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Nearby Conferences

If you’d like to extend your time in Aotearoa New Zealand, or visit Australia, you might consider attending another conference.

New Zealand Association for Research in Education annual conference

16 – 18 November 2026

University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand

NZARE invites individual presentations, symposia and workshops that fit with our conference theme or align with the research direction of our special interest groups. The conference theme is: Whanaungatanga, Tiakitanga, Manaakitanga - Values of valuing people and difference, enhancing and nurturing resources, and extending care and empowerment to others.

https://www.nzare.org.nz/2026-call-for-abstracts/

 

32^nd International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference

20 – 24 November

Te Kura Ākau Taitoka University of Otago College of Education, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand

The views and perspectives of children, teachers, families, and communities are powerful. Much of the work of RECE has been and continues to celebrate and prioritise their ways of being and knowing and to keep them central to what occurs in early childhood care and education settings.  Learning personalised to local interests, knowledge, and issues creates opportunities for unexpected connections, development of sustained, authentic relationships, and fosters a sense of community and belonging (Manning et al, 2020). The 2026 RECE conference applies these ideas with a focus on the local land and lived experiences in/of the South Island of Aotearoa, Te Wai Pounamu, in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Therefore, we invite you to join us for this year’s RECE conference “Localising ECE: Powerful children, families, languages, and cultures at the centre of ECE”. 

https://receinternational.org/2026conference

 

Queer Contexts Conference of the Australasian Queer Research Network

7 - 8 December 2026

Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Queer Contexts 2026 is the second biennial conference of the Australasian Queer Research Network (AQuRN), formerly the LGBTIQA+ Research Network. The event aims to bring together researchers across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand working within queer contexts. The conference aims to share leading queer research, creative practice and activism being undertaken within and beyond our region today across a range of disciplines to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogue.

We welcome proposals from researchers in any academic discipline where research intersects with queer issues, contexts, theories and/or practices. We especially welcome proposals from First Nations researchers, early-career researchers and practice-led researchers.

Website in development. Contact: queercontextsnetwork@gmail.com

 

Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 54^th annual conference

6 – 10 December 2026

The University of Melbourne, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

The 54th Annual PESA conference invites scholarship that engages with the ideological dimensions of education: the “commonsense” assumptions that quietly shape aims, pedagogies, policies and everyday practice, and the ethical and political consequences that follow. We foreground parrhesia – courageous truth-telling that risks the self in reception – and ask what becomes possible when philosophy of education refuses easy satisfactions, like the outsourcing of thought, the comforts of institutional neutrality, and the instrumental capture of “critical thinking” as a technique.

Where are the possibilities for courage now? What is at stake? And what kinds of speech and silence does education produce, reward, and or foreclose?  How are boundaries drawn between mutual understanding and neutralised contestation? Could it be that ‘commonsense’ worldviews may not be clearly articulated in the minds of educators and educational policy makers, but nevertheless have ethical and political implications?

https://www.pesaconference.org/

Things to Do in Auckland

Preferred Hotels

The conference will be held onsite at AUT’s City Campus, Auckland Central, mainly in the WZ Building (6 Saint Paul Street) and Ngā Wai o Horotiu Marae (Corner Saint Paul St and Wellesley Street).

There are many hotel and other accommodations options available in Auckland. The following hotels have deals for GEA Conference attendees: