European Network of Picturebook Research

The European Network of Picturebook Research is a pioneering network of European-based scholars researching picture books from around the world.

The Network was founded in Barcelona in 2007, at the suggestion of Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer. Its core group includes children's literature scholars Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colomer, Elina Druker, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Maria Nikolajeva, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz. Since 2007, it has held a biannual international conference.

1st Conference, 2007
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Conference theme: New Impulses in Picturebook Research: Aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picturebooks Location and organisers: University of Barcelona (organised by Teresa Colomer and Cecilia Silva-Díaz)

2nd Conference, 2009
Conference theme: Beyond Borders: Art, narrative and culture in picturebooks Location and organisers: University of Glasgow (organised by Evelyn Arizpe and Maureen Farrell

3rd Conference, 2011
Conference theme: History and Theory of the Picturebook Location and organisers: University of Tübingen (organised by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)

4th Conference, 2013
Conference theme: Picturebooks as Meeting Places: Text, image, ideology Location and organisers: University of Stockholm (organised by Elina Drucker)

5th Conference, 2015
Conference theme: Picturebooks, Democracy and Social Change Location and organisers: University of Gdansk (organised by Malgorzata Cackowska)

6th Conference, 2017
Conference theme: Home and Lived-In Spaces in Picturebooks from the 1950s to the Present Location and organisers: University of Padova (organised by Marnie Campagnaro) Publications:
 * Ricerche Di Pedagogia E Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 14(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10029

7th Conference, 2019
Conference theme: Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks Location and organisers: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (organised by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen and Anne-Stefi Teigland

8th Conference, 2021
Conference theme: Picture Books in Time Location and organisers: Tel Aviv University (organised by Yael Darr)