Results of the 2nd All-Russian National Scientific and Practical Conference, "Childrens' and teenagers' literature: approaches to analysis, reading practices, regional context of study," dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Tomsk State Pedogogical U.

On October 14–15, 2022, Tomsk State Pedagogical University organized the Second All-Russian National Scientific and Practical Conference, “Literature for children and teenagers: approaches to analysis, reading practices, regional context of the study,” dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The hybrid format of the conference brought together more than two hundred scholars, philologists, teachers, librarians, and publishers from different cities of Russia and Belarus. Two major directions of the conference were literature and methodology, with the thematic panorama of the conference papers giving an idea of the modern context and vectors of the children’s literature science development. The thematic review of the reports provides some evidence of the growing research interest in the phenomenon of a “silent book, prose miniatures, and the specifics of the genre of modern novels for children and teenagers. Also, in the field of pedagogy and methodology of children’s reading, in demand is studying new ways of working with the fiction text at school. The conference has become a space for developing solutions to problems in studying children’s and teenagers’ literature. This paper summarizes the results of the academic and educational event and presents the topics of the reports and the main directions of the dialogue among the participants.