The 6th Picturebook Research Conference

17 – 18 September 2017

The sixth European Network of Picturebook Research Conference took place at University of Padua, Italy and was organised by Marnie Campagnaro and Carla Callegari.

  • The title of the conference was: ‘Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Present’
  • Link to conference page
  • The conference programme can be found here.
  • The featured illustrator was Simona Mulazzani

The post-conference publications

Publication 1: La Casa. Figure, Modelli e Visioni Nella Letteratura per L’infanzia dal Novecento ad Oggi [Trans: The house. Figures, models and visions in children’s literature from the twentieth century to today] Pensa Multimedia, 2019 – edited by Giuseppe Zago, Carla Callegari & Marni Campagnaro

Publication 2: A selection of articles was published in an Open Access Special Issue of the Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14(2)  in 2019

Special issue: Home, Lived-in-Spaces and Childhood in European Picturebooks from 1945 to the Present Day
Edited by Carla Callegari and Marnie Campagnaro

  • Article 1: Home, lived-in spaces and childhood in European picturebooks from 1945 to the present day by Carla Callegari & Marnie Campagnaro
  • Article 2: “Narrating” homes and objects: images of domestic life in Italian picturebooks since the mid-20th century by Marnie Campagnaro
  • Article 3: Lived spaces in Croatian picturebooks: public and private places and the sense of belonging by Smiljana Narančić-Kovač
  • Article 4: Growing up is crossing boundaries. The example of the French picturebook Devine qui fait quoi by Gerda Müller by Christophe Meunier
  • Article 5:  Is there really no place like home? Changes in the perception of domestic spaces in German picturebooks from 1945 to the present by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
  • Article 6: Home is outdoors. A study of award-winning Norwegian picturebooks by Nina Goga
  • Article 7: Depiction of home space in Portuguese picturebooks by Ana Margarida Ramos
  • Article 8: Reasons for the research on The construction of the sense of espace vécu in European children’s literature in the second half of the 20th century (1945-2010). An international historical and comparative survey on picturebooks: goals, method, tools, and preliminary results by Carla Callegari