Research Presentations: 

Hamer, Naomi. Critical children’s museology and the design of international picture book exhibits: The potential for young people as collaborative curators. Children’s History Society’s Fourth Biennial Conference. Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. July 4-6, 2024.

Hamer, Naomi. Children’s Museology Cluster Conversation: Initial Findings on Curating with Children. Panel presenter. Teaching Through the Museum Annual Workshop, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. October 13-17, 2023. 

Hamer, Naomi and Ann Marie Murnaghan. “Curating participatory story exhibits with city kids: The urban green spaces of young people inside and outside of children’s literature.” Children’s Literature Association annual conference. Bellevue, Washington. June 15-17, 2023. 

Murnaghan, Ann Marie and Naomi Hamer. Child Curators Inside and Outside of the Text: Young People’s Agency and Activism in Museum Kid Lit and Exhibits. Child and the Book Conference, Valletta, Malta, May 2022.

Murnaghan, Ann Marie and Naomi Hamer. Kids in Museums: A Centurial Retrospective. Association for Research in Cultures of Young People’s Youngsters 2: On the Cultures of Children & Youth Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2019.

Murnaghan, Ann Marie and Naomi Hamer. Children's Resistance in Museums: Palle Nielsen's The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society (1968). Canadian Association of Geographer’s Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2019.

Invited lectures: 

Murnaghan, Ann Marie. Children’s place in Art Museums. Undergraduate Seminar in Children’s Museums, Toronto Metropolitan University, November 2022.

Hamer, Naomi.  "Enter through the Gift Shop: Transmedia Storytelling and the Picture Book from Mobile Apps to Museums" February 19, 2020. National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA. February 19, 2020.

Hamer, Naomi. Don’t eat the pictures!”: Cross-media play with picture books from mobile apps to interactive museums. Institute for Research on Digital Literacies (IRDL) and Children, Childhood and Youth Studies. York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. March 2, 2023. 

Invited keynotes:

Hamer, Naomi. Don’t let the Pigeon Curate this Exhibit! The discursive histories of the children’s story museum. The Intersections of Youth and Museums: How We Teach the Past. Institute of Child and Youth Studies, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. April 8, 2019.

Murnaghan, Ann Marie. Teaching about the past in the past: Harlan Smith and the National Museum of  Canada’s educational programming, 1911-1930. Institute for Child and Youth Studies Symposium, University of Lethbridge, April 2019.

Journal Article

Hamer, N. (2019). The hybrid exhibits of the story museum: The child as creative artist and the limits to hands-on participation. Museum and Society, 17(3), 390-403. 

Book Chapter

Hamer, Naomi and Ann Marie Murnaghan, 2024, Exploring the Museum at Night: Young people’s Agency and Citizenship in Museum-Related Children’s Literature and Programming. In Child as Citizen: Agency and Activism in Children’s Literature and Culture, edited by Giuliana Fenech. University of Mississippi Press.

Book Chapter Forthcoming

Hamer, Naomi and Ann Marie Murnaghan. Children’s Literature in Children’s Bookshops, Libraries and Museums. The Cambridge History of Children’s Literature in English, Volume 3: 1914 - the present. Edited by Katherine Capshaw, Zoe Jacques, and Kenneth Kidd. (Forthcoming)

Informational Booklet

Murnaghan, Ann Marie and Naomi Hamer. 2024. Global Children's Museums: Art, Story, and Play. Online Publication.