Recreating Oz
Annual Convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club
Manhattan, Kansas – October 2-4, 2009
 About the Conference
The Program in Children’s Literature at Kansas State University is pleased to host the International Wizard of Oz Club’s Annual Convention, October 2-4, 2009. The convention will run conjunction with OZtoberFest in near-by Wamego, Kansas.
Featured Speaker: Mark West, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; author of Roald Dahl and Before Oz: Juvenile Fantasy Stories from Nineteenth-Century America.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for presentations of 15 minutes in length on “Recreating Oz.” Possible topics include:
- Adapting Oz for stage and screen
- Marketing and commemorating the Oz books
- Assembling the histories of Oz creators
- Teaching Oz
- Archiving Oz
- Re-reading the Oz books and earlier critical interpretations
- Re-imagining the world of Oz for contemporary audiences (Maguire’s Wicked, Stauffacher’s Harry Sue, the mini-series Tin Man, comics and graphic novels)
Send abstracts of 300-500 words as attachments to ozcon2009@ksu.edu by 20 April 2009.
More information
Information about the convention – including events, registration, housing, and transportation – will be available from <www.ksu.edu/english/programs/childlit/oz>.
For information about the International Wizard of Oz Club, visit <www.ozclub.org/>. For information about OZtoberFest, visit <www.oztoberfest.com/>.
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