Thursday, August 26, 2010

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

Monday, August 16, 2010

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

Friday, August 13, 2010

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

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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