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CBCP x OIW webinar ‘Explorations in Translation for Children’ is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (University of Reading) in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children\u2019s books in translation.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 11th December at 5pm (UK time) we will be in conversation with the leaders of the project on Publishing Children\u2019s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations.<\/p>\n

How do children\u2019s books cross borders in wartime and what happens to them when they do? This joint talk traces the translational lives of war-related titles from commissioning to circulation, and the challenges the publishers meet along the way. <\/span>Birgitte Beck Pristed<\/strong> introduces the Aarhus University project <\/span>\u201cPUBLISH: Children\u2019s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War,\u201d<\/strong> examining how Ukrainian and Russian children\u2019s publishers operate under wartime conditions and how the books reflect child readers\u2019 experiences of war and dislocation. In this talk, she focuses on the publishers\u2019 hurdles of bringing books across borders. Drawing on new interviews with Ukrainian publishers, <\/span>Nadia Pavlyk <\/strong>examines how international support and solidarity are negotiated in practice, and how these transnational networks shape the capacity to produce, translate, and present war-themed children\u2019s literature under fire. Finally, <\/span>Ekaterina Shatalova<\/strong> shows how, in Russia\u2019s \u201chybrid\u201d censorship environment, translated children\u2019s books become politically charged objects: the same titles can function as cultural solidarity while being securitised as \u201cthreats.\u201d Together, the speakers argue that translation is double-edged \u2013 both a vehicle of ethical resistance and a liability within contested information regimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To join via MS Teams, please register here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Birgitte Beck Pristed<\/strong> is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is PI of the 2024-2027 research project \u2018PUBLISH: Children\u2019s Books in the Russia-Ukraine war,\u2019\u00a0https:\/\/projects.au.dk\/publish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nadiia Pavlyk<\/strong> is a researcher on the projects \u201cPUBLISH: Children\u2019s literature in Russia-Ukraine War\u201d (Aarhus University, Denmark) and MSCA4Ukraine \u201cDaR:UA. Dialogues and Reading. Shared Reading for Ukrainian Young People\u201d (2025-2027), https:\/\/projects.au.dk\/darua<\/a>. She is a professor at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University (Ukraine) and a member of the Pool of European Youth Researchers (PEYR). Her main research areas focus on youth policy, youth work, and non-formal education.<\/p>\n

Ekaterina Shatalova<\/strong> is a prolific translator of children\u2019s books and TV shows. She holds a Master\u2019s degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Oxford and an Erasmus Mundus International Master\u2019s degree in Children\u2019s Literature, Media and Culture from the University of Glasgow, University of Tilburg, and Aarhus University (2022). She is currently a PhD fellow at Aarhus University as part of the joint project \u201cPUBLISH: Children\u2019s Books in the Russia-Ukraine War.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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