Synergy and contradiction:

How picturebooks and picture books work

Programme

Thursday, September 6

11-1 arrivals and registration, bookstore open, exhibitions

1-1.15 welcome and housekeeping

1.15 – 2.15 Keynote lecture Perry Nodelman, Fish is people: What posthumanism can teach us
about children's picture books, and what children's picture books can teach us about posthumanism.
Moderator Morag Styles

2.15-2.30 break

2.30 - 4 Paper session 1

Coming to terms Picturebooks and illustrated Beyond words and images

Moderator: Nathalie op de
Beeck
Kristin Hallberg, Iconotext
reclaimed, or 30 years after
Christophe Meunier, From the
iconotext to the iconobook:
how the spatial text works in
picturebooks
Magdalena Sikorska,
Understanding picturebooks:
David Perkins revisited
books
Moderator: Naomi Hamer
Jen Aggleton, Pictures and
possibilities when reading
illustrated novels
Maria Lassén-Seger & Anne
Skaret, Exploring differences
between illustrated books and
picturebooks
Miki Yamamoto, Wordless
picturebooks retelling a famous
story: Strategies for expression
without words
Moderator: Elise Seip
Tønnessen
Mirjam Haas, Show me how to
read: Iconic meaning-making
between visual art, word and
sound in picture books
Fiona Maine, Exploring the
diegetic world: Children’s
engagement with visual
storyworlds
Emma Reay, Words about video
games: Applying picturebook
theory to children’s video
games

4-4.30 break

4.30-6 Paper session 2

Picturebooks in context Nonfiction/non-fiction Outside in

Moderator: Bettina Moderator: Joe Sutliff Sanders Moderator: Kai Mikkonen
Kümmerling-Meibauer
Ada Bieber & Farriba Schulz, Clémentine Beauvais, How do Liu Zixian, Bookscapes and
Imagery and ideology: Political picturebooks represent whole visual penetration: Reading the
strategies in the imagery of existences? surfaces of picture books
German picture books over
course of the 20th century
Elina Druker, Picture-text Nina Goga, How nonfiction Sandie Mourão & Gabriela
relationships in a historic picturebooks work – the Sotto Mayor, Title pages: A
context conceptualising art of children’s typology and a discussion
picturebooks around cross-national
differences
Alicja Fidowicz, Picture book in Anna Skyggebjerg, Non-fiction Teresa Fleta, Exploring the art
translation: Perspective of picture books with aesthetic surrounding barcodes on
Poland and Slovenia after 1990 ambitions – how to understand picturebooks
and describe them?

Evening free

Friday, September 7

9-10.30 paper session 3

Words, images and objects Picturebooks and books with Inside Out
Moderator: Elina Druker pictures Moderator: Sandie Mourão
Moderator: Kristin Hallberg
Sarah Hoem Iversen, Selection Katherina Manolessou & Becky Masako Nagai, An analysis of
and presentation of knowledge Palmer, The use of frames in peritext in Japanese
in picture dictionaries illustration practice: “Imagination picture books” by
picturebooks and comics Shinsuke Yoshitake
Marie-Pierre Litaudon, Title Kai Mikkonen, Reading picture Ana Margarida Ramos, The
TBC books and comics: Points of picturebook format: beyond the
contact and divergences relationship between words and
pictures

Sara Reis da Silva, Some Jade Dillon, The artistic lens of Emily Midkiff, It’s bigger on the
thoughts concerning concept the picturebook: Illustrative and inside: Fitting complexity into
books: rising the question of the autonomous depth associated the picturebook format
roles of words and pictures with photographic picturebooks

10.30 -11 break

11-12.30 paper session 4

Materiality Panel: Debates on theory vs. Panel: Publishing

Moderator: Anna Skyggebjerg
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
& Jörg Meibauer, Materiality
matters
culture: how Brazilian
picturebooks work
Moderator: Aline Frederico
Claudia Mendes, Center and
periphery: a decolonization of
images in Brazilian
picturebooks: design and
editorial decision-making for
a global industry
Moderator: Laura Little
Laura Little, Greet Pauwelijn,
Holly Tonks, Sam Arthur
 contemporary picturebooks
Marcela Escovar, Young Silvana Gili, Cityscapes and
readers' engagement with city-dwellers: images of 21st
word/image storytelling: do century Brazilian picturebooks
words and pictures invite
different kinds of relationships
between texts and readers?
Honglan Huang, The narrativity Aline Frederico, Creating
of the medium: The architecture picturebook apps: socio-cultural
of book space in picturebooks influences in intermodal
relationships

12.30 – 2 lunch

2-3.30 paper session 5

Picturebook design Picturebooks and senses Hybrids

Moderator: Breanna McDaniel Moderator: Astrid van der Moderator: Fiona Maine
Bossche
Cláudia Sousa Pereira, From Åse Marie Ommundsen, María del Rosario Neira
movable books to the literary Aesthetics in tactile Piñeiro, When pictures meet
design: other legacies on the picturebooks for visually poetry. A new form of
discussion about picturebooks impaired children picturebook
Anette Almgren White, Visual Anna Purkiss, Feeling the text: Karolina Rybicka, Crocodiles in
poetry in poetical The added dimension of tactile bathtubs and impossible railway
picturebooks elements in picturebooks stations, or can a a picturebook
be over 300 pages long?
Marta Passos Pinheiro & Gretchen Papazian, Colorful Elise Seip Tønnessen, Title TBC
Jéssica Mariana Andrade feelings: Making emotion with
Tolentino, The role of graphic color in the contemporary
design in the narrative American picturebook
construction of award-winning
contemporary Brazilian
picturebooks

3.30- 4 break

4 – 5.00 paper session 6

Author/illustrator forum Facts and fiction. Moderator: Publishing and translating

Moderator: Katherina Blanka Grzegorczyk Moderator: Maya Zakrzewska-
Manolessou Pim
Maggie Chan, Sherryl Clark, Erin Spring & Eve Tandoi, Hui-Ling Huang, Go beyond
Stella East, Nahid Kazemi, Kris Exploring the aesthetics of non- borders with picture books: A
Nauwelaerts, Helena Öberg fiction picturebooks through a case study of a Taiwanese
study of young people’s publisher’s development
engagement with the threshold
 concept of evolution
Vera Veldhuizen, Taking sides
in wordless picturebooks on
war
Miki Takeuchi, How
picturebook’s form affects its
translation or adaptation: the
case of English-Japanese
translation

5.30- 6.30 author talk. Pam Smy: Drawing, playing, making and exploring - the essential
ingredients in writing and illustrating Thornhill. Moderator: Jen Aggleton

Book signing.

7 conference dinner.

Saturday, September 8

9-10.30 paper session 7

Panel: Heart art: What
makes illustrations resonate? Moderator: Madeleine Hunter
Moderator: Karen Coats
Karen Coats, Elizabeth
Dulemba, Vivian French, Pam
Smy
Picturebooks and media
Naomi Hamer, Transmedia
storytelling, media genealogies, Picturebook theory and
and picture book theory
Nathalie op de Beeck,
Experiential encounters
Douglas Menegazzi &
Stephania Padovani, Hotspots
in picturebook apps: The
perception of readers from
interaction research
Playing with form
Moderator: Aneesh Barai
Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand,
multimodality theory – a
favorable friendship for the
picturebook medium?
Amy Nottingham-Martin, And
what is the use of a book
without - or with - pictures or
conversation? A consideration
of playing with form in
picturebooks
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis,
Metafictional synergy of text
and illustrations

10.30 – 11 break

11 -12 What have we learned? Perry Nodelman and Maria Nikolajeva in conversation with
Clémentine Beauvais.

12 -12.30 Closure

12.30 lunch