Bakker, N. (2019). Professional expertise and the admission of pupils to the Dutch schools for children with learning and behavioral difficulties (1949-1990). Paper presented at Annual Conference of the German History of Education Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Erziehungsgeschichte), .

Bakker, N. (2019). Professional competence and the classification and selection of pupils for schools for “feebleminded” children in the Netherlands (1900-1940). Paper presented at ISCHE 41, Porto, Portugal.

Smit, M., & Bakker, N. (2019). The conceptualization of enuresis nocturna in three intellectual spaces, the Netherlands 1950-1990. Paper presented at ISCHE 41, Porto, Portugal.

Bakker, N., & Smit, M. (2018). Between nature and nurture: The diagnosing and treatment of childhood behavioral problems in a Dutch child-psychiatric clinic (1952-1961). Paper presented at ISCHE 40, Berlin, Germany.

Bakker, N. (2018). Moving between homes: The diagnostic observation of girls in a Dutch reformatory in the 1950s. Paper presented at Biannual conference of the Children's History Society, London, United Kingdom.

Bakker, P. (2018). Child guidance, dynamic psychology and the psychopathologizing of Dutch child-rearing culture (c. 1920-1940). Paper presented at ESSHC 2018, Belfast, United Kingdom.

Bakker, N. (2017). In the interest of the child: Psychiatry, adoption, and the emancipation of the single mother and her child – the case of the Netherlands (1945-1970). Paper presented at ISCHE 39, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bakker, N. (2017). Everyday problems of the everyday child: Dynamic psychology and its impact on Dutch child-rearing culture (1920-1940). Paper presented at SHCY 2017, Camden N.J., United States.

Bakker, N. (2016). A healthy body: School doctors and the meaning of physical child health: the case of the Netherlands (c. 1930-1970). Paper presented at ISCHE 38 Conference on Education and the Body, Chicago, United States.

Bakker, N. (2016). Freudianism and the conceptualization of childhood behavioral problems in the Netherlands (c. 1945-1975). Paper presented at ESSHC, Valencia, Spain.

Bakker, N. (2015). A culture of knowledge production: testing and observation of Dutch children with learning and behavioural problems (1949-1985). Paper presented at ISCHE 37, Istanbul, Turkey.

Bakker, P. (2014). Happiness, play and bourgeois morality: the early years of Foebel schooling in the Netherlands 1858-1904 (plenary lecture). Sixth International Froebel Society Conference, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

Bakker, N. (2014). Child health and the shifting concerns of school physicians in the mid-20th century - the case of a Dutch rural area. Paper presented at ESSHC conference 2014, Vienna, Austria.

Bakker, N. (2014). 'Het ‘zwakke’ kind: snijpunt van medische en pedagogische actie in de strijd tegen de tuberculose - Nederland ca. 1900-1940’. Lezing voor de studiedag over ‘Kinderen en tuberculose’ van de BNVGOO, Brussel/Universiteit Leuven, 21 maart 2014. Paper presented at Studiedag Kinderen en tuberculose van BNVGOO, Brussel, Belgium.

Bakker, N. (2013). The power of distinction: identifying the 'subnormal' child in an age of scientization of Dutch education (c. 1945-1965). Paper presented at ISCHE 35 Education and power, Riga, Latvia.

Bakker, N. (2013). Brain injury and the development of special education as an academic field of study in the Netherlands c. 1955-1985. Paper presented at Reviewed? Renewed? Revisited? Philosophy and History of Educational Research, Louvain, Belgium.

Bakker, N. (2012). The reception of attention deficit labels developed in the USA: The case of the Netherlands (1945-1980). Paper presented at Conference ‘Aufmerksamheit’, Erziehungswissenschaft Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Attention: Historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives on an educational phenomenon)

, Berlin, Germany.

Bakker, N. (2012). Westward bound: cultural transfer and the case of child rearing in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ISCHE 34 Internationalisation in education, Geneva, Switzerland.

Bakker, N. (2012). Onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de jeugdzorg (keynote). Paper presented at 100 jaar gevaarlijk jong, Ghent, Belgium.

Bakker, P., & Amsing, H. (2011). Comprehensive education: lost in the mi(d)st of a debate: Dutch politicians on equal opportunities in secondary schooling (1965-1979). Paper presented at International Standing Conference for History of Education (ISCHE) 33, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Bakker, N. (2011). The work of the Committee Samson in the Netherlands. Paper presented at Tagung Deutscher Jugendinstitut & Kommission Bergmann – Sexuelles Kindermisbrauch in Institutionen, , Berlin, Germany.

Bakker, N. (2011). Leren van het verleden? Een schets van een eeuw Nederlandse onderwijsgeschiedenis. Paper presented at De toekomst van de onderwijsgeschiedenis, Netwerk Onderwijsgeschiedenis Nederland-België, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Bakker, N. (2010). "Making a mess in the mud": The discovery of toddlers' special needs by child scientists in the 1930s in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ISCHE 32 Discovering the child, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Bakker, N., & Amsing, H. (2009). The discovery of inequality: educational research in the Netherlands in the 1950s. Paper presented at ISCHE 31 Educating the people, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Bakker, N. (2007). An attractive disease: Children and neurasthenia in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ISCHE 29 Children at risk, Hamburg, Germany.

Bakker, N., & de Beer, F. (2007). De gevaren van het schoolgaan: De invoering van medische schoolinspectie als kwaliteitszorg. Paper presented at Landelijke Pedagogendag , Groningen, Netherlands.

Bakker, N. (2007). Kilo’s en koolhydraten: Nederlandse vakantiekolonies en de medicalisering van het “zwakke” kind (1883-1940). Paper presented at Seminar "Kinderen in gevaar" BNVGOO, Rotterdam, United Kingdom.

Bakker, N., & de Beer, F. (2006). The early years of the Dutch school medical service. Paper presented at Education, Health and Social Welfare, London, United Kingdom.

Bakker, N. (2006). Sunshine as medicine: Medicalization of Dutch childhood (c. 1900-1960). Paper presented at Annual Conference of the British History of Education Society, London, United Kingdom.

Bakker, N. (2004). Cylinders and seances: Elise van Calcar and the spirit of Froebel in the Netherlands. Paper presented at ISCHE 26 Educational reform, Geneva, Switzerland.

Bakker, N. (2001). Child guidance and mental health: The case of the Netherlands. Paper presented at European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, "Health and the child", Geneva, Switzerland.

Bakker, N. (2001). Het kind en de geestelijke volksgezondheid. Paper presented at Landelijke Pedagogendag , Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Bakker, N., & Wubs, J. (2000). A mysterious success: Doctor Spock and the Netherlands. Paper presented at ISCHE 22 Books in Education, Alcala de Henares, Spain.

Bakker, N. (2000). A harmless disease: children and neurasthenia in the Netherlands. Paper presented at Anglo-German-Dutch Workshop "Neurasthenia and Society, late 19th century and early 20th century", Amsterdam, Netherlands.