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Sneak Peek!  Join us for the Summit​ ​on​ ​the​ ​Research​ ​and​ ​Teaching​ ​of​ ​Young​ ​Adult​ ​Literature!

2/23/2022

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All right--if you just want to cut to the chase and register, you will need to cool your jets and wait until next week.  Our registration link will post March 2, 2022. For those of you waiting on proposal decisions, stay tuned--you will hear from us soon. For those of you who need further coaxing to register, today’s post is a shameless plug  and sneak peek for the UNLV Summit​ ​on​ ​the​ ​Research​ ​and​ ​Teaching​ ​of​ ​Young​ ​Adult​ ​Literature. Titled Books, Classrooms, Communities: Young Adult Literature as a Lifeline, the Summit will focus on the ways our lives have changed post-COVID-19 and the ways that books come to our aid. We will feature Brandy Colbert, Varian Johnson, and Malinda Lo along with Ashley Hope Pérez, Brendan Kiely, and Alexandra Villasante, who will help us consider how we can use Young Adult literature as we navigate these challenges.  
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Pam Allyn (2020) acknowledges our students’ “significant challenges and traumas,” stating that reading is a “lifeline,” “help[ing] all students feel a sense of belonging, to feel less alone, and to work on their journeys of becoming passionate, thoughtful, curious people in the world in spite of the challenges these days have brought to them.”  Allyn also affirms that reading can bring that sense of community to “all of us...who care for and love the children we serve. Reading, and stories themselves, are a lifeline for all of us.”

At the summit, English educators, practicing teachers, teacher consultants, and librarians will discuss how YA literature can bring ourselves, our students, our colleagues, our communities, to a healthier place.  After all, YA books help our marginalized students find safety, purpose, and agency. We know that books save lives.
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There are ways that books as lifelines are being questioned.  As articulated a few weeks ago on YA Wednesday, our newsfeeds are barbed wires instead of lifelines, populated with angry parents challenging books that each of us have come to value and love--books that have saved our students’ lives.

However, 
Meg Medina, the 2019 Summit’s keynote, wrote, “Stop the Madness: Banning Books is Not the Answer'' on censorship: 

To pull books from a school library because of the discomfort they create in adults is a recipe for disaster. It erodes the trust young people have in the adults in their lives and pushes them to secrecy. It undermines the studied opinion of professional librarians and educators. It supports a false idea that there is one version of life that is acceptable. And, it denigrates the work of authors who are brave enough to name experiences that are difficult and real.

Ashley Hope Perez, a keynote speaker at the 2020 UNLV Summit has aptly warned us that “attacks on books are proxy wars against people that some wish didn’t exist.”  Laurie Halse Anderson, a keynote speaker at the 2018 UNLV Summit, has stated,“Censorship is the child of fear, and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them. They need us to be brave enough to give them great books so that they can grow into the strong women and men that we need them to be.”
With that hope, join us to think about books as lifelines.  We will discuss how our classroom libraries can be lifeline threads, reaching out to students both inside and outside the margins.  We will consider how administrators can be encouraged to see YA literature as a lifeline. We will  connect you with authors, colleagues, policies, and communities that will strengthen your advocacy and resolve.
This year the conference will be online one day and in person two days.  

Day one (virtual) will focus on empirical or conceptual research in the field.

Days two and three (in person) will employ a practitioner focus. 

Those participating in all three days are welcome to attend with us in Las Vegas in person on the first day.​ 

We are eager for you to join us in Vegas so that we can collaborate and discuss ​the​ ​state and value​ ​of​ ​YA​ ​literature.​ ​See you in June!

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    Gretchen Rumohr is a professor of English and department chair at Aquinas College, where she teaches writing and language arts methods.   She is also a Co-Director of the UNLV Summit on the Research and Teaching of Young Adult Literature. She lives with her four girls and a five-pound Yorkshire Terrier in west Michigan.

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    Dr. Bickmore is a Professor of English Education at UNLV. He is a scholar of Young Adult Literature and past editor of The ALAN Review and a past president of ALAN. He is a available for speaking engagements at schools, conferences, book festivals, and parent organizations. More information can be found on the Contact page and the About page.

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