Seminar Sessions

 

IBBY Congress 2008  

THE SEMINARS

You will find the abstracts on the page of each seminar, as they have been submitted by the speakers.

 

Monday - September 8 th

 

14.00 – 15.30

 

1) Promotion of Children´s Literature and Reading, 1

  • “De Dagen – a KAMISHIBAI-based project for deaf, foreign youngsters between 12 and 18 years old” (Abstract 3)
Ms. Silvie Moors & Mr. Lieven Gouwy , Belgium

 

  • “Nepalese Children´s Literature – Past and Present“ (Abstract 22)
Short Story & Children's Book Writer Biswambhar Chanchal , Nepal

 

  • “ Promotion of children's literature and reading: Fundación La Fuente 's Creating Tomorrow's Readers Program: a successful experience in reading promotion” (Abstract 41)
Executive Director Verónica Abud & Social Projects Coordinator Claudia Olavarría, Chile

 

  • “A Sock with a Hole in It” (Abstract 47)
Journalist, MA María Antonia Carrasco, Spain

 

  • “Experiences of a Turkish Publishing House: Narrating History to Children through Stories” (Abstract 84)
Assistant Editor Translator Nazli Tanci, Turkey

 

•  “The Locker-Room Librarian – The Maradona of Literature Dissemination” (No Abstract)

Librarian Stig Elvis Furset , Norway

 

 

 

2) Prehistoric Time and the Time of Myths and Legends

  • “The Oldest Children´s Story in Persian History” (Abstract 10)
Mrs. Zohreh Ghaeni , Iran

 

  • “Pascuala Corona – The Mexican Grimm” (Abstract 50)
Editor Juana Inés Dehesa, Mexico

 

  • “Stories Beginning Expression and Myths of Origin” (Abstract 77)
BA & TV script writer Mohammad H. Saki, Iran

 

•  “ The Significance of Myths and Legends in Children's Literature in Contemporary Zimbabwe ” (Abstract 88)

Lecturer & translator Mickias Musiyiwa , Zimbabwe

 

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Dr. Anna Heida Palsdottir, Iceland

 

  • ”Nordic Myths”

Author Lars-Henrik Olsen, Denmark

 

 

3) Hans Christian Andersen

  • “Outsiders in Hans Christian Andersens´s Fairy Tales” (Abstract 35)
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Pensylvania , USA

 

  • “Hans Christian Andersen in Puppet Theatre” (Abstract 56)
Puppet theatre director Rossitsa Minovska-Devedzhieva , Bulgaria

 

  • “A Brazilian Travel around Hans Christian Andersen´s Life and Work” (Abstract 68)
Dr. Sueli de Souza Cagneti & Alcione Pauli & Cleber Fabiano da Silva, Brazil

 

  • “The Collateral Damages of War: Radical Transformations of H.C. Andersen´s The Little Match Girl in Contemporary Children´s Literature” (Abstract 129)
Associate Professor Jina Kalogirou & MA, Phd and author Sofia Paraschou, Greece

 

  • “12 Minutes with H.C. Andersen” (No Abstract)
Illustrator Lilian Brøgger, Denmark.

 

  • “Hans Christian Andersen” (No Abstract)

Author Louis Jensen, Denmark

 

 

 

4) How Children´s Literature Has Reflected Actual History – and How

Historical Experiences Have Influenced Stories for Children (1)

 

  • “From Dictatorship to Freedom – Children´s Literature and History in Portugal ” (Abstract 16)
Professor Ana Margarida Ramos, Portugal

 

  • “The Political Socialization of African American Children through Literature, 1970-1985."   (Abstract 30)
Ph.D. Laretta Henderson , Wisconsin , USA

 

  • “Haitan History in Haitan Children´s literature” (Abstract 46 A)
Dr. Cheryl L. Canada, USA

 

  • “Sense of Place and Displacement: Children´s Literature and Forced Relocations” (Abstract 46 B)
Professor Barbara A. Lehman, USA

 

  • „Reflections of Cyprus History in Novels for Children and Young Adults“ (Abstract 54)
Chief Education Officer & Ph.D. Costas Katsonis & BA & MA Elena Kyriakides, Cyprus

 

  • “The Depiction of National Identity in Danish Historical Novels for Children” (No Abstract)
Assistant professor Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg, Denmark

 

 
 

5) Storytelling

The Storytellers Tipee

Presented by Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Rikke S. Jakobsen &

Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Carsten Flink, Denmark

  • "How the Oral Storytelling Influences the Written" (Abstract 126)

Ms. Eva Barongo, Uganda

 

  • “Storytelling” (Abstract 9)
Teacher of University Deborah Dunleavy, Canada

 

  • “Storytelling, Art, Music and Dance: What It Means to be Australian in the Context of Indigenous Australian History and a Regional Australian Primary School” (Abstract 118)
Dr. Margaret Zeegers, Australia

 

  • “Grace Bussell – A Childhood Heroine” (Abstract 125)
Former Teacher Librarian Jenni Woodroffe , Australia

 

Story-tellers

Lecturer & translator Mickias Musiyiwa , Zimbabwe

 

Ranjana Goyal, India
AWIC (Indian section of IBBY)

 

 

 

16.00 – 17.30

 

 

6) The Hans Christian Andersen Awards & The Astrid Lindgren Memorial

Award

 

  • “What is H.C.A Awards and what is ALMA? – Missions and visions?”

    Zohreh Ghaeni, Iran, Chairman for the H.C. Andersen Jury

    - and Larry Lembert, Chairman for the ALMA-Jury

 

 

7) Promotion of Children´s Literature and Reading, 2

  • “Empowerment through Reading : The Meaning of Bunko, a Small Story-based Community in Melbourne , Australia ” (Abstract 91)
Writer-translator Tetsuta Watanabe , Australia

 

  • “Libros Palotes: First Steps in a Child-friendly publishing Programme for Chile´s Young Readers” (Abstract 97)
Writer & illustrator Bernardita Munoz Chereau, Chile

 

  • “IBBY´s Unique Function in Children´s Reading Promotion in China ” (Abstract 106)
Mingzhou Zhang , China

 

  • “Stories Across Africa - Towards a Shared African Children´s literature” (Abstract 121)
Dr. Carole Bloch, South Africa

 

  • “Children´s Power in Swedish libraries – Background and Case Study” (1) (Abstract 113)
Librarian Pia Cronholm , Sweden
 
  • “Children´s Power in Swedish libraries – Background and Case Study” (2) (Abstract 112)

Librarian Ingrid Kallström Nilsson, Sweden.

 

 

8) Personal Stories and Biographies for Children

  • “History in Stories - Stories of Palestinian Children Told by Palestinian Children " (Abstract 71)
Expert on Promotion of Non-Formal Education & Children Books Jehan Helou, Palestine

 

  • ”Memories of Childhood in Latvian Literature” (Abstract 73)
Professor Ilze Stikane, Latvia

 

•  „Memoirs – Personal Histories and Culture“ (Abstract 89 A)

Dr. Evelyn B. Freeman, Ohio , USA

 

•  “Picturebook Biographies: Windows into Lives Past and Present” (Abstract 89 B)

Professor, Dr. Patricia L. Scharer, Ohio, USA

 

  • "Astrid Lindgren: the Rebel and the Queen"

Director Jan Hansson, The Swedish Institute for Children's Books, Sweden

 

•  ”Bent Haller – A Danish Author” (No Abstract)

Educationel adviser Eiler Jensen, Denmark

 

 

9) Children´s Stories and Multimedia

  • “Cartoons as a Medium for Conveying History” (Abstract 53)
Jesús Pertinez López & Ma Carmen Hidalgo Rodríguez, Spain

 

  • “Children´s Literacy and Technologies: Enhancements or Disenhancements og Intra-Global Children´s Stories” (Abstract 82)

Associate professor, dr. Constance Ulmer, NC, USA

 

  • ”From Books to Film – and Vice Versa” (No Abstract)
Vice president, sales & marketing, SF-Film Thomas Schultz, Denmark

 

  • “Literature as an International Development Programme” (No Abstract)
Author Sally Altschuler, Denmark
 
  • ”Do Children Read at all?” (No Abstract)

Assistant professor Tove Roed, Denmark

 

  • “The Byking Mosquito and The Dancing Mosquito” (film) (No Abstract)

    Illustrator & filmmaker Flemming Quist Møller, Denmark

     

 

10) How Children´s Literature Has Reflected Actual History

– and How Historical Experiences Have Influenced Stories for Children, 2

 

  • “The Rajput Tradition of Valour - a Popular Subject for Children´s Stories” (Abstract 80)
Author & storyteller Deepa Agarval , India

 

  • “How historical personalities has Influenced the Brazilian children's literature” (Abstract 93)
Doctorate student Claudimeiri Nara Cordeiro Kollross, Brazil

 

  • „History Dramatized: Perspectives and Voices of the Narrating Self in World War II Stories” (Abstract 131)
Teacher & Ph.d. Ioanna Kaliakatsou , Greece .

 

  • “It´s Just an Allusion: How Cultural and Ethnic Allusions are Employed and Translated in Children´s Literature” (Abstract 132)
Ph.d. student B.J. Epstein, Wales

 

•  “ Children's Explorations of Cultural Identity and Intercultural Understandings through Literature”  (Abstract 94)

Professor Kathy G. Short, Arizona , USA
 
  • “Learning the Trick of Standing Upright – the Explosion of Children´s Literature in New Zealand Since 1980” (Abstract 66)
Author Tessa Duder , New Zealand

 

 

11) Storytelling

The Storytellers Tipee

Presented by Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Rikke S. Jakobsen &

Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Carsten Flink, Denmark

 

•  Indira Bagchi, India
•  Maria Eugenia Coeymans, Chile
•  Nanna Gyldenkærne, Denmark

•  Marija Todorova, FYROM

  •   Lara Saguisag, Philippines

 

Tuesday - September 9th 

 

14.00 – 15.30

 

12) Freedom of Speech in Children´s Books

  • “To Create, to Think. Presence of Laura Devetach in Children´s Books in Argentine” (Abstract 83)
Professor Christina Pizarro, Argentine

 

  • “The Translation of Fantasías Infantiles : Changes in Ideology, Trend and Cultural Features” (Abstract 98)
Dr. Mónica Domínguez Pérez, Spain

 

  • “Pre-censorship of Children´s Books: Curtailing the Freedom of Speech and Expression of Canadian Authors and Illustrators” (Abstract 103)
Ph.D. candidate Cherie Givens, Canada

 

  • “Seeing the Light – without Submission” (No Abstract)
Author Kåre Bluitgen , Denmark

 

  • ”Freedom of Speech” in Children´s Picturebook illustration” (Abstract 31)
Illustrator Stella East, Canada/Norway

 

  • “Sex and violence - two cases of self censorship” (Abstract 144)

Non-fiction author & researcher Niklas Bengtsson , Finland

 

  • Junko Yokota, USA

 

 

 

13) Children´s Reading in Times of Crisis

  • “ Reading in Crisis: Experience in Northern Uganda ” (Abstract 21)
BA Ronald Ssentuuwa, Uganda

 

  • “ Reading – A Soothing Balm” (Abstract 115)
Educational consultant & author Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj , India

 

14) Holocaust (previously 16)

  • “The Holocaust through Picture Books” (Abstract 11)
Library Director Lisa Silverman, California , USA

 

•  „Antisemetic Children´s Literature and the Real Children It Affected“ (Abstract 95)
Dr. Linda Veltze , NC , USA

 

  • “Stories of Good People in Evil Times – How to Tell Children about Holocaust” (Abstract 114)
Dr. Adina Bar-El, Israel

 

  • ”Voices from the Palace of Ashes . Writing a young novel about Holocaust." (No Abstract)
Author Anders Johansen, Denmark

 

 

15) Literary Awards (previously 14)

  • “Stories, Jane Addams and Social Justice” (Abstract 2)
Assistant Professor Susan C. Griffith, Ph.D., Michigan USA

 

  • “Between Honouring Literary Excellence and Promoting Reading – over 50 Years of German Youth Literature Award” (Abstract 44)
Dr. Hannelore Daubert , Germany

 

  • “New Book Awards: Best Picture Books for Reading Aloud” (Abstract 78)
Professor Carol Hanson Sibley , MN , USA

 

  • “Celebrate a New Children´s Literature Award Encouraging Environmental Stewardship: The Green Earth Book Award” (Abstract 124)
Assistant professor, Ph.D. Patricia Dean & Associate professor, Ph.D. Ernest Bond, MD, USA

 

  • "Det æstetiske vurderingskriterium er sat højt på dagsordenen i forbindelse med de fleste børnebogspriser i verden. Hvordan tolke dette og italesætte det i dag  - og i morgen?
Professor Beth Juncker, Denmark

 

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16) Relationships between the political reality and the culture(s) of a

country, its contemporary stories and myths (previously 15)

 

  • “Heroes and Villains in the Crossroads of History” (Abstract 142)

MA Cristina Urrutia, Mexico

 

  • “Recent Perspectives of Historical Events and Social Issues in Children´s and Adolescent literature” (Abstract 76)
Dr. Janelle B. Mathis, Texas , USA

 

  • “Ecological Consciousness Echoed in Contemporary Japanese Childen´s Books” (Abstract 70)
Ms. Takako Naito , Japan

 

  • “ Papelucho : Why the protagonist of a children's book has captured Chile 's imagination for 70 years” (Abstract 96)
Teacher MA Anne Christen Hansen, Denmark

 

  • „History as Reflected in Harry Potter Books“ (Abstract 102)
Professor Gülcin Alpöge , Turkey 

 

  • “No Book Is An Island ” (Abstract 143)

Author Lene Kaaberbøl , Denmark

 

 

17) How Does the Cultural and Ethnic Heritage Appear in Children´s

Books?

  • “The Early Slovenian Translations of American Fiction: the Gateway to American Cultural Heritage” (Abstract 49)
Professor Darja Mazi-Leskovar, Slovenia

 

  • “Creole' Children's Literature in late Colonial Mexico ” (Abstract 63)
Associated directive Rebeca Cerda , Mexico

 

  • “Searching for Identity: The Presence of Cultural and Ethnic Heritage in Chilean Children´s Literature” (Abstract 104)
Sociologist & writer Maria Eugenia Coeymans, Chile

 

  • “Stork, Stork – How Is Your Land? - The Story of the Ethiopian Imigration to Israel as Told by the Elderly and by illustrated Children´s Books” (Abstract 122)
Senior Curator-at-Large Nurit Shilo-Cohen , Israel

 

  • ““We´ve Always Belonged to This Place”: Mapping Australia´s Past in Four influential Picture Books” (Abstract 133)

Dr. Robin Morrow, Australia

 

 

  • Aka Høegh, Greenland

 

 

 

18) Storytelling

The Storytellers Tipee

Presented by Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Rikke S. Jakobsen &

Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Carsten Flink, Denmark

 

•  Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj, India
•  Ingrid Källström Nilsson, Sweden
•  Swati Raje, India
•  Cordeiro Kollross, Brazil

•  Dorte Futtrup, Denmark

  •   Martina Gaux, Norway

 

16.00 – 17.30

 

 

19) Living in times of hardship: under war, suppression, deprivation, in

exile, etc.

  • “War in Picture Books” (Abstract 32)

Professor, Ph.D. Pedro Cerrillo Torremocha, Spain

 

  • “Telling the War and Saving the World in the Space of the Book: “Unary” by Ondjaki - from Angola to the world” (Abstract 52)
Professor Cláudia Sousa Pereira, Portugal

 

  • “Overcoming the Hardships of Life throrugh the Revealing Soothing and Even Magical Effect of Words” (Abstract 81)
Writer Christina Colombo, Argentine

 

  • “Reflections about Peace in Time of Hardship in Israeli Children´s Literature” (Abstract 99)
Dr. Celina Mashiach, Israel

 

  • „Austrian Writers remembering their Childhood in World War Two and the Following Years” (Abstract 110)
Mag. Dr. Sabine Fuchs, Austria

 

  • “War X Books - The drug traffic in Brazilian slums” (Abstract 140)

Television journalist & writer Luciana Savaget, Brazil

 

  • "Survivors of war - victims of snakeheads: refugees and migrants in youth literature" (No Abstract)
Author Martin Petersen, Denmark

 

 

20) Integration and socio-cultural conflicts

  • “Books to My Neighbor Project” (Abstract 8)
Author & illustrator Sepil Ural , Turkey & Mrs. Lia Karavia , Greece

 

  • “Ethnic Integration in Children´s Literature in Macedonia ” (Abstract 36)
MA & Translator Marija Todorova, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia

 

  • „Multicultural Literature for Enhancing Student Understanding of World Peoples and Cultures“ (Abstract 57)
Professor Marilyn J. Ward, Wisconsin , USA

 

  • “From Integration to Interculturality: Contemporary Spanish Children´s and Youth Literature facing with Immigration” (Abstract 65)
Professor Noelia Ibarra Rius & professor & writer Josep Ballester Roca & professor Pascuala Morote ,  Spain

 

  • “The Dairy of Zlata Ibrahimovics”
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21) Illustrations

  • “Empowering Images -- Visual Re-telling of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales -- the Epic of Gilgamesh” (Abstract 5)
Filmmaker, author & illustrator Ludmila Zeman , Canada

 

  • “The Immigrant Experience in Shaun Tan´s The Arrival ” (Abstract 60)
Senior lecturer, Dr. John Foster, Australia

 

•  “Picturing Hard Times: A Critical Diskussion of the Role og Illustration and Book Design in Telling War Stories” (Abstract 62)
Illustrator Kathryn E. Shoemaker, Canada

 

  • "The Intersection of Children's and Teachers' Interest in Picture Storybooks Based Solely on Illustrations" (Abstract 116)

Dr. Linda M. Pavonetti and Mrs. Anne Hotz , MI , USA

  • “Childhood Represented in Japanese Picture Book Magazines” (Abstract 119)

Professor Tomoko Masaki , Japan

 

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Illustrator Helle-Vibeke Jensen, Denmark

 

 

22) Children´s Literature and Socialization

  • “More than Just a Good Story: Children´s Literature as a Form of Social Control” (Abstract 7)
Ph.D. Melissa Wilson, Arizona, USA

 

  • “ Between Rights and Wrong: The Promotion of Children's Rights in the Batang Historyador Series (Abstract 74)
Author Lara Saguisag, Philippines

 

  • “Complex Crossing of Historical Forces Nation-ness, Child-ness and Children´s Literature” (Abstract 92)
Ph.D. & teacher Petros Panaou , Cyprus

 

  • “The Siyagruva Teen Series: Public Culture in the New South Africa ” (Abstract 130)

Associate Professor Elizabeth Muther, USA

 

  • “ The peak of childhood - A look at the children of Crow Cove”
Author Bodil Bredsdorff, Denmark

 

•  “Here and Now Writing - An Indian Paradigm” (Abstract 38)

Writer Ramendra Kumar, India

 

 

23) Religion and Morality in Children´s Books

  • “Touching and Talking: The Big Taboos” (Abstract 25)
Author Wally de Doncker , Belgium

 

  • “Myth or Reality: the Picture Book as a Reflection of the Religion of Aboriginal Australians” (Abstract 59)
Dr. Heather Foster, Australia

 

  • “Religion & Morality in Children´s Books” (Abstract 86)
Educationist & author Indira Bagchi , India

 

  • “Fantastic Fantasies in Indian Soil” (Abstract 100)
Swati Raje , India

 

 

24) The relevance of myths and legends in contemporary society

  • “Human Security and Stories in History: the Telling of Modern Folktales” (Abstract 1)
Associate Professor Sachie Asaka , Japan

 

  • “Atlantic Vocation, Myths and Legends in Portuguese Literature for Children and Young Adults: the Case of Manuel António Pina´s Os Piratas ” (Abstract 26)
Lecturer Sara Reis da Silva, Portugal

 

• "Epics Created History"

Author, child psychologist, Dr. Ira Saxena, India

 

25) Storytelling

The Storytellers Tipee

Presented by Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Rikke S. Jakobsen &

Librarian, Head of Children's Dept., Carsten Flink, Denmark

 

•  Nara Claudimeiri, Brazil
•  Mette Thyregod, Denmark
•  Maria Kulik, Poland

•  Rachel van Kooij, Austria

  •   Henriette Ritz Kylmann, Denmark