Keynote/Invited Lectures

  1. ‘Echoes of the past: Sticky media discourses and Australia’s colonial history’. Invited to a panel presentation on ‘Reconciliation and The Referendum: Where Are We Now?’ with Indigenous Christian leaders Uncle Willie Pickett and Brooke Prentis, and A/Prof. Robyn Whitaker. Wesley Centre: Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, 13 October 2024.

  2. ‘Decolonial Reflections on Religion, Race and Belonging in Australia’. Invited to present at the Humboldt Kolleg – Program at Trinity College, Melbourne, 6 December 2023.

  3. ‘A Decolonial Turn: Rethinking ‘Religion’ in Australian Research’. Invited to present at the Sociologists & Anthropologist @ Monash seminar series at Monash University, Caulfield campus, 20September 2023.

  4. The keynote Penny Magee Memorial Lecture on ‘Religion, Race and Belonging: Reflecting on a Decolonial Turn in Studies of Religion in Australia’ at the Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne, 1 December 2022.

  5. Guest speaker at the reading group discussion on ‘religion, race and the media’ with the ReligioTheo Reading Group from the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice via Zoom, 3 September 2021.

Panel presentation on ‘Reconciliation and The Referendum: Where Are We Now?’. Photo: Jessica Hateley-Browne.

Delivery of the Penny Magee Memorial Lecture at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne in December 2022. Photo: Rosie Shorter.

Selected Conference Presentations (National and International)

  1. ‘The (non)menstruating body and (in)visible challenges: discourses on peri/menopause for women from CALD background in Australia’. Co-presenting at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Conference, 25 November 2024.

  2. ‘Unruly, Wild and Unmentionable: Reflections on Creative Methods in the Study of Religion’. Co-presented at the Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, 30 November 2023.

  3. ‘Diversity in Migration: Rethinking Social Service Provision for Refugees and Migrants in Australia’. Presented at The Australian Sociological Association at the University of Sydney, 29 November 2023.

  4. ‘Navigating the Ideological Tide: Discourses on ‘Mainstreaming’ Social Service Provision for Multicultural Communities in Australia from 1996 to 2021’. Presented at the “Appraising Multiculturalism: Politics, Policy and Practice" symposium, Deakin Downtown, 26 October 2023.

  5. ‘‘Christians don't have a monopoly on decency’: observations of ‘empire religion’ in media discourses through a decolonial lens’’. Presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2022.

  6. ‘‘Religious Diversity in Australia: Early Findings (La Diversité Religieuse En Australie: Premiers Résultats)’. Co-presented with Prof Doug Ezzy, A/Prof Anna Halafoff, Prof Greg Barton and Geraldine Smith at the International Society for the Sociology of Religion's 36th Conference via Zoom, July 2021.

  7. ‘‘Get Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries’: Christianity in Contemporary Australian Media’. Presented at the Evangelical Women in Academia Conference on Grounded: in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture at Ridley College, Melbourne, 3 August 2019.

  8. ‘Australia as ‘swamped by Muslims’ and its ‘African gang’ problem: Media continuations and disruptions of empire religion’. Presented at the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 9-12 July 2019.

  9. ‘An Australian Media Analysis of Religion as a Spectrum’. Presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference on Precarity, Rights and Resistance at Deakin University, 19-22 November 2018.

  10. ‘Lee Kuan Yew: From Statesman to Secular Sacred Figure’. Presented at the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture's Media, Religion and Publics in Seoul, Korea, 1 - 4 August 2016.

  11. ‘‘The Heavens Opened and Cried’: Mediatised National Mourning for Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew’. Presented at the RMIT Centre for Communication, Politics and Culture and Asia@RMIT seminar in Melbourne, Australia, 13th April 2016.