Children’s Book Publishing in the Russia-Ukraine War

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel addresses contemporary publishing of children’s books that reflect child experiences of the ongoing war from multiple perspectives. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who examine both publishers and authors’ production of children’s books on wartime conditions, combining literary and narrative analysis with publisher interviews. The panel has a transnational focus and includes perspectives from specialized children’s book publishers in Ukraine and Russia, together with diaspora authors at the North American book market.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 21st Century

Chair

• Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus U (Denmark)

Papers

• Publishing Russian Children’s Literature about War: From Glorification to Disbelief - Ekaterina Shatalova, Aarhus U (Denmark)

• The Russo-Ukrainian War and Stolen Children in Diasporic Children’s Literature - Mateusz Swietlicki, U of Wrocław (Poland)

• Publishers’ Perspectives on Ukrainian Children's Books about the Russian-Ukrainian War, 2014-2024 - Nadiia Pavlyk, Aarhus U (Denmark)

Discussant

• Anastasia Maria Ulanowicz, U of Florida