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YALSA Announces Slate for First-ever Young Adult Literature Symposium

Check out the program slate for YALSA's first-ever, biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium. The 2008 Young Adult Literature Symposium  will be in Nashville, Tenn. Nov. 7-9, 2008, with the theme of “How We Read Now.” The symposium is funded in part by the William C. Morris Endowment.

Download the preliminary program (PDF)!

The symposium will begin with a preconference focusing on illustrated materials for teens, including comic books, graphic novels, graphic nonfiction, manga and anime. Programs at the symposium will showcase a wide variety of topics within young adult literature and librarianship. They are:

  • Hit List or Hot List: How Teens Read Now, presented by Rosemary Chance and Teri Lesesne
  • Inside the Authors’ Studios: Award Winners Right Out of the Gate, presented by Lisa Wemett and Olivia Durant
  • Never Enough Nonfiction, presented by Pam Spencer Holley
  • Listening to Literature, presented by Sharon Grover and Francisca Goldsmith
  • Just Keepin’ It Real: Teens Reading Out of the Mainstream, presented by Rollie Welch
  • Reading: It’s Not Just about Books Anymore, presented by Linda Braun
  • Thrilling Young Adults: How to Keep the Attention of Today’s Teens, presented by Amy Alessio
  • Quickest of YALSA’s Quick Picks, presented by Diana Tixier Herald and Diane P. Monnier
  • Zine-a-Paloosa 2008: Teens and Zines!, presented by Julie Bartel
  • Explaining and Exploring Fandom, Fan Life, and Participatory Culture, presented by Liz Burns and Carlie Kraft Webber
  • Beyond the Rainbow Canon: Books for LGBT Teens, presented by Angie Miraflor and Daisy Porter
  • Books between Cultures, presented by Mitali Perkins
  • Connections: YA Literature and Curriculum, presented by Jane P. Fenn
  • Teen Readers' Advisory: How Research Informs Practice, presented by Jessica E. Moyer

Four papers will be presented as well:

  • Are You There God?  It’s Me, Manga: Manga as an Extension of Young Adult Literature (Lisa Goldstein and Molly Phelan)
  • The Age of Blank? Connecting YA Readers to Each Other and the World (Tom Philion)
  • Accept the Universal Freak Show: LGBTQ Themes in Contemporary YA Literature and Incorporating Them @ your library (Angie Manfredi)
  • Bullies, Gangs, and Books for Young Adults (Stan Steiner)