I acknowledge the sovereignity of the  traditional owners of this land, the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and I pay respect to their elders past, present, and emerging

Violin Symposium in conjunction with the Dorcas Maclean Scholarship, University of Mebourne, 1 February 2025

Conference paper,  For Love of the Violin: The Trials, Tribulations and Triumps of Johann Kruse 

The paper is an excerpt from upcoming  chapter in the book Double Stopping: Touring Violinists and Cultural Exchange in Twentieth-Centruy Australia

(edited by Suzanne Robinson, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic).

Forty-Fifth National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, 1–3 December 2022

Conference paper, Mona McBurney and Women of a New Dawn: Pathways to Success for Women Composers

First Biennial International Conference of ‘Music and the University: History, Models, Prospects'

University of London UK, 6–9July 2022

Conference paper, Women of a New Dawn: Pathways to Melbourne's Conservatorium of Music and Beyond, 1870–1907

Annual Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, 9–11 December 2021

Conference paper, 'Webbs' of Intrigue: Processes of Empowering Women's Creativity in Musical Melbourne, 1880–1907

Forty-Third Annual Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, 3–5 December 2020

Conference paper,  From Sterling to Currency: Representing Identity in Colonial Australia Through Music Reviews and Cartoons

Association Répertoire International d'Iconograpie Musicale (RIdM), 'Belonging and Detachment, Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture', University of Tasmania, 13–15 November 2019

Conference paper,  From Sterling to Currency: Representing Identity in Colonial Australia Through Music Reviews and Cartoons

Association Répertoire International d'Iconograpie Musicale (RIdM), 18th International Conference,

'Music and Image in Cultural, Social, and Political Discourse', Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury UK

9–12 July 2018

Conference paper, 'Australian Bush Songs' as Multimodal Discourse: The Remarkable Collaboration of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie Rentoul, and Georgette Peterson

Thirty-Ninth National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, 30 November–3 December 2016

Conference paper,  Back to the Future, The Proud Legacy of  Colonial Women Composers

Perspectives of Artistic Research in Music, Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Monash University, 23–24 July 2015

Conference paper,  Creativity and the Blues: A Philosophical Approach to Practice and Research

I acknowledge the sovereignty of the traditional owners of this land, the Wurrundjeri people of  the Kulin Nations, and I pay respect to their elders past, present, and emerging

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                                                                                         CONFERENCES 2025                                                                                    

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Forty-Seventh National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, 28–30 November 2024

Conference paper, For Love of the Violin: The Inspired Career of Johann Kruse

Second Biennial International Conference of ‘Music and the University,’ University of Surrey, UK, 4–6 July 2024

Conference paper, Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? The Case for Plural Understandings in Musicology