PUBLIC LECTURES, INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES, AND PARTICIPATION AT SYMPOSIA
2022 “From painting landscapes to painting country”, keynote address, New Farm Next Door: Regenerating farmscapes forum, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 26 August, 2022
Conference paper, “Erwin Fabian in Retrospect”, Injustice, Survival, Memory 2022, Humanities Research Centre, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences September 7, 2022
Public lecture: Weddings in art: from Jan van Eyck to John Brack, Art Appreciation 2022: Pomp and ceremony: the celebratory role of art, Art Gallery New South Wales, June 2022, https://live.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/weddings-in-art/ 2021 “Australian art: A segregated history”, public lecture, Justin Art House Museum, Prahran, Melbourne, 7 July 2021
2020 “Angry Penguins – an Australian avant-garde journal”, keynote address, Међународни научни скуп: Ликовно и књижевно: у часопису Уметнички преглед, КЊИГА САЖЕТАКА
2019 “Spirituality and the Russian avant-garde”, keynote address, Sacred Silence in Literature and the Arts conference, ACU, Sydney, October 4, 2019
2018 “The printmaking revival of the 1960s and 1970s and the prints of George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley”, keynote address, Australian Print Triennial, Mildura 2 November 2018
“Works of Faith: New research on the icons in the University of Sydney Art Collection” Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney 2 May 2018
2017 “Paths of revelation through meditation on the iconography of Russian and Byzantine icons” (Keynote address) Awakening the Sacred conference, ACU, Sydney, 8 July 2017
“A catalogue raisonné of John Brack” paper, The art of attribution: The catalogue raisonné in the 21st century symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, July 15, 2017
2016 ‘Constructing a history of Australian art’, Keynote lecture, Illuminating Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 25 September 2016
‘I quadri metafisici di Giuseppe Modica’ academic address at ‘Giuseppe Modica: Atelier di luce e di memoria’, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Sydney, 8 December, 2016
2015 ‘The lives of S.T. Gill’, paper, S.T. Gill and the Colonial World Conference, Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne, 18 July 2015
‘The impact of Dr Ursula Hoff on the printmaking scene in Melbourne’, Academic address, Ursula Hoff Institute, Lyceum Club, Melbourne 4 May 2015
‘John Wolseley and the ‘anti-humanist’ tradition of art’, lecture National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 16 May 2015
‘John Wolseley and artist’s journals as a primary source’, Bendigo Writers Festival, 8 August 2015
‘Spirituality and art: The Russian icon’ The COSSAG 2015 Lecture, Brisbane, 13 August 2015
‘Hierarchies in Australian art’ paper, Independent Scholars Association of Australia, NLA, Canberra, 9 September 2015
‘Artists books’, Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition talk, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 9 April 2015
‘Catherine the Great’s legacy for Russian art’ public lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, 4 November 2015
ST Gill as eye witness: Art as historical evidence’ Monash University-SLV Making Public Histories seminar series, Melbourne, 29 September 2015
2014 'The positioning of Indigenous art in Australian art practice', The Big Picture: Lives, landscapes, homelands in Australian and Chinese art, conference at Remin University of China, Beijing, 11 September, (also chaired session)
‘Writing a history of Australian art’, 2014 Dundas Memorial Lecture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 July
‘The impact of Christo on the development of Australian art’ paper and panel discussion, International Art Studies Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 15 May
‘ST Gill’s “Victoria: gold diggings and diggers as they are” (1852): Fact or Fiction?’, Rare Books Week, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 23 July
‘TASS propaganda posters’, public lecture, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 29 July
‘Australian art: A history’, Melbourne Writers Festival, Ian Potter Centre, 23 August
‘Hacks and heroes’, Bendigo Writers Festival, Capital Theatre, Bendigo, 9 August,
2013 ‘Defining the National Art Collection’, paper and panel discussion, 19th National AAGGO Conference, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2 May
‘Book artists in Canberra’, paper, Shaping Canberra: the lived experience of place, home and capital, conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, September 18
‘ST Gill – the Makings of an exhibition’, paper, Melbourne Knowledge Week, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, October 30
2012 ‘Professionalization and Institutionalization of the Australian Art World’, paper, 10th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Montreal Canada, 15 June
‘”How anthropologists have hijacked Australian art history”. Art History/Anthropology in Bernard and beyond’, paper, 'The Legacies of Bernard Smith' symposium, University of Sydney, 9 November
‘The Book and the Hand: Canberra Books 1972-96’, inaugural Bolton Lecture, University of Melbourne, 14 November
2011 ‘The impact of digital technologies on contemporary Australian printmaking’, paper, Impact 7 (International conference on printmaking), Monash University, Melbourne, 30 September
‘Contemporary Australian Printmaking: A common history, a common landscape’, invited public lecture, British Museum, London, 3 June
‘DH Lawrence in Australian art’, paper, The 2011 International Lawrence Conference, Sydney, June 30
‘The peculiarity of Australian printmaking: The dialectic between Indigenous and non-Indigenous printmaking’, keynote address, Print Matters at the Baillieu, University of Melbourne, 3 September
‘The anxious image: Printmaking and Artists Books in Melbourne 1999 – 2010’, invited public lecture, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 4 September (paper available on the SLV website)
‘Digital printmaking: Implications for Australian art’, public lecture, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, 2 April
‘S.T. Gill and his public’, paper delivered for The Foundation, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 6 July
2010 ‘Digital sensibilities in contemporary printmaking’, keynote Tasmanian Printmaking Forum, Hobart, 11 September
2009 “Reflections on John Brack”, Guest lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1 August 2009
“Digital intervention in recent Australian Printmaking” Paper delivered at South Australian Printmakers Forum, Adelaide, September 15, 2009
“The contemporary artists book: A question of identity” Paper delivered at South Australian Printmakers Forum, Adelaide, September 16, 2009
Public lecture “The impact of digital technologies on contemporary printmaking”, 2009 Rae Alexander Lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, 6 November 2009
Public lecture: “Dr Ursula Hoff and the collecting of Australian prints”, Annual Ursula Hoff Lecture 2009, National Gallery of Victoria, 26 November 2009
2008 ‘A New History of Australian Art: Dialectic between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Art’, paper, The Sixth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-18 July
‘A Byzantine pilgrim: Bars’kyj’s manuscript and its real and imagined audiences’, paper, Imagination, books and community in medieval Europe conference, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 29-31 May
2007 ‘Both a picture and a thousand words’, keynote address, Artists Books Symposium, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (paper published on SLV website http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/630)
2006 ‘Digital technology and printmaking in the perspective of globalization’, keynote address, Art and Art History in the perspective of globalization, Shanghai University/ Southeast University and Yun Nan Arts Institute, Shanghai, China
‘Australian National Gallery: A view from outside the academy’, paper, Independent voices, Independent Scholars of Australia Association, National Library of Australia, Canberra
‘Max Meldrum and Constable’, paper, Constable Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘Digital interventions in Australian printmaking’, paper, Forum RMIT. Melbourne
2005 ‘The original print in the age of digital reproduction’, keynote address, Print Symposium, Perth
‘A late Byzantine pilgrim as an antiquarian’, plenary paper, Australian Early Medieval Association conference, Canberra
2004 ‘Australians Abroad’, paper, Edwardians Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘Bars’kyj’s travels in Europe and the Orthodox East’, paper, National Europe Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
‘Shakespeare and Vrubel’, paper, Multi Shakespeare: Media Metamorphoses, Biennial ANZSA conference, Australian National University, Canberra
2003 ‘Bonnard and Australia’, paper, Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature Seminar, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2002 ‘Implications of digital technologies for contemporary printmaking in Australia’, Inaugural presentation in the Art History and Art Theory Joint Research Seminars delivered at the Canberra School of Art, Canberra
‘Drawing conclusions’, keynote address, Works on paper seminar, Albury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
‘The gentle art of criticism’, paper, The Word Festival: Words and Art Symposium, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
‘Philosophies of landscape art’, paper, Fleurieu Symposium, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2001 'John Olsen's and John Wolseley's Journals: Their private and public audiences', paper, Donald FriendConference, National Library of Australia Canberra
‘John Brack: Inside and outside’, paper, John Brack Symposium, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
‘Printmaking in the digital age’, paper, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
‘Lucian Freud: Form, sight and heavy metal’, keynote paper, Art of Seeing and the seeing of art Conference, Centre for Visual Sciences and Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
2000 ‘Bars’kyj’s travels in the Byzantine world’, paper, 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England
‘Australian Aboriginal Art: A living tradition’ and ‘Aspects of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art at the Hermitage’, (two public lectures delivered in Russian), State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
‘Brack after Brack’, paper, Brack Symposium, University of Western Australia, Perth
‘Mathematics, perspective and art: Psychological implications of different perspectival paradigms’, invited refereed paper, First National Conference on Mathematics and Art, Bond University
1998 ‘John Wolseley: Collaborations with the environment’, paper, Australian Art Association conference, Adelaide
1997 ‘Açik Saray in Cappadocia and Byzantine travellers’, paper, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies conference, Canberra
'Was there a Golden Age in Australian Printmaking in the 1960s?' paper, Swingtime Symposium, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
'S.T. Gill in 1997', keynote address, S.T. Gill Symposium, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 ‘Natalia Goncharova's Peasants Dancing in the National Gallery in Canberra and its Russian literary and artistic sources’, paper, Fifty Years of Russian Studies in AustraliaConference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
‘Bars'kyj on Cyprus’, paper Third International Congress of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus
1995 ‘A Slav traveller to Cyprus in the early 18th century’, paper, Institute of Cypriot Studies, University of Albany, New York
‘The Pre-Iconoclast churches of Cappadocia: A re-examination of the evidence’, paper, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies Conference, Brisbane
1994 ‘Bars'kyj and Cyprus revisited’, paper, Institute of Cypriot Studies, University of Albany, New York
1993 ‘Conformity and non-conformity in Byzantine pilgrim literature’, paper, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies Conference, Armidale
‘Bars'kyj and Italy, paper, U.R.I., Research Seminar, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1992 ‘Bars'kyj as a source for art historians: Constructing a methodology’, paper, U.R.I., Research seminar, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
‘Strange bedfellows: Psychiatry and Art’, Academic Address, Plenary Session, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' 28th Annual Conference - Canberra
‘S.T. Gill's Doyle Sketchbook in the Mitchell Library, Sydney’, paper, Art Association of Australia conference, Canberra
1991 ‘Vasyl' Hryhorovych-Bars'kyj and his audiences’, paper, U.R.I., Research seminar, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
‘S.T. Gill: British and Australian audiences for popular imagery’, paper, Art Association of Australia conference, Canberra
1990 ‘Bars'kyj's Stranstvovanija' and its audience’, paper, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies XV conference, Dunedin, New Zealand
1989 ‘Bars'kyj's drawings as a source for the study of Byzantine art’, paper, Sixth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Sydney
1988 ‘Cultural transmissions in Byzantine art: Constantinople and Cappadocia in the Middle Byzantine period’, paper, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference, Sydney
‘Vasyljiy Bars'kyj and the xozdenija tradition’, paper, Millennium of Christianity in Russia Conference, Melbourne University, Melbourne
1987 ‘St Barbara at Soğanlı dere’, paper, Fifth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Canberra
1986 ‘Byzantine eleventh century murals of Soğanlı dere and Göreme and their relationship with Constantinople’, paper, Art Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne
‘Byzantine Cappadocia: A Study of its ornament’, paper, XVII International Byzantine Conference, Washington, DC.
‘Constantinople and Cappadocia: Centre and periphery’, paper, XXVI International Congress for the History of Art, Washington DC.
1985 ‘Middle Byzantine Ornament and Cappadocian workshops’, paper, Art Association of Australia conference, Melbourne
1984 ‘The Aght'amar wall paintings: Some new observations’, paper, Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference, Auckland, New Zealand
1983 ‘The Aght'amar murals: Some observations and new material’, paper, Warburg Institute of Art, London
1982 ‘New material on a monumental depiction of Emperor Nicephoros II’, paper, Third Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Melbourne
1981 ‘The Dormition or Koimesis: A Study in the dynamics of Byzantine iconography’, paper, Art Association of Australia Conference, Sydney
1980 ‘Some funerary programmes in Middle Byzantine art’, paper, Art Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne
1978 ‘Literary evidence for the dating of the Bachkovo ossuary frescoes’, paper, Second Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Canberra
1977 ‘The Stroganov Icons: Mannerism and the Iconic tradition’, paper, Mannerism Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
1977 ‘Winchester Psalter: New material on its iconography’, paper, Sixth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne