Conference papers
'The Ethics of Intangible Art' in Bridging the Gap: Conservation of Contemporary Art. University of Maastricht 24-27 March 2019
'Decolonising Colonial Artefacts at the British Museum' in Decolonising Heritage: Border Thinking, Border Practices. University of Hangzhou 1-6 September 2018
'Bracketing Categories: Contemporaneity' in Changing Global Hierarchies of Value? University of Copenhagen 20 Aug 2018
'A Controversial Contribution to Art and Culture: Jiang Qing and the Cultural Revolution' in Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts, Christie's Education, New York (USA) 26-27 June 2018
'Re-Staging the Rent Collection at the 48th Venice Biennale: Re-thinking Temporality', Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures? CAA Los Angeles (USA) 2018
'The Visual Discourse of “Home” Through the Ideological Divide', joined paper with Fran Norton in Narrating Home in Visual Arts Through an East West Divide. University of Stockholm 24-25 January 2018
'China at the Venice Biennale: Art and Politics'. The Politics of Display: Collateral Events and Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, University of St. Andrews 24 November 2017
'The Contemporaneity of Nushu in the work of three artists: Tan Dun, Helen Lai and Yuenyi Lo', The Contemporary Contemporary, Aarhus Denmark, 16-18 June 2017
'The “Opacity” of Contemporary Chinese Art Histories' (AAH Annual Conference) University of Loughborough, 8 April 2017
'Gender and Patronage: 3 Women Collectors of Contemporary Chinese Art'. With Sylvia Schlegel. University of Loughborough, 6 April 2017
'The Promise of Art for an Urban Future'. Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 20-23 February 2017
'China Dream meeting another Dream: the case of Uli Sigg'. University of Stockholm, Exploring the China Dream. 15-16 August 2016
'The case of Uli Sigg: Collector,gent, Advisor and Promoter of Contemporary Chinese Art'. Warburg Institute, University of London, Collecting and Display: The Art market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now 13 July 2016
'Two Exhibitions: The Shanghai Biennial and Guangzhou Triennial. University of Edinburgh' (AAH annual conference). Co-Convenor of the AAH Session: The City in the Biennial. 7-9 April 2016
'Contemporary art Collectors and Emerging art Canon: the Case of Uli Sigg'. Lyon, ESN & Muse des Confluences. The Far East: Collectors and Collections today, 23-24 March 2016
'Thailand and China at the Venice Biennale'. London, Senate House, The Venice Biennale and the Art Market 3-5 February 2016
'Towards The Construction of an Alternative 'Chineseness' in the work of Yueni Lo' – Indirect Speech, 'Chineseness' in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice, Art Market, Curatorial Practices and Creative Process, Lisbon 16-19 of March 2015
'Heidegger's Late Work as Conceptual writing' – Annual conference of the American College of Art conference, Chicago 13 Feb 2014
'The Rhythm of East West Dialogues in the work of three Thai Contemporary Artists' – Annual Conference AAH Reading 2013
Conference paper (with Pat Hurrell) Ipswich the Art School in the 1960's 'transnational Flows in European Fine Art Education 1900-2000' AAH University of Reading 2013
Conference paper 'Photography: the Materiality of the Event of Art?' to be presented at the Association of Art Historians Annual conference at the Glasgow School of Art (April 2010)
Conference paper ‘Photography in the process of globalisation: a new form of (post-) colonialisation or the practice through which difference can emerge? Dublin School of Art and Design 27-29 June 2007
Conference co-organiser and Chair of Round Table: Goldsmiths College, London and the Society for Women in Philosophy: Philosophy, Feminism, Art and Society, Nov 2006
Respondent and Chair of the Round Table at the Photography Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Wales, Newport July 2006
Conference paper ‘Aesthetic Hybridity and the Dominance of the Visual’, Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Leeds, 5-7 April 2005
Conference paper ‘The Use of Philosophy in Art and the use of art in philosophy’ in Uncertainty in Philosophy: The Learning Experience and Research, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, 29 October 2005
Conference paper ‘The Ethics of Performance: Yoko Ono and Marina Abramovic’ in East 05: Ethics into Aesthetics, August/October 2005, Norwich School of Art and Design
Conference paper ‘Rethinking Aesthetics: performance and the Object’ Relics of Performance, University of Ulster, Belfast, April 2005
Conference paper ‘The Philosopher and the Poet/Artist: The Resistance of Embodiment and Art in Heidegger’s Ontology’
Society for European Philosophy, 7th Annual Conference, 26-28 August, University of Greenwich
Conference paper ‘Philosophy and the Work of Art: Aesthetics, History and Gender’, Discovering Aesthetics, July 2004, University College Cork, Ireland
Conference paper ‘Art, Truth and Gender in Heidegger’s Late works’, Aesthetics and Politics, University of Essex, September 2003, Society for European Philosophy
Conference Paper ‘Towards an Aesthetics of Difference’ (Invited Symposia paper) Writing Aesthetics, University of Leeds, May 2003, International Association of Philosophy and Literature
Conference co-organiser
Double Session Chair (with Jane Chin Davidson) of 'Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures? CAA, Los Angeles (USA) 21-25 February 2018
Session organiser (with Joel Robinson) The City in the Biennale Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Edinburgh 2016
Co-organiser of the Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians 2012 at the Open University, Milton Keynes.
Co organiser of the annual conference of the Association of Photography in Higher Education 2008 at University of West of England
Goldsmiths College, London and the Society for Women in Philosophy: Philosophy, Feminism, Art and Society, Nov 2006
In collaboration with the University of Ulster
Relics of Performance, University of Ulster, Belfast 29 April 2005
Other papers
'Political legitimacy and Culture: the Case of China' – research seminar POLIS the Open University 28 April 2016
'Art and Politics in Thailand' – 20 June 2015 – Norwich Art Society
'Art and Politics in South East Asia Today' - 18 February 2015, University of the Arts London
'Modern, Contemporary or Global: Art in Thailand Today' – 17 Dec 2013, Arts University Bournemouth
'Practice as Research in the work of Ai Weiwei' - 14 February 2013, Norwich University of Art and Design