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2007 Kingpower: Designing Masculinities Symposium RMIT
"Men In Bronze Suits - male fashion in Victorian portrait statuary
around Melbourne"

2007 Seeing Things: Irish Visual Studies Conference, University of
Limerick presented paper "not the Little Bandy Bartsard" auspiecing John
Wren through the Visual"

Also gave possible Irish premiere of the film - produced by John Wren in
1920 "Ireland Will be Free"

2007 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting - presented
paper on architect design dollshouses of the 20th century in session on
Architecture and Play

2007 SAH 60th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians (US) Pittsburgh Tool Fantasy and Document? Playing with Architectural Images and Identities Through Twentieth and Twenty–First Century Dollhouses.

2007 Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference Perth WA - February " Dolls With Vices"

2006 Contested Terrains SAHANZ 2006  Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand 23rd Annual Coference Perth Western Australia It’s a Small World? The contested cultural meaning of the small expressed through narratives of miniature buildings

2005 Celebration SAHANZ Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand 22nd Annual Conference Napier, New Zealand 2005 "The Dollshouse as Architectural Fantasy and Architectural Reportage: The Bratz Pad as case study"

2004 Australiasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, ANTIPODES at University of Sydney  Dr Juliette Peers (RMIT, Melbourne): Emma Minnie Boyd: Between the Dichotomies

2004 "The Space Between"  art design fashion -  Conference  Curtin University  Perth Western Australia 

Two Papers: 
Juliette Peers  Sisters (and Brothers) Doing it for Themselves 
Juliette Peers Tom Roberts' Trousers: fashion relative invisibility in Australian art history
2003 Dior in Plastic paper for "Making an Appearance: An International Conference on Fashion, Dress, and Consumption"  hosted by The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland, & QUT, in Brisbane, Australia July  2003. 

2002 Paper for Monash Uni Conference ."Frontlines: Gender, Identity & War"  [abstract]  July  Melbourne
2002 Throw Momma From the Train or Mother of the Free? Bertram Mackennal's Truth Seeker AVSA Conference, The Erotic Empire University of Adelaide

2001: Paper for Art Association Conference at the University of Melbourne
2001: “The Queens of the Earth Rest in Glory and So Do You”: Gender and Imperialist imagery in the Springthorpe Memorial 1900. AVSA Annual Conference University of Ballarat

2000: “Violet Teague: The Woman Artist as Critic” AVSA Annual Conference University of Western Australia

1999: November La Trobe University Cultural Studies Post Graduate conference "Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria - the prehistory of the blonde?"
1999 July University of Western Australia Australian Association for European History, 12th Annual Conference "White Roses and Eating Disorders: A Feminist Re-reading of Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria of Germany" (1858-1921)
1999 March Conference Managing Death in a Post Colonial Society, Department of English, University of Adelaide and the National Trust of South Australia. paper "Death Becomes Her: Barbie, Sissi and the Imperial Giftmaedchen"
1999 February Lecture for Australasian Victorian Studies Association conference, University of New South Wales: The Victorians and Childhood- Dolls as a potential site for Culturally Reading the Victorian Era

1998: November Paper on Victorian/Edwardian influences in 1990s fashion for Symposium on Dress at the end of the millennium, National Trust of South Australia, Adelaide
1998: October Paper on Auguste Viktoria and Wilhelm II of Germany, self presentation, fashion and gender performance, royal personae as art/performance and proto-postmodernist for Art Association of Australia annual conference at University of South Australia
1998: July on "Girlie Feminisms" and Textile art in 1990s Australia at Shift: Contemporary Textile Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
1998: May-June spoke at the series of seminars on public art organised by RMIT department of Architecture in conjunction with The City Provoked exhibition
1998: Australasian Victorian Studies Association annual conference , trajectory of women artists' careers in turn of the century Australia, University of New England, Armidale New South Wales

1997: September spoke at Forum at Monash University, on Art and the Republic, broadcast on Radio National - spoke on the misogyny associated with radical Australian nationalism and the exclusion of the feminine from the symbolic universe in the revived Australian Republican Movement, suggesting that the ARM is unable to discard the old tropes and images from the original 1880s and 1890s republican movement
1997: paper on dolls, the "doll reform" movement in Wilhelmine Germany and early twentieth century maternalist discourses and cultural/political history of the twentieth century at Barbie Colloquium, University of Melbourne
1997: paper "Barbie-Marleen" on the history and cultural usages of the Barbie doll at Lilith Collective Feminist Conference, University of Melbourne
1997: February Paper at the Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference on Mount Rennie Outrage, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

1996: November Mass Historia! 96 Conference, University of Melbourne, Paper "Purchase Me Young Lady: The Bebe Jumeau as Third Republic Princess" - looking at the star doll of late nineteenth century Europe and suggesting that Louis-Emil Jumeau's desire to make the "most beautiful" dolls in the world links to the avant garde, the scientific positivism, sexological discourses and anti-German political ambitions of the French Third Republic
1996: September: lecture on Lord Leighton's sculpture at the National Gallery of Victoria's lecture series to mark the centenary of the death of Lord Leighton and William Morris (1896-1996)

1995: Art Association of Australia, convened a session Cultural Heritage, centring upon the politics of historically reinterpreting historic women's artworks and presented a paper, "Jane Sutherland: Camille Paglia or Helen Allingham?"

1993: Keynote Speaker at Conference on Women’s Art Practise at Art Gallery of Western Australia

1992: Art Association of Australia Conference "A Girl in a Blue Dress: Images of Women Circulated in the Wake of the Mount Rennie Rape Case 1886"
1992: Keynote Speaker at a statewide curriculum conference in Ararat on gender equity in education, organised by Victorian teachers' Union, inserting a female presence into history curriculum
1992: Spoke at forum on Women Artists and the 1890s, National Gallery of Victoria

1991: Paper on Australian work of Thomas Woolner and Bernhard Smith at the Preraphaelite Sculpture Conference, Leighton House, Holland Park, London

1987: Art Association of Australia Conference Paper on "Bertram Mackennal and Janet Achurch." looking at the various images that the Australian fin de siecle sculptor Sir Bertram Mackennal made of actresses in the 1890s

1986: Art Association of Australia Conference Paper on "George William Louis Marshall-Hall and his Connections to Melbourne Artists."

Radio Television Film

1997: September spoke at Forum at Monash University, on Art and the Republic, broadcast on Radio National - spoke on the misogyny associatedd with raddical Australian nationalism and the exclusion of the feminine from the symbolic universe in the revived Australian Republican Movement, suggesting that the ARM is unable to discard the old tropes and images from the original 1880s and 1890s republican movement

1998: August interviewed on Adelaide University Radio Station 5UV regarding public art, left wing community art projects, aesthetic of the abject, Princess Diana's Funeral as contemporary/conceptual art - based on article- "From the Streets, From the Palace"

2002 – October panellist on Radio National’s Famous Quiz on colour

2002 – November panellist on Radio National The Deep End on Op Art

2003 – May interviewed on Radio National The Deep End on Janet Cumbrae-Stewart

2004 – June interviewed on 994 ABC Radio Melbourne on the history of scarves

2005 – March interviewed about Barbie and dolls in fashion culture for Arts Alive radio program (networked to community broadcasters in Australia and overseas) coverage of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

2005 – March filmed for a documentary on Florence Broadhurst directed by Gillian Armstrong

2005 – March interviewed as part of Radio National “Your Gallery” Project in conjunction with the Woollongong Regional Gallery

2006 - August Unfolding Florence, directed by Gillian Armstrong documentary film is released in Australian cinemas, received premiere at Sundance Film Festival, USA, shown in film festivals in Europe and Australia - official website for Dendy Films - Unfolding Florence
 

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