Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
IBBY Conference
IBBY Conference Programme 2009
| 09:30 | Registration and coffee |
10:00 | Welcome |
10:10 | Paul Gravett – From Tintin to Titeuf: Is the Anglophone market too tough for French comics for children? |
11:00 | David Fickling |
11:30 | Comfort break |
11:40 | Panel discussion chaired by Ariel Kahn – Sarah McIntyre, Emma Vieceli and John Harris Dunning |
12:40 | IBBY/NCRCL news |
12:55 | Lunch in the Mulberry Diner, plus time to view exhibitions and bookshop in the Adam and Terrace rooms |
2:00 | |
3:10 | Tea and book signings |
3:40 | Janet Evans – Raymond Briggs: Controversially blurring the boundaries among comics, graphic novels, picture books and illustrated books |
4:20 | Marcia Williams – ‘Out of the box: The challenges and delights of creating comic strips for children |
5:00 | Finish |
Parallel Workshops
When booking, choose top two choices as places are filled on a first-come first-served basis.
1. Kimberley Black: ‘Remember me’: An Afrocentric reading of Pitch Black
Lara Saguisag: Strangely familiar: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and the universalised immigrant experience
2. William Boerman-Cornell: Graphic novels in the high-school classroom: Affordances for using graphic novels to teach
high-school history
Vasiliki Labitsi: Sequences of frames by young creators: The impact of comics in children’s artistic development ?
3. Rebecca R. Butler: Two graphic novels and the Holocaust: Maus by Art Spiegelman and Good-Bye Marianne by Irene N.
Watts and Kathryn E. Shoemaker
Erica Gillingham: Copulating, coming out and comics: The High School Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
4. [Janet Evans’ workshop has been transferred to a main-hall presentation. Those registered for this workshop should attend
their second choice.]
5. Rachel Johnson: Henty honed: is Henty’s history lost in graphic translation?
Malini Roy: ‘To entertain and educate’: Graphic novels for children in Indian publishing
6. Due to speaker cancellations, workshops 5 and 6 have been combined
7. Mariana Spanaki: Journeys across time in graphic novels from Greece
Stefania Tondo: Crossover graphic text and classics of children’s literature: Disney manga Kingdom Heart
8. Jessica Yates: Superhero comics and graphic novels
Hilary Young: Composing and performing masculinities: Of reading boys’ comics c. 1930–1955
9. Frixos Michaelides and Petros Panaou: The power of hybrids: complex and effective visual narratives that resist
categorisation
Ariel Kahn: Reading between the lines: The subversion of authority in comics and graphic novels written for young adults