April 2010. Co-convenor of the In the Image of Asia: Moving across and between locations conference, RSH, ANU, 13-15 April, 2010.
Past
September 2009. Japanese calligraphy in the 21st century: An anthropological perspective presented at the RSH Work-in-Progress Seminar Series, the ANU.
July 2009. Ephemeral but Eternal Words: Performing Japanese Calligraphy. A paper presented at the Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice conference, the Royal Institute for British Architects, London, UK.
March 2009. Invited talk. Ephemeral but Eternal Words: Observations on Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy, Australian Centre for Asian Art & Archaeology, University of Sydney.
July 2008. Creating or Filling White Space in Japanese Calligraphy. A paper presented at the International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference, Paris, France.
June 2008. Is It Art or Not?: The Ambiguous Status of Japanese Calligraphy. A seminar given at the Anthropology Seminar Series, The Australian National University, Canberra.
November 2007. Performing Words: An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy presented at the 20-20-20 Seminar Series at the Research School of Humanities, The Australian National University, Canberra.
December 2006. Invited lecture. Ways of Seeing. The School of Art and Design, the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
April 2005. Creating or Performing Words Visually? The Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Aberdeen, UK.
February 2005. Creating or Performing Words Visually: Observations on Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy presented at the Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
November 2004. Invited lecture. The Shadow of Fuji: Mountains and Japanese Art at the Oxford University Continuing Education Department Day School, UK.
October 2004. Issues of Originality and Authenticity in the practice of ‘Copying': A Case of Japanese Calligraphy presented at the ‘Reproduction in Modern Japan' conference at Yale University, USA.
February 2004. Traces of Time through Brush and Lens: ‘Tabikagami', a Travel Diary by Hidai Shōkin presented at the ‘Imagined Modernities: Travel Literature, Illustration and the Nation State in Asia and the Americas, 1850-1950' conference at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
August 2003. Creating New Forms of ‘Visualized' Words presented at the 10th International Conference of European Association of Japanese Studies, Warsaw, Poland.
