Presentations

Play presentations

• This is not a playing area! - presentation to Play Australia members at the inaugural session of 'Twilight Talks', 2013
• Seeing the Invisible - talk presented for 'Stuff that matters to kids: the heritage of children & childhood', part of the Making Public Histories Seminar Series at the State Library of Victoria, 2013
• The Relationship Between Play and Place - talk to students from the Children in their Environments unit at LaTrobe University, Bendigo Campus, 2012 & 2013
• The Hidden Heritage of the Schoolyard - paper presented to the international symposium 'Classroom to Campus: the heritage of modern education', University of Melbourne, 2012
• Children's Toys & Games in the Victorian era - presentation to the Ballarat Gold Museum Society, 2010
• String Games - performance/presentation on string figures for the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2008.
• Australian children's string games - multimedia presentation to National Australian Folklore Conference, 2008
• Play Today - short presentation as a member of the panel at the Open Forum on Play at the National Folk Festival, 2008
• With Respect: adult contexts for children's play (co-author with Gwenda Beed Davey) - multimedia presentation to conference: 'Children's Cultures: Universality & Diversity', University of Nantes, France, 2007. [Paper subsequently published as 'Digne de Respect: L'espace laisse au jeu enfantin', in Colloque Cultures Enfantines: Universalite et diversite, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (PUR) 2010]
• Cultural Threads: tradition and transition in Australian children's string games - multimedia presentation to 'Traditional Games, Sports & Pastimes', The Folklore Society Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, England, 2007
• Creativity in Children's Play: historical and cultural perspectives- multimedia presentation over two sessions to Stonnington U3A, 2004
• One Potato, Two Potato: children's verbal lore - multimedia presentation to visiting U.S. Children's Literature group, held at the University of Melbourne, 2003
• A Window on Childhood Games - 'hands-on' presentation with objects, images, documents to Surrey Hills Historical Society, 2000