Conferences

I have organized many conferences, including:

Dreams. Wishes. Hopes: A Global Childhoods Conference and Collaborative Arts-making and Archiving Project

November 12-13, 2026, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) 

This conference brings together people who are passionate about children and young people’s ideas, stories, thoughts, feelings and actions that get expressed through arts- based modalities. We believe children and young people’s creative expressions are under-recognized and under-appreciated forms of knowledge.  The conference is meant to galvanize more interest in children and youth collaborative artmaking projects from around the world as inspiration for re-imagined and more liberatory futures.  

Researching Children, Global Childhoods and Education

This conference, held March 24-26, 2011 at the CUNY Graduate Center, brought together leading experts in the fields of Critical Childhood and Educational Studies. Through this interdisciplinary conference we sought to advance theories and methodological practices that cultivate children’s agency in the research and educational process. Central themes included issues related to power, generation, identities and subjectivities (e.g. gender, ethnicity/race, class, sexualities), children’s language, and cultural and social brokering, as these are influenced by broader processes of globalization, extreme economic inequalities, migration, political violence, exclusion/inclusion, consumption, commercialization and children/youth activism.

Visible Rights: Photography for and by Youth I and II

Working with artists, educators, child rights advocates, and scholars, “Visible Rights: Photography for and by Youth” I and II explored the role that photography can play in facilitating children’s agency and promoting their rights by placing cameras in the hands of youth, giving them the power of self-representation.  Both conferences aimed to identify best practices among practitioners and scholars, to promote synergies in a network of collaborations, publications, workshops, and internships, and to encourage intervention through creative, non aggressive practices.

Here is the Visible Rights Toolkit.