Past Congresses, Reports and Publications

2023 Santa Barbara, California, USA - Ecologies of Childhood
2021 Santiago, Chile - Aesthetic and Pedagogic Entanglements
2019 Stockholm, Sweden - Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature
2017 Toronto, Canada - Possible & Impossible Children: Intersections of Children's Literature & Childhood Studies
2015 Worcester, United Kingdom - Creating Childhoods: Creation and (Re)-Interpretation through the Body, Histories and the Arts
2013 Maastricht, The Netherlands - Children's Literature and Media Cultures
2011 Brisbane, Australia - Fear and Safety
2009 Frankfurt, Germany - Children's Literature and Cultural Diversity in the Past and the Present
2007 Kyoto, Japan - Power and Children's Literature: Past, Present and Future
2005 Dublin, Ireland - Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature Publication: Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature. Edited by Clare Bradford and Valerie Coghlan. Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing, 2007.
2003 Kristiansand, Norway - Telling a World, Shaping a World. Publication: Children's Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives. Edited by Emer O'Sullivan, Kimberley Reynolds and Rolf Romøren. Oslo: Novus Press, 2005.
2001 Klein Kariba, South Africa - Change and Renewal in Children's Literature
1999 Calgary, Canada - Children's Literature and the fin de siècle (Joint meeting with the Children's Literature Association). Edited by Thomas van der Walt, assisted by Félicité Fairer-Wessels and Judith Inggs. Westport (CT) / London: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
1997 York, England - The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature. Edited by Ann Lawson Lucas. Westport (CT) / London: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
1995 Stockholm, Sweden - Reflections of Change: the last 50 Years in Children's Literature. Edited by Sandra L. Beckett. Westport (CT) / London: Greenwood Press, 1997.
1993 Geelong, Australia - Crossing the boundaries: Multiculturalism in Children's Literature
1991 Paris, France - The Applications of Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory to Children's Literature. Culture, texte et jeune lecteur. Actes du Xe Congrès de l'International Research Society for Children's Literature, Paris, septembre 1991. Présentation de Jean Perrot. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1993. [Culture, text and the young reader.]
1989 Salamanca, Spain - The History of Children's Literature Edited by Maria Nikolajeva. Westport (CT) / London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
1987 Cologne, Germany - Books for children, Books for adults; The Relationship between them Kinderliteratur - Literatur auch für Erwachsene? Zum Verhältnis von Kinderliteratur und Erwachsenenliteratur. Edited by Dagmar Grenz. München: Fink, 1990. [Children's literature - literature for adults too? The relationship between literature for children and literature for adults]
1985 University of Quebec, Montreal - Literary Aspects of Fantasy and Fantastic Literature for Children and Young People
1983 Bordeaux, France - Portrayal of the Child in Children's Literature
1981 Moscow, USSR - International Dissemination of Children`s Literature Research; Trends in Teaching of Children's Literature, Status of Research in Specific Countries
1978 Exeter, Great Britain - Responses to Children's Literature: Children's Responses to Text and Illustrations
1976 Södertälje, Sweden - Problems of Translation in the Field of Literature for Children and Young People
1974 Boldern, Switzerland - Study of Reading Habits and Research on Sex Role Stereotyping in Literature for Children and Young People
1971 Frankfurt, Germany - Children's Literature as a Subject of Research