Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (AF)

Mangalore, Jan 10: St Aloysius College here will host a three-day international conference on 'Politics and Polemics in Children's Literature' from Thursday January 10, stated a press release.

The conference will be organized under the aegis of Children's Literature Association of India.

Eminent children's writer Deepa Agarwal will inaugurate the conference and will also deliver a talk on 'Negotiating the Maze - A Journey through Politics and Polemics of Indian Children's Literature.'

The conference aims to create better understanding of children's literature. As many as 35 delegates from the USA, England, Thailand, Iran, Sri Lanka, Philippines and India are expected to submit papers on various subjects related to politics of children's literature.

Some of the delegates who will present papers during the conference are Jean Webb, professor of International Children's Literature, University of Worcester, Ellen Handler, professor of visual arts, Spitz Honors College of the University of Maryland, USA, and Rachel Johnson, an international critic on children's books.

Addressing a press meet, Prof Lourdusamy, head of the department of English, St Aloysius College, said that the International Children's Society for Children's Literature will organize its next board meeting at the college in September. There are also plans to hold an international syposium on children's literature in New Delhi in the future, he added.