Biennial Conferences

The Network’s biennial conferences have been held in different venues across Europe.  More information about each venue can be found by clicking on the Conference date.

  1. 2007: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain – New Impulses in Picturebook Research: Aesthetic and Cognitive Aspects of Picturebooks (organised by Teresa Colomer and Cecilia Silva-Díaz)
  2. 2009: University of Glasgow, UK – Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks (organised by Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell and Julie McAdam)
  3. 2011: University of Tübingen, Germany – History and Theory of the Picturebook (organised by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)
  4. 2013: University of Stockholm, Sweden – Text, Image, Ideology: Picturebooks as Meetingplaces (organised by Elina Druker)
  5. 2015: University of Gdańsk, Poland – Picturebooks, Democracy and Social Change (organised by Małgorzata Cackowska) 
  6. 2017: University of Padova, Italy – Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Present (organised by Marnie Campagnaro)
  7. 2019: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway – Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks (organised by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen and Anne-Stefi Teigland)
  8. 2021: Tel Aviv University, Israel – Picturebooks in Time (organised by Yael Darr)
  9. 2023: University of Osijek, Croatia – The Picturebook between Fiction and Reality (organised by Smiljana Narančić Kovač )  
  10. 2025: Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal – Understanding the World: Multiculturality, Interculturality and Global Citizenship in Picturebooks (Organised by Sandie Mourão, Ana Margarida Ramos and Inês Costa)