PROGRAMME
Monday 20 August
Tuesday 21 August
Wednesday 22 August
Thursday 23 August
Friday 24 August MONDAY 20 AUGUST
Registration throughout the day
09:00-16:00 Children’s literature: pure and
applied: workshop presented by the Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
(ChiLPA-project), for the African delegates of the IRSCL Conference.
Programme:
18:30 Welcome under the Southern skies: opening
cocktail party
(Presentation of IRSCL Awards)
TUESDAY 21 AUGUST
07:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:00 Plenary session
Venue: Kariba
Chair:
Sandra Beckett
Rod McGillis, Calgary
University, Canada
"Captain Underpants is My Hero": Things
have changed
Abstract
Paper
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 1 Theme 1: Continuity and renewal
Venue: Kariba
Chair: John Stephens
10:30-11:00 Clare Bradford, Deakin University,
Burwood,
Australia
When everything old is new again: Aboriginal
texts
and the politics of renewal
Abstract
Paper
11:00-11:30 Elaine Ridge, University of Stellenbosch, South
Africa
The role of remembering in change and renewal
Abstract
11:30-12:00 Anna Skyggebjerg, Danish University of
Education, Copenhagen, Denmark
Continuity and change in the fantasy tale – with a
focus on
recent Danish works
Abstract
10:30-12:00 Session 1 Theme 2: Into the 21st Century
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Kimberley Reynolds
10:30-11:00 Nancy Huse, Augustana College, Rock Island, Il.,
USA
Too many elephants? Endangered discourses in
a
globalized children’s literature
Abstract
Paper
11:00-11:30 Betsie van der Westhuizen, Potchefstroom
University for
CHE, South Africa
Polysystem theory and the advancement of
children’s literature
in South Africa
Abstract
Paper
11:30-12:00 Wang Quangen, Beijing Normal University, China
Thinking of the 21st century
children’s literature
Abstract
10:30-12:00 Session 1 Theme 3: Renewing the classics
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: Emer O'Sullivan
10:30-11:00 Klaus Doderer, Darmstadt, Germany
Change and renewal of a famous German classic
Abstract
11:00-11:30 Rolf Romören, Agder College, Kristiansand,
Norway
Changing perspectives: Tarzan recalled and
retold at the turn of the
Millennium
Abstract
11:30-12:00 David Rudd, Bolton Institute, London
Blytons, Noddies and Denoddification
centres:
the
changing constructions of a cultural icon
Abstract
Paper
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session 2 Theme 1: Political values and
artistic freedom
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Klaus Doderer
13:00-13:30 Celia Keenan, St Patrick’s College,
Drumcondra,
Dublin, Ireland
Conflict and change in Northern Ireland in
children’s literature
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Eva-Maria Metcalf, University of Mississippi, USA
Childhood and democracy in Postwar German
literature
Abstract
14:00-14:30 Janina Orlov, Åbo Akademi University,
Turku,
Finland
Myth making and deconstruction: revolution,
perestroika and Russian children's literature
Abstract
13:00-14:00 Session 2 Theme 2: Another perspective
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer
13:00-13:30 Ulla Pedersen, Helsinki University, Finland
Encounters in another time and space: language
learning in the novel Hästen hemma (1991) by
the Finland Swedish author Irmelin
Sandman
Lilius
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Maria Lassén-Seger, Åbo Akademi University,
Turku,
Finland
Exploring otherness: animal metamorphosis of
the
fictive child
Abstract
Paper
13:00-14:30 Session 2 Theme 3: Retelling traditional and
literary fairy
tales
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: Joan Glazer
13:00-13:30 Sandra Beckett, Brock University, St.
Catharines,
Canada
Playing metafictively with Little Red Riding Hood
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Valerie Coghlan, Church of Ireland College of
Education,
Dublin, Ireland
An enduring myth: making an old story new in
modern
Ireland
Abstract
Paper
14:00-14:30 Helene Høyrup, Danmarks Biblioteksskole,
Aalborg,
Denmark
Patterns of intertextuality: Hans Christian
Andersen
as a strong precursor in Scandinavian
children’s literature
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Session 3 Theme 1: Changing perspectives
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Judith Inggs
15:00-15:30 Heidy-Margrit Müller, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels,
Belgium
Cultural encounters and changing ethical values in
topical German, Flemish and French youth
literature
Abstract
15:30-16:00 Stephen Finn, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Not taking the Mickey: the appropriation of the
picture book to reflect the Holocaust
Abstract
16:00-16:30 Winfred Kaminski, Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Germany
From the literature of the "Gastarbeiters"
to
migrant’s literature for young readers: a change
in perspectives
Abstract
15:00-16:30 Session 3 Theme 2: Images of the
child
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Margot Hillel
15:00-15:30 Osazee Fayose, University of Ghana, Legon,
Ghana
Images of childhood in West African
children’s
literature
Abstract
15:30-14:00 Diana Hodge, Deakin University, Melbourne,
Australia
Childhood, sex and power
Abstract
14:00-14:30 Senait Melaku, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Gender portrayal in traditional and modern
Ethiopian
children’s story books
15:00-17:00 Session 3 Theme 3: Animal-human/
Human-animal relationships
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: Meena Khorana
15:00-15:12 Meena Khorana, Morgan State University,
Baltimore,
USA
Introduction
Abstract
15:12-15:24 Elwyn Jenkins, Vista University, Pretoria, South
Africa
Talking-animal stories in South Africa
Abstract
Paper
15:24-15:36 Darja Mazi-Leskovar, University of Maribor,
Slovenia
Parallel realms: crossing and re-crossing the
animal-human boundary
Abstract
15:36-15:48 Junko Yoshida, Hiroshima University, Japan
Animal-human cyborgs in Japanese and
English-language children’s literature
Abstract
15:48-16:00 Margarita Slavova, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Primitive point of view, or How the sparrows see
us
Abstract
16:00-16:40 Concurrent interactive workshops led by Elwyn
Jenkins,
Darja Mazi-Lskovar, Junko Yoshida and
Margarita Slavova
16:40-17:00 Regrouping for reports from workshops
18:00-19:30 Sunset soirée: meet South African
authors
and illustrators
Informal al fresco gathering at the restaurant. Bring
your
drinks for book launches, chats and multi-media
presentations
Programme
20:00- Dinner: Gcina Mhlophe’s stories by firelight with
blackpot cuisine
WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST
07:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:00 Plenary session
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Anne de Vries
Marita de Sterck, Flemish author, Belgium
Listening to initiation stories: how ritual storytelling can promote
change and renewal in individuals and groups
Abstract
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Session 4 Theme 1: Social and ethical
issues
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Stephen Finn
10:30-11:00 Eileen Donaldson, University of Pretoria, South
Africa
Roald Dahl’s reconstruction of the family
through
magic
Abstract
11:00-11:30 Andreé-Jeanne Tötemeyer, Windhoek, Namibia
The realms of light and darkness in
Hänsel,
Hobbit
and Harry: mugg(dd)led reader
perceptions?
Paper
10:30-12:00 Session 4 Theme 2: From body to story in
picture books
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Rolf Romoren
10:30-11:00 Cleo Protokhristova, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
The sense of an ending in a changing context:
axiologies of storytelling and the Postgutenberg
condition
Abstract
11:00-11:30 Rosemary Johnston, University of Technology,
Sydney,
Australia
Renewing stories of childhood: children’s
literature as creative art
11:30-12:00 Sirke Happonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
“Never lonely,
always on the go”: The
merry-go-round as an ambiguous movement
pattern, in
text and illustration, in Tove Jansson’s
short story “The Hemulen Who
Loved Silence”
Abstract
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session 5 Theme 1: Up for grabs: images of
childhood in a
commercial culture and their
interactions with children’s literature
Venue: Kariba
Chairs: Kimberley Reynolds, University of Surrey, and Nicholas
Tucker,
UK
Please see the presenters in advance if you would
like to attend this session
Open forum:proposal
Message by presenters
13:00-14:30 Session 5 Theme 2: Functions of Young
Adult fiction
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Rod McGillis
13:00-13:30 John Stephens, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia
Making it wry: transformations of the YA genre
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Sharon Pearce, Queensland University of
Technology,
Australia
Re-writing Holden: The portrayal of teenagers in
recent Australian adolescent literature
14:00-14:30 Lilian Rönnqvist, Åbo Akademi University,
Turku,
Finland
Familiarizing the alien: young adult fiction in the
EFL-classroom
Abstract
Paper
13:00-14:00 Session 5 Theme 3: Society and modernity
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: David Rudd
13:00-13:30 Emma Yarrow, Butterworths, Australia
The changing conception of public and private in
Arthurian retellings for children
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Mary Shine Thompson, St Patrick’s College,
Dublin,
Ireland
Oscar Wilde’s child audience
Abstract
Paper
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 Session 6 Theme 1: Cross dressing,
subversion and power
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Elwyn Jenkins
15:00-15:30 Victoria Flanagan, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia
Me, myself and him: female cross-dressing,
gender
and subjectivity in contemporary
children’s literature
Abstract
15:30-16:00 Mia Österlund, Åbo Akademi University,
Turku,
Finland
The threshold of the text: a study of the covers of
cross-dressing
Abstract
15:00-16:00 Session 6 Theme 2: Universals
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Clare Bradford
15:00-15:30 Anne de Vries, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
The beginning of all poetry: some observations
about
lullabies from oral traditions
Abstract
15:30-16:00 Emer O’Sullivan, Johann Wolfgang Goëthe
Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Comparing children’s literature
16:00-17:30 General Membership Meeting
Venue: Kariba
18:00-20:00 Sunset soirée: meet South African
authors
and illustrators
Informal al fresco gathering at restaurant. Bring your
drinks for book launches, chats and multi-media
presentations
Programme
20:00- Bushveld braai with marimba magic
THURSDAY 23 AUGUST
07:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:00 Plenary session
Venue: Kariba
Riana Scheepers, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Chair: Thomas van der Walt
Fantasy and social realism: the perfect paradox - or not?
Abstract
Paper
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session 7 Theme 1: Image of the child
and
young adult
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Myrna Machet
10:30-11:00 Judith Inggs, University of the
Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
The changing construct of the child in
contemporary
South African English children’s
fiction
11:00-11:30 Margot Hillel, Australian Catholic University,
Melbourne, Australia
Contents may offend some readers:
the
eroticised child in Australian children’s literature
11:30-12:00 Junko Yoshida, Hiroshima University,
Japan
A search for a new narrative of manhood in
Myers's Fallen Angel
10:30-12:00 Session 7 Theme 2: New
directions/emerging literatures
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Rosemary Johnstone
10:30-11:00 Murti Bunanta, Society for the Advancement of
Children’s Literature, Jakarta, Indonesia
Social practice and children’s literature
11:00-11:30 Liu Xian Ping and Li Zheng Yin, Anhui Writers’
Association, Anhui, China
The development of modern Chinese
children’s literature
11:30-12:00 Tan Yuanheng, South China University of
Technology,
Guangzhou, China
Chinese children’s literature awakened in a new
era
Abstract
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session 8 Theme 1: Character and
social
practice
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Eva-Maria Metcalf
13:00-13:30 Ulf Boëthius, Uppsala, Sweden
'You should live perilous’: youth,
modernity and
fascism in Swedish science fiction from the
1930s
13:30-14:00 Katia Pizzi, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Birth of a nation: the national question in
Vamba’s Giornalino della Domenica
(1906-11)
Abstract
Paper
14:00-14:30 Anna Onichimowska, Warsaw, Poland
Polish children's literature: books and authors
13:00-14:00 Session 8 Theme 2: Young readers and
writers
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Osazee Fayose
13:00-13:30 Pamela Ngugi, Kenyatta University, Nairobi,
Kenya
The making of young literary readers in Kenya
Abstract
13:30-14:00 Hea-Soog Jo, Pusan University, Korea
The effects of peer-collaboration on young
children's
story making
13:00-14:00 Session 8 Theme 3: Cultural encounters in
picture books
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: Valerie Coghlan
13:00-13:30 Joan Glazer, Rhode Island College, USA
Recent American picture books with
sub-Saharan
African settings
13:30-14:00 Ingrid Johnston & Jyoti Mangat, University of
Alberta, Calgary, Canada
Cultural encounters in the liminal spaces of
Canadian picture books
Abstract
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 Session 9 Theme 1: Cultural
encounters
through translation
Venue: Kariba
Chair: Murti Bunanta
15:00-15:30 Riitta Oittinen, University of Tampere, Finland
The verbal and the visual in translating for
children
Abstract
15:30-16:00 Yvonne Bertills, Åbo Akademi University, Turku,
Finland
What is in a name? - cultural encounters through
translations. Aspects on the translations of proper
names in fantasy books
15:00-16:00 Session 9 Theme 2: Character and social
practice
Venue: Dassie
Chair: Celia Keenan
15:00-15:30 Jo Coward, University of South Australia
‘There has never been a cooler time to
read
children’s literature’
Abstract
15:30-16:00 Maritha Snyman, University of Pretoria, South
Africa
Series books: exhibitions of societal change
15:00-16:30 Session 9 Theme 3: The watering hole: a
gathering of resources in
children’s
literature – talks and walk-through poster
sessions
Venue: Bosveld
Chair: Nancy Huse
Derek Nkata, Masindi, Uganda
Continuity and change in storytelling:
children’s stories in
Uganda’s past and present
Katie Day, Vietnam
Vietnamese children's literature
Véronique Tadjo, Ivory Coast/South Africa
Books
for children in Côte d'Ivoire: a personal and
general experience.
Zhang Xingtan and Yang Rujian, Heibei Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House, China
The collision and blend of Western and Eastern children’s
literature from the point of view of publishing
18:00-19:30 Sunset soirée: meet South African
authors
and illustrators
Informal al fresco gathering at restaurant. Bring your
drinks for book launches, chats and multi-media
presentations
Programme
FRIDAY 24 AUGUST
07:30-09:00 Breakfast
Buses leave for Johannesburg International Airport throughout the
day
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