Guest Lectures
2022
‘Beauty and Fashion’ in CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (invited by Dr Annisa R. Beta)
2021
‘Beauty and Fashion’ in CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (invited by Dr Annisa R. Beta)
2020
‘Technologies’ (Week 5) and ‘Genders and Sexualities’ (Week 9) in CICU30012 Contemporary Film and Cultural Theory, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (invited by Professor Sean Cubitt)
2019
‘The Question of Appropriation,’ Fashion Studies third-year guest lecture, RMIT University (invited by Dr Alexandra Sherlock)
2018
‘The Question of Appropriation’ Fashion Studies third-year guest lecture, RMIT University (invited by Liliana Pomazan)
‘Fashion and Melancholia’ Fashion Studies third-year guest lecture, RMIT University (invited by Liliana Pomazan)
Conference Hosting
2020
Critical Fashion Studies International Conference, 27-29 February, University of Melbourne, co-hosted with Professor Natalya Lusty and Dr Rimi Khan
2019
Critical Fashion Studies: Ethical Fashion Futures one-day research symposium, 7 June,University of Melbourne, co-hosted with Professor Natalya Lusty and Dr Rimi Khan
Select Conference Papers
2023
‘The diversification of contemporary First Nations Australian fashion’ Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA): Culture in Practice (Panel: ‘Local Practices/Global Markets: Toward a Sustainable Australian Fashion Industry with Professor Natalya Lusty and Dr Lisa Heinze Lake), University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5-8 December
‘Accrediting Ethical Fashion: B Corp certification and social enterprise in Indonesia,’ Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia (Panel: Sustainability in Fashion with Xingyun Shen), Courtauld Research Forum, 5-6 May
2022
‘Making Australian Fashion,’ Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA): 30th Anniversary Conference (Panel: ‘Fashion as (Trans)national Interest’ with Associate Professor Grace McQuilten, Dr Rimi Khan and Dr Roberto Filippello), RMIT University, Melbourne, 1-3 December
‘“Create a Better World”: Sustainable fashion and the politics of solidarity,’ European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Annual Conference (Panel: Fashioning Sustainability with Dr Heike Derwanz, Daniela Guerreiro and Emmi Holm), 26-29 July
‘Dark and Crooked: Fashion Moods in Aotearoa New Zealand,’ Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA): Bodies in Flux (Panel: Dressed Bodies in Flux with Professor Natalya Lusty and Brittany Craig), 28-30 June
2021
‘Instruments of Power? Modern Slavery Legislation and Fashion’s Transparency Industry,’ Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference (Panel: Fashion Futures: Creative economies, global networks and local development in the Global South), 31 August – 3 September
2020
‘Fashioning Melancholia in Aotearoa New Zealand,’ Encyclopedia of Melancholy: Symposium II, University of Melbourne, 3-4 December
2019
‘Weaving life, wearing love: Cultural threads, whānau and feathers,’ Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ) Conference, New Zealand, 27-29 September
‘Rethinking Value: An economics of ethics and sustainability in fashion,’ Critical Fashion Studies: Ethical Fashion Futures symposium, University of Melbourne, 7 June
‘Melancholia at the Margins: Place and history in the fashion of Aotearoa New Zealand,’ (Re)Thinking Fashion Globalisation Conference, Bunka Gakuen University Tokyo, 15-16 February
2018
‘My Material Mother: Memory, Photography and the Uncanny,’ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference, Western Sydney University, 20-23 November
‘Fashioning Suffrage: Dressing feminist politics in New Zealand and the United Kingdom,’ Feminist Engagements in Aotearoa: 125 years of Suffrage and Beyond, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, Wellington, 21-23 September
2017
‘Fashioning melancholia: Applying the concept of melancholia to the study of fashion,’ Australian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference, University of Tasmania, 29 Nov – 1 December
‘A broken gaze: The ambivalence of looking,’ Revisiting the Gaze: Feminism, Fashion and the Female Body Conference, University of the Arts London, 28-29 June
2016
‘Fashion of Unease: Melancholia in Aotearoa New Zealand,’ The End of Fashion Conference, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, 8-9 December
‘My mother’s dress: The uncanny in a remembered photograph,’ Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, 14-17 December. (Double panel: ‘Fashion’s Image,’ Rosie Findlay, Stella North, Prudence Black, Karen de Perthuis, and Alison Gill)
‘A Disembodied Dance: The ghosts of fashion imagery,’ 10th Annual Somatechnics Conference: Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment, University of Queensland and Southern Cross University, Byron Bay, 1-3 December. (Panel: ‘Fashion and Melancholia’ with Alyssa Choat & Louise Fanning)
‘Adorned in Ambivalence: A collection of contrasts,’ PopCAANZ 7th Annual International Conference, University of Sydney, 30 June – 1 July
2015
‘The Ghosts Who Gather: Fashioning a sense of place,’ Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA): Minor Culture Conference, University of Melbourne, 1-3 December
‘The Haunted Self: Melancholy in Fashion and the Body,’ The Fashion Project: Exploring Critical Issues 7th Global Meeting, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, 22-23 September
‘Writing Melancholia: Light and Dark in Literary Fashion,’ Textual Fashion: Representing Fashion and Clothing in Word and Image, University of Brighton, 8-10 July