7 augustus 2023Theme/Topic: Children’s Books in South Africa
Date: 20 September 2023
This webinar aims to foster knowledge exchange around children’s books and children’s book publishing in South Africa. Facing both opportunities and challenges in a multicultural country, this webinar aims to explore all facets of children’s book publishing. We invite industry professionals, educators, and scholars to examine critical issues around the children’s book publishing industry.
This webinar encourages presentations with the following list of possible topics for papers:
- Technology and new ways of presenting content to children, encouraging reading culture and improving literacy
- Translations and co-productions
- Accessibility – languages, cost of books, infrastructure
- Issues around inclusivity in children’s books, for example illustrations, themes, and genre development
We are accepting proposals for:
- Research paper: 20-minute presentation.
- Group proposal for round table discussion of key issues: 1-hour discussion including questions
Abstracts should be 250 words, accompanied by a 100-word biography.
Please submit abstracts by 25 August 2023 as a Word file to jana.klingenberg@up.ac.za or samantha.miller@up.ac.za.
Date: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Time: TBA
Venue: Zoom link to follow
RSVP: By 13 September 2023 using the Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1IHobJYNGM-2kK_gBEKPUxkjexOOafs BolZ5oNts6SHpPFA/viewform?usp=pp_url
Enquiries: jana.klingenberg@up.ac.za / samantha.miller@up.ac.za
