• “1919 : le tournant santé publique et le début de l’expansion formidable de la Croix-Rouge”, Fondation Croix-Rouge française pour la Recherche, Paris, 27 June 2024.

  • “Treating the Dead with Honour? The Australian Graves Detachment and Australian Graves Services in France, 1919-1922”, at The Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia, 4 May 2023.

  • “From Encounter Bay to Aukus : Has the Australian-French relationship ever stood a chance?”, at The Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia, 15 April 2023.

  • “The Republican Dream and the Second Empire”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 30 September 2022.

  • “The return of the Monarchy 1814-1848”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 2 September 2022.

  • “Napoléon and the Premier Empire: Rise and Fall”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 19 August 2022.

  • “The French Presidential Election is on: Who is likely to win, and what does it mean for Australia?”, public talk at Flinders University at Victoria Square, 7 April 2022.

  • “A Revolution that changed the World: the impacts of “1789”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 10 December 2021.

  • “The causes of the French Revolution“, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 12 November 2021.

  • “Making Revolution: 1789 France”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 15 October 2021.

  • “The Bourbons and the monarchie absolue”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 2 July 2021.

  • “The House of Capet and the House of Valois: strengthening the kingdom and the monarchy”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 11 June 2021.

  • “The Merovingians and the Carolingians: the origins of France?”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 21 May 2021.

  • “The Great Anzac Cooption: Myth, History and National Identity”, in conversation with Paul Daley (The Guardian) and Wayne Macauley (Simpson Returns), Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week, 4 March 2020.

  • Sub-keynote, the History Teachers’ Association of Australia national conference, Adelaide, 1 October 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Professor Frank Bongiorno, Muse, Canberra, 24 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Associate Professor Martin Crotty, Avid Reader, Brisbane, 18 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Professor Alistair Thomson, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, 12 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, State Library of South Australia, 5 April 2019.

  • “Was Second Villers-Bretonneux an Australian Victory?”, public lecture at the Adelaide Club, 7 June 2018. (invited)

  • Invited panel member for the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Breakfast Debrief, “Macron 10+ months on”, Deloitte, 6 April 2018. (invited).

  • “Trench art and aerial warfare during the First World War”, South Australians in France Public conference, Adelaide, 23-24 February 2018.

  • “South Australia, France, and the First World War”, City of Unley’s Town Hall, 10 November 2017. (invited).

  • “A different perspective on the First World War: The French Experience” at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Australia, Adelaide, September 2017. (invited).

  • Panellist for the French presidential election’s debrief organised by the French Australian Chamber of Commerce (Adelaide) at Ernst & Young on 10 May 2017. (invited).

  • Public lecture series “The Making of France - From Clovis to Louis XVI” at Alliance Française, Brisbane. Stretching over a millennium, the three conferences recounted turning points in French history and their lasting impacts on the country’s history, culture, arts and architecture. (invited).

  • Public lecture series “Perspectives on France in the World Wars” at Alliance Française, Brisbane. This cycle of three conferences delved into French history through a cultural and comparative approach, looking at arts, mentalities and representations of the First and Second World Wars and the way France experienced them compared to Australia. (invited).

  • “French perspective on Australian history” at Alliance Française, Brisbane, 12 June 2015. This event took place as part of a project launched by the Embassy of France to Australia. (invited).

  • “Same war, different collective memories: French and Australian remembrance of the First World War” at Alliance Française Canberra for the launch of French teaching kits. I was one of three guest speakers along with his Excellency Christophe Lecourtier, Ambassador of France to Australia and Joy Burch, ACT Minister for Education, 7 May 2015 (invited).

Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the Kaurna People as the traditional owners and custodians of the land in which I am privileged to live and work. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples across what is now known as Australia.

I recognise the importance of continuing to educate myself about the ways in which these living cultures have developed over tens of thousands of years, and I express my sincere gratitude for being able to share a small part of this ongoing journey. As a historian, I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and I remain impressed by its generosity.