| Conference papers | |
| 2019 | ‘Building Engagement through Community: Social Media, Gamification, and Digital Learning’, ANZ Global 2019 Digital Campus and Blended Learning Transformation Summit: AI, Immersive AR/VR, Blended Learning Innovations, Melbourne, July. |
| 2018 | ‘Be Visible or Vanish: Using Social Media for Research’, Queer Legacies, New Solidarities, Deakin University and State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, November (workshop co-presented with Emma Whatman). |
| 2018 | ‘Beyond the Age of the Image?: Teaching with Podcasts and Audio Feedback’, Better Evidence for Better Teaching and Better Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne, November (co-presented with Danielle Teychenne). |
| 2018 | ‘Engaging Students: Social Media, Gamification, and Professional-Personal Branding’, Comparative Communication Study International Symposium, Deakin University, Melbourne, October. |
| 2017 | ‘Copyright Made Easy for Learning Design and Assessment,’ Learning by Design: Learning and Teaching Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, November. |
| 2017 | ‘The Future of the Past: Holocaust Learning in the Digital World,’ Australian Association of Holocaust Organisations (AAHO) Inaugural Conference, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, November. |
| 2017 | ‘Creature Commodities: Playing with/as Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Video Games,’ Development for Species: Animals in Society, Animals as Society, Deakin University, Melbourne, September. |
| 2017 | ‘Making Games: Playful Publics, Tabletop Products, and Crowdfunding,’ Boardgame Studies Roundtable Workshop, Digital Games Research Association Conference, Swinburne University of Technology, RMIT University and The University of Melbourne, July. |
| 2016 | ‘Stranded in Paradise: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Nonhuman Animals in Games,’ The Digital Games Research Association Australia Symposium: Tensions, Swinburne University of Technology, November. |
| 2016 | ‘Gamifying Student Learning: Motivation, Reward, Engagement,’ Remarkable Ideas, Remarkable Futures: Learning and Teaching Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, November (workshop co-presented with Danielle Teychenne and Dylan Hornsby). |
| 2015 | ‘Bridging Empathy and Protective Indifference?: Animal Welfare, Online Engagement, and the Activist-Slacktivist Divide,’ Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, July (co-authored with Deirdre Quinn-Allan). |
| 2014 | ‘Digital Media Innovation and Gamification in the Holocaust Museum: The Potentialities and Limitations of the JHC StoryPods’, The Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century, Deakin University and the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, July. |
| 2014 | ‘Playful Publics as “Game-makers”?: Digital Media, Produsers, and the (R)evolution of Board Gaming’, Contemporary Publics International Symposium, Deakin University, February (co-authored with Deb Waterhouse-Watson). |
| 2013 | ‘Between Whores and Heroes: Screening Women’s Complicity During the Holocaust’, Aftermath: Sites and Sources: The 3rd Jan Randa International Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, August (co-authored with Deb Waterhouse-Watson). |
| 2013 | ‘When the Holocaust Comes to Harlem: Racial and Economic (In)Justice in American Holocaust Film’, as part of ‘Representing the Irrepresentable: Narratives and Visual Images of Slavery, Forced Labor, and Genocide, Part 3: Entangled Narratives and Images: Genocide and Racial Segregation’, 127th American Historical Association Meeting, New Orleans, January (co-authored with Danielle Christmas). |
| 2012 | ‘“Don’t Try to Make Her Ugly!”: Representing Women’s Complicity in the Holocaust through the Camera’s Gaze’, The Gender Games: Stories in/for the Contemporary World, Deakin University, Monash University and the University of Melbourne, Deakin Prime, Melbourne, November. |
| 2012 | ‘Screening Perpetrators in Holocaust Film: Guilt, Ambiguity and Responsibility’, Lessons & Legacies XII, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, November (workshop convened with Danielle Christmas and Deb Waterhouse-Watson). |
| 2012 | ‘Beyond the “Silent Scream”: Screening the Holocaust in Racialised Urban America’, The Holocaust and Legacies of Race in the Postcolonial World, 1945 to the Present, University of Sydney, April (co-authored with Danielle Christmas). |
| 2012 | ‘“Big Brother, I See You”’: Representations of Surveillance in Film’, Surveillance and/in Everyday Life, The University of Sydney, Sydney, February (co-authored with Tony Chalkley). |
| 2011 | ‘Testimony and the Question of “Guilt”: The Case of Traudl Junge’, Testimony, Witness, Authority: The Politics or Poetics of Experience, The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media (OWOVM) Conference on Poetics and Discourse, Victoria University, Melbourne, December. |
| 2011 | ‘Against Schindler’s List: A “Third Wave” in Holocaust World Cinema’, World Cinema Now, Second Biannual Conference from Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory, Monash University, Melbourne, September. |
| 2011 | ‘Multiplatformed Spaces, Multicultural Places: Recruiting Child Citizens at the ABC’, Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, Australian and New Zealand Communication Associaton (ANZCA), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July (co-authored with Leonie Rutherford). |
| 2011 | ‘Multiplatforming Documentary: New Media Innovation in the Holocaust Museum’, Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, Australian and New Zealand Communication Associaton (ANZCA), University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July. |
| 2011 | ‘Sexing Up the Holocaust: Exhibiting the Eroticised Body for the Camera’s Gaze’, Aftermath: The Politics of Memory: The 2nd Jan Randa International Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, June (co-authored with Deb Waterhouse-Watson). |
| 2011 | ‘“This Band of Murderous Little Bastards…”: “Native Police”, the “Grey Zone” and Australia’s Genocidal Past’, Aftermath: The Politics of Memory: The 2nd Jan Randa International Conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, June. |
| 2010 | ‘Framing Testimonies in a Virtual World: Narrative Construction in the JHC StoryPods’, Interesting Times: New Roles for Collections, Museums Australia National Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September-October. |
| 2010 | ‘“All Those Moments Haven’t Been Lost in Time”: Revisiting Blade Runner and Its Progeny in the Present Day’, 68th World Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, September. |
| 2010 | ‘“Our World is Ending, But Life Must Go On…”: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias in Contemporary Children’s Films’, Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (CCLCS), Monash University, Melbourne, September. |
| 2010 | ‘Revisiting the “Victim”/“Perpetrator” Divide: “Privileged” Jews, the Holocaust, and the “Grey Zone”’, Reviewing History, Australian Historical Association (AHA), University of Western Australia, Perth, July. |
| 2010 | ‘Robots at the End of the World: Challenging Consumerism in Wall-E’, Children’s Literature and its Politics: Representation and the Rules of Engagement, Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, June. |
| 2010 | ‘Women in the “Grey Zone”: Ambiguity, Complicity and Rape Culture’, The Eastern Division of the Society for Women In Philosophy (ESWIP) Virtual Conference, April (co-authored with Deb Waterhouse-Watson). |
| 2009 | ‘Beyond Black and White: Shades of Grey in Recent Holocaust Films’, A World of German, German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA), University of Western Australia, Perth, November. |
| 2009 | ‘Coming to Terms with the Past?: Negotiating Holocaust Memory in Contemporary German Cinema’, The Europe That Was, Is, and Will Be, Contemporary Europe Research Centre (CERC) International Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, November. |
| 2009 | ‘Beyond “Good” and “Evil”: Breaking Down Binary Oppositions in Holocaust Representations of “Privileged” Jews’, Breaking Down Barriers, Blackwell Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference, October. |
| 2009 | ‘Holocaust Screens as Mirrors: Contemporary Responses to a Liminal Event’, Screens, Deakin University, Melbourne, October. |
| 2009 | ‘“Privileged” Jews, Holocaust Representation, and the “Limits” of Judgement: The Case of Raul Hilberg’, Europe’s Expansions and Contractions, Australasian Association of European Historians (AAEH), State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, July. |
| 2009 | ‘“Can One Be So Guilty For Having Survived?”: “Privileged” Jews, Holocaust Testimony and the Paradox of Judgement’, Testimony, Trauma and Social Suffering: New Contexts/New Framings, Australian National University, Canberra, April. |
| 2009 | ‘The Other Side of a Slap in the Face: “Privileged” Jews and the Problem of Judgement in Holocaust Testimonies’, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, Imperial War Museum, London, January. |
| 2008 | ‘Confronting “Choiceless Choices” in Holocaust Testimonies: Judgement, “Privileged” Jews, and the Role of the Interviewer’, Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, National Academy of Screen and Sound, Murdoch and Curtin Universities, Fremantle, December. |
| 2008 | ‘Between Victims and Villains: “Privileged” Jews and the “Grey Zone” of Identity during and after the Holocaust’, Identity and Its Discontents, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, November. |
| 2008 | ‘“This is the Place”: Negotiating Presence and Absence in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Other Holocaust Films’, Locating History, Australian Historical Association (AHA), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, July. |
| 2008 | ‘Marginalising the Marginal in Holocaust Films: Fictional Representations of “Privileged” Jews’, In the Margins: Exploring the Marginal in Historical and Cultural Studies, Limina, University of Western Australia, Perth, June. |
| 2007 | ‘Traumatic Memory and Holocaust Testimony: Passing Judgement in Representations of Chaim Rumkowski’, Memory Crises, German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, September. |
| 2006 | ‘The Trauma of “Choiceless Choices”: The Paradox of Judgement in Primo Levi’s “Grey Zone”’, Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP), Deakin University, Geelong, July. |
| 2006 | ‘Bridging Evil and Humanity: Representing the “Grey Zone” in Holocaust Film’, 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, January. |
| Invited presentations | |
| 2017 | ‘Embracing the Fragility of Memory,’ JHC Publishing House Staff and Volunteer Enrichment Program, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne August. |
| 2016 | ‘Engage, Collaborate, Participate: Exposing Yourself Online with Social Media (without sexting),’ ACES Mentoring Workshop, Deakin University, Melbourne, February. |
| 2015 | ‘Exposing Yourself Online: Visibility, Engagement, and Risk in the Digital Age,’ Deakin Alumni Webinar Series, Deakin University, Melbourne, November. |
| 2015 | ‘Sexing Up History: Women in Holocaust Film’, University of the Third Age Stonnington, Melbourne, October. |
| 2015 | ‘Guilt, Trauma and Memory in Father: Reflections on an Australian Holocaust Film’, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, May. |
| 2014 | ‘“Privileged” Jews in the “Grey Zone”: The Ethics of Reading Holocaust Testimony, Literature, and Film’, JHC Book Club, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, August. |
| 2014 | ‘A “Privileged” Prisoner is Still a Prisoner: Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in the Camps and Ghettos’, B’nai B’rith Victoria, Melbourne, April. |
| 2013 | ‘“And What Would You Have Done?”: Judgements of “Privileged” Jews in Holocaust Representations’, University of the Third Age Stonnington, Melbourne, October. |
| 2013 | ‘The Changing World of Communication’, Rotary Club of Glen Eira Inc., London Tavern, Melbourne, August. |
| 2013 | ‘Exploring Holocaust Screen Culture: History, Memory, Representation’, HSC English Day, sponsored by Information Access, Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney, May. |
| 2013 | ‘From a Nazi on Stage to a Non-Jewish Researcher of “Privileged” Jews: My Journey into Holocaust Studies’, keynote speech for Child Survivors of the Holocaust Annual General Meeting, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, April. |
| 2013 | Launch speech for Thomas Delohery’s art exhibition, Night But No Morning, at Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne, April. |
| 2013 | Launch speech for Graeme Kinross-Smith’s poetry collection, Available Light: New Poems, Boom Gallery, Geelong, November. |
| 2012 | ‘Mediating Holocaust History and Memory: Representation, Film and New Media’, HSC English Day, sponsored by Information Access, Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney, November. |
| 2012 | ‘“Can One Be So Guilty For Having Survived?”: “Privileged” Jews, Judgement and the Ethical Dilemmas of the Holocaust’, Philosophy Cafe, Paideia Australia, The Barking Dog, Geelong, June. |
| 2012 | ‘Holocaust History, Memory and Film: The Problems of Representation and Judgement’, HSC English Day, sponsored by Information Access, Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney, June. |
| 2012 | ‘Teaching Generation Next: Utilising Holocaust Films in the Classroom’, Teaching the Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Professional Development Symposium for Educators, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, February. |
| 2011 | ‘Screening the Holocaust for Students: From Schindler’s List to StoryPods’, Teaching the Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Professional Development Symposium for Educators, Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne, August. |
| 2011 | ‘Building Your Wooden Horse…: Academia as a Fortress’, HDR Summer School, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront, February. |
| Poetry reading | |
| 2006 | ‘Like a sharp bead of light passing through my skull’, ‘Mistakes’, ‘Skeleton in the closet’, ‘Skull of Adam’, Words at the Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, December. |
