Public Talks and Panel Moderation
Panel Moderator, “Diversity + Dying: Cultural Practices of Mourning”, Six Feet Under: Design + Death, National Gallery of Victoria, June 1-2, 2024
Guest Speaker, Victorian Geriatric Medicine Training Program, August 2023
“The Tibetan Book of the Dead” Masterclass, 10 Great Books Series, University of Melbourne Arts Faculty, 2023
Keynote Speaker, Cemeteries and Crematoria Association of Victoria, Annual Conference, 9 March 2023.
Panellist, “Schools of Life and Death”, Wheeler Centre 12 October. Broadcast on Radio National as “Talking about Death” 9 November, 2022
Guest Lecture, “Death Futures”, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, February 9, 2022
Invited Panellist discussing Covid-19 & the Death Care Sector for “Death Experience Design in 2020”, Portable, November 26, 2020
Public Lecture ‘Death Tech: Redesigning Death for the 21st century and beyond’, w/ Prof Tamara Kohn, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, November 5, 2020
Invited Speaker, The Last Hurrah Funeral Expo, Melbourne, February 2020
‘Tombstones, altars, ash: In the ruins of Japanese Buddhist death rites’. Buddhist Consumption: Excess and Waste, 23-24th May 2019, University of Copenhagen.
Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop: Religious & Cultural Heritage Amid Social & Environmental Change, University of California Berkeley, March 2019
“文化人類学から見る現代日本における供養とデザイン. Gendai nihon ni okeru kuyō to dezain (Veneration and design in contemporary Japan)” . 東洋大学Toyo University, Human Design Centre [Japanese], June 2017
‘Crisis and innovation in the Japanese Buddhist altar industry.’ Buddhism and Business, Market and Merit, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2017.
“Corpses in the Cabinet: The Museum as a Burial Ground” for the After Death [Symposium], The Ian Potter Museum, December 2016.
Networking the Ancestors: The Emergence of Digital Butsudan in Japan. Homo Sapiens, Mortality and the Internet, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore, February 2016
“Fieldwork at Sunset: Assessing Anthropological Websites”. Ethnoforum, The University of Melbourne, 2016