Public Speaking
- 'Philosophy in the Garden', Eltham Philosophy Club, Eltham, 27th March 2013.
- 'Embracing the Digital' (with Tony Birch, Rebecca Fitzgibbons, Matthew Lamb and Anne Summers), Tasmanian Writers Festival, Hobart, 23rd March 2013.
- 'Philosophy in the Garden' (with Peter Timms, Matthew Evans and Tim Thorne), Tasmanian Writers Festival, Hobart, 23rd March 2013.
- 'Philosophical gardening with Proust and co.', The School of Life, Collingwood, Melbourne, 16th March 2013.
- 'The Acres of Perhaps: Emily Dickinson and the garden', Castlemaine Library, Castlemaine, 4th March 2013.
- 'Landscape and literature' (with David Morley, Stephen Scourfield and Will Yeoman), Perth Writers Festival, University of Western Australia, 23rd February 2013.
- 'Happiness' (with Oliver Burkeman, Geoff Gallop and Philip Adams), Perth Writers Festival, University of Western Australia, 22nd February 2013.
- Epicurean feast, The School of Life, The North Fitzroy Star, Fitzroy, 7th February 2013.
- 'Beginnings', Writers Victoria, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 30th October 2012.
- 'The Revolution Will Have Strawberries', Bendigo Library, Bendigo, 1st October 2012.
- 'Footnotes to Wrestling: Plato and the Martial Arts' (keynote lecture), Philosophy and the Martial Arts conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 9th June 2012.
- 'Bacchus Stripped', Matisse: Drawing Life illustrated lecture, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11th February 2012.
- 'In Praise of Elinor', Sense and Sensibility at 200 Symposium, Abbotsford Convent, 30th October 2011.
- 'What makes creative minds tick?', Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 18th August 2011.
- 'Design and Liberty', State of Design Festival, RMIT University, 27th July 2011.
- 'Martial Arts and Philosophy', Bendigo Library, Bendigo, 4th July 2011.
- 'Creative Writing', Writers Victoria, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 22nd March 2012.
- 'Making People Think' (with John Armstrong), Writers at the Convent Festival, Abbotsford Convent, 12th February 2011.
- 'The Silence of Pemberley', Jane Austen Society of Melbourne, Melbourne, 30th October 2010.
- 'Blogging and Community' (with James Bradley, Penni Russon and Karen Andrews), New Voices Festival, 31st July 2010.
- 'Dear Aunt Jane...', Jane Austen Society of Australia, Sydney, 19th June 2010.
- 'Distant Travels, Intimate Truths' (with Maria Tumarkin and Howard Goldenberg), Limmud Oz Festival, Monash University, 13th June 2010.
- 'Tolerance' (with Irfan Yusuf), Crime and Justice Festival, Abbotsford Convent, 19th July, 2009.
- '11 Independent Types' (with John Armstrong), State Library of Victoria, 6th June, 2009.
- 'Distraction', Malthouse Theatre, May 31st, 2009.
- 'Matisse's Hernia', Baccalaureate 'Festival of Ideas', Geelong Grammar, 2008.
- 'Proust at Balbec', at 'Aesthetics Today', National Gallery of Victoria, 2007.
- 'Plato, Art and Truth', Baccalaureate 'Festival of Ideas', Methodist Ladies' College, 2006, 2007, 2008.
- 'Picasso: Love and War' , National Gallery of Victoria, 2006.
- 'Conscious computing', The Guardian, by Oliver Burkeman (11/5/13).
- 'Lazy, unmotivated and sloppy, The Age, FOCUS (3/10/12), p.14.
- 'Modern day droogs are free to roam', The Sydney Morning Herald (15/9/12).
- 'Generation Y: so connected, oh so alone', The Age (20/7/11), p.8.
- 'The scandal of the kickboxing little girls', Grazia (4/7/11), p.15.
- 'Unleashing the inner beast', by Tim Richards, The Age (30/11/10), p.15.
- 'Is multi-tasking a myth?', BBC News (21/8/10).
- 'Trouble Concentrating?', by Greg Foyster, Yen, Autumn/Winter 2010, pp.106-7.
- 'Childhood's end in the picture', by Corrie Perkin, The Weekend Australian, Inquirer (31/1/09), p.20
- 'Should auld lang syne just be forgot', by Milanda Rout, The Australian (31/12/09), p.9.
- 'Views on child protocols divided', by Corrie Perkin, The Australian (30/10/08), p.10.
