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PHoTo: HisToRisKa media PHoTo: iBRaHim aHmed PHoTo: PRiVaTe PHoTo: PRiVaTe THuRsdaY Catherine merridale lubna ahmad al-Hussein ousmane diarra lesego Rampolokeng 12 12 12.00–12.45 Code To1200.4 Catherine Merridale The truth about the Red Army Approximately 8.6 million Soviet soldiers – nearly a third of everyone who served in the Red Army – lost their lives in the Second World War. Red Army soldiers were nicknamed Ivan, and the victory over the Nazis cost them dearly. But after the war Stalin chose to conceal their hardships. Instead, the myth of the well trained patriotic soldier, who fought for his country, Communism and Stalin, was carefully cultivated. In Ivan’s War: The Red Army, 1939–1945, the prizewinning author and professor Catherine Merridale uncovers a different reality. Interviews with Russian war veterans and material taken from previously closed archives show that the typical soldier was a young uneducated peasant forced to join the military, where he survived an average of 24 hours when the battle was at its height. Moderator: Peter Whitebrook, journalist. Language: English In coop with Historiska Media 13.00–13.45 Code To1300.5 Where are Africa’s books for children? Pictures of Africa 1 What are they about and who reads them? Meet four authors from southern and western Africa in a conversation with the South African children’s book expert Jay Heale about the state of children’s and young adult books, now and in the future. Participants: Meshack Asare, Ghana, Lesley Beake, South Africa, Ousmane Diarra, Mali and Fatou Keïta, Côte d’Ivoire. Language: English In coop with Children Africa 2010, The Secret Garden Network, Afrikultur, Trasten/ Tranan Publishing House and the Association of French Teachers, Stockholm 13.00–13.45 Code To1300.7 Lesego Rampolokeng, Tolu Ogunlesi LAND OF WORDS – popular culture, tradition, modernism Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, musician, playwright and spoken word poet. As one critic commented: “Reading him means discovering a new territory of language, just like entering a new physical territory. You don’t escape unscathed.” He is a keen observer of power and injustice in South Africa and worldwide. He began to write as a 14 year old, gathering impressions everywhere from the streets of Soweto, the music of the Caribbean, Apollinaire, Pasolini, Artaud, writers who understand that words and art can shake up the foundations of society. He meets the young Nigerian poet Tolu Ogunlesi. The moderator is Gunnar D Hansson, poet and associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg. Language: English In coop with Africa 2010 14.00–14.45 Code To1400.9 Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein When trousers are a crime On the 3rd July in 2009, Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein was arrested by the police at a restaurant in Khartoum. Her “crime”: she was dressed in trousers. The Sudanese law punishes this “obscene act” with forty lashes and a fine. Every day women in Sudan are sentenced for offences against paragraph 152 in the penal code. Lubna Ahmad al-Hussein decided to protest, for the sake of all women, and to publicize her case worldwide. Forty lashes for a pair of trousers is a personal testimony which offers a history of a country weighed down by the double burden of Sharia law and the old traditions of the country. A country where female circumcision is common and where the guards of morality stand watch on every street corner. Moderator: Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, journalist. Language: Arabic translated into Swedish In coop with Sekwa 14.00–14.45 Code To1400.10 Gundega Repše, Ieva Lešinska Back to the Future In Gundega Repše’s novel Alvas kliedziens [The Scream of Tin], based on her own school day diaries, and in Pauls Bankovkis’ short story collection Skola [School], the authors go back to the future. That is to say, they return to the utopia of Soviet occupied Riga in the 1970s. Both books are published in Swedish translation this autumn and offer a link to the novels of Herta Müller and Sofi Oksanen. They provide detailed insights into Eastern European realities, as yet are unknown in the west. Such insights are crucial for the creation of a European intellectual equilibrium. But the memory of this “future” is in the process of being lost even in the affected countries. Gundega Repše and the cultural journalist Ieva Lešinska discuss different aspects of these issues. Moderator: Juris Kronbergs, author. Language: English In coop with Latvian Literature Centre Children africa 2010 • The secret Garden is a network founded seven years ago in order to promote children's literature from africa, asia, latin america and the middle east in sweden. This year the focus is on africa and 20 authors, illustrators, storytellers and others are invited to the 20 Göteborg Book Fair. in honour of the occasion, a collection of articles, essays, poems, portraits and many pictures will be published in a booklet entitled The Secret Garden – Africa. The international library, iBBY sweden, The swedish library association and the World library at the solidarity House in stockholm are the current active members of the network.
15.00–15.45 Code To1500.4 Edem Awumey, Steeves Sassene, Françoise Sule, Christophe Premat Y-a-t-il une mémoire africaine? Littérature et slam avec Edem Awumey et Steeves Sassene Se souvenir ne signifie pas reconstruire le temps mais le structurer. C’est grâce au mot écrit qu’on peut reformer un récit et construire une identité nouvelle. Comment se forge une conscience à travers la voix narratrice? Est-ce un avantage, ou peut-être même une nécessité pour le processus de mémoire de se retrouver en exil ou à distance? Intervenants: Edem Awumey, écrivain né au Togo demeurant au Québec, lauréat du Grand Prix de l’Afrique Noire 2005 pour son roman Port-Mélo, Steeves Sassene, rappeur camerounais, fondateur du groupe Negrissim, installé à Stockholm, Françoise Sule, enseignante de français et présidente de l’Institut d’Etudes Canadiennes de l’Université de Stockholm, Christophe Premat, attaché linguistique à l’Institut français et l’ambassade de France. Language: français En collaboration avec L’Institut français, l’Institut d’Etudes Canadiennes de l’université de Stockholm, AEFS/FLF (Association des enseignants de français en Suède), et AIEQ (Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises) 15.00–15.45 Code To1500.5 Kitty Crowther, Ulla Rhedin The master of lines Winner of the ALMA Prize 2010 The Belgian illustrator Kitty Crowther is this year’s winner of the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature: The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). The prize honours work at the highest artistic level, in the humanist spirit of Astrid Lindgren. The jury granted the award to Kitty Crowther because of the way in which she creates, transforms and renews stories within picture books. In her world the door between fantasy and reality remains wide-open. Crowther discusses her work and her influences with Ulla Rhedin, researcher on picture books. Moderator: Johanna Lindbäck, journalist. Language: English In coop with The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) and Rabén & Sjögren 15.00–15.45 Code To1500.7 Sofi Oksanen The creations of a dictatorship Sofi Oksanen was awarded the 2010 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for her book Purge. As in her first book Stalin’s Cows, she details the volatile and cruel history of modern Estonia. She talks here with Maarja Talgre, a Swedish-Estonian writer and cultural journalist, on how people and human relations are formed and deformed, and how dictatorships ruthlessly transform societies. Language: English In coop with Kraft&Kultur and Albert Bonniers Förlag 15.00–15.45 Code To1500.8 Fatmagül Berktay Cultural and religious particularism cannot be used as an excuse for violating women’s rights The dissonance between women’s rights and some religious and/or cultural practices and traditions reflects itself not only within religious contexts but within the secular frames of nation–states as well. The states which prohibit cultural practices such as suttee, honour killings, stoning, etc. may at the same time show selective indifference of varying degrees in practice by using the excuse of cultural particularism or religious right. The notion of cultural and religious rights can often reinforce the distinction between public and private worlds to the disadvantage of women: culture and religion can be seen as spheres protected from legal regulations even though they allow oppression of women by men. By exploring the link between gender and education we can also examine the dialectic relations between the public and the private spheres. Fatmagül Berktay, professor of political science at Istanbul University, claims that the state often reduces the treatment of gender issues to the provision of increased delivery of schooling and avoids the transformation of gender biased content of knowledge. In this respect non-formal education outside the public school system addressing adult women can be a powerful vehicle for women’s empowerment. This paper while challenging the concept of culture as free from gendered power relations, will also dwell on the experience of Women’s Centers in Southeastern Turkey, as a strong example of empowering informal adult education. Language: English In coop with Västra Götalandsregionen, Nätverket för interkulturell pedagogik 15.00–15.45 Code To1500.9 Lennart Hagerfors, Alain Mabanckou Congo. Which Congo? Lennart Hagerfors grew up in Congo-Brazzaville and has just published Mannen på ön [The man on the island] a novel which takes place in the early days of independence in Congo. He speaks here with Alain Mabanckou, Congo-Brazzaville’s representative in world literature, whose prizewinning novel Memoirs of a Porcupine is newly published in Swedish translation. Moderator: Svante Weyler, publisher. Language: English In coop with Weyler förlag Fatmagül Berktay sofi oksanen Kitty Crowther 13 PHoTo: PRiVaTe PHoTo: Toni HÄRKönen PHoTo: PRiVaTe illusTRaTion: KiTTY CRoWTHeR
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