7th International Conference Scientific Reflections in Slavistics:
Studying children’s and YA literature
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literature in cooperation with the Maribor Slavistics Association invite you to the 7th International Conference Scientific Reflections in Slavistics on the topic of studying children’s and YA literature, which will take place on 16 and 17 May 2024 at the University of Maribor Faculty of Arts.
The conference opening session will be held on Thursday 16 May 2024 at 08.45 at the Faculty of Arts (lecture room 0.2). Speakers at the opening will be representative of the Faculty of Arts UM prof. Gorazd Bajc, PhD, vice-dean for scientific research and postgraduate studies, assoc. prof. Blanka Bošnjak, Head of Department for Slavic Languages and Literature, assoc. prof. Mira Krajnc Ivič, PhD, President of the Slavic Association Maribor, Feri Lainšček, writer, Vesna Radovanovič, storyteller and writer.
Studying children’s and YA (young adult) literature
The symposium will address three different issues which are relatively complete in their own right and at the same time also interdependent: (1) terminological questions linked to children’s and YA literature: thematology, literary types and forms of reading materials, literary canonisation, intertextuality; (2) evaluating children’s and YA literature, the basic criteria; (3) theories of reading development and reading: addressee age or the development of reading literacy skills of young readers; the criteria of text length and number of different words in the text (connected with components of reading literacy, especially those of vocabulary, text understanding, and critical reading). There have been significant changes over recent years, not only in Slovenia, in how literary works for children and young adults are created, designed, published and evaluated. The reading development of children, pupils and students is studied by various disciplines, and it is therefore appropriate for all these experts to collaborate in developing high-quality reading recommendations for children’s and YA fiction and informative literature for various age groups in all learning situations (at a formal, non-formal, or informal level), taking into account the principles of literary history, literary theory, and literary reception.
The symposium will address the following question:
- defining the terms children’s literature – youth literature – young adult literature,
- literary types in children’s and YA literature,
- literary genres and genre syncretism,
- forms of books: picture books (also picture books without texts), comics, illustrated books, books without illustrations,
- multimodality,
- language in children’s and YA literature,
- the criteria of quality in various selections (awards, school reading, leisure reading),
- age groups and reading abilities, comprehension of and response to what is being read,
- the didactics of children’s and YA literature.
Important dates
- 4th March 2024 Submission deadline for the paper title and the abstract
- 15th March2024 Notification of acceptance
- 19th April 2024 The registration fee payment deadline for participants with paper
- 12th May 2024 The registration fee payment deadline for participants without paper
- 16th, 17th May 2024 The conference
- 3rd July 2024 Submission deadline for the paper for the monograph
Important information
- Conference participants book and pay for accommodation and travel expenses themselves.
- Peer-reviewed papers will be published in a scientific monograph after the conference.
- Time for the presentation of the paper with discussion will be limited to 15 minutes.
- The working languages of the conference are all Slavic languages and English.
Scientific monograph
One of the conference results will be a scientific monograph, which is expected to be published in the second half of 2024.
Contributions for the monograph are to be submitted by July 3rd 2024 to the e-mail address: dragica.haramija@um.si.
When preparing your contribution, please make sure to follow the template available here.
Registration
Register for the conference using this form.
For active participants, please send your abstracts to dragica.haramija@um.si.
Please provide the following information:
- the title of your contribution in one of the Slavic languages and in English,
- your name and surname,
- title and address of your institution,
- your e-mail address.
If there are several authors, please provide the same information for all co-authors as well. Along with the registration the paper the abstract needs to be submitted as an attachment to an e-mail. It should be up to 500 words long and written in one of the Slavic languages, as well as in English.
Registration fee
The registration fee is 40 EUR, and includes the costs of editing and publishing the book of abstracts and the scientific monograph. Meals are self-paid.
The transfer details are as follows:
Slavistično društvo Maribor
Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor
IBAN: SI56 0417 3000 0849 041
BIC or SWIFT CODE, Nova KBM: KBMASI2X
Purpose code: OTHR
Purpose of payment: Kotizacija SZP 7 2024
Reference: SI99
Ref: 07-2024
Amount of: 40,00 EUR
Program committee
Head of the conference:
Prof. Dragica Haramija, PhD, University of Maribor, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts
Organising committee
Prof. Dragica Haramija, PhD, University of Maribor, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts, Department for Slavic Languages and Literature
Assoc. Prof. Blanka Bošnjak, University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Head of Department for Slavic Languages and Literature
Assoc. Prof. Mira Krajnc Ivič, PhD, University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Department for Slavic Languages and Literature, President of the Slavic Association Maribor
International Programme committee
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Baloh, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Primorska
Prof. Milena Mileva Blažić, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
Prof. Jožica Čeh Steger, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Mariboru
Milutin Đuričković, PhD, Institute for Children’s Literature Beograd
Assoc. Prof. Marina Gabelica, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Prof. Monika Gawlak, PhD, Faculty of Humanities, University of Katowice
Prof. Metka Kordigel Aberšek, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Maribor
Prof. Andrijana Kos-Lajtman, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education (Čakovec), University of Zagreb
Assist. Prof. Irena Krumes, PhD, The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Slavonski Brod
Assoc. Prof. Gjoko Nikolovski, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Mariboru
Prof. Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Assist. Prof. Simona Pulko, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor
Prof. Daliborka Purić, PhD, Faculty of Education (Užice), Univerza v Kragujevcu
Prof. Igor Saksida, PhD, Facutly of Education, University of Ljubljana and University of in Primorska
Prof. Polona Vilar, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Prof. Diana Zalar, PhD, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Assoc. Prof. Melita Zemljak Jontes, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Mariboru
Assist. prof. Barbara Zorman, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Primorska
Prof. Alenka Žbogar, PhD, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
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