Invited speaker 

A body that reads: dimensions of embodiment in reading literary apps in the early years (2019)
[Um corpo que lê: dimensões da corporeidade na leitura de aplicativos literários na primeira infância]
II Colloquium with NEPCED, Faculty of Education UFMG–NEPCED e Ceale, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The digital in children’s literature [O digital na literatura infantil] (2019)
Flip – Paraty International Literary Festival, A Casa da Porta Amarela, Paraty, Brazil

Agency and Embodiment in children’s transactions with story apps (2017)
Meeting of The Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children (DigiLitEY), European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action, Italy

The dynamics of meaning-making when preschoolers read story apps: a multimodal social semiotics perspective (2017)
Visual and Multimodal Research Forum, Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education, UK

Children reading story apps: Responses to different digital narrative features (2016)
UKLA Symposium TAP & READ: literacy development through e-books and apps, UK

A Literatura Infantil na Era dos Aplicativos
[Children’s Literature in the App Era] (2016)
Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas (NEP), Sociedade Amantes da Leitura, Barca dos Livros, Brazil

Paper presentation

The one who touches is also touched: readers as affect generators in children’s digital literature (2019)
[Aquele que toca é tocado: o leitor como gerador de afetos na leitura literária digital]
Mesa redonda Literatura Infantil Digital: Tendências e Desafios, PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil

The embodied voicing of emotions in children reading literary apps (2019)
24th Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Stockholm, Sweden

Interactivity and parents scaffolding in the shared reading of digital literature (2019)
[Interactivité et étayage des parents dans la lecture partagée de littérature numérique]
2e colloque international sur l’enseignement de la littérature avec le numérique; Chaire de recherche en littératie médiatique multimodale–Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) e Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montréal, Canada

Embodiment and the construction of meaning in children’s interactive narratives (2019)
[Corporeidade e a construção de sentido em narrativas interativas infantis‘
1st Ibero-american Congress of Media Ecology, online congress

Multiple bodies, multiple affects: the shared reading of children’s digital literature (2019)
[Múltiplos corpos, múltiplos afetos: a leitura compartilhada da literatura infantil digital]
II Children’s Literature Symposium, Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Multimodal transcription as method for understanding the dynamics of children’s meaning-making with digital narratives (2018)
Researching Multimodal Childhood: Methodological Challenges and
Innovations Symposium, University of Southern Denmark, Denmank

“By tapping them, I’m very strong”: Children’s bodies and agency in reading story apps (2018)
Electronic Literature Organization 2018 Conference and Festival, UQAM, Canada

Interactive Reading and the Negotiation of Agency: Preschoolers Reading Fiction on the iPad (2018)
Graduate School of Education Research Day, UC Berkeley, USA

Video Data and Qualitative Analysis: Strategies for Data Collection, Transcription, Analysis and Reporting (2017)
FERSA Graduate Talks, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

Swipe to turn the “page”: Metafiction in the story app The Monster at The End of This Book (2016)
International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality, Universität Bremen, Germany

Picturebooks from codex to app: Understanding transmediation by looking at both texts and readers (2016)
Transmediations: Communication Accross Media Borders, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Play and playfulness in story apps: Preschoolers reading Nosy Crow’s Little Red Riding Hood (2016)
The Child and The Book Conference, Wroclaw University, Poland

Preschoolers reading picturebook apps: Methods for capturing multimodal responses (2016)
Real Readers Reading Seminar Series, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

The construction of meaning of preschoolers reading picturebook apps – pilot study (2016)
PhD workshop: Texts for children and young adults in a new media landscape, Aarhus University, Denmark

Picturebook apps: the child’s movement in and out of the narrative (2015)
IRSCL 22nd Biennial Congress, University of Worcester, UK

A multimodal methodology for the study of multimodal texts: children making meaning from picturebook apps (2015)
Kaleidoscope Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

Changes in the picturebook aesthetics: Reader performance in picturebook apps (2015)
The Child and The Book Conference, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Multimodal social semiotics theory and methods in the analysis of picturebook apps (2015)
Digital Picturebook Symposium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Playfulness in codex and app picturebooks: The case of  What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day? (2014)
UBC Biennial Children’s Literature Research Conference, Canada

The construction of meaning in three fairy tale enhanced electronic picturebooks (2013)
The Child and The Book Conference, University of Padua, Italy

Parâmetros para o design de dicionários infantis ilustrados [Parameters for the graphic design of children’s illustrated dictionaries] (2008)
8o Congresso Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Design [8th Brazilian Congress  of Research and Development in Design], Centro Universitário Senac, Brazil

Poster presentation

O empoderamento da criança na leitura de livros-aplicativos ilustrados [The empowerment of children in reading picturebook apps] (2015)
3rd Journey of Education, Language and Technology, University of Campinas, Brazil

The future of children’s texts: Evaluating book apps as multimodal reading experiences (2014)
co-authored with Dr. Eric Meyers and Ehlam Zaminpaima
iConference, Germany

The construction of meaning in three fairy tale enhanced electronic picturebooks (2013)
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Research Day, UBC, Canada (Awarded Best Poster)

Short presentation 

UKLA/BERA Research Symposium: Digital Literacies in Education (2017)
Sheffield Hallam University, UK