On September 11-13, 2013 (Wed-Fri), the Cotsen Children’s Library will host the conference: “Putting the Figure on the Map: Imagining Sameness and Difference for Children” on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton NJ.
This interdisciplinary program co-organized by Emer O’Sullivan and Cotsen Curator, Andrea Immel will draw on the approaches in imagology, history, anthropology, psychology, and literary criticism. It will focus on modes of expression arising within or without the classroom that either target children or appropriate discourses for them that create competing, complimentary, or contradictory images of foreign nations and their
peoples.
The program will also feature a workshop featuring primary resources from the Cotsen collection.
Registration is free to Princeton University students, faculty and staff; $25 for all others. You may register online at the conference site.
See below for the conference schedule.
For speaker biographies and abstracts,visit the conference website.
See the conference poster (in PDF format).
Conference Schedule:
Sept. 11 (Wed)
5:30-7:00 pm
Cotsen Children’s Library, Firestone Library
Reception
Sept. 12 (Thurs)
Rm 113 Friend Center, William Street
9:30 am
Registration and coffee
10:15 am
Welcome
10:30 am
Session 1: Ethnography on Display
Emer O’Sullivan “Picturing the World for Children: Early Nineteenth-Century Images of Foreign Nations”
Gillian Lathey “Figuring the World: Representing Children’s Encounters with Other Peoples and Cultures at the 1851 Great Exhibition”
Silke Meyer (via Skype) “Politics in the Children’s Perspective: National Stereotypes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prints”
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Session 2: Images Instrumentalized
Martina Seifert “Appropriating the Wild North: The Image of Canada and Its Exploitation in German Children’s Literature”
Lara Saguisag “Foreign Yet Familiar: Theorizing the Immigrant Child in Progressive Era Comic Strips, 1896-1912”
3:15-3:30 pm [break]
Amanda Brian “Civilizing Children and Animals in Lothar Meggendorfer’s Moveable Books”
Eric J. Johnson “Politicizing Childhood: Oncle Hansi and Alsatian Nationalism, 1912-1919”
Sept 13 (Fri)
Venue to be announced
10:00 am
Session 3: Internationalism, Pacifism, and Tolerance, I
Nina Christensen “Education to Tolerance: Citizens of the World in Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature of Today”
Cynthia Koepp “An Anthropologist Shows Children a World of Difference: The Pedagogical Imagination of Louis-François Jauffret”
Minjie Chen “Foreigners Not (Yet) in One Box: Discourse on Race and Foreign Nationals in Chinese Children’s Reading Materials, 1890-1920
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Session 4: Internationalism, Pacifism, and Tolerance, II
Farah Mendlesohn “National Characters, National Character: Children in Pacifist and Anti-Militaristic Publications for Children Between the Wars”
Gabriele von Glasenapp “Information or Exoticization?: Constructing Religious Difference in Children’s Non-Fiction”
Margaret R. Higonnet “No Child Is an Island”
3:30 pm
Session 5: Primary Materials Workshop
Cotsen Children’s Library, Firestone Library
Jill Shefrin “Pictures for Tarry-at-home Travellers”
Setsuko Noguchi “Around the World in One Game: Japanese Picture Sugoroku”
5:00 pm
Closing words
For more information, please contact Andrea Immel, Cotsen Curator.
