3rd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium, 29 May 2025

The 3rd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held at the University of Reading on Thursday May 29th, in the Global Studies Lounge & Room 227 in the Edith Morley Building. The Symposium will be an occasion for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers to showcase their research while engaging with the wider community of researchers within the CBCP.

No cost to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Registration has now closed.

9.00 – 9:15 am Arrival and refreshments (provided) (Global Studies Lounge)

9:15 – 9: 20 am Welcome note and Introduction (Global Studies Lounge)

9:25 – 10:55 am

Panel I: Multilingual Readership (Chair: Cristina De Luca) (Global Studies Lounge)

• Sarah Bramao Ramos (University of Hong Kong), “Reading across, reading together: Multilingual Readers of Manchu-Language Books in Qing China” (online)
• Thalatha Gunasekara (University of Kelaniya), “An exploration of the translation theories, methods, procedures, and strategies employed by Sugathapala De Silva in his Sinhala translations of The Gadfly, Death is Part of the Process, and ‘Funny Boy’” (online)
• Elena Hueso Garcia (University of Valencia), “Multimodal Critical Literacy in a Multilingual Classroom: Exploring Migration and Refugee Narratives through Visual and Textual Resources” (online)
• Helena Moros-Gracia (Jaume I University), “Words, worlds, and identities: Young Adult literature in multilingual contexts” (online)

Panel II: Transforming formats and approaches in Children’s Literature (Chair: Emma Page) (Room 227)

• Pamela Ellayah (Le Mans University), “Rediscovering Margaret Wise Brown’s Picture Books with Contemporary French Translations”(in person)
• Isabel Lopes Coelho (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), “Translating formats: the development of a YA literary digital artefact from a traditional book project”(online)
• Cheeno Sayuno (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Mediatization of Philippine Children’s Literary Production: Experiences in Storybook Development, Distribution, and Consumption in Pandemic Learning Environments” (online)
• Ginny Xu (Tilburg University), “The Disappearing Chinese YA Literature” (online)

10:55 – 11:10 am Coffee/tea break (provided) (Global Studies Lounge)

11: 15 – 12: 45 pm

Panel I: Publishing and the mediation of national identity I (Chair: Emma Page) (Global Studies Lounge)

• Clara Défachel (Univeristy of St. Andrews & University of Sterling), “Staging Arabics and Frenches on the page in French translations: the ‘Collection Khamsa’” (in person)
• Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University), “Book Trade in Colonial South India: Tensions between the Missionary and Native Print Worlds” (online)
• Yueran Wang (University of Leeds), “Translating and Publishing Modern Mainland Chinese Literature in English: A Case Study of Penguin Random House” (online)

Panel II: Cultural transformations in print (Chair: Abeera Zishan) (Room 227)

• Hanan Alshawi (University of Reading), “The development of pilgrimage booklets 1900 to 2020” (in person)
• Yangyang Liu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Vertical or Horizontal: The Debate on Chinese Printing Directionality and the Unheard Voices” (online)
• Simi Nath (University of Delhi), “On Readership After the Advent of Print in Assam” (online)
• Jennifer Taylor (University of Reading), “Printing Eve: Gendered Performance and Book Design in Perrault’s Adam ou la création de l’homme (1697)” (in person)

12:45 pm – 1:55 pm Lunch (provided)

2:00 – 3:00 pm Guest Talk (Chair: Cristina De Luca) (Global Studies Lounge)

Mariangela Dicillo (Digital Sales Specialist for the Mondadori Group – Audiobooks) – (online)

3:05 – 3:20 pm Afternoon refreshments (provided) (Global Studies Lounge)

3:25 – 4:55 pm

Panel I: Women in Publishing: Workers, translators, gatekeepers (Chair: Pritha Mukherjee) (Global Studies Lounge)

• Izzy Barrett-Lally (Royal Holloway, University of London), “A Comparison of Anglophone and Francophone Literary BookTube: Identifying Interpretative Codes and Communities” (online)
• Maria Belén Riveiro (University of Buenos Aires), “An International Comparative Approach to Women Publishers” (online)
• Patience Haggin (Independent Scholar), “Virtually No Rights at all for Herself”: Anna Maria Ortese and Her Translators”(online)
• Josephine Murray (University of East Anglia), “Patricia Crampton: advocate for translators’ rights, ‘freedom fighter, risk taker and forger of the future’ (2017)” (online)

Panel II: Publishing and the mediation of national identity II (Chair: Cristina De Luca) (Room 227)

• Fatih Aşan (Boğaziçi University), “From Constantinople with Love:How an Ottoman Printer Became a European Sensation” (online)
• Andrea Romanzi (University of Milano & University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari), “Translating Heimskringla: Cultural Identity and Power in Early Modern Scandinavia” (in person)
• Ekaterina Shatalova (Aarhus University), “Border Crossing in Russian and Ukrainian editions of Yuri Nikitinsky’s Vovka Who Saddled the Bomb” (online)
• Deborah Lyons (University of Birmingham), “Reading Between the Leaves: Transcultural Print Histories of Zoë Wicomb’s ‘In the Botanic Gardens’” (online)

5:00 – 5:30 pm Closing remarks and farewell (Global Studies Lounge)

If you would like the Teams links to be able to listen to any of the talks remotely, please contact Cristina De Luca or Emma Page.