Conferences, Seminars & Events

Conferences, Seminars & Events relevant to media and children from all over the world.
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19-20 November 2010 - MLC 2010 Media literacy Conference

Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London UK

A major gathering for all teachers, teacher trainers, researchers, policy-makers and media professionals interested in teaching and learning about the media. It is jointly organised by the Media Education Association and the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London, in partnership with Ofcom.

http://www.mlc2010.org.uk/

24-26 September 2010 - Future and Reality of Gaming - 4th Vienna Games Conference

Vienna City Hall, Vienna, Austria

Vienna’s annual Games Conference, FROG, offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights into how to think ahead and beyond common limits of theory and practice of game and play.

http://bupp.at/frog/frog2010-english

22 June - 2 July 2010 - Children's Media Conference

Sheffield, UK

For everyone involved in developing, producing and distributing content to kids. Focus on the new decade ahead, issues that will face kids’ media and entertainment, and the creative challenges to come, with delegates from TV, radio, interactive media, games, licensing, toys,  book and magazine publishing – and speakers from all those sectors and beyond. 

http://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/

14-18 June 2010 - World Summit on Media for Children and Youth

Karlstad, Sweden

World Summits are held every three years and provide a forum for producers, broadcasters and regulators of media for children and other professionals and community leaders committed to the improvement of quality media for children.

http://www.wskarlstad2010.se/

9-14 June 2010 - Little Big Shots, Melbourne's International Film Festival for Kids

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and ArtPlay

A truly international festival, Little Big Shots includes around 80 films from over 20
countries as far-reaching as Russia to Argentina, Estonia to India and Latvia to
Kenya. Festival director, Chloe Boulton believes, “The festival is the perfect way for
kids to see great stories from all over the world that would never otherwise make it to
Australia. The themes and ideas covered in the films are incredibly engaging and
relevant to the lives of all children.”

For program information go to www.littlebigshots.com.au or www.acmi.net.au.

28 May - 2 June 2010 - Prix Jeunesse International - Different & the same: Celebrating diversity

Munich, Germany

Learn about building tolerance and empowerment through children's television and interactive media

More information at http://www.prixjeunesse.de/

24 - 27 May 2010 - 7th Annual Games for Change Festival

Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City, with a special extended day at NYU

The G4C Festival, called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-responsible game makers," now in its seventh year, takes place annually in late May/early June. The biggest game event in NYC includes panels, briefings for funders and journalists, and a Game Expo providing a rich environment to explore real-world impact, funding strategies and the design of social issue games.

http://www.gamesforchange.org/g4cfeatures

21 May 2010 - 'Watch this Space: Children, young people and privacy'

Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne

Privacy Victoria's one-day conference aims to explore the following issues, and more:

• What does privacy mean to children and young people today?
• What does the law say about who can know what about children and young people?
• What is the impact of the surveillance society on them?
• What are the potential risks to their personal information, their health, their security and even their lives, from the use of information technologies?
• What can educators, policy and law makers, parents and even young people themselves do to educate and support children and young people about privacy protection, and empower them to do what they need to protect their privacy?
• Who has what role and how are those roles legitimised and disseminated?

For more information go to http://www.privacy.vic.gov.au/privacy/web.nsf/content/conferences

13 May 2010 - Bratz, Britney & Bralettes: The sexualisation of childhood

7.30pm to 9.45 pm
Helen Reid Hall, Walford Anglican School for Girls Inc
316 Unley Road, Hyde Park, SA 5061

Back by request, this seminar features psychologist and author, Michael Carr-Gregg, director of Kids Free 2B Kids, Julie Gale, child psychologist Rita Princi, Law Professor Elizabeth Handsley and Anglican Archbishop Jeffrey Driver.

For more information, click here.

19 March 2010 - Growing up fast and furious: Reviewing the impacts of violent and sexualised media on children

Friday 19 March 9am - 5pm

NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre
37 Reservoir Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010

An Australian Conference on Children and the Media, with international researchers, Prof Rowell Huesmann (long term impacts of violent media) , Prof Ed Donnerstein (Internet violence and cyber-bullying) , Distinguished Prof Craig Anderson (violent video games), and Prof Louise Newman (Victoria, sexualisation of children), Dr Wayne Warburton (NSW, violent music videos), Dr Cordelia Fine (Victoria, advertising) and Prof Elizabeth Handsley (SA, regulation and classification).

In this important and timely conference leading researchers will review the evidence related to children's experiences with a range of violent and sexualised media, examine their marketing, and discuss appropriate regulatory responses, including how well our classification systems reflect current research.

Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to see several of the world's leading researchers on children and the media speaking together in Australia.

Please reply to info@youngmedia.org.au with your name and contact details if you would like to receive further information about this event.

7 March 2010 - International Children's Day of Broadcasting

The International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) was created to give exposure to the issue of children’s rights.  Over the years, it also has become a day of celebrating young people in the media. Radio and television broadcasters are invited to celebrate the ICDB and highlight programming by, for and about children.  The theme is All rights all children.

http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/video_38486.html

8-10 April 2010 - Consuming Kids Summit - Market Values, Human Values, and the Lives of Children

Wheelock College,
Boston USA

The values children learn in the marketplace - excessive consumption, impulsive buying, and unthinking brand loyalty - are antithetical to healthy development, independent thinking, spirituality, community, and democracy. What happens to childhood -- and society -- when market values trump human values? How can we make a difference? What role can parents, educators, public health professionals, faith communities, and policymakers play in stopping the proliferation of market values, and in nurturing positive values, in a commercialized world?

More details: http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/events.htm

May - November 2009 - Generation Next

Australian capital cities

Generation Next is a national seminar series exploring the unique pressures, needs and healthcare and sociological challenges facing Australian teenagers, adolescents, parents and anyone working with young people.

For details, including locations go to http://www.gennextseminars.com/index.html

23 November 2009 - Bratz, Britney and Bralettes: The sexualisation of childhood in the media

7:00 pm for 7:30 pm to 9.30pm
Century Theatre, Immanuel College
32 Morphett Road, Novar Gardens, SA

From tiny tots to late teens, girls are being preyed on, and damaged, by sexualisation and media messages about weight, looks, clothes and behaviour. The messages they are getting are wrong. The harm is real, and not just to girls.

Come and hear 3 of Australia's best speakers on this issue. For more information and bookings, click here

19 November 2009 - Children, Youth and Media Conference

All Stream Centre
Toronto

This event is the only one of its kind to bring together Canada's creators, producers and broadcasters of children and youth programming. This much anticipated event promises to generate lively discussions through a series of sessions and panels on key screen-based media issues for Canadian children and youth creators.

For more details go to http://www.act-aet.tv./index_en.html

15-18 November 2009-8th ISPCAN Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, incorporating the 12th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect

Perth, Western Australia

More information http://www.apccan2009.org.au/index.html

4 October 2009- Does Online Networking harm children's brains?
Baroness Susan Greenfield

Sydney Opera House 1pm

Baroness Greenfield suggests several effects.

First, attention span. If the young brain is exposed to a world of fast action-reaction, then continued rapid interchange might become the normal time scale of operation. Related to this change might be a second area of potential difference, - a much more marked preference for the here-and-now where the immediacy of the experience trumps regard to any consequences. A third possible change, is one in empathy. Compare a computer game to rescue the princess where the goal is for the personal experience of feeling rewarded, with the aim of reading a book, to find out more about the princess herself! A fourth issue relates to identity. Perhaps with fast-paced, instant screen reactions the next generation will themselves be defined by the responses of others, as evidenced by the increasing popularity of Twitter.

More information and bookings: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/priority/fodidoesonlinenetworkingharmchildrensbrains.aspx

2-4 September 2009- ARACY Conference - Transforming Australia for our children's future: Making prevention work

Melbourne, Victoria

Call for abstracts now open - Closing date Thursday 30 April 2009.

More information http://www.aracyconference.org.au/

3 August 2009 - Bratz, Britney and Bralettes: The sexualisation of childhood

Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Ross Hall (Senior Campus)
86 Anderson Street, South Yarra, VIC 3141

7:00 pm for 7:30 pm to 9.30pm

For more information click here

4 August 2009 - Children and sexualised media: Risks, reviews and regulation

Australian Education Union Building
112 Trenerry Street, Abbotsford, VIC 3067

9:30 am for 10:00 am to 3:30 pm

For more information click here

16-18 2009- Little Big Shots Children's Film Festival - Adelaide season

Dunstan Playhouse

More information at http://www.littlebigshots.com.au/

11 June 2009 - EU Kids Online: European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet

London School of Economics

This conference will address policy issues and research findings about children and the internet. It is aimed at researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government and keynote speakers will include David Finkelhor (University of New Hampshire), Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University, Australia), Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics), Charo Sádaba (University of Navarra, Spain).

More information http://www.eukidsonline.net/

3-8 June- Little Big Shots Children's Film Festival

ACMI Cinemas, Festival Square

Perfect for families and kids aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and traveling children's film festival. An inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival, Little Big Shots features the best in local and international children's shorts, animations, documentaries and, amazingly, child-produced films.

The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, different languages, cultural diversity, emotional intelligence and human values.

Following the festival's Melbourne season, Little Big Shots takes to the road, bringing great films from around the globe to cities and towns across Australia, plus internationally to Singapore and South America.

For more details go to the website at http://www.littlebigshots.com.au/

3 April 2009, Young Queensland Filmmakers Festival Youth Week Showcase

Brisbane Sqare Library Theatrette
Cnr George& Adelaide Sts, Brisbane

A non-competitive showcase for filmmakers under 25. Closing date for submissions 30 March 2009

http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueensland.com/

March 2009, 6th Annual Videotivoli Festival For Children & Young People

Tampere, Finland

Last year Videotivoli received more than 500 films made by children from all over the world. The purpose of Videotivoli is to give children and youth a chance to show their thoughts and work in public without competition.

Choice of subject, category and style free. Maker(s) 16-year-old or younger. Duration max. 10 minutes.

Closing deadline for entries 30 November 2008. See http://www.videotivoli.fi

February 12 - March 19, 2009 - Creative Activism Against the Sexualisation of Children

Bankstown Women's Health Centre
74 Restwell Street, Bankstown NSW

1pm - 2:30pm Thursdays for 6 Weeks

This group, part of a larger project, aims to address the inappropriate sexualisation of children and teens in our society. Join us at the Centre to sharpen your critical thinking skills, engage in creative protest through art, and find ways to inform and inspire others to take action.

Because we are a Women's Health Centre this project is only open to female participants, however if you are a male and you too wish to advocate against the inappropriate sexualisation of children and teens in modern society, please contact Kristina or Themis as we would love to find a way to keep you updated and involved.

To register for this project please call Bankstown Women's Health Centre on 02 9790 1378

January 21-23, 2009 - Young Filmmakers NetTV! Holiday Workshop Create your very own Internet TV channel!

Paddington, NSW

For 11 - 16 year olds.

Day 1: Brainstorming ideas, scripting, planning.

Day 2: Green Screen Studio/Interior/Exterior shoot.

Day 3: Editing using Chroma Key on Final Cut Pro followed by uploading to YouTube channel.

Participants receive a Certificate of Completion. Content to be screened at annual end of year screening at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington.

Wed, Thur, Fri. [Day] 10am - 5pm [2 x 30min breaks] | 21/01 - 23/01 | $295

For further information please contact Metro Screen 02 9356 1818 metro@metroscreen.org.au http://www.metroscreen.org.au/channel_free/workshops/workshops.html

November 5-7, 2008 - 7th Annual Adolescent Health Conference

Melbourne, Australia

My space, your space, our space: exploring the future of adolescent health together

The conference program and pre conference forum is aimed at people who are working in, but not limited to the health, education, community, welfare and youth sectors. Most delegates will be practitioners such as teachers, doctors, nurses, counsellors, and others involved in youth advocacy, health promotion and community development, policy development and research. Guest speakers include Michael Rich from the US based Center on Media and Child Health.

For full details see http://www.adolescenthealth08.com/

October 17, 2008 - Closing date for entries to Screen It

Screen It is Australia's national moving image competition for school students, designed to encourage imagination and inventiveness in Australia's primary and secondary school students.

In 2008 entrants are asked to create animations, live action films or computer games responding to the theme of 'Australian Identity'.

For details and entry form go to http://www.acmi.net.au/screenit.htm

Oct 9-11, 2008 - Little Big Shots - Children's Film Festival

Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Adelaide

For families and children aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and travelling children's film festival. Check the website for other venues and dates around Australia.

For more details go to http://www.littlebigshots.com.au

September 27, 2008 - Young Film Makers Festival Queensland awards ceremony live online

At 4pm, 27 September 2008 people who can't make it to the Film Festival will be able to download and watch the 15 short listed films ("Shortlist 2008"
web page).

At 6.30pm the Awards Ceremony will be streamed live online through the website

http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueensland.com/

September 26-28, 2008 - Digital Dialogues: Moving Media Education - National Media Education Conference

Hawke Bldg, City West Campus
University of South Australia, Adelaide

This conference invites papers and workshops that engage with the most current issues, challenges and practices in media education. Papers will be accepted in peer-reviewed and non-reviewed streams. Workshops may provide examples of teaching and learning innovation, excellence, and engagement with media practices and projects.

For more details go to http://www.conferenceplus.com.au/mediaeduconf08/

23 - 25 September, 2008 - Young Filmmaker's Holiday Workshop

Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm Tues to Thurs
Open Channel, Shed 4 North Wharf Rd
Victoria Harbour DOCKLANDS

Web Address:
http://www.openchannel.org.au/training/youngfilmmakers.html

September 17-21 - Little Big Shots - Children's Film Festival

Sydney Opera House Studio

For families and children aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and travelling children's film festival. Check the website for other venues and dates around Australia.

For more details go to http://www.littlebigshots.com.au

September 15-19 - Auburn International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults

Reading Cinemas, Auburn
Vernon Theatre, Sydney Olympic Park

Closing date for entries 30 June 2008.

For more details go to http://www.cinewest.org.au/site/index.html

September 9 2008 - White Balloon Day

Held during National Child Protection Week (September 7-14), , White Balloon Day is the signature calendar event for the Bravehearts organisation, aiming to 'Break the Silence on Child Sexual Assault' by raising awareness and by show of balloons, demonstrating community desire for Australian children to be safe. White Balloon Day is to be celebrated nationally throughout Australia.

Full details can be found at the White Balloon Day website http://www.whiteballoonday.com.au

July 10-12 and July 16-18, 2008 - South West Sydney season of Little Big Shots 2007

Campbelltown Arts Centre July 10-12
Casula Powerhouse July 16-18

For bookings or for more information about the Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids, call the Campbelltown Arts Centre Box Office on 4645 4100 or email artscentre@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au

July 1, 2008 - Closing date for entries - Young Filmmakers Festival Queensland

For details and entry form go to http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueensland.com/

June 11-13, 2008 - "Thinking Outside the Toybox"- The 7th International Conference on Interaction Design for Children (IDC 2008)

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

For details see: http://www.idc08.org

June 4-9 - Little Big Shots - Children's Film Festival

ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Melbourne

For families and children aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual and travelling children's film festival. Check the website for other venues and dates around Australia.

For more details go to http://www.littlebigshots.com.au

May 30-June 4, 2008 - Prix Jeunesse International - Festival and competition for children's and youth television programmes

Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, Munich, Germany.

For more details see: http://www.prixjeunesse.de/

May 8, 2008 - Multiliteracies: Cracking the Code of Visual Texts

AAMI Stadium, Westlakes, South Australia
8.30am-3.00pm

Three interactive sessions for P-8 teachers featuring Dr Michele Anstey & Dr Geoff Bull

For more information go to: http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/pd/multiliteracies-adelaide-2008.doc

April 23, 2008 - From myspace to hip hop: New media in the everyday lives of youth.

Hewlett Teaching Center, Building 200, Stanford University

For details and registration see: http://www.eventsatcommonsensemedia.org/

April 16-18, 2008 - School holiday workshops for young film makers

Metro Screen, Paddington, NSW

Metro Screen have revamped their school holiday program to focus more on core filmmaking. Young Filmmakers will be tutored by highly qualified young industry professionals in a fun, yet skills directed environment and will receive a Certificate of Competency outlining the skills they’ve attained in the Young Filmmakers Workshops.

Workshop A: focusing on production and directing skills.
Workshop B: focusing on screenwriting and postproduction skills.

For more details go to http://www.metroscreen.org.au/channelfree.html

April 3-5, 2008 - Consuming Kids: The Sexualization of Children and other Commercial Calamities

Wheelock College, Boston , MA

This is Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood's 6th Summit

For details and registration see: http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org//events.htm

19 March 2008 - ASTRA 08: Claiming the Future

Hilton Sydney
488 George Street
Sydney NSW

Australia's annual subscription television conference

For details and registration: http://www.astra.org.au/Conference2008/

14 March 2008 - Nick Shorts

Screening on Nickelodeon Australia from March 14th.

In May 2007, Nickelodeon Australia, in association with the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and the New South Wales Film and Television Office, invited producers from around the nation to submit their creative concept for a 2-3 minute animated short film to screen exclusively on Nickelodeon. Nick Shorts is the result. 

“We are thrilled to showcase Australia’s production talent to both our children’s audience and out international colleagues. As a body of work, the films celebrate imagination, creativity and humour. Everything we look for at Nickelodeon!” said Deirdre Brennan, Director of Programming, Nickelodeon Australia.

For more information go to www.nickelodeon.com.au

17 February 2008 - Trop Jr Short film competition & film festival for children 15 years & younger

The Domain, Sydney, NSW

This is an advance notice. More details will be available soon at the website: http://www.tropjr.com or through links on the Australian Children's Television Foundation website: http://www.actf.com.au

10-14 December 2007 - Innovative Technology in Schools Conference (ITSC)

University of Technology, Sydney

ITSC is a unique professional development opportunity for educators from around the Asia-Pacific region. It provides a forum to gain fresh ideas for the classroom and foster communities around the region.

There are one and three-day seminar streams offering topics suited to professional development for K-12 educators, university students studying education or IT professionals working within an educational institution. 

One-day stream for IT professionals Monday 10 December
Three-day stream for educators 11-13 December
One-day stream for educators 14 December 
Come for one or come for all! 

For more information or to register, please see http://www.apple.com/au/education/itsc07

2 December 2007 - 'Dream-a-Better-World' Film Festival for primary schools

For more details see the website at http://www.coomerass.eq.edu.au/filmfestival.htm

13-16 November 2007 - Screen Producers Association of Australia Conference

Sheraton Mirage Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland.

SPAA has invited an impressive group of the world’s most experienced children's television producers and executives to speak at the Conference, alongside their counterparts in Australia.

For more details see the website at http://www.spaa.org.au/conference_2007/

19 October 2007 - Young Filmmakers Festival Queensland Awards Night

The Block@QUT
Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
For more details see the website at http://www.youngfilmmakersfestivalqueensland.com/

8-12 October 2007 - MIPCOM audiovisual content market

Cannes, France
For more details see the website at http://www.mipcom.com

6-7 October 2007 - MIPCOM Junior

Conference and screening marketplace for children's programming
Cannes, France
For more details see the website at http://www.mipcomjunior.com/

4-6 October 2007 - Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids

Her Majesty's Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide

This festival of films for children aged 2-15 is coming to Adelaide for the first time in its 3 year history. There are 8 different sessions of short films to choose from across 3 days. Each session is for a specific age group (eg 2-5 or 7-15). Sessions run for 50-60 minutes and comprise 6-14 short films, documentaries or animations. There are also 3 feature films in this festival which run for 1-1 ½ hours each.

For more information see the website at http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/Adelaide_Festival_Centre/whatson-home-adelaide-festival-centre-music-concerts-theatre-visual-arts-dance-opera.php?cat=3365&id=181593

24-25 September 2007 - Communications Policy & Research Forum 2007

Guthrie Theatre, University of Technology, Sydney
For more details see the website at http://www.networkinsight.org/events/cprf07.html/group/6

30 August 2007 - Sex, kids and advertising

The Age Theatre, Lower Ground Level, Melbourne Museum
6.30-8pm

Features Julie Gale from Kids Free to be Kids and a panel of speakers. Part of the(melbourne) forum, kids and the city presented by the University of melbourne and Museum Victoria.

For bookings and more details, visit the website at http://www.museumvictoria.com.au

18 August 2007 - Get Real

Women’s Forum Australia
Melbourne Town Hall, Cnr Swanston & Collins Street
7pm for 7.30pm start
For more details see http://www.womensforumaustralia.org

6-7 August 2007 - The Psychology & Ethics of New Marketing

Jim Potter Conference Room, Old Physics Building, University of Melbourne
Includes Jane Roberts, President of YMA talking about Practices and techniques in marketing to children

12-22 July 2007 - Revelation Film Festival

Perth, Western Australia
For details see the website at http://www.revelationfilmfest.org

1-8 July 2007 - 2nd International Youth Media Summit

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
For details see the website at http://www.cinewest.org.au