Lectures, Talks, Gallery Tours
Three Minute Thesis
In 2017 I entered the 3MT competition at University of Technology Sydney. The competition tasks graduate students with explaining their complex, multi-year projects to a general audience in a strict three minute timed talk.
Sexual Restraint and Reproductive Excess: Dressing for Pregnancy 1750-1900
Recording of a paper presentation at Costume Colloquium V: Restraint and Excess in Fashion and Dress, Florence, November 2017.
http://www.costume-textiles.com/past-costume-colloquiums/costume-colloquium-v/online-presentations/
In Conversation: Curator’s Talk
Opening section of my curator’s talk to accompany the opening of Connecting Threads: Tracing Fashion, Fabric and Everyday Life at Newstead House in 2016.
Sample Lecture Topics
Bump Watch: 1750-1900
Where are all the pregnant woman in eighteenth and nineteenth century history? This talk presents highlights from a century and a half of maternity history, spanning objects, prints, portraits, photographs and garments.
I first delivered this talk at the Australian Federation of Graduate Women’s Christmas Lunch in 2017, in recognition of their support of my research
Fashion and Historic Houses
A lecture investigating the role of fashion and fabric in historic house museums. The talk covers examples of dress displays from stately homes to local historic properties and explores the challenges and opportunities they present.
Conceal, Constrict or Reveal? 200 Years of Maternity Fashion
A survey of maternity dress in history. This lecture explores the strategies used by pregnant and nursing women to dress themselves before and after the invention of official maternity wear.
POSTPONED - originally scheduled for March 2020 at the Johnston Collection.
States of Undress: How Clothes Help Define Home
The quality of being ‘dressed’ or ‘undressed’ is a key part of differentiating private, domestic space from the outside world. From taking off shoes and removing restrictive garments to donning comfy leggings of a dressing gown, addressing clothing and comfort is a marker of being at home. This lecture explores historic examples of informal, domestic dress in Western fashion.