Stockholm university

Workshop: Multilingualism and Children’s Literature – New Perspectives

Workshop

Start date: Thursday 5 October 2023

Time: 13.00

End date: Friday 6 October 2023

Time: 16.00

Location: The library, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Manne Siegbahn buildings, Frescativägen 24E

The international workshop ”Multilingualism and Children’s Literature – New Perspectives” will take place 5–6 October, in connection to the planned special issue of Barnboken – Journal of Children’s Literature Research.

Painting of a child reading
H. Lyman Saÿen, Child reading, 1915-1918

Organisers are Helena Bodin (Stockholm University) and Julia Tidigs (University of Helsinki).

The workshop is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and gathers 16 participants from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Poland, as well as a few specially invited guests.

 

Open lectures

The two keynote lectures are open for all:

5 October, 01:00 – 02:30 pm
Mia Österlund (Åbo Akademi University), “Current Trends in Nordic Children’s Literature Research”

6 October, 09:00 – 10:30 am
Karin Nykvist (Lund University), ”Minority and majority languages. On multilingualism in and around literature”

Coffee/tea is served.

Contact: Helena Bodin

helena.bodin@littvet.su.se