CHRONICLE OF THE MEETINGS OF THE “CHILDREN’S SEMINAR” AS A MIRROR OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE RESEARCH

Abstract

The research “Children’s Seminar” has been held since 2012 once a month. The organizers of the seminar are the staff of the Center for Children’s Literature Research at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Svetlana Maslinskaya, Inna Sergienko, Anna Dimianenko and Olga Luchkina. The seminar sessions discuss a wide range of issues related to modern methods and directions of studying children’s literature (canon studies, propaganda, taboo, gender, etc.), examined on a variety of materials: Soviet children’s literature, children’s cinema, children’s periodicals, educational books, children’s writers, the interaction of national literatures, criticism of children’s literature. The key feature of the seminar is its interdisciplinary nature and a wide international audience of listeners and participants.

Keywords: Children’s Seminar, Pushkin House, children’s literature, children’s reading, interdisciplinarity, childhood studies