Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton University is set to host a conference designed for librarians, teachers and illustrated children’s literature professionals in September.
Putting the Figure on the Map: Imagining Sameness and Difference for Children is scheduled for Sept. 11 through 13.
The interdisciplinary program about international illustrated children’s books, co-organized by Emer O’Sullivan and Andrea Immel, is set to draw on approaches in imagology, history, anthropology, psychology and literary criticism.
Conference presentations focus on modes of expression arising within or outside the classroom that either target children or appropriate discourses for them that create competing, complimentary or contradictory images of foreign nations and their peoples.
Presenters include Amanda Brian from Coastal Carolina University, Minjie Chen from Princeton University’s library, Nina Christensen from Aarhus University, Gabriele von Glasenapp from University of Cologne, Margaret R. Higonnet from University of Connecticut, Eric J. Johnson from Ohio State University, Cynthia Koepp from Wells College, Gillian Lathey from Roehampton University, Farah Mendlesohn from Anglia Ruskin University, Silke Meyer from University of Innsbruck, Setsuko Noguchi from Princeton University’s library, Emer O’Sullivan from Leuphana University, Lara Saguisag from CUNY-College of Staten Island, Martina Seifert from Lüneburg and Jill Shefrin from Trinity College, University of Toronto.
The program also features a workshop featuring primary resources from the Cotsen collection.
Registration is $25 for the general public. Admission for Princeton University students, faculty and staff is free. Registration is online.
The Cotsen Children’s Library is a unit within the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in Princeton’s Firestone Library. It is home to a collection of international historical illustrated children’s books, prints, manuscripts, original artwork and educational toys.
More information is onlune at princeton.edu/cotsen/research-collection/academic-conferences/imagining/
