CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Co-convenor. ‘Fashion Futures’. Critical Fashion Studies Conference. Melbourne, Australia. February, 2020.

Co-convenor. ‘Minor Culture.’ Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Melbourne, Australia. December, 2015.

PANELS CONVENED

‘Fashion enterprise, consumption and ethics after Covid-19’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference. Singapore. July 2021.

‘Researching Young People, Media and Mobility.’ Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference. Seoul, Korea. July 2017.

‘Measuring Culture: Moving Across Policy, Art and the Everyday.’ Knowledge Culture Economy conference. Sydney, Australia. November, 2014.

‘Valuing Diversity: The Multicultural Challenge to Arts Policy and Practice.’ Spectres of Evaluation: Rethinking Art/Community/Value. Melbourne,
Australia. February 2014.

PAPERS PRESENTED

‘Fashion as a ‘living archive’: temporal economies of cultural sustainability’. Royal Geographical Society – IBS Annual Conference. London. August 2021.

‘Cultural sustainability and mobility in post-Covid fashion enterprise’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference. Singapore. July 2021.

‘”I feel optimistic because our planet is falling apart”: Hope, failure and futurity in ethical fashion making’. Fashion Futures. Melbourne 2020.

‘Belonging despite recognition: multicultural young people making claims on the nation’. Asian Australian Identities Biennial Conference. Melbourne,
Australia. November 2019.

‘The global is a place: More-than-local networks and collective design communities at Aranya’. Critical Fashion Studies Symposium. Melbourne,
Australia. May 2019.

‘Excluded but optimistic: understanding migrant youth participation’. Understanding Everyday Participation: Re-locating culture, value and
inequality. Manchester, UK. July 2018.

‘Globalising Ethical Fashion Markets: The Khadi Revival’. Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour? Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies. Lisbon,
Portugal. July 2018.

‘Australia’s first multicultural youth census: Findings from the MY Australia project’. Australian Institute of Family Studies. Melbourne, Australia. June
2018.

‘Investigating Ethical Fashion Networks in Asia’. Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society. London, UK. August 2017.

‘Making Citizens, Expanding Worlds: Photovoice Research with Young People’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference. Seoul, Korea. July 2017.

‘Mobility and empowerment for ethical fashion workers in Bangladesh’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference. Seoul, Korea. July 2017.

‘Researchers, Bureaucrats and the Lifeworlds of Cultural Policy’. International Conference for Cultural Policy Research. Seoul, Korea. July, 2016.

‘Reconstructing Global Fashion Economies’. Minor Culture – Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Melbourne,
Australia. December, 2015.

‘Fashion Activism and Ethical Citizenship’. Undercurrents: Unearthing Hidden Social and Discursive Practices – Inter-Asia Cultural Studies conference.
Surabaya, Indonesia. August, 2015.

‘The Translocal Transnational Corridor: Measuring Cultural Economies in Outer Suburbia’. Knowledge Culture Economy conference. Sydney,
Australia. November, 2014.

‘Place-based Belonging and Ecological Citizenship in Australia’s Outer-Suburban Communities’. Ninth International Conference on Environmental,
Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. Hiroshima,
Japan. January, 2013.

‘Expanding the Citizen in Multicultural Policymaking’. The Citizen in the 21st Century. Sydney, Australia. February, 2013.

‘Cultural Diversity in Arts and Cultural Policy: The Arts as a Tool for Negotiating Difference’. Expanding Conversations: Social Innovation, Arts
and Anti-Racism, Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney,
Australia. May, 2012.

‘Cultural Diversity, the Arts and Cultural Citizenship’. Crossroads Conference, Association for Cultural Studies. Paris, France. July, 2012.

‘Uses of Cultural Capital in Community-based Arts’. Antipodean Fields conference. Sydney, Australia. June, 2011.

‘Creating “Community” in a Creative City’. International Association for Media and Communications Research. Istanbul, Turkey. July, 2011.

‘Cultural Research and Knowledge Practices in the Arts’. Knowledge Culture Social Change. Sydney, Australia. November, 2011.

‘Multicultural Arts and Cultural Participation in the City of Whittlesea’, Asian Australian Identities 4. Melbourne, Australia. November, 2011.

‘Community Arts, Cultural Value and Cultural Citizenship’. Creative Communities II: Culture Identity Inclusion. Gold Coast,
Australia. September, 2010.

‘From Cultural Policy to Cultural Production: Reconstructing Community- based Arts at Footscray Community Arts Centre’. ReGenerating Community conference. Melbourne, Australia. September, 2009.

‘Governing Diversity: The Institutionalisation of Multicultural Arts’. Cultural Citizenship conference, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Oxford, UK. September, 2008.