Children's Literature Canon," Paula Fass (UC Berkeley) Author of Children of a New World: Society, Culture, and Globalization (NYU Press, 2006)
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Intersecting Canons Anne Lundin (U Wisconsin-Madison), Maria Cecire (Keble College, Oxford), Martha Stoddard Holmes (CSU-San Marcos)
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Coffee break
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Children's Literature and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico Beatriz Alcubierre Moya and Rodrigo Bazán Bonfil (U Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico), Elena Jackson Albarrán (U Arizona)
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch break (see local information page for restaurants within walking distance of campus)
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	Transnationalism, Imperialism, Identity Emilie L. Bergmann (UC Berkeley), Tiffney Mortensen (CSU-Northridge), Monia Hejaiej (Sultan Qaboos U, Oman), Aaron Bady (UC Berkeley)
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Coffee break
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Emerging Canons Rebecca Fraimow (Stanford), Amelia Brown (CSU-San Marcos), Johanna Koljonen (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford)
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.	Closing remarks