CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS

Abstracts due by January 15, 2023

Date of Session:  March 19 - March 23, 2023

 

Location:  Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Harris Manchester College is one of the thirty-eight colleges that form the University of Oxford and was founded in 1786.

Paper Submission: You are invited and encouraged to make a presentation and to provide a paper on a relevant aspect of the topic, however, your participation as a member of the Round Table is not contingent thereon. Papers presented at the Round Table may be subsequently submitted for publication in the Forum on Public Policy, a journal of the International Round Table Symposium.

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Tours: We will provide a two hour walking tour of Oxford and a trip to Blenheim Palace

 

Topics of Interest will include but are not limited to:

 

Racial Literacy

• Racial Equities in your Library

• Diversity Style Guide

• Book Resources

• Picture Books for Children

• Youth as Agents of Change

• Grammar Associated with Racial Dis-Course

• Diversity in Literature

 

Literature

• Romantic Literature

• Teaching of Literature

• Folklore and Fairytales

• World Literature

• Tolkien and the Inklings

• Shakespeare

• Indigenous Literature

• Language and Literature

• New Writings

• Comparative Literature Studies

 

Children’s Literature (Kidlit)

• The Culture of Literacy

• Religion in Children’s Literature

• Magical Worlds

• Diversity in Literature

• Lewis Carroll

• Interracial Marriage in Children’s Lit

• Children’s Literature Innovations

• Harry Potter Controversy

• Lies vs. Storytelling

• C.S. Lewis

 

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