2025 VATE State Conference - livestream

Demanding Space: Architects of Change

2025 VATE State Conference

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 here.

The conference will be delivered in-person over two days – Thursday 20 November and Friday 21 November 2024 - at Deakin University's Burwood campus. For those who are unable to attend the conference in person, our program will also include a live-streamed component that you can access from your device, no matter where you are.

If financial barriers prevent you from attending the conference, please get in touch with Kate Gillespie. 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be emailed to events@vate.org.au. Cancellations received by 12pm five working days prior to the event date will be charged a 15% cancellation fee. Cancellations received after this will receive NO REFUND. Registrations can, however, be transferred to another staff member. Please email events@vate.org.au the details. If you do not attend and have not notified VATE according to the above policy, you will receive no refund.  Please note: If this event is cancelled due to COVID government or venue restrictions, you will receive a full refund.