Conferences

CONFERENCE PAPERS PUBLISHED   

2016 Grierson, E.M. (2016) Cyberbullying, Creativity and Duty of Care in Educational Contexts. Paper at Compliance Creativity and Culture: Balancing regulatory demands and regulatory values, 25th Annual Conference of ANZELA Australia NZ Education & Law Association, Auckland, NZ, 28-30 Sept. Link http://www.lawyerseducation.co.nz/site/nzlaw/files/ANZELA%202016%20Conference%20papers/4.%20Grierson.pdf

2016 Grierson, E.M. & Gresson, N.L. (2016) Evidence Seen and Unseen: A Question of Balance. Paper at Compliance Creativity and Culture: Balancing regulatory demands and regulatory values, 25th Annual Conference ANZELA Australia NZ Education & Law Association, Auckland, NZ, 28-30 Sept. Link http://www.lawyerseducation.co.nz/site/nzlaw/files/ANZELA%202016%20Conference%20papers/16.%20Grierson%20and%20Gresson.pdf

2015 Grierson, E. (2015) Restorative Justice: From adversarialism and blame to responsibility and reparation. 4th International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Weaving Strands: Ngā Whenu Rāranga, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, 3-4 September 2015. http://www.lawfoundation.org.nz/?p=4963

2013 From Colonies to TEQSA: Vortices and thermals of legislative change.  In Safe, Successful and Sustainable Education: Is the law a sword or a shield? the 22nd Australia and New Zealand Education and Law Association (ANZELA) conference, Hobart, Tasmania, October 2013.

2012 Cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking: New challenges in law and education. In Woteva Nxt! Legal and Social Challenges in Education, conference proceedings edited by Jane Battersby, the 21st Australia and New Zealand Education and Law Association (ANZELA) conference, Rotorua NZ, 3-5 October 2012.

2009 Art and Event: Photographic practices as political procedures in public discourses. In The Ownership and Dissemination of Knowledge, Conference Proceedings, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 37th Annual PESA Conference 2008, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, 4-7 December.

2007  Creativity and the Return of a Political Will: Art, language and the creative subject. In Creativity, Enterprise, Policy – New Directions in Education, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 36th Annual PESA Conference Refereed Proceedings, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, 5-9 December.

2006 Creativity, Culture and Identity: Questions of art and art education in a global knowledge economy. In Politics, Business and Education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 35th Annual PESA Conference Refereed Proceedings, University of Sydney NSW, 23-26 November 2006.

Where the Creative Arts Lie with our Humanity: and What the Creative Arts do for our Society. In Speculation and Innovation – Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries Refereed Conference Proceedings, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

2005 The Condition of Artist as Global Cosmopolitan. In Critical Thinking and Learning: values, concepts and issues. PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 34th Annual PESA Conference, 2005 Refereed Proceedings, Hong Kong.

Art Academy and the Creative Community in a Globalised Place. Artists, Designers and Communities, ACUADS Refereed Conference Proceedings

Steering the Current in Art Education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Te Whakatere: Navigating through the Arts in the Pacific, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings Vol 2.

An Art Educator’s Narrative: ‘Where am I in the text?. In Te Whakatere: Navigating through the Arts in the Pacific, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings Vol 2.

2004 The Creative Subject: Towards a Philosophy of ‘Creativity’ and the ‘Knowing Subject. In Education and Values: Identity and the Development of Human persons. PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 33rd Annual PESA Conference, 2004 Refereed Proceedings, Melbourne Australia.

Methodology and Interpretive Procedures in Education: Risk, imagination, reflexivity. In Educational Risks and Dilemmas, Refereed Conference Proceedings NZARE AARE (NZ & Australia) Association of Research in Education, University of Auckland, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 29 Nov-3 Dec 2003.

Excellere: Seeking What?. In Seeking Educational Excellence. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Teaching Learning Forum, 9-10 February 2004. Perth: Murdoch University.

2003 Mobilising the Power of Culture through the Arts in Education: UNESCO Strategies & NZ Challenges. In NGA WAKA ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Refereed Conference Proceedings, edited by Elizabeth Grierson & Jill Smith, CD Rom, ISSN 1176-4589.

The Arts and Creative Industries: New alliances in the humanities. In Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, Refereed Conference Proceedings, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, 12-16 January.

2000 Cultural Identity and Global Flows. In Cultures and Transitions, Refereed Conference Proceedings InSEA, International Society of Education through Art and AAAE Australia.

INVITED SPEAKER, KEYNOTE, PLENARY, CHAIR

2016 Invited Speaker, Restorative Justice. University of 3rd Age [U3A] Devonport, Auckland NZ, 14 Sept.

2014 Invited Speaker, What Laws am I Transgressing? Constructing a discourse of art, language and the human subject. Symposium The Sociolinguistics of Art. Department of English, The University of Hong Kong, 8-11 Jan.

2013 Invited Speaker, Cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking: New challenges in law and education. Australia and New Zealand Association of Law and Education (ANZELA) Seminar, Law Week, presented at Kelvin Club, Melbourne, Victoria, 14 May.

2013 Panel Contributor, Tertiary Education Panel: TEQSA Legislation in higher education in Australia, ANZELA Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association, Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, October.

2012 Invited Keynote, New Maps for New Spaces: The Poetics of Creative Knowledge, and panel member, International Conference on Research Creativity – Praxis, at Lam Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong, presented by Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University Hong Kong, 21-23 November 2012.

Invited Speaker, Designing Sound for Health and Wellbing: a trans-disciplinary 3-year research project bringing together sound art and emergency medicine, Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, Faculty of Education, the University of Waikato, New Zealand, August 17.

Invited Plenary Panel speaker, Critical Response, University of Arts London, March 29.

Invited Speaker, Footnote, RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition, 11th cohort of graduates from Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, July.

2010 Invited Speaker, Shatzkammer – Australien, Treasure Room – Australia, Galerie Handwerk, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern, Munich, Germany, February.

Invited speaker, opening of Working Drawings/Private Concerns, Exchange Exhibition of works on paper from RMIT BA (Fine Art) Painting students, at Draakon Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia, organized by Dr Phil Edwards (RMIT) and Professor Kaido Ole (Estonia Academy of Art), February.

Invited Speaker, Art as Research, opening of Thinking through Practice: Art and Design as Research, International Exhibition curated by Associate Professor Lesley Duxbury and Professor Sand Helsel, at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, March.

Chair of Conference, chair of Keynotes and Plenary session, Drawing Out Conference. RMIT University and the University of the Arts London, held at RMIT University Melbourne, April 7-9.

Invited Presenter at UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education, Hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea and UNESCO, Seoul, May.

Opening speech Magnetic Islands Exhibition of artists from RMIT University and Seoul National University, Exhibition curated by Associate Professor Peter Ellis, at Project Space, Cardigan Street, Melbourne, April.

Invited Speaker, opening of This Way Up, RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition, the 10th cohort of graduates from Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, July.

2009 Invited Research Focus Group Leader, Discourses of Creativity and Creative Arts in Global Knowledge Economies: Narrative encounters and evidential findings for sustainable creative capabilities, presented at Towards a Paradigm of Creative Education for the 21st Century, the World Alliance of Arts Education, World Creativity Summit, Newcastle, UK, 31 Oct-2 Nov.

Invited Speaker Museum of Art, Exhibits from RMIT, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, November.

Invited Chair and Speaker, Design Research Institute panel, Double Edges of Knowing: Becoming present to a horizon of radical questioning, at Double// Edges: Rhetorics, Rhizomes, Regions. IAPL International Philosophy and Literature Association Conference, Brunel University, London, June.

Invited featured Speaker, Mobilising Art Education Globally, at Mahi Toi, te hokai o te matauraka toi a whatu. Hosted by Otago Polytechnic with Kai Tahu ki Arai-Te-Uru, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-23 April.

Respondent and closing address, at Urban Futures and Aesthetic Relations Symposium, RMIT Global Cities Research Institute RMIT University, Melbourne, 12 August.

Invited speaker Drawing of the World, World of Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, November.

Invited speaker, opening of Katarina Frank International Artist in Residence Exhibition, Project Space, Cardigan Street, Melbourne, November.

Invited Speaker: Austrian artist, Michael Wegerer International Artist in Residence: Translab (Distant Divergences), Project Space, Melbourne, August.

Respondent and closing address, Art and Globalization: Urban Futures and Aesthetic Relations Symposium, RMIT Global Cities Research Institute and the School of Art, RMIT, Melbourne, 12 August.

2008 Chair and Speaker, Re-Imagining the Urban Habitus Symposium, RMIT University, December.

Invited Keynote panel speaker, Creativity, Design Heritage: Ways of Minding, Mediating and Mobilizing through Art as an Interventionist Strategy, at Mind+ Media + Heritage, 32nd InSEA World Congress, Osaka Japan, 5-9 August.

Invited speaker at Interaction, Exhibition of RMIT Alumni and staff of Hong Kong Art School, at RMIT Gallery, RMIT, 29 October.

Invited Panel Speaker, Footprints of Creativity and Innovation: Designing Our Futures at World Creativity Summit, Taipei Museum of Fine Art hosted by InSEA and The National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 5-9 June.

Plenary paper, Global Arts / Local Knowledge, IAPL 32nd International Association of Philosophy and Literature conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, 30 June-6 July.

Invited Speaker and Judge Walker and Hall Art Award, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke, NZ, 24 & 25 October.

Invited Panel Speaker. What Makes a Great Art School?, at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 7 October.

2007 Invited Speaker Judge New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, WSA, Hamilton, NZ, Feb.

2006 Invited Speaker,  Dame Louise Henderson: Early Career from Paris to New Zealand at Dame Louise Henderson Symposium, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 26 November.

Invited Keynote Speaker, Creativity and Culture: The redefining of knowledge through the arts in education for the local in a globalised world, at Postgraduate Residential School, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, 26 Sept.

Invited Speaker, Forum Panel. At Metronome Think-Tank, in collaboration with Documenta 12 Magazines. Mori Art Centre, Academyhills, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, 18-20 September.

Plenary Panel Speaker, Capacity Building in Art Education: UNESCO Roadmap and Responses. At Art: Setting the Standard(s),  AEA Conference, Monash University, Melbourne.

Invited Speaker. Partnerships: Arts Management, Cultural Policy and Globalisation. East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China, 18 March.

Invited Keynote Speaker, Creativity and Culture: The redefining of knowledge through the arts in education for the local in a globalised world, at Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Arts Education, InSEA World Congress 2006, Viseu, Portugal, 1-5 March.

Invited Panel Speaker, Creativity. with Dr Gary Mcpherson, University of Illlinois, USA; Dr John Steers (National Society for Education in Art & Design, UK; Ashfaq M. Ishaq, (International Child Art Foundation, USA) at InSEA World Congress 2006, Viseu, Portugal, 1-5 March.

Invited Presenter, UNESCO World Summit for the Arts in Education, Lisbon, 6-10 March. Published on UNESCO Lea International, Links to Education and Art.

2005 Invited Speaker, Languaging the Local in the Global: Across the Pacific and Beneath Southern Skies at Between Sky and Earth. Ways of making a place in a placeless world. South 2: The South Project, at Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ, 20 October.

Invited Speaker, Excellere: Seeking Excellence in a Globalised Age at Teaching and Learning Seminar Series, RMIT University, September 27.

Invited Speaker, Fixity and Mobility: Artist as Global Cosmopolitan in Time and Space, Winter Seminar, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, June.

Keynote Speaker, Steering the Current in Art Education in Aotearoa New Zealand, at Te Whakatere Research Conference, at ANZAAE 8th National Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ, 27 April.

Featured Speaker, An Art Educator’s Narrative: ‘Where am I in the text?at Te Whakatere: Navigating Through the Arts in the Pacific, ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators 8th National Conference, Auckland Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 27 April.

Keynote Speaker, Women: Making a Difference at Zonta International, District 16, Area 1 Forum, at the Auckland Club, Auckland, New Zealand, 27 February.

Invited Speaker at The Fifth Element, BA (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre Gallery.

Inaugural address, Welcome the Stranger, RMIT University, Melbourne, 9 March.

2004 Invited Speaker, Creative Practice-based Research: Strategies for recognition and evaluation, at Research Forum: Recognising and Assessing University Research at RMIT University Storey Hall and State Library of Victoria, 9 December.

Invited Panel Speaker, IN-SIDE-OUT: Educating creative minds, at To Develop a Capable Population Symposium of RSA The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (Founded 1754, UK). NSW Government House, Sydney, 5 November.

Invited Speaker, Globalisation and the Arts at The Research Seminars of the Globalism Institute, RMIT, Melbourne, 16 February.

Invited Speaker, Editing and Publication: a Research Endeavour.  Centre for Professional Development seminars, AUT, NZ, 6 May.

2003 Invited Speaker, Trafficking of Persons: A Global Problem at Zonta International Auckland Meeting, October 2003.

Invited Featured Presenter, Mobilising the Power of Culture through the Arts in Education: UNESCO Strategies & NZ Challenges, at Nga Waka ANZAAE 7th National Conference, Auckland College of Education, NZ, 21-25 April.

Speaker, Poststructuralism and the Arts: a research case study, at Research Forum, Nga Waka ANZAAE Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators 7th National Conference, Auckland College of Education, NZ, 21-25 April. 

Invited Presenter, Editing and Publication: a Research Endeavour, at Research Development Symposium for Staff, AUT, 18-19 Nov.

Invited Keynote Speaker, Research, Project, Life: a Tale to Tell at Women On Campus AGM, AUT, NZ, November.

2002 Invited Speaker, The Arts as a Mode of Knowing: The Role of Arts Education in Defining Where we are; What we are; Why we are; and Who we are? at UNESCO Regional Meeting of Experts on Arts Education in the Pacific, Nandi, Fiji, 25-29 November.

Invited Chair for Vision Arts Forum, School of Performing Arts & School of Education, University of Auckland, June.

Invited Speaker, Welcome the Stranger at Re/Location Exhibition, Artstation, Auckland, September.

Keynote Speaker, Globalisation: Concepts and Conditions at NZFGW New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Mid-Term Council, Knox College, Dunedin, 8-10 February.

2001 Keynote Speaker, Landscape of Debate, at ANZAAE 6th National Conference, Hamilton New Zealand, 17-20 April.

Invited Speaker, Empowerment Through Research at Zonta International, Auckland, October.

2000 Invited Chair of Plenary Debate, Inaugural Arts Forum: The Draft Arts Curriculum and Teacher Education in the Postmodern Context. National Forum for Art Education, The Conference Centre, University of Auckland, NZ, September.

Invited Speaker, Concept and Context: A Critical Approach to Art Education at National Forum for Art Education, The Conference Centre, University of Auckland, September.

1990s INVITED SPEAKER

1998 Invited Speaker with H. Harwood, Maori Art, Design and Cultural Meanings, at Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, UK, June.

1995 Invited Speaker, Louise Henderson in context of post-war modernism in New Zealand, at New Zealand Art and 20th century Modernism. Winter Lecture Series, Wellington School of Architecture and Design, Wellington, NZ.

1994 Invited Chairperson and Leader of Plenary Debate, at Biculturalism and Multiculturalism in Tertiary Education. Conference of NCHADS National Council of Heads of Art and Design Schools Australasian Art and Design Educators, hosted by CHACDS NZ Council of Heads of Art Craft and Design Schools, and University of Auckland, at University of Auckland.

1992 Invited Speaker at Floor Talks Programme, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland.

1992 Invited Speaker at Two Centuries of NZ Landscape Art, Exhibition Lecture Programme, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland.

1991 Invited Speaker Louise Henderson and her cubist work at Exhibition Programme at Louise Henderson: The Cubist Years 1948-1956, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland.

Pre-1990 INVITED SPEAKER: selected

On NZ Art. NZ Institute of Civil Engineers National Conference, Wairakei, NZ.

On Management of Art & Cultural Production. NZ Institute of Management, Auckland.

Women in Art, a social contextual approach. Women in Management International Convention, Auckland.

Women in Cultural Production and Management. International Women in Travel Conference, Auckland.

Women in Management. Zonta International/ National Conferences (various) Auckland, Hamilton.

Communication Skills in Public Presentations. NZ Sales and Marketing Executives International Conference, Wellington.

Tu Tangata, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sister Cities Convention, Asia-Pacific cities, Hobart, Tasmania.

Tu Tangata, the Nature of Achievement, on achievement as a social practice. IBM International Achievement Awards Convention Queenstown, NZ (1981).

On Public Speaking. Public Speaking Associations, Manhattan, New York (1980).

Maui 1980, at International Training in Communications (ITC) International Convention, St Louis USA.

NZ Speaking Representative and Finalist in World Public Speaking Contest. Sponsor Air NZ (1980).

CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)

2015 ‘Restorative Justice: From adversarialism and blame to responsibility and reparation’. Paper presented at 4th International Therapeutic Jurisprudence Conference, Weaving Strands: Ngā Whenu Rāranga, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 3-4 September.

2013 ‘From Colonies to TEQSA: Vortices and Thermals of Legislative Change’. Refereed paper presented at Safe, Successful and Sustainable Education – Is the Law a sword or a Shield, 22nd Annual Conference of ANZELA Australia and NZ Education and Law Association, Hobart, Tasmania 2-4 October.

‘TEQSA as Regulator of Value meets Nietzsche as Legislator of the Same’. Paper presented at Measuring up in Education 43rd Annual Conference of PESA Philosophy of Education of Australasia, Melbourne, 6-9 December.

2012 ‘Cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking: New challenges in law and education’. Refereed paper presented at Woteva Nxt? Legal and Social Challenges in Education, 21st Annual Conference of ANZELA Australia and New Zealand Education and Law Association, Rotorua NZ, 3-5 October.

Panel Chair/ Speaker, and Conference paper at The Creative University conference, University of Waikato, NZ, 15-16 Aug.

with D. Forrest, Paper at ISME International Society of Music Education Congress, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2012.

2011 ‘Freedom, Individualism and Law of Contract: Future Proofing Education’. At Educational Futures, 41st Annual Conference of PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, AUT Auckland, 1-4 December.

2009 ‘The Social Body’. Refereed paper presented at Dialogue and Difference, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 38th Annual PESA Conference, East-West Centre, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA, 3-6 December.

Speaker with K. Macarow & P. Samartzis, P. ‘Designing Sound for Health and Well-Being’. Paper presented at ACUADS Conference, Griffiths University, Brisbane, September.

Speaker in invited panel, ‘Double Edges of Knowing’, at Double// Edges: Rhetorics, Rhizomes, Regions. IAPL International Philosophy and Literature Association Conference, Brunel University, London, June.

‘Mobilising Education Globally’. Paper presented at UNESCO, WAAE, InSEA. Mahi toi: te hökai o te matäraka toi äwhatu Conference Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-24 April.

2008 Panel Speaker at IAPL International Association of Philosophy & Literature 32nd annual conference, Melbourne, 30 June-6 July.

Paper presented at Creativity, Enterprise, Policy – New Directions in Education, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 37th Annual PESA Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Garden Point Campus, 4-7 December.

2007 ‘Creativity and the Return of a Political Will’. Paper presented at Creativity, Enterprise, Policy – New Directions in Education, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 36th Annual PESA Conference, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, 5-8 December.

Paper presented at Crossing Borders InSEA 2007 Asian Regional Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 22-25 August.

Grierson, E.M. (2007). Ways of Researching, Paper at InSEA Asian Regional Research Conference, HongIk University, Seoul, South Korea, 20-21 August.

2006 Paper presented at Politics, Business and Education: The aims of education in the Twenty-First Century, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 35th Annual PESA Conference, University of Sydney NSW, 23 – 26 November.

UNESCO Road Map’. Forum paper at Thinking the Future, ACUADS Conference 27-29 September, Monash University Melbourne

2005 Paper presented at the Heidegger Symposium: On Martin Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living. Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics in association with the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia 12-14 December.

Paper presented at Eye-Site: Situating Practice and Theory. Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2005 Conference, hosted by Sydney College of the Arts, Dept of Art History/Theory, & Power Institute, University of Sydney, 30 Nov-2 December.

Paper presented at Speculation and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 Mar-1 Apr, 2005.

‘Artist as Global Cosmopolitan in Time and Space’. Paper presented at 34th Annual PESA Conference, Critical Thinking and learning: Values, concepts and issues. Hong Kong Institute of Education.

with J. Bitchener, ‘Elements of an Image-Text Analysis of Tourism Brochures for Mainland China’. Paper presented at Language and Global Communication Conference, Centre for Language and Communication, University of Cardiff, Wales, July. [Presented by co-author].

2004 Paper at Education and Values: Identity and Development of Human Persons PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference, Melbourne, 28-29 November.

Paper presented at Doing the Public Good: Positioning Education Research, AARE Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 28 Nov–2 Dec.

‘Culture and Identity in the South Pacific’ Paper presented at Southern Voices and Global Order, Annual Conference of Global Studies Association with Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry UK (July).

‘Excellere: Seeking What?’ Refereed Paper presented at Seeking Educational Excellence, Conference of Teaching and Learning, Murdoch University, Perth, W. Australia, February.

2003 ‘Difference and the Arts’. Paper at Education and Difference, PESA Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference, University of Auckland, 28-29 November.

‘Methodology and Interpretive Procedures in Education: Risk, imagination, reflexivity’. Refereed Paper presented at Educational Risks and Dilemmas, NZARE AARE NZ and Australia Associations of Research in Education, University of Auckland, 29 Nov– 3 Dec.

‘Scaffolds of Subjectivity: Coming to Terms with Subjectivity in the Act of Learning’. Refereed paper at 10th International Literacy and Educational Research Network Learning Conference, University of London, UK, 15-18 July.

‘Transitions, Translations & Transformations’. Refereed paper presented at International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, 2-5 July.

‘Globalisation, Cultural Nation & Truth Claims’. Refereed paper at Between Empires: Communication, Globalisation & Identity, Centre for Communication Research Conference, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland New Zealand, 13–15 February.

‘Communities Across Borders’. Paper presented at Teaching and Learning with Pasifika Students: A Colloquium for Tertiary Teachers, Auckland University of Technology & University of South Pacific, 3-5 February, AUT NZ.

‘The Arts and Creative Industries’. Refereed paper at Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, University of Hawaii, 12-16 January.

2002 ‘Humanising Globalisation’. Paper presented at Global Ethics and Civil Society, 2nd Annual Conference of Global Studies Assocn, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK, 22-24 July.

2001 ‘Interdisciplinary Research: Gender and Difference in Local and Global Spaces’. Paper presented at Globalization: Connections Through Education, Interdisciplinary Seminar IFUW 27th Triennial Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 10-18 August.

Re-imagining the Nation in a Globalised Knowledge Society: Cultural Landscapes from Aotearoa New Zealand’. Paper presented at Networks and Transformations, the Third International Conference of the Global Studies Assoc, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, July.

‘From Cemeteries to Cyberspace: Identity in a Globally Technologised Age’. Paper presented at Digitisation and Knowledge: Perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand, Conference of the New Media Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ, February.

2000 ‘Time for Rigorous Scrutiny’. Paper presented at Surviving Paradox: Education in the New Millennium, ‘Social Justice and Diversity’. NZARE NZ Association of Research in Education Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, December.

‘One Day in May: Billboards and Everyday Life in Pacific Locations’. Paper presented at Globalization, Culture and Everyday Life, International Conference of The Research Unit for Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, July.

‘Interfaces in the Disciplines: Standards Assessment and the Legitimation of Difference Within Visual Arts Degree Education’. Paper presented at The Pacific Rim Conference on Higher Education Planning and Assessment, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, USA, June.

1999 ‘Cultural Identity and Global Flows’. Paper presented at Cultures and Transition, the 30th World Congress of InSEA and AIAE, Brisbane Australia, September.

‘Navigations: Visual Identities and the Pacific Cultural Subject’. Paper presented at  Globalization and Identities First International Conference of The Research Unit for Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, July.

1998 Working Towards a Theory of Praxis. Paper presented at Transformation in Higher Education, the Conference of HERDSA Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia, University of Auckland, July.

1997 Paper presented at: 4th European Congress of InSEA Glasgow, UK, July.

1996 ‘Poststructuralism: A Useable Tool’. Paper presented at Eduvision, Australasian Conference of ANZAAE and AAAE Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, NZ, August.