IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN LVIV
FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
and ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS “DZYGA”
are announcing
THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY SYMPOSIUM
“Visualizing the child in children’s fiction”
to be held on 11-13 April 2007
in Lviv, Ukraine
Conference venue: 1 Universytetska Str., Lviv 79000, Ukraine
Mailing addresses:
Ulyana Hnidets, а/с 7549 Lviv -11, 79011, Ukraine
E-mail: symposium_child@yahoo.com
Suggested topics:
1. The historical development of fiction for children and youth
2. Folktales and fairy tales for children
3. Autobiography and fiction for children and youth
4. Social and political aspects of fiction for children and youth
5. Child’s psychology in fiction
6. The place of books for children and adolescents in the literary system
7. Literary theory and fiction for children
8. Translating fiction for children
Conference Schedule
Arrival: 10 April 2007
Proceedings: 11-13 April 2007
Departure: 14 April 2007
Planned Agenda
1. Opening session
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Dr. Kimberly Reynolds, President of IRSCL
“Visualising Despair: Contemporary Narratives for the Young Featuring Death, Depression and Self-harm”
2. Scholarly workshops and sessions
Confirmed speakers include Clare Bradford (Australia), Dan Hade (U.S.), Ariko Kawabata (Japan), Pamela Knights (U.K.), Mavis Reimer (Canada), Katrien Vloeberghs (Belgium), Sandra Becket (Canada), Bettina Kümmerling Meibauer (Germany), Thomas Van der Walt (South Africa), Harald Bache-Wiig (Norway).
3. The annual board meeting of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature
4. The Symposium Social Program is to be organized by: Association of Artists “Dzyga” Österreich-Ukrainisches Kooperation für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur Goethe-Institut Kiew
Planned Activities
· Meeting with publishers
· Exhibition of Ukrainian books for children
· Round-table meeting on the prospects of fiction for children in Ukraine and abroad.
· Special guests:
Christine Nöstlinger, Renate Welsh (supported by Österreich-Ukrainisches Kooperation für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur)
Kirsten Boie, Jutta Richter (supported by Goethe-Institut Kiew)
Moderator: Yuryi Prohas’ko
· Meeting with Dr. Beatrix Weber-Bertschi, psychotherapist for children (Switzerland): “Children’s literature as psychotherapist’s help in the children’s psychological praxis”
Symposium Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English, German
Proceedings will appear in the form of articles in Inozemna Philologia, a linguistics and literary criticism periodical published at Lviv University since 1964.
Symposium Deadlines First call for papers: 30 September 2006 Texts of papers: 30 November 2006
On behalf of the Organizing Committee:
Coordinator of symposium Ulyana Hnidets (ulyana@dzyga.lviv.ua)
Associate Professor Olga Bandrovska (olga.bandrovska@gmail.com)
Please, check these pages for new information about symposium details:
http://www.lnu.edu.ua/faculty/inomov.new/1eng.htm
http://dzyga.com.ua/
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