2014 |
Potsdam University Berlin, Postcolonial Justice, “Other Hostages: Postcolonial justice and the politics of repatriation”, Conference paper and publication |
|
Sainsbury Centre for World Art, University of Norwich UK, At Work in the Archive, “Anachronism in the Archive: Appropriations of the colonial archive in Australia”, Conference paper |
2013 |
Royal Academy of Art and Sketch London, “Exhibition Histories”, Guest Lecture. |
|
PAN – Perspektiven auf Natur, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, “Perspektiven auf Natur in Wilhelm von Blandowskis Australien in 142 photographischen Abbildungen von 1862”, Conference Paper. |
|
1001 Leichhardts, International Conference, Potsdam University, “Re-enacting Leichhardt”, paper and performance. |
|
The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House London, “Anachronism: Classification and Display in Nineteenth Century Colonial Collecting and Contemporary Museum Practice”, Invited lecture in the seminar series at the University of London on Collection and Display. |
|
Australian National University and National Museum, Selling Yarns: Weaving the Nations Story, “The Making of Skins Cloak”, with Vicki Couzens and Lee Darroch, Conference Paper. |
2012 |
Marrakech Biennale Literature Festival, Morocco, Can We Ever Be Modern?, Paper and Panel discussion chaired by Pankaj Mishra |
|
Cambridge University, Witnessing War, “If you fight the dragon long, the dragon you become: Comments on Monuments in the Balkan”, Conference Paper and film screening. |
|
Henry Moore Foundation, Launch of Sculpture in the Museum book and reading. |
|
British Museum London, John Sloane Project, invited speaker. |
|
Monash University, Italy, “Indigenous Networks and ‘Transnational’ Cultures”, Conference paper. |
|
Deutsches Museum Munich, Anthropocene Project, “From Research to Exhibition Making”, Lecture. |
|
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Cambridge, Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures, “ No-No and Permissions to Map”, Conference Paper. |
|
Corpus Cristi College Cambridge, Poets Meeting, “Selection of recent poems”, reading and screening. |
|
The History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge, “Colonial Classification”, Senior Seminar paper. |
|
The Courtauld Institute of Art, “Living Monuments”, guest lecture. |
2011 |
World Textile Association Biennale Conference, Xalapa Mexico, “The Vienna Zocalo”, Conference paper. |
|
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, “Visual and Verbal Taxonomy”, Seminar and Workshop. |
2010 |
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, “Who is Performing Art? Performing Viewers 1960-2010”, This Sentence is Already Being Performed, Symposium. |
|
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Monica Bonvicini master class lecture series, “Meta-artists‘ Talk”. |
|
Berlin Biennale, Watchtower Schlesischer Busch, Panel: “Phantasmagorias of History”, moderated by Svetlana Boym, Harvard University. |
2009 |
The Glassell School of Art, Houston, Guest Lecture: “Colonial Conceptualists: How Museums shift from Objects to Projects through Global Contemporary Arts”. |
|
Marfa Book Co. & The Chinati Foundation, Texas, Poetry Reading: “The Museum in a Book”. |
|
American University, Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington DC, Lecture Series: “Along with the Whale: Histories of Art Trade from Australia to the US”. |
2008 |
University of East Anglia, UK, Sainsbury Research Center for World Art, Guest Lecture: “Under-drawing: A History of Drawing across Cultures”. |
|
Kluge-Ruhe Museum Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Guest Lecture: “A History of Telling in Silhouette: Race, Euphemism and Empire”. |
2007 |
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Art History, Guest Lecture: “Internationalism & Exhibiting”. |
|
Harvard University, Conference: “Conflicts and Entanglements,” Lecture: “Space to Wonder at Incommensurable Curiosities: The Colonial Phenomenology of Recombinant Hybridity”. |
2006 |
Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Conference: “Europe Lost and Found,” Lecture: “The Lost Highway from Greece to Sarajevo via Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro”. |
|
Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Conference: “Archives and the Lost Highway Expedition,” Lecture: “Artists as Criminals against Essentialism: mapping ‘Nationhood’ in the Western Balkan”. |
2005 |
Otago University, New Zealand, Conference “On Space”, Lecture: “Language and Imaginary Space in the Performance of Ekphrasis”. |