Public & Academic Speaking

2025

• Presenter, International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Artist Roundtable South Korea
• 3CR Community Radio, Interview Music Sans Frontiers

2024

• Oral History Workshop, Aeolian Society
• Presenter, Italian Studies for Global Challenges: Transdisciplinary Conversations, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies paper entitled: Beyond Empathy: Storytelling and Visual Technology as Discourse Probe.
• SBS Radio, Promoting the launch of Sicilian Arts Collective Australia

2023

• Presenter, Slurs in Australia, Then and Now Symposium, Melbourne University
• Paper entitled: “They used to call us wogs and dagos…and now we’ve integrated so well, we’ve become invisible”. White(ned)-Wogs and The Endangered Diasporic Consciousness.

2022

• Oral History Workshop, Lalor Library
• Presenter, Australasian Centre Italian Studies, Perth. I presented two papers:
• Bilingualism in the Community Museum, Museo Italiano & misrecognized inclusion.
• Her, Grace (Re)Visualizing the Migrant Story: Beyond the Nostalgic Gaze.
• Presenter, Multicultural Museums Symposium, Deakin University. Paper entitled, Whitening the Ethnic Experience: Activating the Managed Ethnic Narrative for a Post Colonial Migration History.                                                                  

2021

• Presenter, International Visual Sociology Association, Toronto. 
• Co-wrote and presented two papers, based on work of Arc Up Australia
• Visualizing Ethnic Experience, Diaspora beyond Nostalgia.
• Seeing Gentrification and Displacement in Melbourne’s North.
• Cranbourne Poverty Report Presentation, City of Casey Housing and Social Support.

2020

• Radio Interview, SBS Radio, Raising awareness and community appeal, Mano Nella Mano project

2019 

• Presenter, Italy in Movement Conference, Chapter 3, Genova.
• Paper entitled, Perspectives on the Third Generation: Between a history of Otherness and an Other-Australian Identity Italy in Movement.
• Presenter, Museo Italiano, Melbourne for, “Ascolta!” Italian-Australian multi-generational women's experiences and migration legacies.

2018 

• Presenter, Museums, Galleries Australia Conference, Melbourne.
• Paper entitled, Multicultural Words and their meanings: Finding relevance in a multicultural museum.
• Presenter, Italy in Movement Conference, Chapter 2, New York.
• Paper entitled, Italian-Australian: Creating Culture/Defining Diaspora: Moving beyond the migrant narrative in the community museum.

2017

• Presenter, Re/Connecting through Generations Symposium: Intergenerational Barriers to Contemporary Cultural Participation. Deakin University and Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.
• Presenter, Bargoonga Kganjin North Fitzroy Library for Pecha Kucha #30 Theme: Protest against forgetting.
• Presenter, Diaspore Italiane Conference, Chapter 1, Melbourne.
• Paper entitled, Diasporic critical thinking and the potential for social relevance in ethno-specific museums.

2016

• Presenter, Oral History Victoria Symposium: Innovation in Oral History. Paper Entitled: Community- making and participation in Oral History Projects.
• Radio Interview, The Drawing Room, ABC Radio National.
• Guest Lecturer, Deakin University, course: Master Cultural Heritage. I talked students through the process of creating, curating and evaluating community-based projects: Italian Australian: Creating Culture/Defining Diaspora as a case study.
• Radio Interview, The Drawing Room, ABC Radio National.

2015

• Radio Interview, 3RRR, Hullabaloo and Room with a View, promoting the launch of The Good Room
• Radio Interview, Rete Italia SBS Radio, on being multicultural and Italian-Australian for third generation Australians.

2014

• Presenter, Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Canberra. Paper Entitled: Commemoration in Australia’s Heritage Practice: How creating meaning can limit understanding.