Current Research in Children's and Young Adult Speculative Fiction Conference
CURRENT RESEARCH IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT SPECULATIVE FICTION
Wroclaw, 18 May 2014
Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture
Department of English Studies, Wroclaw University
9.00-9.10 Opening
9.10-10.40 Session One: Intertextuality and National Literatures
Chair: Terri Doughty
Daniel Hade (Pennsylvania State University, USA & Wroclaw University, Poland), Reworking Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”: Erdu’s Breadcrumbs and Disney’s Frozen
Magdalena Sikorska (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland), The Uses of Architecture in Shaun Tan’s Work
Dorota Michułka (Wroclaw University, Poland), Looking for Identity: Polish Children’s Fantasy Then and Now
10.40-10.55 Coffee Break
10.55-12.25 Session Two: Horror and Gothic in Literature and Film
Chair: Daniel Hade
Agata Zarzycka (Wroclaw University, Poland), “I’m So Not-Goth I’m Goth”: Approaching Authenticity through Goth-Inspired Tropes in Contemporary Young Adult Popular Culture
Chloe Buckley (Lancaster University, UK), Post-millennial Children’s Horror: Parody, Pastiche and the Re-enchantment of Gothic in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie
Małgorzata Drewniok (Southampton University, UK), Changing Identity on the Small Screen: Transformations, Vampires and Language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12.25-13.25 Lunch Break
13.25-15.25 Session Three: Language, Discourse, Conventions
Chair: Dorota Michułka
Mateusz Marecki (Wroclaw University, Poland), Scripts, Conceptual Metaphors and Cognitive Engagement: Making Sense of Motherhood in Lois Lowry’s Son
Marcin Rusnak (independent scholar), The Road Not Taken: Writing YA fiction in Poland and Its Potential, Dilemmas, and Challenges
Angelika Szopa (Wroclaw University, Poland), “It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done”: The Concept of Mythopoeic Fantasy as Reflected in Harry Potter Series
Jakub Krogulec, (Wroclaw University, Poland), Propaganda in Juvenile Speculative Fiction of the 1950s
15.25-15.40 Coffee Break
15.40 -17.40 Session 4: Dystopian/Utopian Texts
Chair: Magdalena Sikorska
Robert Gadowski (Wroclaw University, Poland), American Young Adult Dystopias: Under the Critical Eye of the Science of Memetics
Terri Doughty (Vancouver Island University, Canada), Putting the Punk in a Steampunk Cinderella: Marissa Meyer’s “Lunar Chronicles”
Aleksandra Bar (independent scholar) & Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (Wroclaw University, Poland), Towards an Animal Utopia: Isobelle Carmody’s The Obernetwyn Chronicles as Ecopedagogical Practice
Blanka Grzegorczyk (Philological School of Higher Education, Wroclaw, Poland), “I Know a Place Called Wrong-Is-Right”: Reversing Binary Oppositions in Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses Sequence
17.40-17.45 Closing