International Children's Literature Event

Join us at the Madison Concourse Hotel on December 6-7 for the 2024 International Children's Literature Event - Stories of Separation and Belonging: Exploring Migration, Partition, and Displacement. This workshop is open to K-12 pre-service and current educators, librarians, and children's literature enthusiasts. Within our theme, experts will place special emphasis on using graphic novels with middle-school learners. The first 40 registrants will receive free books from our featured authors: Adrian Lysenko (Five Stalks of Grain) and Alexandra Diaz (Santiago's Road Home). 

Our workshop is scheduled for 9 am-4 pm on Saturday, December 7. A new addition to our program - participants are encouraged to join us for a special film screening at 6:30 pm on December 6. We'll watch the animated film Home is Somewhere Else. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for both the film screening and all-day workshop.

This workshop is sponsored by the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium and UW-Madison Libraries and funded by grants from the Department of Education. A registration fee of $25 is requested to help subsidize the food costs. Click here to register!

Scholarships for 1 night hotel accommodation are still available. Please email wirc@iris.wisc.edu for more information.

We hope to see you in Madison on December 6 and 7!

Dr. Andrea Fowler (she/her)

Assistant Director, Center for South Asia

University of Wisconsin-Madison

203 Ingraham

1155 Observatory Drive

Madison, WI 53706

608-890-2847

10th Annual International Children's and Young Adult Literature Celebration

Open a Door... Open a Book... Open your Mind... To the World!

Saturday, Novembe 19, 2011: 8:30 - 5:00
Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, Madison, WI

Featuring Award-winning Authors:

Atinuke (via Skype), Kathleen Horning, Anne Pellowski, and Mitali Perkins

This year marks the tenth annual celebration, which brings together award-winning authors whose literature spans the globe, with dedicated educators, librarians, students and children’s literature enthusiasts who gain insight into new cultures and histories from around the world. In the full-day workshop each author will present on their writing and discuss the stories that they have written and highlight cultural nuances and universal themes.

The Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) sponsors this annual event in observance of International Education Week. International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.

More information & Registration go to:
http://www.wioc.wisc.edu/events/childlit/index.html

Questions, contact Rachel Weiss (608) 262-9224 or email wioc@wioc.wisc.edu

8th Annual International Children's and YA Literature Celebration

8th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE CELEBRATION!

"Open a Door... Open a Book... Open your Mind... to the World"

When: Saturday, November 21, 2009; 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Tripp Commons, Memorial Union; University of Wisconsin - Madison

Featuring:
Sylviane Diouf
Rachna Gilmore
Kelly Herold
James Rumford

This celebration is an annual workshop for educators, librarians, student teachers and children's literature enthusiasts, with an aim to internationalize statewide reading curriculum. Each author will discuss the stories that they have written and highlight the work they feel is most suitable for classroom discussion. Two authors will speak in the morning and two following lunch. In conclusion, we will have a reception and book signing.

This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) in observance of International Education Week 2009. International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.

For more information and to register, please go to: http://www.wioc.wisc.edu/childlit/2009/registration09.htm

Please register and pay by Monday, November 13, 2009.

We are not able to accept payments on location at the Memorial Union.

For more information call (608) 262-9224, or e-mail: rweiss@wisc.edu