Updated 10/23/2019. All panel sessions will be held in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71.
You may also watch Friday’s paper presentations via livestreaming, which starts at 9:00AM and ends at 5:00PM (Eastern Time), November 1.
URL: https://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/ (Password: Cotsen111)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31
4:00PM Welcome
4:15PM-6:00PM Agents of Transnationalism: Authors and Publishers
Chair: Emer O’Sullivan
Translating, Transforming, and Targeting Books for Children: Author and Publisher Morten Hallager as a Transnational Agent in Late Enlightenment Denmark (c. 1768-1803)
Charlotte Appel (Denmark)
Christian Felix Weiße’s Children’s Magazine Der Kinderfreund. Ein Wochenblatt (1775-82): Communication, Translation and Transformation
Ute Dettmar (Germany)
The Publisher Heinrich Friedrich Müller and His Impact on the Children’s Book Market in the Early Nineteenth Century
Carola Pohlmann (Germany)
6:00PM Reception
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
9:00AM-10:45AM Illustrations Crossing Borders
Chair: Andrea Immel
From Michaelmas-Day to Thanksgiving: The Transatlantic Transformation of “Poor Molly Goosey” Into “La Gansa Amorosa”
Laura Wasowicz (USA)
Children as Users and Producers of Narratives and Media Across Mid-Nineteenth Century Northern Europe: Translations of Karl Blumauer’s Die kleine Stella und ihre Puppe [1832] and Der kleine Robert und sein Steckenpferd [1833] into Danish and Dutch
Nina Christensen (Denmark)
Comenius in New York
Patricia Crain (USA)
10:45AM-11:15AM Break
11:15AM-12:25PM Transnational Publication Practice
Chair: Charlotte Appel
“It was a book with German letters!” International Encounters in Jewish Children’s Literature
Gabriele von Glasenapp (Germany)
Reprints, Piracies, Hibernicisations: Children’s Books and Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin Booksellers
Emer O’Sullivan (Germany)
12:25PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM-3:15PM Migrant Books
Chair: Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Going Global: Transnational Networks and the Spread of Cheap Print for Children
Matthew O. Grenby (UK)
Children and Popular Print in a Transnational Perspective: A State of the Discipline
Elisa Marazzi (Italy)
Girlhood as a Transnational Creation: An International Perspective on Dutch Girls’ Books (1750-1800)
Feike Dietz (The Netherlands)
3:15PM-3:30PM Break
3:30PM-4:40PM Colonial Agents of Transnationalism
Chair: Sara Pankenier Weld
The Travels of The Traveller: Children’s Literature Circulating in the Enslaved and Colonized Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
Courtney Weikle-Mills (USA)
Agency and the Children’s Crusade Against Slavery: 1791-1833
Lissa Paul (Canada)
4:45PM-5:15PM Discussion and Summing up Day 2
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
9:00AM-10:45AM Transnational Genres: Fairy Tales & Short Stories
Chair: Matthew O. Grenby
The Journey of “Lille Alvilde”
Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy and Janicke S. Kaasa (Norway)
The Grimm’s Children’s and Household Tales on Its Way to France in the Nineteenth Century
Natacha Rimasson-Fertin (France)
Of Mirrors, Mentors, and Models: The Tales of Catherine the Great in Transnational Context
Sara Pankenier Weld (USA)
10:45AM-11:15AM Break
11:15AM-12:25PM Agents of Transnationalism: Children
Chair: Lissa Paul
“Travel … is a Part of Education”: Children, Teachers, and Books on the Move
Jill Shefrin (Canada)
A World of Books: Global Thinking and Child Bookmakers
Karen Sánchez-Eppler (USA)
12:25PM-1:30PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30PM-2:40PM Transnational Genres: Fables
Chair: Nina Christensen
“Altering the Original Fables to Suit Chinese Notions”: A Case Study of Robert Thom’s Yishi yuyan 意拾喻言 (1840)
Limin Bai (New Zealand)
Transnational Readings in Fables: Animals in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Children’s Books
Noelia López-Souto (Spain)