Invited Talks

2024

Office Wear’ by Molonglo, PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival, MPavilion, 28 February

2023

Timeless: Designer Classics as Slow Fashion,’ Being Human Festival, NGV, 29 November

Wear and Care’ panel, PlaceLab Project Launch event, RMIT University, 16 November

Earth Day 2023,’ Sustainable Fashion Event - ACF Inner Melbourne, Into Coffee, Collingwood, 23 April

‘Using Waste as a Resource,’ ESSE Studios Collection Launch, BETA by STH BANK, 20 April

Panel 2: Lifecycle in Practice,’ Circular Fashion Now symposium, ABC.H Circular Fashion Studio, 17 March

Fashion Talk: Sustainability Update,’ PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building, 7 March

2022

‘She wears the cost: Sustainability, ethics and the impacts of the fashion industry,’ ActionAid Australia Clothes Swap & Crafternoon #SheWearsTheCost Event, Micro-Labs Melbourne, 4 December

Critical Fashion Studies: Aotearoa and Australia,’ Global Fashioning Assembly (Aotearoa Edition with the New Zealand Fashion Museum), 21 November (invited by Doris de Pont)

2021

Chanel in Context — Fashion as Freedom: Chanel and Feminist Design,’ National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 5 December

‘Talking about a Fashion Revolution,’ Critical Fashion Studies in conversation with Angela Bell, Ethical Clothing Australia (ECA), Instagram Live, 20 April

2020  

‘Navigating Risk through Research’ Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP), ‘Identifying Riskiest Business Assumptions’ (invited by Laxmi Pun, Accelerator Manager)

‘Research in the start-up world,’ TiE Women Entrepreneurs Program (TwE) (Australia India Chamber and the Australia India Institute, supported by the Victorian State Government), University of Melbourne, guest presenter (invited by Marianna Sarris, Australia India Institute)

Panel chair: ‘Circularity and the Future of Fashion,’ Critical Fashion Studies International Conference, University of Melbourne (Panelists: Yatu Widders Hunt, Courtney Holm, Teslin Doud)

Industry Consultation

2021  

‘Clothing and Textile Waste Recycling,’ Darebin City Council and Blue Environment Pty Ltd (invited by Ai Ikemi and Sanjna Ullal)

‘Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Textiles,’ The Fabric Store (invited by Frances Paki), June and August (via Zoom)