‘What should education aim at?’ Invited panel at the annual conference for the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. 7 Dec 2025
‘Banning bad books: On aesthetic education and censorship’ Invited talk for Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) London Branch, UCL, London, UK. 8 Oct 2025
‘Education for Flourishing must include the Arts’ Invited talk for Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 19 Jun 2025
‘Education for Flourishing must include the Arts’ Invited talk for PESGB Bath and Bristol branch, Bristol University, UK. 29 April 2025
‘Narrative Art and Education’ Invited talk for PESGB Edinburgh branch, University of Edinburgh, UK. 12 Sept 2024
‘STEM vs Humanities: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education’ Invited public lecture for the ‘Ethical Matters’ series at Conway Hall, London, UK. 28 Jan 2024
‘On the limits to dialogue’ Keynote paper for SAPERE (Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) annual conference, University of Bristol, UK. 18 Nov 2023
‘On Aesthetic Education’ Keynote paper for Screen Stories and Aesthetic Education conference, University of Rijeka, Croatia. 6 Sept 2023
‘How inclusive is the Community of Inquiry pedagogy?’ Keynote paper for Philosophy in Schools conference, UCD, Dublin, Ireland. 16 May 2023
‘The role for art in the flourishing life’ Invited symposium contribution, University of Bielefeld, Germany. 24 April 2023
‘To Fear or Not to Fear: Educating the Emotions and Building Resilience to Extremism’ Invited talk for the Centre for Educational Research seminar series at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. 19 April 2023
‘Philosophy for Children: the Community of Inquiry as a radical pedagogy’ Invited public lecture for the Pedagogies of Possibilities series, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. 23 Feb 2023
‘Defending Aesthetic Education’ Keynote for PESGB Annual Conference, New College, Oxford University, UK. 3 September 2021
‘To Fear or Not to Fear: Educating the Emotions and Building Resilience to Extremism’ Keynote for ‘Making Sense of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism’ online symposium, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 27 May 2021
‘Educating for the Future: Being critical and kind’ Invited talk for Eton College & University of Hertfordshire ‘Virtues in the Classroom’ zoom webinar. 20 June 2020
‘When Good Art is Bad: educating the critical viewer’ Invited talk for virtual PESGB seminar. 20 May 2020
‘Practicing Compassion: engaging philosophically with narratives in the classroom’ Invited talk for the Royal Society of Arts event ‘Philosophy in Schools: Enriched curriculum, enriched lives’. 19 Nov 2019
‘Tackling Extremism in the Classroom’ Keynote for Ethical Education Residential Summer School, Educate Together, Ireland. August 2019
‘Narrative Artworks, Critical Engagement and Moral Education’ Invited talk for Murdoch Colloquium, Murdoch University, Australia. Nov 2018
‘Moral education in a digital age’ Invited talk for PESGB Birmingham branch, UK. Nov 2018
‘Critical Perspectivism: social media and moral education’ Invited talk for Philosophy of Education Colloquium at Teacher’s College Columbia University, New York, USA. Sept 2018
‘Critical Perspectivism: ethical engagement online’ Invited talk for the Philosophy Department’s Hale Lecture Series at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA. Sept 2018
‘Why teach ethics in schools?’ Invited public panel for the Institute for Ethics and Society QndA event, the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Fremantle, Australia. July 2018
‘Critical Perspectivism: social media and moral education’ Invited talk for the Institute for Ethics and Society, UNDA, Sydney, with Scott Stephens as respondent. June 2018
‘Critical Perspectivism: social media and moral education’ Invited talk for the Murdoch Philosophy Symposium, Murdoch University, Australia. April 2018
‘Why should we teach philosophy and/or ethics in schools?’ Invited panel for the annual PESA conference, Newcastle University, NSW, Australia. Dec 2017
‘Why Should Philosophy be Taught in Schools?’ Invited talk for PESGB Birmingham branch, UK. July 2017
‘Philosophy and Ethics in Schools: Community of Inquiry with Dr Laura D’Olimpio’ Invited workshop for the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Oct 2016
‘Philosophy in Schools, Narrative and Empathetic Engagement’ Invited talk for the Institute for Ethics and Society, the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia. April 2016
‘Thinking Skills for Everyone’ Invited talk for TedxWorleyParsons, Perth, WA, Australia. Nov 2014
‘The Conditions of Visibility of Artworks and their Affect’ Invited talk for SymbioticA at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Dec 2010