Ecologies of Childhood

The 2023 IRSCL Congress is supported by the University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford University, and the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL).

We are grateful to all of our UC Santa Barbara sponsors:

College of Letters and Sciences

Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts

Carsey-Wolf Center 

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC)

Center for Taiwan Studies

Summer Events and Entertainment Grant

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Academic Senate 

Multicultural Center

Graduate Center for Literary Research

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Comparative Literature Program

East Asia Center

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

Film and Media Studies

Literature and the Environment Research Center

Global Childhood Ecologies IHC Research Focus Group

Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion & Public Life

We express our gratitude for generous contributions from:

T.A. Barron Endowed Environmental Leadership Fund with special thanks to T. A Barron

George H. and Olive J. Griffiths Charitable Foundation

We are also grateful to the following institutional sponsors and sponsoring entities beyond UC Santa Barbara:

University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding 

UC Humanities Research Institute

Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies

Princeton University Cotsen Children's Library

Pomona College 

San Diego State University National Center for the Study of Children's Literature

For the Revisiting Island of the Blue Dolphins public humanities initiative, we wish to acknowledge the support of the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding and the UC Humanities Research Institute, as well as the UC Santa Barbara Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the George H. and Olive J. Griffiths Charitable Foundation.