{"id":42,"date":"2019-08-28T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/waipru\/?p=42"},"modified":"2020-06-22T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T00:44:39","slug":"blog-from-irscl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/waipru\/2019\/08\/28\/blog-from-irscl\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog from IRSCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have been really privileged to attend to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irsclcongress2019.com\/\">International Research Society for Children\u2019s Literature (IRSCL) conference<\/a> in Stockholm, Sweden. This conference is held every 2 years and is a gathering of children\u2019s literature scholars from \u00a0all over the world presenting many different facets of their research. This year the theme was \u2018silence and silencing\u2019, and this brought forth a great range of presentations. I presented on how some languages in multilingual picturebooks get less space than others, and so are in effect, relatively silenced. I was also part of a panel of four from Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the United States discussing how we teach children\u2019s literature in our different contexts. The link to silence here was that this topic has rarely been discussed, so we proposed that we were \u2018breaking the silence\u2019. I learned a great deal from my colleagues about the different ways in which we all teach a similar topic. My colleague from Norway discussed how she brings eco-critical dialogue into her teaching of children\u2019s literature; my colleague from the United States discussed using themes such as \u2018journey\u2019 and \u2018borders\u2019 to enable children\u2019s literature students to engage at a personal level with the literature they read and analyse for their studies; my Italian colleague discussed how she uses visual literacy in her teaching, engaging students with developing exhibitions concerning children\u2019s literature. I learned a great deal from all three colleagues which I hope will develop my own teaching in new ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/waipru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/moomin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"297\" \/>Highlights from the rest of the sessions I attended include talks about silence in Moomin stories by Tove Jansson; sessions about the silences associated with refugee voices in the picturebooks telling refugee stories, silences in the translation of picturebooks, an analysis of the silences in world tours made by Munro Leaf, author of <em>The Story of Ferdinand <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 1rem 1rem 1rem 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/waipru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/ferdinand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"230\" \/><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/how-the-story-of-ferdinand-became-fodder-for-the-culture-wars-of-its-era\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/how-the-story-of-ferdinand-became-fodder-for-the-culture-wars-of-its-era<\/a> based on itineraries in his archived papers; the presence or silencing of indigenous voices in children\u2019s literature; voices present in children\u2019s lullabies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/waipru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/astrid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"297\" \/>I was also able to have a tour of Astrid Lindgren\u2019s apartment (the creator of Pippi Longstocking), still furnished exactly as it was when she died; and we were given a city reception at the Town Hall of Stockholm, in the beautiful golden hall where the Nobel Awards are given each year. So it has been a full and privileged experience which will benefit both my teaching and research into the future. I have taken the opportunity to download biographies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astridlindgren.com\/en\/about-astrid-lindgren\">Astrid Lindgren<\/a> \u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/15\/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review\">Tove Jansson<\/a>, two amazingly prolific and talented writers (with several picturebooks each among their works) from the region to read. Somehow the connection of having been in the country which each of them had connections to makes reading these biographies even more of a pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have been really privileged to attend to attend the International Research Society for Children\u2019s Literature (IRSCL) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. 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