‘Gentrifying Scenes on and off Screen’, keynote address Camera-Stylo 6, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2025
‘There’s A Place for Romantic Gestures’, NECS, Lisbon, Portugal, 2025
‘If I were you…I’d want to be me: The body swap crisis’ NECS, Izmir, Turkey, 2024
‘A24 and the New Indie Auteur’ (with Bruce Isaacs), Media Aesthetics Seminar, University of Bergen, 2024
“Metamodern Pastiche and Community” (with Timotheus Vermeulen), SCMS, Boston, 2024
“Creative Resistance: Noah Baumbach’s Literary Filmography” NECS, Palermo (online), 2021
“Indie Courtship: Pursuing the American New Wave” Research Seminar Series, University of Bangor, Wales, 2020
“Empathetic Effort in Bernie and Where’d You Go, Bernadette?“, Medieforskerkonferansen, University of Oslo, 2020,
“American eccentric cinema’s mismotivated heroes”, Memories of the Future Symposium, University of Oslo, 2020
“‘Consciousness Is a Terrible Curse. I Think. I Feel. I Suffer’: Spike Jonze and Loneliness”, Camera Stylo 2, University of Sydney, 2017
“From Benjamin Braddock to Max Fischer: Considering Wes Anderson’s worlds through the American New Wave”, The American New Wave: A Retrospective, Bangor University, Wales, 2017
‘Art History and Theory Research Methods’ seminar series, University of Sydney, 2016
“(Re)constructing Berlin: Framing the City in Tom Tykwer’s Berlin Films”, PopCAANZ, Wellington, New Zealand, 2015
“‘This, please, cannot be that’: The Constructed World of P.T Anderson’s Magnolia” Camera Stylo, The University of Sydney, 2015
‘Life at Sydney: Why study film at University?’ University of Sydney, 2015
“Eccentric Space in US Independent Cinema: Questions of Identification”, London Film and Media Conference, 2014
“Do you know what kind of a metaphysical can of worms this portal is? Road Trips, Mind Trips- Charlie Kaufman and the Road Film Genre” PopCAANZ 2013, Brisbane, Australia
“Cast of Characters: The American Eccentrics and Pure Cinematic Characterization” SCMS 2013, Chicago, USA
“This is the film I want them to remember me by: P.T Anderson and the Contemporary Auteur” FAS Making Tracks, University of New South Wales, 2012
“On the Road to Nowhere: The Darjeeling Limited and the New American Road Movie” ANZASA 2012, Brisbane, Australia
“The Sounds of Silence: Hyper-Dialogue in the American Eccentrics” PopCAANZ 2012, Melbourne, Australia
Public talks and podcasts
’50 yrs anniversary: Fear Eats the Soul’ (in conversation with Timotheus Vermeulen and Abirami Logendran) Kunstnernes hus, Oslo, Norway (2024)
‘A24 – A New Indie Genre Cinema’ (with Bruce Isaacs), Vega Scene, Oslo, Norway (2024)
‘Eccentricity Returns–Dream Scenario‘, Vega Scene, Oslo, Norway (2024)
‘Kim Wilkins’ episode on Toby Miller’s Cultural Studies podcast (2023)
‘Not Quite Introducing Asteroid City‘, Vega Scene, Oslo, Norway (2023)
Screening host for ‘Cobain’ (Nanouk Leopold, 2018) and ‘RocKabul’ (Travis Beard, 2018) Sydney Film Festival, Australia
‘The Glorious Role of Product Placement in Films’ Sydney Film Festival Hub, Australia (2013)
‘Badfilms/Shit Movies?’ Yeah Sessions, Yullis, Surry Hills, Australia (2013)
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