Pam Werre and Carol Sibley presented at 13th IBBY Conference

Pam Werre and Carol Sibley presented at 13th IBBY Conference

Pam Werre, Curriculum Materials Center librarian and Carol Sibley, library professor emerita, presented at the 13th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Regional Conference in Austin, TX. They presented a session titled, “How is the Classic Home/Away/Home Journey Depicted in Vietnamese and Hmong Refugee Narratives?” Sibley and Werre presented on a panel with Dr. Petros Panaou and Eun Young Yeom from the University of Georgia. The panel title was “Reading Refugee and Immigrant Narratives Radiantly: Strength, Hope and
Social Imagination in the Search for Home, Voice and Identity.”