Conference participation

• López-Ropero, Lourdes, Lorraine Kerslake,Teresa Martínez-Quiles and Rebeca Aniorte-Perales. 2025. "Bridging Conflict, Building Hope: Spaces of Reconciliation in Children's and YA Literature Written by Women."  27th Biennial International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Conference, University of Salamanca, 21-25 June. (Panel).  Papers:   "After the TRC: Voicing Agency and Victimization in Two Soweto Children’s Texts" (Lourdes López Ropero); "From Battleground to Arena of Reconciliation? The School in Kagiso Lesego Molope’s The Mending Season (Teresa Martínez-Quiles); "Indigenous Residential School Picture Books as Expressions of Hope and Spaces for Healing" (Lorraine Kerslake); "Hope for Reconciliation through Settler Colonialism: Decolonial Female Agency in Cherie Dimaline’s YA Dystopias" (Rebeca Aniorte-Perales).
• Kerslake, Lorraine. 2024.  "The Power of Storytelling: Picturebooks as Vessels of Hope and Spaces of Reconciliation". Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC), University of Winnipeg, Canada, 20 August.  (Lecture)
• Martínez-Quiles, Teresa. 2024.  " 'My Sister-Mother, we are bound in this sorrow': Bonding through Shared Maternal Grief in Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother". XIII International Conference of AUDEM (University Association for Women's Studies), University of Cordoba, 23-25 September. (Conference paper)
• López-Ropero, Lourdes. 2024.  "Spaces of Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Women's Writing". SELGYC Young Scholars Conference, University of Alicante,  22-23 February. (Plenary lecture)
• Núñez-Puente, Carolina. 2024. "Toward Reconciliation: (Re)Encountering the Other, the Self, with Carmen Rodríguez". 13th International Conference of Chicanx Literature and Latino Studies, University of Santiago de Compostela, 12-14 June. (Conference paper)
• López Ropero, Lourdes, Silvia Caporale Bizzini, Jesús Varela Zapata, Carolina Núñez Puente, Lorraine Kerslake Young and Teresa Martínez Quiles. 2024. "Mapping Memory, Conflict and Reconciliation in Women’s Writing". 47th International Conference of AEDEAN, University Pablo de Olavide, 6-8 November. (Round table)