Workshop 'Children's Literature Research Day on Time'
- For whom
- Employees , Private individuals , Students
- When
- 05-02-2025 from 13:00 to 17:00
- Where
- Auditorium 1 Jan Broeckx, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Department of Literary Studies - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
- Contact
- maaheen.ahmed@ugent.be
Talks by Aline Sax (historian and author), Jacob Jewusiak (University of Newcastle) and Suzanne van der Beek (University of Tilburg) as respondent.
Time is approached from different perspectives:
- The invited author Aline Sax is a historian and writes historical fiction. Sax is a research coordinator for ‘Het Geheugencollectief’, an organisation that carries out historical projects with public interest. The intersection between research and public interest also finds its way in her writing for young readers, which offers historical fictions that engage with current societal questions.
- Jacob Jewusiak treats temporality from the perspective of the environmental crisis. His book Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures engages with age studies, childhood studies and environmental humanities to challenge “the privilege of youth in ecocritical thought and practice, especially the heteronormative urgency to address climate change for the sake of children and future generations” (Jewusiak).
- The respondent from the University of Tilburg will frame these perspectives from the point of view of Childhood Studies