- The Tourist, the Witch and the Bakery: A media literacy case study of Japanese popular culture in Tasmania. Paper presented at the International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia, the Hong Kong Institute of Education (Dec 2008)
- Animation: Urban legend-Tasmanian connection in Kiki’s Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki. Paper presented at Excellence and Innovation in Japanese Literary Studies in the Australian University Context workshop, University of Tasmania (Sept 2008)
- The Tourist, the Witch and the Bakery: The representation of place in networked societies. Paper presented at the International and Intercultural Communications in the Age of Digital Media, Monash University (Aug 2008).
- ‘Otakuwear and The Haraju2Girls: Madman, Female Consumers and Fandom’, paper presented to Japanese transnational fandoms and female consumers, Wollongong University (July 2008).
- Madman in the House: Understanding media merchandising, the implications for convergence and new knowledge economies. Paper presented with Jason Bainbridge at the Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of South Australia (Dec. 2007)
- Japanese popular-culture spin-offs: The new identifications and economics of Madman Entertainment’s Otaku Wear. Paper presented at ‘The 2nd Asian Australian Identities Conference’, Rydges Carlton, Melbourne (June 2007).
- The Manga Effect: Techno-Dystopia in Japanese Animation. Paper presented at ‘Imagining the Future: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction’, Monash University, Melbourne (Dec. 2005).
- Roundtable panellist at ‘Manga Translations’, Monash University, Melbourne (Nov. 2005).
- Violent Anime Fantasies: Perfect Blue and the dilemma of identification for fans of Japanese animation. Paper presented at ‘Violent Depictions: Representing Violence in Popular Culture’, Alliance Française de Melbourne (Oct. 2005).
- ‘Soft Power: The Transnational Flow of Japanese Anime and Manga’. Paper presented at ‘Animation Symposium’, Monash University, Melbourne (Sept. 2005).
- Girl Power: the female cyborg in Japanese anime. Paper presented at ‘Holy Men in Tights!- a Superheroes Conference’. The University of Melbourne (June 2005).
- The imagined worlds of Australian manga fans. Papers (joint and individual paper) presented at ‘Imagining Japan’, Monash University, Melbourne (March 2005).
- with Mouer, R. Knowing Japan Through Image and Reality: A Reading of Peter Carey’s Wrong About Japan. Paper presented at Imagining Japan, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University (March 2005).
- The imagined worlds of Australian manga fans. Paper presented at Imagining Japan, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University. (March 2005)
- The imagined worlds of Australian manga fans. Paper presented at ‘ as Image’, Osaka University, Japan (Sept. 2004).
- Anime dreaming: Imagining Oz through Miyazaki’s anime. Paper presented at ‘Japanese Visual Culture and the Cultural Flows of Manga’, Monash University, Melbourne (Aug. 2004).
- Fear and yearning of “manga Japan” in Australia (Part 2). Paper presented at ‘Japan Studies Association of Australia’, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (July, 2003).
- Fear and yearning of “manga Japan” in Australia (Part 1). Paper presented at ‘2nd Sequential Arts Studies’, University of Technology Sydney (May 2003).
- Manga in Australia: Erasing and re-animating Japan. Paper presented at ‘Sequential Art Studies’, University of Technology Sydney (April 2002)
- The global flow of manga and anime: the past, present and future. Paper presented at ‘Cultural Flows With(in) a Globalising Asia’, Monash University, Melbourne (Nov. 2002)
- Asian and non-Asian fandom of manga (Japanese comic books) in Australia. Paper presented at ‘Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries: Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond’, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Nov. 2002).
- Blueprints for destruction: Australian responses to ‘manga’. Paper presented at ‘In/Between: Negotiating Time and Space’, University of Sydney (Sept. 1999).
- Australian otaku: The popularity of anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comic books) in Australia. Paper presented at ‘Alter/Asians: Exploring Asian/Australian Identities, Cultures and Politics in an Age of Crisis’, University of Western Sydney (Feb. 1999).
- ‘Otaku’ without a cause: Australian fans of Japanese animation and manga. Paper presented at ‘Objects of Belonging: Consumption, Culture and Identity’, University of Western Sydney (Oct. 1997).
- The fan boys and geek girls that ate Tokyo: The cross cultural appropriation of Japanese animation and manga in Australia. Paper presented at the The (JSAA) Japanese Studies Association of Australia and the (JAW) Japan Anthropology Workshop conference, University of Melbourne, Australia. (June 1997)
- Blueprints for the destruction of the world: Translating Japanese animation. Paper presented at ‘20th General Assembly and Scientific Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research’, Sydney (Aug. 1996).
