DIASPORA(S), EXILE, NOMADS, AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
The 20th Child and the Book Conference will be held on May 29-31 at the University of Crete, Greece.
This year’s conference seeks to address the intersections of diasporic, exilic, and nomadic identities, and children’s literature. This conference aims to bring together scholars, writers, artists, and students to foster a critical dialogue on how transnational mobility and the diasporic, exilic and nomadic communities it generates are (re)presented, (de)constructed, and (re)experienced within children’s and young adult literature across diverse cultural contexts. The conference will feature keynote lectures, panel discussions, roundtables on current research, contributing to the ongoing dialogue on this crucial issue.
A detailed agenda for the 2026 CBC will be available in due course on this page.
We invite paper, panel and roundtable submissions that engage with this multifaceted topic. The Call for Papers is now open (till December 30, 2025). Delegates will be notified of the results of the reviewing process by February 15, 2026.
For further inquiries, please contact cbc2026@uoc.gr
Chair and local host: Vassiliki Vassiloudi, University of Crete
Co-chair: Tzina Kalogirou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Location:
Gallos Campus, University of Crete, Rethymnon
