Nolas, S-M. and Varvantakis, C. (2018) ‘Becoming child(ish): an epistemology of desire lines for ethnographic research’, Unspoken, Unseen, Unheard of: Unexplored Realities in Qualitative Research conference, European Sociological Association (RN20-Qualitative Research Methods) and the Swiss Sociological Association, St. Gallen, Switzerland (6^th-9^thSeptember 2018).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. and Aruldoss, A. (2018) ‘The acoustics of peripheral wisdom: learning the idioms of childhood publics’, European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (#Colleex Network), University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (14^th-16^thAugust 2018).

Aruldoss, V. (2018) ‘Toys, cartoons, technology and everyday material culture’, Childhood and Materiality conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (7th-9th May 2018). 

Varvantakis, C. (2017) ‘Photography and the Politics of Care in Childhood.’ In Uneasy Photography: The Politics of Images in a Time of Crisis, Panteion University, Athens, Greece (20th December 2017).

Aruldoss, V., Nolas, S-M., and Varvantakis, C. (2017) ‘Emotional encounters in research: some reflections on childhood and public sphere’, 13^th Conference of the European Sociological Association (RN20-Qualitative Research Methods), Panteion University, Athens, Greece (29^th Aug-1^st Sept 2017).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. and Aruldoss, V. (2017) ‘European childhood publics: making biographical research with younger childen possible’, 13^th Conference of the European Sociological Association (RN03-Biographical Perspectives on European Societies), Panteion University, Athens, Greece (29^th Aug-1^st Sept 2017).

Varvantakis, C., Nolas, S-M. and Aruldoss, V. (2017) ‘The Child in the City revisited: Children’s urban encounters in two European cities’, 13^th Conference of the European Sociological Association (RN37-Urban Sociology), Panteion University, Athens, Greece (29^th Aug-1^st Sept 2017).

Varvantakis, C. (2017) ‘Children’s maps in ethnographic research: Projections, Reflections, Transgressions.’ Images of Childhood and the Future, 2nd International Conference. Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany (30th June 2016).

Nolas, S-M. (2017). ‘Reflecting on publics creating methodologies’, Ethics and Early Intervention in Mental Health: Promoting Change through Research, BeGOOD Project, Neuroscience, Ethics & Society, University of Oxford, UK (23rd June 2017).

Varvantakis, C., Nolas, S-M. and Aruldoss, V. (2017) ‘Children’s Cartographic Imagination: Notching Connections with the Urban Public Sphere.’ 7th Nordic Geographer’s Meeting: Geographies of Inequalities, Stockholm, Sweden (17th June 2017).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. and Aruldoss, V. (2017) ‘It takes a lifetime, or two, to save a library: An generational exploration of the dynamics of political engagement’, British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2017, Manchester U.K. (6th April 2017).

Varvantakis, C. and Nolas, S-M.(2017) ‘Exploring the antecedents of youth political engagement: Reflections from a European comparative ethnography’, 1st Catch-EyoU Conference: Young People as Active EU Citizens? Challenges and Visions on a Renewed Project for Europe Athens, Greece (3rd March 2017).

Aruldoss, V. (2017) ‘The political subject: Politics of children and youth’, International Conference on Youth Development, Sacred Heart College, Tiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu, India (21st January 2017).

Varvantakis, C. (2016) ‘Acropolis from a distance: Photography in an ethnographic research with children’, 15th Kythira Photographic Encounters: Conference for the History and Theory of Greek Photography. Kythira, Greece (1st October 2016).

Nolas, S-M. (2016) ‘Childhood publics and the social psychology of younger children’s participation’, BPS Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, 31^st Aug-2^nd September, Cardiff, UK (September 2016).

Aruldoss, V., Varvantakis, C. & Nolas S-M. (2016) ‘Conceptualising public/private in a cross-cultural research: The messiness of emerging publics in the context of children’s everyday life’, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth 6^th International Conference: The Social, the Biological and the Material Child, 5^th-7^th July 2016, University of Sheffield (July 2016).

Aruldoss, V., Nolas, S-M. & Varvantakis, C. (2016) ‘Emerging Publics: Politics, the Political and Agency in Children’s Everyday Life’, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth 6^th International Conference: The Social, the Biological and the Material Child, 5^th-7^th July 2016, University of Sheffield. (Symposium organised by @ConnectorsStudy, July 2016).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. & Aruldoss, V. (2016) ‘Conceptualising difference in cross-cultural research on childhood and public life in the context of economic crisis’, 5^th Annual Conference Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (Generation and Lifecourse Stream), University of Edinburgh (Part of invited symposium organised by @SussexCIRCY, June 2016).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. & Aruldoss, V. (2015) ‘Challenging the representations of activism in a digital age: beyond rebel youth’, European Communications Research and Educational Association (Communications and Democracy Conference), Copenhagen Business School (October 2015).

Nolas, S-M. & Thomson, R. (2015) ‘Childhood publics in a digital age: Possibilities and limitations’, Panel Organiser, European Communications Research and Educational Association (Communications and Democracy Conference), Copenhagen Business School (October 2015). (Symposium organised by @ConnectorsStudy).

Nolas, S-M., Varvantakis, C. & Aruldoss, V. (2015) ‘Childhood, political engagement and the politics of age: why do we always focus on the teens?’, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference (Children, Youth and Families Research Group), University of Exeter (September 2015).

Varvantakis, C. (2015) ‘Like the Palm of my Hand: Children and Public Space in Central Athens’, Places for Learning Experiences: Think, Make, Change, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (January 2015).

Nolas, S-M. (2014) ‘Connectors: from Children’s Participation to Ethics in Childhood’, Crisis and Social Change: Towards Alternative Horizons, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Sciences (September 2014).