‘Las voces de les otres’: Listening through Words and Pictures in Latin American Critical Contexts of Displacement
With Latin America facing the challenges of the large, forced mobilisations, in 2024, The Centre for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and Caribbean (CERLALC), an intergovernmental organization sponsored by UNESCO, launched a regional strategy focused on reading, writing, and orality. Rutas de la palabra y la vida is intended to support migrant populations through public library systems in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. This keynote talk will discuss the aspects of the project that involve mediators working with children’s literature and arts-based methods and especially the potential of picturebooks for relationality, inclusion, and listening to each other’s voices.
Evelyn Arizpe is Professor of Children’s Literature at the School of Education, University of Glasgow and the Programme Lead for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme, “Children’s Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship.” She has taught and published widely on topics related to children’s literature, especially picturebooks and young readers, and has co-authored, among other publications, Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts (2003/2016/2023). Her research examines the role of books for children alongside themes of displacement, conflict, and peacebuilding. Evelyn was President of the International Research Society on Children’s Literature (IRSCL) (2019-2023) and was on the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2022 and 2024.
Keynote Speaker: Evelyn Arizpe
‘Las voces de les otres’: Listening through Words and Pictures in Latin American Critical Contexts of Displacement
With Latin America facing the challenges of the large, forced mobilisations, in 2024, The Centre for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and Caribbean (CERLALC), an intergovernmental organization sponsored by UNESCO, launched a regional strategy focused on reading, writing, and orality. Rutas de la palabra y la vida is intended to support migrant populations through public library systems in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Colombia. This keynote talk will discuss the aspects of the project that involve mediators working with children’s literature and arts-based methods and especially the potential of picturebooks for relationality, inclusion, and listening to each other’s voices.
Evelyn Arizpe is Professor of Children’s Literature at the School of Education, University of Glasgow and the Programme Lead for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme, “Children’s Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship.” She has taught and published widely on topics related to children’s literature, especially picturebooks and young readers, and has co-authored, among other publications, Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts (2003/2016/2023). Her research examines the role of books for children alongside themes of displacement, conflict, and peacebuilding. Evelyn was President of the International Research Society on Children’s Literature (IRSCL) (2019-2023) and was on the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2022 and 2024.
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