Rutgers University

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY , OCTOBER 27th, 2006

1. “Bande dessinée”: French (therefore Belgian) Comics CODE R1

Presentation:

A look at some aspects of the history of “bande dessinée” from its first appearance at the end of the 19th century to its current commercial hegemony. Many examples will be discussed, and exhibited. Similarities, differences, and mutual contacts with American comic strips and comic books will be stressed, to give us an opportunity to reflect on the formal, social, and cultural specificities of this peculiar medium in its “French” incarnation, among which is the interesting fact that most of the essential and truly influential “bandes dessinées” produced in French came not from France, but from Belgium.

Instructor : Francois Cornilliat

Professor of French Literature, Rutgers (New Brunswick)

2. Romania Learns to Invest in their Children and Youth. CODE R2

Presentation:

Romania, slated to enter the European Union in January 2007, has learned some hard lessons about the importance of family and community since those pictures of the dirty and emaciated faces of the institutionalized children were sent around the world in 1990. Stories of Romania’s struggle to return their vulnerable children and youth to community life will be the focus of this workshop. The stories will be told from the viewpoint of those that suffered the most, the children, youth, and families. There will be stories of summer camps where children learned about the wonders of the natural caves and the Danube Delta; the factory owners that created jobs for institutionalized youth; youth that were trained to repair shoes or grow mushrooms as a small business venture; and communities that opened their homes for abandoned infants and toddlers. The stories are not complete without hearing about the helpers - the teachers, doctors and social workers - that provided the compassion and spirit for reform!

Instructor: Rebecca Davis

Visiting Associate Professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work (New Brunswick)
Rebecca Davis spent 10 years living and working with social workers, teachers, doctors, and business and political leaders in Romania as they struggled to implement community care programs for their most vulnerable citizens.

3. Children and the rise of the chanson. CODE R3

Presentation:

We will discuss the evolution of popular songs in modern France, with a special focus on the role of children in the crystallization of the chanson as a genre. We will listen to, read, and sing a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French songs for children, to the accompaniment of an accordion. A CD especially made for the occasion will be distributed to all participants.

Instructor: Uri Eisenzweig

Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers (New Brunswick). Currently, Director of the Rutgers Center for European Studies.

Michal Shapira

Ph.D. candidate in History, Rutgers University

Her dissertation deals with child psychoanalysis and the welfare state
in Postwar Britain.

Laurie Bernstein

Associate Professor of History and director of Women's Studies at Rutgers Camden. Author of "Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia" (Berkeley, 1995).
Her current focus is law and family policy in the early Soviet period.

REGISTRATION & WELCOME


LOCATION:	Douglass Student Center 100 George Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1412 Phone: (732) 932-9374 Fax: (732) 932-1793 Directions: http://www.douglass.rutgers.edu/about/directions.asp Parking permits will be provided Welcome, Keynote, Panel: Trayes Hall A Workshops: Meeting Rooms A, B, C, D
Please choose two workshops by order of preference, and report your choices on the TES application form, using codes. Download the Application form: click here


[Workshops] - [Panelists] - [Program]
	"Children in Europe, Children and Europe".

	1. “Bande dessinée”: French (therefore Belgian) Comics CODE R1 Presentation: A look at some aspects of the history of “bande dessinée” from its first appearance at the end of the 19th century to its current commercial hegemony. Many examples will be discussed, and exhibited. Similarities, differences, and mutual contacts with American comic strips and comic books will be stressed, to give us an opportunity to reflect on the formal, social, and cultural specificities of this peculiar medium in its “French” incarnation, among which is the interesting fact that most of the essential and truly influential “bandes dessinées” produced in French came not from France, but from Belgium. Instructor : Francois Cornilliat Professor of French Literature, Rutgers (New Brunswick)

	2. Romania Learns to Invest in their Children and Youth. CODE R2 Presentation: Romania, slated to enter the European Union in January 2007, has learned some hard lessons about the importance of family and community since those pictures of the dirty and emaciated faces of the institutionalized children were sent around the world in 1990. Stories of Romania’s struggle to return their vulnerable children and youth to community life will be the focus of this workshop. The stories will be told from the viewpoint of those that suffered the most, the children, youth, and families. There will be stories of summer camps where children learned about the wonders of the natural caves and the Danube Delta; the factory owners that created jobs for institutionalized youth; youth that were trained to repair shoes or grow mushrooms as a small business venture; and communities that opened their homes for abandoned infants and toddlers. The stories are not complete without hearing about the helpers - the teachers, doctors and social workers - that provided the compassion and spirit for reform! Instructor: Rebecca Davis Visiting Associate Professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work (New Brunswick) Rebecca Davis spent 10 years living and working with social workers, teachers, doctors, and business and political leaders in Romania as they struggled to implement community care programs for their most vulnerable citizens.

	3. Children and the rise of the chanson. CODE R3 Presentation: We will discuss the evolution of popular songs in modern France, with a special focus on the role of children in the crystallization of the chanson as a genre. We will listen to, read, and sing a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French songs for children, to the accompaniment of an accordion. A CD especially made for the occasion will be distributed to all participants. Instructor: Uri Eisenzweig Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers (New Brunswick). Currently, Director of the Rutgers Center for European Studies.

	4. A “One-Woman-Word-Factory”: Nöstlinger für Anfänger/innen CODE R4 Presentation: This workshop has two parts. Part 1 is an introduction to the work of Christine Nöstlinger, Austria’s most popular author of books for young adults and children. Her books reflect the social reality of today and include realistic as well as imaginative stories. The second part of the workshop will show how one of Nöstlinger’s best books, /Maikäfer flieg,/ can be used in the German classroom. (My teaching approach is based on sections of my book, /Literatur im DaF-Unterricht/.) (This part will be conducted in German. Participants should feel free to use English or German in discussions.) Instructor : Jürgen Koppensteiner* Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages, University of Northern Iowa

	Michal Shapira Ph.D. candidate in History, Rutgers University Her dissertation deals with child psychoanalysis and the welfare state in Postwar Britain.

	Laurie Bernstein Associate Professor of History and director of Women's Studies at Rutgers Camden. Author of "Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia" (Berkeley, 1995). Her current focus is law and family policy in the early Soviet period.

	Dr. Brigitta Blaha Consul-General, Consulate General of Austria in New York


9:30 AM	REGISTRATION & WELCOME
9:45 - 11:45 PM	WORKSHOPS - Workshop: 9:45 - 11:15 - Exchange session: 11:15 - 11:45
12:00-12:45 PM	LUNCH
12:45-2:00 PM	KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A: Can a Small Country Do Only Small Deeds? Child Welfare as a Priority in Slovenia's International Aid Assistance. Her Excellency Alenka Suhadolnik Consul General of Slovenia Diplomat. Ms. Suhaldolnik holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Ljubljana and a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Zagreb. She joined the Slovene Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 1990 and served in the Multilateral and Analytical Department before leaving to study at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna in 1992. Afterwards, she served in the Office of the Minister responsible for parliamentary affairs. Between 1996 and 2000, she was posted at the Embassy of Slovenia in London (political affairs, press, culture). Thereafter, she served in the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and later as a head of the Department for International Cultural Relations, in the Slovene MFA between 2002 to 2004. At present, she is Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia in New York and a member of the advisory board (and was the first president of the managing board) for the Foundation Together: Regional Centre for the Psychosocial Well-being of Children in Ljubljana. http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/slovenia/Units/5380.html
2:00 - 3:00 PM	PANEL + Q&A
3:00-3:30PM	EVALUATIONS

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	RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FRIDAY , OCTOBER 27th, 2006