2024
CONVENED & CHAIRED, ‘Our Stories: Our History’ in the South-East’, convened day-long program and chaired opening session introducing new services and sources from Adelaide history organisations, History Council of South Australia Regional Visit, 28 November 2024.
PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘Industry-focused research in the Galleries, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) sector’, UniSA Creative Industries and IVE, Chaired by Dr Kristen Alford, 14 November 2024.
LUNCH TALK: ‘Remembering and Forgetting: Family memories of Service’, to Life Members of the Naval and Military Club, 24 Oct 2024.
PANEL PARTICIPANT: ‘Stories of the Park Lands’, ABC Park Lands Quiz with the Adelaide Park Lands Association, The Gov Hotel, 9 October 2024.
CO-PRESENTED: ‘Fancy a Bit of History?’ SASSi and FABoH findings, with University of Adelaide Masters Student Grace Turpin, at University of Adelaide monthly History Seminar, 30 September 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Hope at the Crossroads of GLAM & HASS’, Deans of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, UniSA, 18 September 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘South Australian Exceptionalism’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 10 September 2024.
FILMED INTERVIEW: ‘History and Heritage at Hahndorf’, Sandra Pippos Heritage & Tourism, 27 August 2024.
LAUNCH: ‘Camel Trains to Steel Wheels’, National Archives of Australia exhibition, State Library of South Australia, 23 August 2024.
LUNCH TALK: ‘Let’s Get SASSi about SA’s Past & future’, Queen Adelaide Club, 22 August 2024.
LAUNCH: ‘How can History Help?’, dinner address for Professional Historians Association’s new History at the Historian monthly dinner, 19 August 2024.
KEYNOTE ‘Women’s History & Creative Courage’, Sophia Library, 17 August 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Painting South Australia’s Past’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 11 August 2024.
FEATURE PIECE: ‘Celebrating the Stobie Pole” 100 years’, SA Power Manufacturing Yard, 13 August 2024.
LUNCH TALK: ‘Four Fabulous South Australian Women’, Lyceum Club History Group, 11 July 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Revealing South Australia through Family History’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 11 July 2024.
PANEL PARTICIPANT: ‘Getting SASSi With Public History Advocacy and Outreach’ sharing the SASSi findings in Public Histories Plenary Panel, 3 July 2024.
CO-CONVENED: with Professor Penny Edmonds, Matthew Flinders Chair of History at Flinders University, ‘Public History 2-day stream at the annual Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference, Flinders University, 2-3 July 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Public Histories: Past, Present and Future’, panel AHA conference, 2 July 2024.
KEYNOTE: ‘Whispers from the Archive’, School Library Association of South Australia Annual Conference, 22 June 2024.
WORKSHOP: ‘Primary Sources: Power, Partialities and Pitfalls’, School Library Association of South Australia Annual Conference, 22 June 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘The Powerful and Powerless: South Australia’s Irish women’, Talking History series, in partnership with UniSA, 18 June 2024.
LAUNCH: ‘Trials of Billy Freeman’, by Alan F Atkinson, Baile Books Strathalbyn, 25 May 2024.
LUNCH TALK: ‘Women’s Stories & Creative Courage’, Independent Arts Foundation Annual Fundraising lunch, 19 May 2024.
KEYNOTE: ‘Let’s Get SASSi” Sharing the SASSi Findings’, Torrens Parade Ground Drill Hall, SA’s History Festival, 14 May 2024.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘The Power of Story: A Night at the Museum’, in-conversation with Professor Lynette Russell & Dr David Gaimster, South Australian Museum, 9 May 2024.
DINNER ADDRESS: ‘Giving the Past a Living Future – Now!’, Barossa History Fair, 4 May 2024.
FILMED INTERVIEW: Rob George documentary ‘Madge & Bibs & the Advancing Girls’, History Festival, 30 April 2024.
LUNCH TALK: ‘Finding Family & Writing them into the Now’, Lyceum Club, 24 April 2024.
LAUNCH: ‘Guiding Our Past & Future’, new archives at the Girl Guides, Trefoil Park, 7 April 2024.
LAUNCH: ‘Irish Women in the Antipodes’, Irish Club, 1 April 2024.
WORKSHOP: ‘A True Story Told Well’, UniSA Creative Industries undergraduates, 28 March 2024.
KEYNOTE: ‘Getting SASSi’, National Council of Women (SA Branch), 14 March 2024.
KEYNOTE: ‘Writing Women back into the Past’, International Women’s Day, Rotary Adelaide, 6 March 2024
KEYNOTE: ‘Writing Family Histories: Warts & All’, South Australian Genealogical Society, Twilight Tuesday, 5 March 2024.
KEYNOTE: ‘Giving the Past a Future, Now!’, West Torrens Historical Society, 26 Feb 2024.
2023
PANEL PARTICIPANT: ‘Writing Histories: Careers in History series’, History Council of NSW, 20 November 2024 with author Kate Fullagar & Leah Lui-Chivizhe.
KEYNOTE: ‘Asking the Right Question’: Address to Higher Degree Students UniSA, 10 November 2023.
KEYNOTE: ‘We are all History Advocates Now’, Pioneers Association of South Australia, AGM address, 18 September 2023.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Uncanny Histories: the Invisible, Mysterious, and Miraculous’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 9 September 2023.
KEYNOTE: ‘Advocating for history is a shared opportunity!’ Professional Historians Association Annual Conference, September 2023.
KEYNOTE: ‘Healing the Past’, Second Opinion, 18th Biennial Conference of Australia and New Zealand Medical History Conference, University of Adelaide, 12-14 July 2023.
DINNER ADDRESS: ‘Imagine a World Without a past’: Intangible Cultural Heritage and SA’s Social History, Freemasons, August 2023.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Wonder Women: Celebrating SA’s Weird and Wonderful Women’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 10 July 2023.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Collecting Passions and Potential Pitfalls’, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 6 June 2023.
FEATURE PIECE: Introducing the 2024 History Festival theme: ‘Power’, Closing of 2023 History Festival, Freemasons Grand Lodge, 31 May 2023.
KEYNOTE: ‘The Books that made me a Creative Historian’, Friends of State Library of South Australia, 13 May 2023.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘History & Imagination: Adversaries or Allies?’, History Festival, Talking History series in partnership with UniSA, 6 May 2023.
CONVENED & CHAIRED: ‘Postcards from the Edge: In-Conversation With Keith Conlon’, History Festival, 2 May 2023.
KEYNOTE: ‘Light in the Darkness’, Colonel Light anniversary commemoration, City of Adelaide Council Chambers, 27 April 2023.
2022
CHAIRED: ‘History and Imagination Masterclass’, Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO and Professor Anna Clark, UniSA 22 November 2022.
KEYNOTE: ‘We the Keepers and Custodians’, Inaugural History Advocate Address, Migration Museum HTSA, 27 October 2022.