IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN LVIV,

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES,

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

and

ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS “DZYGA”

announce

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,
?/? 7549 Lviv -11,
79011,
Ukraine

E-mail: symposium_child@yahoo.com

Registration form

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 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
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 the Association of Artists “Dzyga”

Planned Activities

• Meeting with publishers from the “Staryj Lev” Publishing House
• Exhibition of Ukrainian books for children
• Round-table meeting on the prospects of fiction for children in Ukraine and abroad.
• Special guests:

Kirsten Boie , Jutta Richter (supported by Goethe-Institut in Kiev )

Renate Welsh, Christine Noestlinger (supported by Uikrainisch-Oesterreichisches Koorporationsbuero in Lviv)

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 this page for new information about symposium details.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference papers will be published in advance. The requirements are as follows:

• Up to 12 pages (0.5 printer's sheet – 20 000 characters);
• Times New Roman font, 14 point type, Normal style, 1.5 line-to-line spacing, 2.5 cm margins;
• Ukrainian, English, German

The submitted paper should be written on a topical theme. All papers will be reviewed by the Symposium's referees. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 December 2006. (A list of those articles which have already been accepted is attached.)

conference fee:

• 50 EUROS – for participants from Eastern Europe and Africa
• 100 EUROS – for participants from other countries

to be transferred by 1 March 2007

• 5 EUROS per one page of the paper upon acceptance notification

to be transferred by 30 December 2006

This includes :

1. access to the conference
2. tea/coffee breaks
3. lunches on April 11, 12, 13
4. wine reception
5. participation in all planned presentations
6. Walking tour of Lviv in English and German.

Payment method :

Fees must be paid in euros by bank transfer.

The bank accounts for payment of registration and publishing fees are:

The text of the paper is to be sent to symposium_child@yahoo.com as an attachment in MS WORD 7.0 and later. A short summary (300-350 words) should be added in the end of the article. The references are to be indicated in the text by numbers from the alphabetical list, e.g. [4, p. 12-14]. The list of references contains items first in Cyrillic, if any, and then in Latin scripts.

The publishing price per page is 5 EUROS.

Submission deadline: 30 November 2006

Registration form

Submitted Papers:

• Prof. Dr. Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia:
  “ Top-down and bottom-up: Theorizing Picture Books ”
  
• Dr. Ariko Kawabata, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan:
  “ Attitudes to Food and Eating Habits in F.H. Burnett's Books for Children ”
  
• Dr. Pamela Knights, Durham University, U.K.: “American Letters: Modelling Language and Character in Nineteenth-Century Fiction for the Young ”
  
• Dr. Mavis Reimer, University of Winnipeg, Canada:
  “The Problems and Possibilities of Homelessness in Recent Fiction for Young People ”
  
• Dr. Katrien Vloeberghs, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium:
  “Modes and Functions of Autobiography in Narrating the Holocaust”