Friday, 9 February
Seamus Heaney Theatre, Cregan Library
6.00pm
Opening remarks
Presentation of the
IBBY Ireland Award 2024
6.15pm
IBBY Ireland Annual Lecture
Hare Joins the Home Guard: Children’s Books and War
Andrew Pettegree FBA
Professor of Modern History at University of Saint Andrews
Andrew Pettegree, the author of The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in a
Time of Conflict, addresses the theme of war in children’s books
Followed by a reception
Saturday, 10 February
Room SPC.F218
Symposium
on the theme of war in children’s books
10.00am Registration and coffee
10.30am Valerie Coghlan on Jella Lepman (founder of IBBY): War and Peace
11.30am Liz Page on the international work of IBBY: Making Peace with
Children’s Books
12.30pm Lunch break (Lunch not provided)
1.30pm Rebecca Long: Cúchulainn as a Child Warrior in Irish Children’s
Literature
2.30pm Alan Titley, author of a new children’s translation of The Táin
3.30pm Closing remarks
Each one-hour slot includes time for audience Q&A
No charge for attendance, register at EVENTBRITE:
https://shorturl.at/fAOX3
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