ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

Children's Literature and European Avant-Garde

26 -30 September 2012

Programme

Wednesday 26 September
17:00–19:00Registration at the ESF Desk at K4 in Kåkenhus - Campus Norrköping  
19.00
Welcome Drink at Work Museum – Arbetets Museum
Opening Speech - Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman, European Science Foundation
Thursday 27 September
08:30-09:00

Welcome Address
Mikael Heimann, Vice-Dean, Linköping University, SE
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DE

Session 1: Avant-Garde and Modernism
Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DE
09.00-09:45Marilynn Olson, Texas State University, US
Children’s Culture and the Avant-Gardes: Higgledy-Piggledy Modernism
09.45-10:30Saskia de Bodt, University of Amsterdam, NL
The Modernist Picturebook in the Netherlands in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
Session 2: The Impact of Bauhaus and the Semana de 22
Chair: Elina Druker, University of Stockholm, SE
11:00-11:45
Michael Siebenbrodt, Bauhaus Museum Weimar, DE
Bauhaus Weimar: A New World for Children

11:45-12:30

Luiz Antonio Coelho, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, BR
The Impact of the European Avant-Garde on the Visuals of Brazilian Children’s Literature since the Semana de 22
12:30-14:00
Lunch at the Myseym of Work
Session 3: Children’s Literature and Avant-Garde before 1945 (I)
Chair: Sandra Beckett, Brock University, CA
14:00-14:15Elina Druker, Stockholm University, SE
Shadow Geometry: Re-evaluating Einar Nerman
14:15-14:30
Jennifer Tharr, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
The Children’s Book as the Threshold between Paradise and Hell – Thoughts on Walter Benjamin's "Pedagogical Reviews"
14:30-14:45
Eva Lezzi, Universität Potsdam, DE
Books to Turn, Move and Alter: Tom Seidmann-Freud's Form Experiments
14:45-15:00
Yael Darr, Tel Aviv University, IS
Zionist Children as Avant-Garde: Two Contradictory Approaches toward the Revolutionary Role of Children’s Literature in Pre-State Israel
15:00-15:30
Discussion
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Session 4: Soviet Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde
16:00-16:45
Sara Pankenier Weld, University of California, US
The Square as Regal Infant: The Avant-Garde Infantile and Early Soviet Picturebooks
16:45-17:30
Albert Lemmens & Serge Stommels, Nijmegen University, NL
The Early Soviet Children’s Books on Display: A Remarkable Series of Exhibitions in 1929
17:30-17:45
Short Break
17:45-18:00Evgeny Steiner, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow, RU
The Mirrored Images: Reflections on Soviet-Western Reflections in the Children’s Books of the 1920s
18:00-18:15
Discussion
19:00    
Welcome Drink at Rådhuset (Town Hall)
Greeting - Jirina Klevstigh, Vice-Chairman, Norrköping City Council
Friday 28 September
Session 5: Modernism and Avant-Garde in Sweden and Norway
Chair: Nina Christensen, University of Aarhus, DK
09:00–09:45Lena Kåreland, Uppsala University, SE
Modernism in some Early Swedish Picturebooks in the Beginning of the 20th Century
09:45–10:30
Tone Birkeland, Bergen University, NO
Avant-garde in Norwegian Picturebooks?
10:30-10:45 
Group Picture
10:45-11:15
Coffe Break
Session 6: Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde before 1945 (II)
Chair: Saskia de Bodt, University of Amsterdam, NL
11:15-11:30
Bohuslav Mánek, University of Hradec Králové, CZ
Two Czech Avant-garde Writers and Their Works for Children: Vítězslav Nezval and Vladislav Vančura
11:30-11:45
Samuel Albert, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, US
Sandor Bortnyik and Inter-war Hungarian Children’s Books
11:45-12:00 Svetlana Kalezic-Radonjic, University of Montenegro, ME
Breakthrough of Surrealism in Serbian Literature for Children
12:00-12:30
 Discussion
12:30-14:00
Lunch at the Museum of Work
Session 7: Social and Aesthetic Impact of the Avant-Garde
Chair: Lena Kåreland, Uppsala University, SE
14:00-14:45Nina Christensen, University of Aarhus, DK
Avant-Garde in the Welfare State. Danish Picturebooks 1933-1945
14:45-15:30Patricia Molins, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
Children’s Books and the New Woman in the 1930s
15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

Session 8: Avant-Garde and (Educational) Illustration
Chair: Sara Pankenier Weld, Bard College, US
16:00-16:15Hanna Melse, University of Amsterdam, NL
Children’s Books by ISOTYPE: The New Objectivity’s Ideals in Educational Illustrations
16:15-16:30
Kris Nauwelaerts, University of Hasselt, BE
Miffy: A Pedagogical Avant-garde Rabbit. Karel Appel’s Influence on Dick Bruna
16:30-16:45Discussion
16:45-18:45
Poster Session
Saturday 29 September
Session 8: Challenges of the Avant-Garde
Chair: Marilynn Olson, Texas State University, US
09.00-09.45
Sandra Beckett, Brock University, CA
The Avant-Garde and Its Legacy in French Children’s Literature
09:45-10:30Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DE
Just what is it that makes pop art picturebooks so different, so appealing?
10:30-11:00 
Coffee Break

Session 10: The Avant-Garde in the United Kingdom
Chair: Sirke Happonen, University of Helsinki, FI
11:00-11:45 Kimberley Reynolds, University of Newcastle, UK
A Very British Avantgarde
11:45-12:00 
Catriona McAra, University of Huddersfield, UK
Dorothea Tanning’s “Chasm”: A Nursery Rhyme
12:00-12:15
Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, Armidale, AU
Heath Robinson, Balbus, and Comic Illustration of Latin Textbooks
12:15-12:30
Discussion   
12:30-14:00
Lunch at the Museum of Work
Session 11: Avant-garde today?
Chair: Luiz Antonio Coelho, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, BR
14:00-14:45
Philip Nel, Kansas State University, US
Surrealism for Children: Paradoxes and Possibilities
14:45-15:30
Sirke Happonen, University of Helsinki, FI
Experimental Picturebooks and the Development of Printing Technologies: How Are They Interrelated?
15:30-15:50
Coffee Break
Session 12: Children’s Literature and European Avant-Garde after 1945
Chair:Kimberley Reynolds, University of Newcastle, UK
15:50-16:05
Olga Holownia, University of Iceland, IS
Avant-Garde and the Icelandic Children’s Books
16:05-16:20
Katie E. Strode, University of California-Riverside, US
The Marriage of Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde, an Epithalamium
16:20-16:35
Claudia Mendes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BR
From Fluffy to Fauve: Artists and Audiences Dealing with Avant-garde Propositions in Contemporary Brazilian Picturebooks
16:35-16:50
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., San Diego State University, US
Shel Silverstein, the Calligramme, & the Legacy of the European Avant-garde
16:50-17:10
Discussion
Session 13: Plenary Discussion of the Conference and Open Discussion of Future Directions in Children’s Literature
Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DE
17:10-18:00Forward Look Session
ESF Rapporteur: Nina Kancewicz-Hoffman, European Science Foundation, FR
19:00
Reception and Conference Dinner at Work Museum
Sunday 30 September

Breakfast and Departure                                                    

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