Wykład mistrzowski – Svetlana Efimova

W imieniu organizatorów zapraszamy na wykład mistrzowski Svetlany Efimovej pt. „Children’s Agency and Empowerment in Contemporary Belarusian Picturebooks”.

Data i miejsce: 13 marca, 15:45-17:15 (Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, sala 11)

Abstrakt po angielsku:

This talk examines recent developments in Belarusian children’s literature before, during, and after a wave of the country’s suppressed political protests (2020–2021). What creative strategies are available to publishers and authors who experience authoritarian pressure but still seek to provide their readers with an alternative form of civic education? A fundamental condition of democratic citizenship is individual agency, and this talk will show how contemporary Belarusian picturebooks employ particular verbal and visual poetics to empower their audiences. The focus will be on three books within a broader context: Brave Girl (2017), Father and Son (2020), and Believe in Yourself (2024).

Notka bio po angielsku:

Svetlana Efimova is an assistant professor of Slavic literatures and media studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. In 2024, she was elected to the Young Academy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities with her research project on “The Aesthetics and Politics of Picturebooks in Contemporary Eastern European Children’s Literature.” Her recent coedited volume (with Marina Balina), The Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond,will appear in 2025. In 2024, she was elected as co-chair of the international working group “Childhood in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia” (ChEEER).

Organizatorzy: dr hab. Mateusz Świetlicki, prof. UWr (Instytut Filologii Angielskiej), dr hab. Elżbieta Tyszkowska-Kasprzak, prof. UWr (Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej)