Past Conferences

2022

‘Owning our Voices: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature’

Online and in Perth, Western Australia

Keynote speakers: Mavis Reimer, Doris Wolf, Melanie Braith, Grace Braniff, Amanda Laverdure and
Benjamin Roloff; Kate Eltham, Alice Boer-Endacott, Jared Thomas, Rebecca Lim, Rachel Bin Salleh:

2018

‘Houses of Learning: Education in Chidren’s Literature and Children’s Literature as Education’

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 12-14 July 2018

Confirmed keynote speakers: Associate Professor Marah Gubar, Kate de Goldi, Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie

2016

‘Shifting Landscapes: Diversity, Text and Young People’

Charles Sturt University, Wagga, Wagga

2014

‘Emotional Control: Affect, Ideology and Texts for Young People’

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor John Stephens, Dr Juanita Feros Ruys

Guest speaker: Jackie French, Australian Children’s Laureate

2012

‘If We’re Being Honest… The Facts and Fictions of Children’s Literature’

The University of Canberra/National Library of Australia, ACT, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Clare Bradford, Professor Kerry Mallan, Mr Shaun Tan

2010

‘Children’s Literature and its Politics: Representation and the Rules of Engagement’

The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Mavis Reimer, Professor Jean Webb

2008

‘Other Worlds in Children’s Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination’

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Keynote speakers: Professor Roderick McGillis, Professor Jerry Griswold

2006

‘Children’s Literature at the Edge: New Texts, New Technologies, New Readings, New Readers’

Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

Keynote speaker: Professor Kerry Mallan

2004

‘Imaging Childhood’

University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Perry Nodelman and Mr Shaun Tan

2002

‘Seriously Playful’

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2001

‘Cinderella Transformed’

Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand

1999

‘Children’s Literature Matters’

Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1998

‘Something to Crow About’

Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

1997

‘Old Neighbours, New Visions’

University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

Past Conferences

2022

‘Owning our Voices: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature’

Online and in Perth, Western Australia

Keynote speakers: Mavis Reimer, Doris Wolf, Melanie Braith, Grace Braniff, Amanda Laverdure and
Benjamin Roloff; Kate Eltham, Alice Boer-Endacott, Jared Thomas, Rebecca Lim, Rachel Bin Salleh:

2018

‘Houses of Learning: Education in Chidren’s Literature and Children’s Literature as Education’

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 12-14 July 2018

Confirmed keynote speakers: Associate Professor Marah Gubar, Kate de Goldi, Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie

2016

‘Shifting Landscapes: Diversity, Text and Young People’

Charles Sturt University, Wagga, Wagga

2014

‘Emotional Control: Affect, Ideology and Texts for Young People’

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor John Stephens, Dr Juanita Feros Ruys

Guest speaker: Jackie French, Australian Children’s Laureate

2012

‘If We’re Being Honest… The Facts and Fictions of Children’s Literature’

The University of Canberra/National Library of Australia, ACT, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Clare Bradford, Professor Kerry Mallan, Mr Shaun Tan

2010

‘Children’s Literature and its Politics: Representation and the Rules of Engagement’

The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Mavis Reimer, Professor Jean Webb

2008

‘Other Worlds in Children’s Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination’

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Keynote speakers: Professor Roderick McGillis, Professor Jerry Griswold

2006

‘Children’s Literature at the Edge: New Texts, New Technologies, New Readings, New Readers’

Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

Keynote speaker: Professor Kerry Mallan

2004

‘Imaging Childhood’

University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Keynote speakers: Professor Perry Nodelman and Mr Shaun Tan

2002

‘Seriously Playful’

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2001

‘Cinderella Transformed’

Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand

1999

‘Children’s Literature Matters’

Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1998

‘Something to Crow About’

Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

1997

‘Old Neighbours, New Visions’

University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

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