IBBY Congress 2012

Programme for Crossing Boundaries: Translations and Migrations

We're delighted to say that the full programme is now on our website at http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/programme-outline.php

There is already a great line-up of speakers including Anthony Browne, Aidan Chambers, Julia Donaldson, Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, Bart Moeyaert, Michael Morpurgo, Beverley Naidoo, Michael Rosen and Shaun Tan.  

In addition we have some wonderful speakers in extra sessions sponsored by publishers: Kai Meyer, Anthea Bell, Verna Wilkins and Candy Gourlay to name but a few.

Speakers for panel sessions will be announced in a few weeks time.

We received over 300 proposals for papers, and 140 of these have been selected for the Congress.  These will be given in parallel sessions on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th August.  We are currently in the process of selecting poster sessions, and will announce these by the end of February.

It's a really thrilling experience, seeing all of this come together to create a really exciting conference, and we hope as many of you as possible are going to join us at Imperial College, London this summer.  Registration and accommodation bookings are now open at http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/register.php  There has not been an IBBY World Congress in the UK for 30 years, and we want to make this the must-come-to event of the decade.  If you haven't booked yet, do it now!

We hope that you will be able to share this information through your regular networks and are very grateful for your help in spreading the word and encouraging people to attend.  We really appreciate the help of all the organisations who are so positive about the IBBY 2012 World Congress and the support you are giving us.