The 4th Picturebook Research Conference

13 – 15 September 2013

The fourth European Network of Picturebook Research Conference took place at University of  Stockholm, Sweden and was organised by Elina Druker

  • The title of the conference was: ‘Text, Image, Ideology – Picturebooks as Meetingplaces’ 
  • The conference programme can be found here.
  • The book of abstracts can be found here.
  • The featured illustrator was Lisem Adbåge.

The post-conference publication

A selection of articles was published in an Open Access Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Childlit Aesthetics, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015 – edited by Elina Druker

Picturebooks as Meetingplaces: Text, Image, Ideology

  • Introduction: Commentary by Elina Druker
  • Article 1: Maps in picturebooks: cognitive status and narrative functions by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer
  • Article 2: Picturebooks, lies and mindreading by María Cecilia Silva-Díaz
  • Article 3: The Constraints of Literary Paradigms: Christian Mythology and the Jungle in Ida, a non-fiction picturebook on evolution by Jørn Hurum, Torstein Helleve and Esther van Hulsen by Kristin Ørjasæter
  • Article 4: Re-conceptualising picturebook theory in the digital age by Ghada Al-Yaqout and Maria Nikolajva
  • Article 5: What’s in “the gap”? A glance down the central concept of picturebook theory by Clementine Beauvais