speaking

In the future

I'll be talking about self-publishing and zines at the 2010 Write Around the Murray Festival 8-12 September 2010 in Albury.

In the past

'Intimate economies: the PostSecret project curates secrets', 7th biennial IABA conference: ‘Life Writing and Intimate Publics’ University of Sussex, 28 June–1 July 2010.

'The methods and ethics of reading occasioned life narratives: the case of digital storytelling' at The Story of The Story: Ethics, Therapy and Life Writing 28-30 September 2009, Flinders University.

'The Uses of Writing (and Publishing) In Research Practice', School of Visual and Performing Arts Short Seminar Series CSU, 19 August, 2009.

A 'Hi, I'm new here' paper at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Teaching Seminar at CSU, 18 March (presenting on my recent research on Digital Storytelling)

A paper on Digital Storytelling at Testimony, Trauma and Social Suffering: New Contexts/New Framings 14-16 April 2009, at ANU.

Panel Participant 'Unfolding Stories: Why do artists choose the artists’ book format to communicate their stories and ideas?' as part of the Freestyle Books Exhibition, State Library of Queensland, July 2008.

'Translating Childhood: from Archive to Text in the Age of Media Technologies', 6th Biennial Conference of the International Autobiography and Biography Association, Hawai'i June 2008.

'Thinking the zine' Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney May 11 2008.

'Anna Poletti Gets Personal', 'Festival of the Photocopier' Sticky Institute, 22 Feb. 2008 5:30 - 6:30pm.

'Things to make and do with a photocopier: introducing zines'. Books.07, Noosa Regional Gallery September 2007.

Guest Lecturer (on zines!), School of Visual and Performing Arts, Charles Sturt University 13 August 2007.

‘Auto/assemblage: Reading the Zine’ Modern Languages Association Convention Philadelphia, December 2006.

with Johannes Klabbers ‘We Reserve Our Right to Doubt’ Critical Animals Newcastle, September 2006.

‘Self-publishing in the Global and the Local: Situating Life Writing in Zines’ 4th International Auto/Biography Association Conference Chinese University of Hong Kong 2004.

‘Life writing in zines: memory, public spaces and intimacy’ Critical Animals Newcastle October 2003.

Panel member: ‘Critical Culture - You Talkin’ To Me?’ Next Wave Festival, Melbourne 2004.

Panel member: ‘Young Autobiography’ National Young Writers’ Festival, Newcastle 2004.

Chair: ‘What Use is a Personal Zine?’ Make It Up III, Melbourne 2003.

Panel member: ‘All Baby Boomers Must Die!’ Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2000.