Conferences and keynotes

Tara Brabazon has delivered keynote addresses throughout the world. Most frequently, she has the pleasure of speaking to educators, librarians and information professionals, and practitioners and policy makers in the media and creative industries.

The following list captures some of her public speaking engagements.

"Less is more: why less information creates more learning”

Gartner International, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 30-September 1, 2010

“Digital Dieting”

Keynote address, Teaching & Learning Conference, Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, June 29, 2010

“Podcasting Postgraduates”

Workshop, Teaching & Learning Conference, Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, June 29, 2010

“Take the red pill: a matrix for learning and literacy”

Keynote address for the “Teaching Literature and Culture in Higher Education/ Hochschuldidaktik in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften,” Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, June 10-11, 2010, http://www.dghd.de/veranstaltungstext/items/HD_in_Litratur

"From surfing to deep sea diving: building a new model of literacy"

Invited inaugural lecture, LILAC Scotland, Information Services Group, Scotland, March 26, 2010

Information obesity: cutting the flab of information and building intellectual fitness through literacy

Keynote Address, Cultural eXchanges, DeMontford University, March 1-5, 2010.

"Life-long literacy: the challenges of creating a learning culture"

Keynote Address, Finnish Information Literacy Network, Finland, February 10, 2010

Toughen up Princess: Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and changing the default position

October 30, 2009

This session was delivered for the “My brilliant career? Women and success in the academy,” Women’s Media Studies Network (WMSN)

"Methods, Mayhem, Movement and Magic: teaching and learning about hearing and listening

Keynote address, ED-MEDIA 2009, Hawaii, June 24, 2009

“We’ve spent too much money to go back now: credit crunched literacy and a future for learning”

SOLSTICE Conference, Edge Hill, June 4, 2009

Click and think

"Click and think," Irish Universities Information services Colloquium, Galway, Ireland, 4-6 March, 2009, http://www.iuisc.ie/2009/speakers.html

"Review available - From a Distance," https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4631200414899554974&postID=5932...

Why universities need to engage with the media

"Why universities need to engage with the media," CASE Europe Conference, Brighton Hilton, Brighton, United Kingdom, August 26, 2008, http://www.case.org/container.cfm?containerID=1674

"Crisis versus 'no comment,'" CASE Europe Conference, Brighton Hilton, Brighton, United Kingdom, August 27, 2008

"Fundamentalism of the mind - Google and the future of thinking" Gartner's Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit, September 10-11 September 2008, http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/pcce3/WebPages/SessionList.aspx?Speaker..., http://www.legaltechnologyjournal.co.uk/, http://dutchrosereflections.com/blog/2008/10/wisdom-ignorance-of-the-crowd/

"From Spin to Social Justice: Librarians in the ‘Conceptual Age'" Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), March 19, 2008, http://www.lilacconference.com/dw/2008/Conference_programme.html, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/lilac-2008-rpt/, http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/2008/03/reflections-on-l...

Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), Wellington, 8-11 October 2006, http://www.lianza.org.nz/e-blog/?p=40, http://stainedglasswaterfall.blogspot.com/2006/10/tara-brabazon.html,

"The Google Effect," School Library Conference (WA), Perth, 17 June 2006, http://www.aiswalibraries.org.au/SLCWA_06/slckeynote.htm

"Building Popular Cultural Literacies." School Library Conference (WA), Perth, 17 June 2006, http://www.aiswalibraries.org.au/SLCWA_06/slckeynote.htm

"Digital Eloi and Analogue Morlocks: Intervening (in) literacy," School Library Conference (WA), Perth, 17 June 2006

"Socrates with Earphones: The iPodification of education," Public Seminar, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 20 March 2006

"How does it feel?" Postgraduate Development Seminar, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 19 March 2006

"From Eleanor Rigby to Nannanet," Australian Local Government Association, 24 August 2005

"Speed Searching and the Killing of Knowledge," Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide, 8 July 2005, available from radio.adelaide.edu.au/festivalofideas/audio05/university_of_google.mp3

"Making Sense - Representations / Misrepresentations," Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide," July 9, 2005, (with Julian Burnside, Bob Ellis, Kathy Laster, Deirdre Macken)

"Education, Inc" Adelaide Festival of Ideas, July 10, 2005, Elder Hall (with David Bodanis, John Cain and Garry Costello)

"Won't Get Googled Again," New South Wales Teacher-Librarian Association, Sydney, 27 January 2004

"Plotting the Revolution," New South Wales Teacher-Librarian Association, Sydney, 8 August 2003

"Fitness is a Feminist Issue," International Woman in Leadership Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, November 2002

"Let's Make Lots of Money: Digital deals and trafficking in the truth," Third Academic Symposium, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, October 2002

"Double Fold or Double Take," Lunch Talk, Stadt- und Universitatsbibliothek, Frankfurt, October 2002

"The internet and the future of education," Public Lecture, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 21 August 2002.

"The Teacher's Body," Seminar and Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 21 August 2002

"Fasten your Seatbelts: Bette Davis and lessons in leadership," International Women and Leadership Conference, Fremantle, November 2000

"Making it Big: Julie Burchill, bitching and writing," Women of Influence Series, Australian National University, Canberra, 26 September 2001

"Tara's 10 Tips for a Successful Post-university Career," Singapore graduation ceremony, Murdoch University, Singapore, September 1999

Community and university public speaking duties

Inaugural Edith Cowan Lecture, "A fierce intelligence?" Karrakatta Club, Perth, 1 August 2003

After dinner address, "Breasts on the Bridge: Captain Janeway and feminist leadership," Curtin Administrative Network, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 29 November 2001

Professional development day address, "Why are you here?" All Saints' College, Perth, 24 August 2001

After dinner address, Collaborate or Perish: Association for Tertiary Education Management Conference, 26 May 2000

Lecture, University of the Third Age (U3A), 19 February 2000

After dinner address, Murdoch University Senate, 22 February 1999

Opening address, "Making a difference," Principal's Orientation Day, Hamersley Golf Course, Perth, 17 February 1999

Mistress of ceremonies, Murdoch University Film and Video Festival, Fremantle, 20 February 1998

Public presentations and conferences

"Beyond Calais: Michael Palin and the construction of a foreigner," Conference paper presented at XIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History. Europe: Divided or United? University of Western Australia, Perth, 1999

"Doc Politics: Pondering the Antipodean Doctor Marten boot", Conference paper presented at Cultural Studies Association of Australia annual conference: In Search of the Public. Murdoch University, Fremantle, 1996

"For a Cultural Past? Lipstick traces, spectral connections and late modern European history," Lecture at the University of Western Australia, 18 March 1996

"From Pulp to Pop: An introduction to the world of popular culture," Public lecture presented at the Stout Centre Popular Culture Seminar Series, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, March 1995

"Making it Big: Julie Burchill, bitch politics and writing in public," Seminar paper presented at the CQU Seminar Series, Rapporteur: Graeme Turner, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, November 1995

"Michel Foucault: Theorizing sex and sensibility," and "The subject of the subject," Lectures presented in STAR (Structure, Thought and Reality; first year course), Murdoch University, Perth, April 1997 and 1998

"Queer Sisters: The politics of fag haggery," Conference paper presented at Representing Sexuality conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, 8-10 December 1995

"Same Person, Different Sex?" Seminar paper presented for the Master of Philosophy programme, University of Western Australia, Perth, 1994

"Save Ferris," Seminar paper presented at the CQU Seminar Series, Rapporteur: Michael Meadows, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, November 1996

"Settling Accounts with Birmingham," Conference paper presented at Cultural Studies Association of Australia annual conference: Whose Cultural Studies? conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, 11-13 December 1995

"The Future of New Zealand Cultural Studies," Conference paper presented at Culture Shocks/Pacific Spaces Symposium, Wellington, July 1998

"There is a Light and it Never Goes Out," Conference paper presented at The Smiths Conference: Why pamper life's complexities? , Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, 4-6 April 2005

"'What Are You Lookin' At?' Madonna, Sex and a Medusian vision," Conference paper presented at Bodies of Knowledge conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 28 September 1993 (Presented with Vanessa Evangelista)

"'What Have You Ever Done on the Telly?' The Office's Little England," Conference paper presented at Cultural Studies Association of Australasia annual conference: Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian. Murdoch University, Perth, December 2004

"What, No Birds? Women's Representation in the Media," Seminar paper presented for the Master of Philosophy programme, University of Western Australia, 1993

"Who Are the People and Why Are They Smiling?" Seminar paper presented in History and Cultural Studies (Department of History Honours course), University of Western Australia, Perth, March 1997

"You're Dancing With the Chairman of the Board," Conference paper presented at ANZCA conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth, June 2001

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