Peer-reviewed conference papers
‘Robinson Crusoe’s afterlife in the antipodes’, Crusoe at 300: Adaptations, Afterlives, and Futures, Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York (UK), 10–12 July 2019.
‘Regency masculinity? The place of Napoleonic War veterans in the history of masculinities’, Maritime Masculinities, 1815–1940, St Anne’s College, Oxford (UK), 19–20 December 2016.
‘Weeping politicians: The power and contingency of men’s tears’, Political Masculinities as Agents of Change, Interdisciplinary Conference at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), 9–11 December 2016.
Academic conference papers
‘Weeping politicians: The power and contingency of men’s tears’, AHA2018: The Scale of History, Australian National University, 5 July 2018.
‘Australian Crusoes: masculinity and national identity’, Foundational Histories, Australian Historical Association (AHA) Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 6–10 July 2015.
‘Robinson Crusoe and The Australian Legend’, Writers and Readers: Books that Shaped and Subverted the British Empire, 8–9 May 2015, University of Melbourne, a conference in conjunction with the Australian launch of Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, eds, Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (Duke University Press, 2014).
‘Conflicting responses to drought assistance in the long history of Australian government legislation’, Conflict in History, AHA Annual Conference, University of Queensland, 7-11 July 2014.
‘Men’s tears’, Allan Martin Symposium, Australian National University, 7 May 2014 (invited paper).
‘William Henty stands on his legs in front of Governor Gipps: men, manners and manliness in the early
Australian colonies’, Connections, AHA Annual Conference, University of Adelaide, 9-13 July 2012.
‘Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars: moving past the dandy in understanding Regency masculinity’, Reworking the Regency, University of Melbourne, 8-10 October 2009.
‘A happy escape’: The Australian Legend as a specific masculine ideal, Engaging Histories: AHA Regional Conference, UNE, Armidale, 2007 (Commended in Wiley-Blackwell / AHA Prize 2007).
Seminar papers
‘Collaboration and methods: behind the scenes in researching the long history of drought assistance in Australia’, School of History Seminar Series, ANU, 6 August 2014 (with Rebecca Jones and Blake Singley).
‘The centre of all my enterprises: Robinson Crusoe and the paradox of families’, School of History Seminar Series, ANU, 11 August 2010.
‘Chains: men’s relationship to civilisation and material progress in Britain and Australia c.1788-1850’, RSSS History Seminar Series, ANU, 10 September 2009.
‘Anticipating colonialism: raising boys in eighteenth-century England’, Department of History Seminar Series, Faculty of Arts, ANU, 3 September 2008.
‘“For the sake of the boys”: early colonial Australia and Robinson Crusoe’, Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London, 12 May 2008.