Keynote speakers:
Mari Hatavara, Tampere University. Keynote on Thursday 12.5.2022 at 11:00-11:45
Elina Druker, Stockholm University. Keynote on Friday 13.5.2022 at 12:15-13:00
Olli Löytty, University of Turku. Keynote on Friday 13.5.2022 at 13:00-13:45
Image: Susanne Kronholm
Elina Druker is Professor of Comparative Literature with specialization in children’s literature at Stockholm University. Her research area covers children’s literature, avant-garde and intermedia studies. She has published and edited several publications dealing with picturebooks and illustration history, modernism and the avant-garde and is author of Images of Modernism (2008) and co-editor for Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde (2015) and Multicultural Children’s Literature (2017). She is currently working with the international project “Photography in Children’s literature” (forthcoming, 2023). Druker has worked as a literary critic, is jury member for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, ALMA, and co-editor for the book series ”Children’s Literature, Culture and Cognition”.