This volume presents papers from the 11th IARTEM conference on textbooks and educational media, held at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania in September 2011. The theme of the conference was Representations of Otherness. More than sixty participants attended the conference, coming from five continents and 17 different countries. Otherness is something ‘other’ that is seen from a specific, central point of view, be it political, sexual or cultural. Otherness has been discussed by conference participants in terms of ethnicity, race, the nation, gender, class and these socio-cultural categories in textbook and educational media. Since its very beginning in 1991, IARTEM‘s biennial international conferences have given a great opportunity for scholars from over the world to share experience in research on textbooks in different countries and from perspectives of different disciplines such as education, psychology, cultural studies, linguistics, political sciences and philosophy, etc. This introduction gives an overview of the conference and volume content.