CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday, 24/ 9, 9.00-9.30: Registration
Saturday, 24/ 9, 9.30-10.00: Conference Opening
Saturday, 24/9, 10.00-11.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
&
Jörg Meibauer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
On the Run: The challenges and multiple dimensions of picturebooks about flight and expulsion
Saturday, 24/ 9, 11.00-12.30: The Aesthetics of nostalgia
Chair: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University
Stamping Ground: Postal ephemera and radical nostalgia in art & children’s literature
Tzina Kalogirou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Photography in children’s literature: Between ‘nostalgia’ and ‘memento mori’
Eleni Paschalidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The stones of nostalgia: Aesthetic elements as a means of nostalgia in Stepping Stones
COFFEE BREAK: 12.30-13.00
Saturday 24/ 9, 13.00-14.00: Sounds and Nostalgia
Chair: Ana Margarita Ramos
Ilgım Veryeri Alaca, Koç University, Turkey
Souvenirs of Migration, Rhymes of Nostalgia in Children’s Culture and Literature
Cláudia Sousa Pereira, CIDEHUS – University of Evora, Portugal
Knitting the past: word, image, sounds and memory. The 60s emigration social impact in an intemporal picture book
LUNCH BREAK: 14.00-16.00
Saturday, 24/ 9, 16.00-17.30: Remembrance and Oblivion
Chair: Petros Panaou
Marianna Missiou, University of the Aegean
Transmission of historical knowledge, nostalgia, and duty to remember in French picturebooks on refugees of the 20th century conflicts
Sara Reis da Silva, University of Minho, Portugal
African migrants and nostalgia: About an exception of a silent presence in Portuguese children´s edition
Janet Evans, Independent Scholar
Making sense of a new world whilst remembering the old: Memory and nostalgia in picturebook
Saturday, 24/ 9, 17.30-18.30: KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
Petros Panaou, University of Georgia, USA
The Nostoi of two Immigrant Masters of the Art of the Picturebook
How Allen Say and Peter Sís Turned to Art to Negotiate the Paradoxes of Nostalgia and Identity
Sunday, 25/ 9, 9.30-11.00: Displacement and nostalgia
Chair: Meni Kanatsouli
Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa & Louiza Mallouri, University of Nicosia
Verbal and visual responses and representations of nostalgia in two contemporary picturebooks of Cypriot Children’s Literature: The Red Dress of Savel and The White Uniform by Marina Michaelidou-Kadi
Rosy-Triantafyllia Angelaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nostalgia, melancholy and the myth of eternal return in historical picturebooks for children: The case of the disaster in Asia Minor and the ensuing refugee crisis
Diana Navas, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Nostalgia beyond words: a reading of the book's materiality in Refugees
Sunday, 25/ 9, 11.00-12.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Child Evacuees and ‘Ambivalent Nostalgia’: The case of the picturebook Mexique and The Children of Morelia
COFFEE BREAK 12.00-12.30
Sunday, 25/ 9, 12.30-14.00: Diaspora and exile
Chair: Jörg Meibauer
Alexandra Zervou & Vassiliki Vassiloudi, University of Crete
Nostalgia, Diaspora, Memory and History in Peter Șis’s picturebooks
Margarida Ramos, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Missing home: Depictions of exile during the Portuguese Dictatorship
Angela Yannicopoulou, University of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Political dimensions of nostalgia in picturebooks about forced displacement
LUNCH BREAK: 14.00-16.00
Sunday, 25/ 9, 16.00-17.00: Metaphors and nostalgia
Chair: Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
Dorota Sadowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Grandma is knitting Uri Orlev or how to fit the history of the Holocaust into words and pictures
Chryssa Kouraki, Aegean University
Suitcases as symbols of nostalgia in picture books for refugees and immigrant
Sunday, 25/ 9, 17.00-18.00: Nostalgia in graphic novels
Chair: Tzina Kalogirou
Tasoula Tsilimeni, Georgia Karantona & Christos Charakopoulos, University of Thessaly
Nostalgic remembrance in holocaust graphic narratives
Meni Kanatsouli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Exploring “nostalgia” in the ambiguous and hybrid book Little Jerusalem