Diversity and children's museums: (June 22, 2023)

The line-up for the Book and Print Initiative (BPI), 

School of Advanced Study, 

University of London, 

for Term 3 2022/23. 

BPI offers informal discussions about all aspects of print and book research, highlighting projects at the School of Advanced Study and Senate House collections. All lunchtime talks are free and take place Thursdays, 1-2pm (UK), on Zoom. Please RSVP at bit.ly/BookAndPrint.

Book and Print Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Term 3, 2022/34

22 June 2023

Dr Devika Mehra, IPE Fellow, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study

Diversity and children's museums: Tapping the potential of children's archives, prize lists, and museum practices

In recent years there has been a surge in interest in children's archives, specially curated exhibitions and prize culture, and their association with diversity and inclusion. What is the role of museum practices, archival research, and prize culture in addressing questions of diversity and inclusion in children's literature? In this talk, I will investigate the impact of museum practices and archival research at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books (UK) and Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Germany) in creating awareness about diversity in children's literature. I will consider the intersection between archival research and the participatory practice of creating toolkits and curating exhibitions as essential alternative knowledge production modes that amplify ongoing discussions on diversity and historically minoritised voices in children's literature scholarship. I will explore how prize catalogues such as The White Ravens, published annually by Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Germany), influence the global discourse on diversity in international children's and youth literature through its typologies and categorisation.

Sign up: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/diversity-and-childrens-museums-tapping-potential-childrens-archives-prize-lists-and-museum

POC:  SAS Libraries | School of Advanced Study

 Dr Elizabeth Savage FSA FRHistS Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications

PI, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant: Fladerpapier: Art, Craft, and the Earliest Mass-Produced Wallpaper in the West

Co-Director, Book and Print Initiative Moderator, Blocks Plates Stones listerv

School of Advanced Study, University of London

Senate House, Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU

20% off with the code AFL01 until 30 June 2023: Elizabeth Savage/Linda Stiber Morenus, ‘Pre-Industrial Printing Inks, c.1450–1850’, in Conservation of Books, ed. Abigail Bainbridge, Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology