Children’s Media Summer School

New Approaches and Research Methods

26. – 30.08.2025
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

The Summer School: New Approaches and Methods for Research in Children’s Media is aimed at students interested in Children’s and YA-media in Germany and abroad. Numerous lectures and workshops by international experts will provide new cultural studies perspectives on Children’s Media (e.g. Disability Studies and New Environmental Studies) with methods from the digital humanities. Excursions and meetings with staff from publishing houses and cultural institutions will introduce participants to the Rhine-Main region as a book and cultural region and provide opportunities for networking.

Meet our key note speakers

Discover how TV Shows are Produced

Workshops

26.08 | 5:30

How Illustrated Children’s Books are Created and Marketed

Thorben Kuhlmann & Herwig Bitsche

27.08 | 11:30

Analysing Video Games from a Cultural and Literary Studies’ Perspective

Dr. Timo Rouget

27.08 | 11:30

Reading the Reading. Potentials of Eye Tracking as a Digital Method for Close Reading of Multimodal Text Architecture

Dr. Ben Dammers

27.08 | 2:00

Creative Workshop on Audio-Book Production

Chris Kling

28.08 | 11:00

Reading With Robots

Julia Sander & Anke Vogel & Johannes Kraus

28.08 | 2:00

Creative Workshop
ILLUSTRATION

Dully & Dax

29.08 | 11:00

Theoretical Approaches on
Authorship in the Field of Children’s
and Young Adult Literature

Lena Hoffmann

29.08 | 11:00

Digital Approaches to Picture Book Analysis

Sebastian Schmideler