I’ve presented at over 50 events on my experiences and research projects relating to collaborations with Indigenous communities from Australia, Fiji, and Arctic Canada. This includes keynote and plenary engagements, presentations to diplomatic corps, guest lectures, conference presentations, and community forums. I’ve presented on topics such as Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous placemaking, senses of place, landscape perception, participatory mapping, cultural heritage, ethics, and research methods and approaches. I’ve given invited talks at institutions such as Harvard University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, National Library of Australia, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Selected Presentations //

• Landscapes of the Gods: Mapping the Cultural Heritage of a Chiefly Fijian Village. Center for Cultural Landscapes Lecture. University of Virginia. 13/11/2019. Info
• Towards an Indigenous landscape ethic: reflections on the power of place making through Indigenous knowledge. Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. 11/2019. Info
• Landscapes of the Gods: Mapping the Cultural Heritage of a Chiefly Fijian Village. Lecture and Roundtable, Architecture School’s Center for Cultural Landscapes and the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures, University of Virginia.10/2019. Info
• Fiji and University of Canberra Connections. A presentation and forum to honour the incoming Fiji High Commissioner to Canberra, His Excellency Mr Luke Daunivalu, University of Canberra 10/2018.
• Presentation of outcomes of 2017 Fiji New Colombo Plan Program teaching initiative. Presentation to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Barton, Canberra. 2018.
• An Arctic Landscape Revisited: Re-discovering a 130-year old Smithsonian Collection and making it relevant to today’s Arctic peoples. Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University. 09/2017
• Understanding Fijian Knowledge Systems – a DFAT-funded teaching collaboration, presentation to Fiji High Commission, Canberra. 06/2017
• Re-charting the ancestral Bundian Way trail system: How An Indigenous-led Project is Making Tracks Towards Sovereignty. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston. 04/17
• Researching and Designing the Gateway to the Bundian Way Project, AIATSIS National Indigenous Research Conference, Canberra 03/2017
• The impacts and benefits of undertaking Participatory Research in Indigenous Settings: Case Studies from Australia, Arctic Canada, and Fiji,  Department of Architecture, Design, and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. 11/2016
• The impacts and benefits of undertaking Participatory Research in Indigenous Settings: Case Studies from Australia, Arctic Canada, and Fiji, Indigenous Research Network Lecture Series, Curtin University, Perth. 10/2016
• Arctic Life: Insights into Inuit Knowledge of the Land and Sea. National Arboretum, Canberra. Hosted by the Canadian High Commission, Canberra. 07/2016
• And you thought we were extinct: The revival of Aboriginal cultural practices and economic opportunities in the South East region of South Australia. International Development Research Conference, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, Auckland. 11/2015.
• Counter-Mapping in an Australian Aboriginal Community: Reshaping Perceptions of Country. American Association of Geography Conference, Chicago 04/2015
• Changing Perceptions of Home: How Policy-Making has Affected Inuit Connections and Knowledge of the Nunavik Homeland. Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. 03/2015
• Re-Floating Culture: The Revival of Aboriginal Knowledge and Land Management practices in Southern Australia. Landscapes of Knowledges, Canadian Anthropology Society, Laval University, Quebec City. 05/2015.
• Inuit Women’s Berry Picking: Lessons on Gender, Procurement, Well-Being and the Environment. Landscapes of Knowledges, Canadian Anthropology Society, Laval University. 05/2015
• Mapping the “Unseen” Landscape: Using Participatory Mapping to raise awareness of an Indigenous Landscape in Australia, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. 04/2015
• Mapping the “Unseen” Landscape: Using Participatory Mapping to raise awareness of an Indigenous Landscape in Australia. Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices: Seminar Series in Endangered Languages and Indigenous Knowledge,Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. 04/2015. Youtube
• Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: the 1882-1884 field notes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. 2014
• Public Lecture and Book Launch of Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: the 1882-1884 field notes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge.Hosted and sponsored by his Excellency the High Commissioner of Canada in Australia, along with introductions by his Excellency the Ambassador of America in Australia, and Professor Timothy Flannery. National Library of Australia. July 01/ 2014
• Mammals of Ungava and Labrador, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. 2014
• Inuit ways of Knowing and Mapping the Land-water Interface, Adding value and meaning to anthropological mapping in native title research. Centre for Native Title Anthropology, Australian National University. 02/2013
• Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: the 1882-1884 field notes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge, Smithsonian Institution, Division of Mammals, Washington D.C. 2013
• Empowering and Revitalizing Inuit Knowledge of Landscape through Storytelling Architecture, 18^th Inuit Studies Conference, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 09/2012.
• Recovering and Celebrating Inuit Knowledge through Design: The Making of a Virtual Storytelling Space, Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Conference, Windhoek, University of Namibia/Polytechnic of Namibia.
• Sea Ice, See Space? Cracks in Inuit Knowledge, Recovering Voices Series, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 05/2010.
• Sea Ice, See Space? Cracks in Inuit Knowledge, The Roberta Bondar Fellow Public Lecture at the North at Trent 2010 Lecture Series Traill College, Trent University, Canada. 10/2010
• Mingling with the Ancestors: A vision for protected areas and visitor centres in Arctic Quebec. Ontario College of Arts and Design, Toronto, Canada. 10/2010
• Mingling with the Ancestors: A vision for protected areas and visitor centres in Arctic Quebec.The Roberta Bondar Fellow Public Lecture, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. 03/2010
• Bringing the knowledge home: Repatriating lost Inuit traditions and language through Nunavik Park schemes, Université d’Angers, France. 10/2009
•  Between the trees and tides: Inuit conceptions of a coastal and boreal landscape, SUNY at Buffalo: A trans-disciplinary workshop, Albuquerque and Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 10-11/2008.
• Melting Ice, Evaporating Traditions? Inuit Connections to Place in a Changing Environment, Session: Landscape and memory; environment and identity.  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 09/2008
• Between the Sea and the Tuurngait Spirit’s Mountain Lair: The Creation of Two Parks atop a Mythical Landscape. Invited Speaker at MES Speaker Series in Nature-Based Recreation and Tourism, Lakehead University, Canada. 11/2008
• Diminishing Knowledge: Inuit Nomenclature of the Land-Water Interface, ArcticNet: Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada Annual Scientific Meeting, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Plenary presentation. 12/2007
• Inuit Myths and Legends of an Arctic Coast, Senses of Place Conference, School of Art, University of Tasmania. 04/2006.
• Landscape Perception and Way-finding in the Arctic: An examination of Inuit Children Drawings, MESH Landscape Architecture Conference, RMIT, Melbourne. 07/2001