Prof Hester Meyer's retirement function

Professor Hester Meyer’s farewell lunch on 26 November 2010

On Friday 26 November 2010 the Department of Information Science hosted a farewell function in honour of Professor Hester Meyer. She was a member of the Department of Information Science for the last 26 years.


The guest of honour Hester and her husband Reinhard



What follows are photos of the venue and guests and colleagues who attended the luncheon.



Hester with her daughter Linda on the left, Madely and Adeline du Toit (a former colleague)



Thomas, Karin, Madely and Jackie Fourie (a former colleague)



Bosire, Nicoline and Karin



Mabel saying a few words



Linda, Hester, Marthie, Marlene and Jackie



Tina, Gontse, Sipho and Salmon



Veli and Luyanda



Sipho, Salmon and Jan



Nicoline, Karin, Namps and Tony



Tina, Sipho Salmon, Jan and Tony



Luyanda, Marthie, Marlene



Namps, Hannalie, Jan, Salmon



Salmon, Jan, Tony, Thomas, Luyanda



Marlene, Jackie



Hester



Luyanda presenting Hester with a gift from the Department



Veli giving flowers to Hester



Mabel presenting a gift on behalf of the Department to Hester



Opening the gift



Something to remember us by!

PROLISSA CONFERENCE (9-11 March 2011)

Registration due dates (register online at: www.unisa.ac.za/prolissa2011 )


Early Bird: until 31 January 2011
Standard: from 1 February to 28 February 2011
Late: from 1 March 2011

1. Main conference (10-11 March 2011)
The DISSAnet series of conferences are intended as a biennial event to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science. The first five conferences took place in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009. All five conferences were very successful, and were attended by a number of academics and information professionals from across South Africa, the SADC countries and further afield. Conference papers that were presented prior to 2009 can be found on the DISSAnet website at http://www.dissanet.com.

Themes
Information in modern society is valued as an essential component in the daily lives of people, both on individual and organisational levels. Increasingly we expect information to meet our needs through technological interventions or interactions. Indeed, recent technological developments have accentuated contemporary conceptions of the Library and Information field as an intersection of information, technology, people and society.

Contributions are invited that address current research issues related to the LIS field. Themes that may be addressed are wide and open, but an advanced academic level of discourse is required. Inter alia the following broad themes will be addressed at the conference:
1. Information and knowledge management
2. Information seeking and retrieval
3. Information organisation and representation
4. Information for development
5. Indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems
6. Information technology
7. Information law, ethics and philosophy
8. Information dissemination
9. Informetrics
10. Digital libraries and portals
11. Web development and web technologies

2. Doctoral Forum (9 March 2011)
The Doctoral Forum is part of the biennially held DISSAnet series of conferences which endeavour to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science.

For more information (including preliminary programmes and registration ) about the conference, please visit the conference website: http://www.unisa.ac.za/prolissa2011 You can also contact Prof P Ngulube (ngulup@unisa.ac.za) and/or Dr. OB Onyancha (onyanob@unisa.ac.za) for more information.

Frankwell Wilson Dulle

CURRICULUM VITAE


DOCTORAL DEGREE


COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES


The degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy (DLitt et Phil) in Information Science
conferment on 04 October 2010


FRANKWELL WILSON DULLE
Frankwell Wilson Dulle was born on 10 February 1962.

In 1991 he completed his BSc (Agriculture) at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania, after which in 1997 he completed his MA at the University of Botswana.

He is currently a senior librarian at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania.

Open Access has emerged as an opportunity for wider and unlimited access to, and dissemination of scholarly literature. In his thesis entitled AN ANALYSIS OF OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN TANZANIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, Frankwell Wilson Dulle investigates factors that affect the adoption of Open Access in research activities within Tanzanian public universities in order to devise mechanisms for enhancing the use of this mode of scholarly communication. Finding positive perceptions among researchers and policy makers but negative facilitating conditions, he develops an Open Access adoption model for implementation in Tanzanian public universities.

Supervisor: Prof MK Minishi-Majanja
Co-supervisor: Dr LM Cloete

STORYTELLING FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

MIRIAM MAKEBA HALL, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA, PRETORIA

The storytelling evenings promise to be a great success with storytellers from our own country as well as from abroad. There will be contributions by our own children from the Information Science department as well as well-known persons such as Gcina Mhlophe performing.

More storytellers will follow ...
(Preliminary programme)

6 October 2010

17:30 Evening kicks off with a delicious cocktail in the foyer

18:30 Storytelling Festival starts

Welcoming address by Prof Rosemary Moeketsi

Mia Burger - child performer
Noma Jinyane - child performer
Gcina Mhlophe - Writing and Storytelling are the main foci of Gcina’s creative energies. She lives in Durban with her husband and their daughter Nomakhwezi
Brenda Shafir Performer, South Africa
Dieynaba Gueye - Storyteller, Senegal
Babila Mutia - Storyteller, Cameroon

Closure by ...


7 October 2010

17:30 Evening cicks off with a delicious finger supper in the foyer

18:30 Storytelling festival starts

Welcoming address by:

Denes Asad - Palestinian storyteller from Haifa. She has taken part in many storytelling festivals and conferences all over the Mediterranean, as well as in several European countries
Ida Gartrell - Performer, South Africa
Stephen Augustine - Storyteller, Canada
Francis Firebrace - Storyteller, Australia
Closure

Jenny Hatton's Biography

“What South African English books can you read with your Senior Phase Additional Language learners?” – Jenny Hatton.
This workshop will offer the opportunity to talk to other teachers about novels they are reading in English classrooms. The focus will be on a number of questions such as: How much has changed since the new curriculum was introduced? Are readers more current and local? Which novels work with learners and why? What other South African fiction could you read with your grade 7, 8 or 9 learners? Participants will go away with a bibliography and some practical suggestions on how to use readers in the classroom.

Jenny Hatton was a teacher, Head of Department, Media Advisor with the ex-TED, First Education Specialist and then Deputy Chief Education Specialist with the Gauteng Department of Education before leaving to freelance in 2000. She began writing while working for the Education Department and as a consultant to the Gauteng Institute of Education Development. Since then she has been involved in writing, editing, compiling and project managing as well as training. Her work has been published by a number of organisations and publishers including Jacana Media, Heinemann and Macmillan. Her English textbooks include the Expressions Grades 10-12 and All Aboard Grades 7-9 series. In 2007 she started a branch of the South African chapter of the international Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Gauteng. For more information on this, see http://www.SCBWIGauteng.blogspot.com. To see some of Jenny’s publications, see http://www.Jenny-Hatton.blogspot.com

Marita de Sterck's Biography

All over the world folktales are told in which girls become women. Young heroines survive outside and inside lightning and thunder, earthquakes and floods,... In spite of bodily harms, jealous kin, animal suitors,... changing women emerge, alive and kicking, rooted in firm female flesh after their second birth in rituals and stories. For the last 25 years Marita de Sterck has recorded folktales in South-Africa (Sepedi and Griqua) the Amazon Forest, Navajo reservation, Trinidad, Surinam, Alentejo-Portugal, South-Algeria and in Congolese, Indian, Moroccan and Roumanian families in Belgium. She imported ancestral stories and ‘stories from afar’ in classrooms in the Low Countries and composed an anthology with 60 folktales from all over the world that could make a woman out of a girl: Bleeding Beauties. The book appeared in 2 editions: one for adults and one for youngsters from about 12 years on. Title and cover of the juvenile edition are more concrete but the inside is exactly the same. How cruel, aggressive and erotic some of the folktales are, not a single word was changed. Included are a great diversity of folktales that could promote growth in a methaphorical, subliminal, implicit way, leaving interpretations to the young adults. This intergenerational cross-cultural anthology invites grandmothers, mothers and daughters, and grandfathers, fathers and sons as well on a worldwide narrative expedition on womanhood. In her keynote lecture Marita de Sterck will invite you to fasten your seatbelt and come along. She will discuss the mixed blessings of retelling folktales on paper. Can there be a substitute for the unique experience of actually listening to a storyteller?


Marita de Sterck (°1955) studied languages and communication sciences at the University of Ghent and Anthropology at the University of Leuven. She teaches literature, children’s literature and anthropology at the school for librarians in Ghent. She has published picture books, fiction and non-fiction for children and young adult novels. There is a direct line between her research about initiation rituals and her recent novels for young adults: Bad Blood (Book Lion; Silver Kiss Award); The Dog Eaters (Golden Owl Public Award).
In 2009 she made a graphic novel out of an animal bridegroom story of the Ticuna Indians, Boto, and in 2010 she published her collection with 60 oral folktales that could make a woman out of a girl: Bleeding beauties.

Marita de Sterck
School for Librarians Ghent, Belgium
marita.de.sterck@telenet.be, users.telenet.be/marita.de.sterck
Telephone: 00 32 3 664 61 41.

RONELLE VAN VOLLENHOVEN's Biography

RONELLE VAN VOLLENHOVEN

Ronelle has been a qualified Librarian for more than 17 years. She started as a Librarian at the Tlhabane Community Library in 1993. She is currently a Principal Librarian at the Bojanala District Library working for the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture. She is responsible for the outreach programs in her District.

Ronelle has a B.Bibl degree which she obtained in 1992 from the Potchefstroom University(now the Northwest University). She also has a HED Pre-primary Diploma which she obtained in 2001 from UNISA.

Her big passion is children and to create a love for reading and stories to children. She is also responsible for the implementation of toy library Service in Libraries in the Bojanala District. She loves to show how playing with a child can develop reading skills and how playing link with reading.


Ronelle participated in the following:
2004 SALLP Programme at the University of Illinois
2008 Northwest : Librarian of the Year

Michelle Commeyras' Biography

Michelle Commeyras is professor of language and literacy education at the University of Georgia. She was born in Paris, France and lived there until age three when her parents came to the state of Massachusetts in the USA. As a child she was an avid reader and even wrote simple plays that she produced with her neighbourhood friends. Michelle kept returning to the field of education because eventually someone pays you a salary to be kept learning and to teach others how to learn. Michelle has been a regular visitor to the African continent since 1997. She is proud to have been dissertation advisor to Drs. Hellen Inyega and Lone Ketsitlile who will co-facilitate the UNISA workshop. To view Michelle's publication history go to: http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/commeyras/index.html

Gcina Mhlophe's Biography

Doyenne of South Africa’s storytellers to perform at Storyelling Conference and Festival


Gcina Mhlophe has been writing and performing on stage and screen for the past 24 years. She has written many children's books as well as adult audience poetry and short stories and plays. Her writings are published all over the world and translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese. Her work is used extensively in many schools and universities. Gcina produced and performed in the collaboration CD for children with Ladysmith Black Mambazo - released by Music for Little People (USA), 1993. She wrote music for the SABCTV series Gcina & Friends where she performed her own stories for television audiences. In 2000 she released an award-winning storytelling CD “Fudukazi's Magic” for German audiences. Gcina wrote both the story and music for Fudukazi's Magic - produced for video in collaboration with Anant Singh of VideoVision. She wrote both story and music in collaboration with guitarist, Bheki Khoza, for the Animated Tales of the World Series, for RIGHT ANGLE TV in the UK as well as the SABC. In 2001 her CD and book of Nozincwadi Mother of Books was produced as part of her nationwide reading road show to South African rural schools. Her work has received awards from BBC Africa Service for Radio Drama, The Fringe First Award in the Edinburgh Festival, the Josef Jefferson Award in Chicago, and OBBIE in New York. Gcina Mhlophe has received four Honorary Doctorates from the London Open University, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, 1992, University of Pretoria and Fort Hare University in 2008.
In July 2006 Gcina represented South Africa at the Soccer World Cup in Germany, the highlight of her performances being the official revealing of the 2010 World Cup Emblem for South Africa. The performance was broadcasted live around the world to more than a billion viewers! In 2009 Gcina created a new Workshop Theatre production with Greenlandic performers in NUUK, Greenland, to be performed at the Olymic Winter Games in Vancouver in March 2010.


Her NOZINCWADI Mother of Books Literacy Campaign, started in 2001, is still alive and touching thousands of children in hundreds of schools around South Africa. Gcina travels to perform storytelling in mostly rural schools and bringing books to set up school libraries and promote literacy.


Gcina published several books and writing and Storytelling continue to be the main focus of her creative energies. She lives in Durban with her husband and their daughter Nomakhwezi,the morning star !

2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children:Registration, Conference & Workshop programmes

2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

6 - 8 October 2010

Unisa Main Campus, Pretoria

Information about the conference and workshop programmes and the registration form is now available at: Registration form

More information will be added, e.g. exciting news about the two storytelling evenings.

For more information contact:
Thomas van der Walt: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za
Marthie de Kock: dkockmg@unisa.ac.za
Koki Mokwatlo: mokwaki@unisa.ac.za

Conference programme

The 2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

6-8 October

Unisa Main Campus, Muckleneuk Ridge, Pretoria

For updated Programme, visit: Preliminary (and updated) Programme

Wednesday 6 October 2010
Workshops
Storytelling Evening

Thursday 7 October 2010
Conference
Storytelling Evening

Friday 8 October 2010
Conference

Thursday 7 October 2010

07:45-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:45 Welcome and Opening

08:45-09:30 Keynote address: Bleeding beauties: folktales that could change a girl into a woman
Marita de Sterck, Belgium
09:30-10:00 The Kaross of Heritage
Basil Mills, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
10:00-10:30 A joke and a riddle: a collection from black Afrikaans speaking communities
Maritha Snyman, Lapa Publishers

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-11:30 Bringing back folktales and storytelling to life (Palestinian National Project)
Denes Asad, Palestine storyteller
11:30-12:00 The transforming effect of storytelling on children
Babila Mutia, Dept of English, Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of
Yaoundé I, Cameroon
12:00-12:30 The necessity of storytelling
Dieynaba Gueye, Storyteller, Senegal
12:30-13:00 Promoting reading and storytelling in the digital age: the case for an online encyclopaedia on children’s literature and storytelling in Africa
Elinor Sisulu

13:00-13:45 Lunch

Parallel Session 1:

13:45-14:15 Explicit and implicit affirmation of behavioural characteristics in children’s literature
JE Wehrmeyer, Dept of Linguistics, Unisa
14:15-14:45 The physics of responsibility: alternate worlds and adolescent choices
Molly Brown, Department of English, University Of Pretoria
14:45-15:15 Negotiating a new cultural space: aspects of fantasy in contemporary South African youth literature
Gina Leigh Robson, University of Pretoria

Parallel Session 2:
13:45-14:15 Teachers as readers themselves: developing reading habits in teachers for transfer to learners
Abudulai Jakalia, Department of English Education, University of Education,
Winneba, Ghana
14:15-14:45 Using a visualizer in storytelling and reading promotion
Cheryl Gibbs, Springvale Primary School
14:45-15:15 Small details provides for the great interest in reading.
Natalie Kurtog, Russia

15:15-15:45 Coffee

Parallel Session 1
15:45-16:15 Getting generation Y learners to reconsider the book: the case for St Stithians Boys Prep Library
Moira Gundu, St Stithians Boys Prep School, Randburg
16:15-16:45 Creating a passion for stories – a practical demonstration
Audrey Hitchcock – Hedgehog Books

Parallel Session 2: Afrikaans-Dutch Session
15:45-16:15 Alternatiewe maniere vir storievertel: die orale tradisie tot by Facebook
Franci Greyling, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit
16:15-16:45 Tricksters op het web: weef een multimediaweb rond orale verhalen
Marita de Sterck, België

17:30 Cocktail
18:15 Storytelling

Friday 8 October 2010

08:30-09:00 Alternative means to promote a love for reading
Rene Schoombee, Laerskool Rustenburg
09:00-09:30 “You must tell the story and not act it out”: children’s literature and cultural diversity
Ellen Lenyai; School of Education; University of South Africa.
09:30-10:00 Igniting the Reading Fire
Bukola Ladoja, Nigeria
10:00-10:30 Teach children a love for books then they will love reading forever
Ronelle van Vollenhoven, Hoërskool Bergsig, Rustenburg

10:30-11:00 Coffee

Parallel Session 1:
11:00-11:30 Reading promotion: Buddy Reading as literacy technique
Leoné Tiemensma
11:30-12:00 Reading promotion in a township school library: a “school librarian’s” story
Nicoline Wessels and Nampombe Mnkeni-Saurombe, Department of Information
Science, Unisa
12:00-12:30 The Lubuto Library Project: innovative, holistic educational support to overcome societal isolation of orphans and vulnerable children and youth
Jane Kinney Meyers, President: Lubuto Library Project, USA
12:30-13:00 First Words in Print: growing up with books
Nombulelo Baba, Co-ordinator: Children's Literature Programme at the Centre for
the Book

Parallel Session 2: Afrikaans Session

11:00-11:30 Hedendaagse tendense in Afrikaanse kinderboeke as rigtingwysers tot leesbevordering onder jong lesers
Mia Oosthuizen, Departement Afrikaans, Unisa
11:30-12:00 Gedichten lezen: ja! Poëzie spelen: JAAAA!!
Daniel Billiet, België
12:00-12:30 Intertekstualiteit in jeugliteratuur
Marietha Nieman, Department of Education, Unisa
12:30-13:00 Basisbeginsels vir die bevordering van gemeenskapseie woordkuns in Suid-Afrika
Anneretha Combrink, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit

13:00-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:15 The wonderful world of the short story
Derrick Hurlin, writer and editor
14:15-14:45 Planning and running of a children’s reading tent
AK Mugalavai, Department of Library, Egerton University, Kenya
14:45-15:15 What can we read?
Crystal Warren, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
15:15-15:30 Closing
15:30- Coffee

ProLISSA 2011: Preliminary Conference Programme

2011 ProLISSA Conference
Progress in Library and Information Science in Southern Africa

Sixth biennial DISSAnet Conference
University of South Africa (UNISA)
9-11 March 2011
9 March 2011: Doctoral Forum
10-11 March 2011: Conference

Main Conference

Preliminary programme (PDF)
Guidelines for authors (PDF)
Doctoral Forum

Structure of Presentations (PDF)
Call for papers (PDF)
Registrations

Registration Form
Committees

Venue
We have great pleasure in inviting you to submit a paper for the sixth ProLISSA conference, to be held in Pretoria on 9-11 March 2011, and / or an abstract for the doctoral forum to be held on 9 March 2011

About the DISSAnet conferences
The DISSAnet series of conferences are intended as a biennial event to showcase South African and Southern African research in the broad field of Information Science. The first five conferences took place in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009. All five conferences were very successful, and were attended by a number of academics and information professionals from across South Africa, the SADC countries and further afield. Conference papers that were presented prior to 2009 can be found on the DISSAnet website at http://www.dissanet.com.

Themes
Information in modern society is valued as an essential component in the daily lives of people, both on individual and organisational levels. Increasingly we expect information to meet our needs through technological interventions or interactions. Indeed, recent technological developments have accentuated contemporary conceptions of the Library and Information field as an intersection of information, technology, people and society.

Contributions are invited that address current research issues related to the LIS field. Themes that may be addressed are wide and open, but an advanced academic level of discourse is required. Inter alia the following broad themes will be addressed at the conference:

Information and knowledge management
Information seeking and retrieval
Information organisation and representation
Information for development
Indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems
Information technology
Information law, ethics and philosophy
Information dissemination
Informetrics
Digital libraries and portals
Web development and web technologies
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Programme chair
TBA

International adviser(s)

Hannes Britz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Committee members

Ismail Abdullahi, North Carolina Central University, USA
John Agada, Emporia State University, USA
Albert Boekhorst, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theo Bothma, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Genevieve Hart, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Mabel Majanja, University of South Africa, South Africa
Karin McGuirk, University of South Africa, South Africa
Kingo Mchombu, University of Namibia, Namibia
Mary Nassimbeni, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Patrick Ngulube, University of South Africa, South Africa
Dennis Ocholla, University of Zululand, South Africa
Bosire Onyancha, University of South Africa, South Africa
Christine Stilwell, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Adeline du Toit, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Thomas van der Walt, University of South Africa, South Africa
Elisam Magara, University of Makerere, Uganda
Stephen Mutula, University of Botswana, Botswana
Joseph Kiplang’at, Moi University, Kenya
Mutawakilu A. Tiamiyu, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Lawton Hikwa, National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
Vitalis Chifwepa, University of Zambia, Zambia
Gavin Davis, University of Western Cape, South Africa

2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children

2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children, 6-8 October 2010: accepted papers

The 2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children (6-8 October) will be hosted on the Unisa Main Campus

The registration form and final programme should be ready soon, but in the mean time, here is a list of the papers that have been accepted for the Conference.

Explicit and implicit affirmation of behavioural characteristics in children's literature, Wehrmeyer, Dept of Linguistics, Unisa
Bleeding beauties: folktales that could change a girl into a woman, Marita de Sterck, Belgium
Alternative means to promote a love for reading, Renee Schoombee, Laerskool Rustenburg
Getting generation Y learners to reconsider the book: the case for St Stithians Boys Prep Library, Moira Gundu, St Stithians Boys Prep School, Randburg
The physics of responsibility: alternate worlds and adolescent choices, Molly Brown, Department of English, University of Pretoria
Creating a passion for stories - a practical demonstration, Audrey Hitchcock , Hedgehog Books
Using a visualizer in storytelling and reading promotion, Cheryl Gibbs, Springvale Primary School
Reading promotion: Buddy Reading as literacy technique, Leone Tiemensma
Fostering Ubuntu through contemporary picturebooks, Prof Jennifer M. Graff, University of Georgia, USA
Igniting the reading fire, Bukola Ladoja, Nigeria
The role of oral history in promotion of reading: experiences of EASLIS, Makerere University, Elisam Magara, Uganda
"You must tell the story and not act it out": children's literature and cultural diversity, Dr Ellen Lenyai, School of Education, University of South Africa.
Negotiating a new cultural space: aspects of fantasy in contemporary South African youth literature, Gina Leigh Robson, University of Pretoria
Reading promotion in a township school library: a "school librarian's" story, Nicoline Wessels and Namponde Mnkeni-Saurombe, Department of Information Science, Unisa
Planning and running of a children's reading tent, AK Mugalavai, Department of Library, Egerton University, Kenya
The Wonderful world of the short story, Derrick Hurlin, writer and editor
The Lubuto Library Project: innovative, holistic educational support to overcome societal isolation of orphans and vulnerable children and youth, Jane Kinney Meyers, President: Lubuto Library Project, USA
Teach children a love for books then they will love reading forever, Ronelle van Vollenhoven, Hoerskool Bergsig, Rustenburg
First words in print: growing up with books, Nombulelo Baba, Co-ordinator: Children's Literature Programme at the Centre for the Book.
Small details are the great interest in reading, Natali Kurtog, Russia
What can we read? Crystal Warren, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
Teacher as readers themselves: developing reading habits in teachers for transfer to learners, Abudulai Jakalia, Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
The Kaross of Heritage, Basil Mills, English Literary Museum, Grahamstown
The necessity of storytelling, Dieynaba Gueye, Storyteller, Senegal
A joke and a riddle: a collection from black Afrikaans speaking communities, Maritha Snyman, Lapa Publishers
My experiences with the Palestine national project for folktales and story-telling and experience as a traininer for story-tellers, Denes Asad, Palestine storyteller, Haifa, Israel
The transforming effect of storytelling on Children, Babila Mutia, Dept of English, Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon

Afrikaanse sessie:
Hedendaagse tendense in Afrikaanse kinderboeke as rigtingwysers tot leesbevordering onder jong lesers, Me Mia Oosthuizen, Departement Afrikaans ,Unisa
Alternatiewe maniere vir storievertel: die orale tradisie to by ... Prof Franci Greyling, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir Tale, Noordwes Universiteit
Intertekstualiteit in jeugliteratuur, Marietha Nieman, Department of Education, Unisa
Basis beginsels vir die bevordering van gemeenskapseie woordkuns in Suid-Afrika, Anneretha Combrink, Vakgroep Skryfkuns, Skool vir tale, Noordwes Universiteit

Archival Conference on Records and Archives in Support of Good Governance and Service Delivery

The South African Society of Archivists is hosting the Archival Conference on Records and Archives in Support of Good Governance and Service Delivery, University of South Africa, Pretoria (Sunnyside Campus): Building 7, Room 2-B, on 13-14 July 2010.

The following speakers will present papers at the conference:

David Leitch, Kekoko Kenosi, Esther Ndenje-Sichalwe, Dr Segomotso M Keakopa, Ayub Kathurima and Henry Kemoni, Hamisi K. Kiyabo, Wendy Smith, Tiragalo Josephine Kootshabe and Iwani Ndabambi, Constant Okello-Obura, David Lwabi, Nathan Mnjama, Rudo Karadzandima, Bosire Onyancha, Olephile Mosweu, Francis Garaba, Thatayaone Segaetsho, Trywell Kalusopa, Adrena Ifill, and Kuzvinetsa P Dzvimbo.


For more information on the conference, please contact Prof Patrick Nguluge: ngulup@unisa.ac.za

From 6-8 October 2010 the 2nd Unisa Conference on Reading Promotion and Storytelling for Children will take place at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. This will be accompanied by a Storytelling Festival on the evenings of 6 & 7 October.

The first conference and festival which took place in 2009 proved to be so popular that it was decided to host it as an annual event. in 2009 storytellers from Indonesia, Cameroon, Argentina, in addition to local storytellers enthralled the audience. This year, the organisers are planning to have storytellers from Senegal, Cameroon and Palestine participating, not only the Storytelling festival, but also in the conference and workshops, sharing their knowledge and experience with the participants.

Before the Conference a series of workshops will be presented. A full day workshop, entitled "Telling the Story of Your Name: Teachers as Readers and Writers" will be presented by presenters from the USA, Botswana and Kenya. There will also be shorter workshops on the making of books and telling of stories; unleasing of creative potential; classroom initiatives to install a love for reading and what South African English books can be read with Senior Phase additional language learners.

More informaiton and news on the Conference and Festival will be made available on the Conference website and this Blog.

Contact: Thomas van der Walt: vdwaltb@unisa.ac.za