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.
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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