Current/ Upcoming Projects

Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Choir, performance by a 100 voice children’s choir for the Junction Arts Festival (JAF), Launceton Australia. Verrall, K. Co-Producer. Big Pond Small Fish. Sept. 2013.

Childhood, Spaces, and Picture Book Memoirs. Verrall, K. and Jeffrey Canton. June 2013. Conference paper for The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth University of Nottingham, UK.

Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir Video Sessions, Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal. March 14-24, 2013. Verrall, K, producer, director Bill Burns, choral director Alan Gasser. Choristers: Jessica, Diane, Ousema, Emma, Maddy, Emily, Lochlann (off camera). Canada, 2011-2012, colour, 6min, sound.

Childhood Undone: Four Contemporary Art Projects with Children Verral, K. 2012. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 4, 2: 87-106.

Beyond Parochialism: Telling Tales about Black Activism and Conceptual Art. Verrall, K. Nov. 2012. Black Canada: Culture, Memory and Resistance Panel. Paper presented at Congrès AAUC 2012 UAAC Conference, Université Concordia / Concordia University, Montreal.

Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Choir, LP Release. Verrall, K. Record producer. Big Pond Small Fish. Sept. 2012.

Nu You and Seventeen: Chinese and North American Teen Magazines. Verrall, K. (with Na Li). June 2012. Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference. Race and Media Subfield. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.

The Meaning of Difference. A conference presentation in May 2012 for the Joint Session of Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) and Association of Canadian College and University Teachers (ACCUTE) annual meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.

Current Teaching

For 2011-2012 courses in Children’s Studies click course codes

4142B4140A and 1970B

“Entire family identities are built around photographs,” Anne Higonnet, 1998.