From now onwards we going to reveal, name by name, who will be the conferences speakers and round tables members in our congress. Here you are our first announcement:
Teresa Colomer (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
One of the most prominent researchers in the literature for children and youth. Her plenary lecture will reflect on the situation of children's literature as a minority in the literature's field.
Heidi Cortner Boiesen (Norway)
Director of the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People. She will talk about the constraints faced by children with psycho-physical difficulties in access to books and reading, and the existence of means to overcome them.
Emilia Ferreiro (Argentina/Mexico)
One of the greatest international authorities on issues of literacy and written language acquisition. She will talk about a minority expressions related to the difficulty or impossibility of access to the text.
Víctor F. Freixanes (Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain)
Writer, publisher and expert about the situation of cultural industries in minority contexts. He will analyze the possibilities that a minority language and culture have to compete in an increasingly globalized world without having to leave its personality and identity.
Olayinka Koso-Thomas (Nigeria/Sierra Leone)
President of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 1998. She will reflect on the cultural traditions related to discrimination against girls and women.Lygia Bojunga (Brasil)
One of the most important writers in portuguese language. Her literature offers to readers a place for freedom that grants the imagination, a key to solve conflicts. She also created and directed, during 5 years, a school which main aim was centred on the confrontation of illiteracy in rural zones.
He obtained two of the most important international awards for children's literature: the Hans Christian Andersen (1982) and the Astrid Lindgren Award Memorial ALMA (2004).
She is living now with enthusiasm -as a writer and a publisher- the social and cultural project “Casa Lygia Bojunga”, in Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro.