Closing lecture for Perspectives on art and feminism.

public paper, at ACCA Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (15 Dec 2017-25 March 2018) followed by discussion with Emily Floyd, Paola Balla and Antong Atem.

Townsville regional gallery as part of the Townsville Photographic Prize, 15 May 2016 (also judged the prize and did public floor talk on 13 May, 2016)

Biennale of Sydney, 26 March 2016.

ACMI and ABC Radio National with Paul Barclay and Clementine Ford,13 March 2016.

panel participant, GOMA, Brisbane, 21 February, 2016-09-05

keynote for SEXES, Performance Space, 29 November, 2012.

AAANZ conference, July 2012.

at Into the Cosmos, Artists’ Week Symposium, Adelaide Festival of Arts, day four, Monday 5 March, 2012, 30 minute paper.

Tableau Vivant Symposium, Australian National Gallery, May 20, 2011, 60 min keynote.

Collaborations in Modern and Postmodern Visual Art, Conference September 30 – October 1, 2010, Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne.

Peter Turner memorial Lecture, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday 21 November 2009 (60 min keynote)

National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, keynote lecture, 23 April 2009 (50 minutes).

Photographies: New Histories, ANU, 10-12 July 2008, 20 minute paper.

Out of Bounds: Art, Faith & Religiosity, Monash University, Faculty of Art & Design, August 20, 2008, 20 minute paper.

Key Note Address, FotoFreo Conference, Western Australian Maritime Museum, April 5th, 2008, 60 minute paper.

33rd AAH Annual Conference, Contestations,12-14 April 2007, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast

Theatre of the Lens: Theatricality and Photography, Queensland Festival of Photography, Photography Symposium, paper presented 8 October 2006, 30 minutes.

Terra Incognita: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, and Sexuality in the Pacific Region, an international symposium, the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology and the AHRC Research Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies, September 6-9, 2006.

FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography, presented 28 March, 2006.

Globalisation and Postcolonial Writing: An Australia-India Exchange, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, February 7-9 2006.

Histories and Geographies of Difference: Australia and America in Global Context, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 27-29 October 2004.

keynote address, WITNESS: A Photography Symposium, The University of Melbourne, September 27, 2003.

Innovations: arts-media-design. A National Symposium, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, May 25 2002.

Exploding Dandy Conference, Artspace as part of the Sydney Gay + Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, February 2002.

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-7 October, 2001.

Keynote address at Sympoium, International Conference on Post-Object and Performance Art, 2000, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2000.

60 minute video lecture with slide projection, presented at Art Action 1958-1998, an international conference on live art held in Quebec, Canada, 20-25 October. Video presentation at the conference on October 22. Paper generated from video due for publication in 2000.

Art Association of Australia, National Conference, October 1997.

Performance Art, Culture and Pedagogy, PennState University, November, 1996.

Surrealism Revolution by Night for Lips of Coral conference, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1993.

Occupied Zones, conference on performance and technology, Performance Space, Sydney, 1993.

Memory, Media and Machines: A Symposium on Art, Technology and Performance, Ballarat University College, 1990.

The Rhetoric of History: On the Historiography of Art, convened by Roger Benjamin for the Art Association of Australia, National Conference, Melbourne, 1989.

From Work to Screen, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1988.