e.g. Tales of Two Cities, VCE literature guide, membership...
Please complete by Thursday 24 July 2025
This year's Conference title is Demanding Space: Architects of Change. The VATE State Conference in 2025 asserts the active role of language and of English teachers to advocate, uncompromisingly, for our profession as we fulfil and explore our responsibilities to our students, inspiring, confronting, challenging and unsettling them. The tense is continuous, enacting our ongoing and persistent commitment. The verb puns into an adjective, creating a relationship both fraught and mutually active and responsive. Physical and metaphysical space offers endless yet daunting possibilities which reject the mundanity and narrowness exemplified by such fads as generic lesson plans in favour of the actions of building, creating, and redesigning our pedagogical infrastructure so that ‘every classroom must function as a space that can support advocacy for and with the ingenuity of young people. Read the full Conference theme.
The 2025 VATE State Conference will be delivered in-person over two days - Thursday 20 November and Friday 21 November - at Deakin University Burwood. To ensure equity of access, our program will also include a live-streamed component for those unable to attend in-person.
VATE encourages the involvement of rural, regional, and remote participants, participants from interstate, and English educators from all sectors.
We encourage proposals that are innovative, timely, and represent new ways of thinking and doing. All proposed speakers should be prepared to attend should their proposal be accepted.
VATE is committed to equitable and diverse representation at our Conference, and we ask that you ensure that your proposal reflects appropriate cultural, gender and ability diversity.