Public talks (select)

2018

• ‘Sustaining elite performance: emotional skills and the mental game’, invited talk for Cricket Australia new professional players’ induction camp, Brisbane, August
• ‘Inclusive practices in academic hiring’, Inclusive Research Network meeting, Macquarie, June

2017

• ‘Emotional skills and the mental game in Australian professional cricket’, invited talks to ACA (Australian Cricketers’ Association) player agents meeting, SCG, February, and to Cricket Australia/ ACA enterprise bargaining negotiators, Melbourne, April

2014

• ‘Sparking off each other: science in the wild’ (with Doris McIlwain), research support talk, Maintaining Relations with Research Partners, Macquarie, July

2012

• ‘Beyond the Brain: memory in science and culture’
  The Centre for Human Aspects of Science and Technology (CHAST), University of Sydney, Sydney, October
• ‘Beyond the Brain: embodied and distributed memory’
  Colloquium at the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blue Mountains, NSW, June

2011

• ‘Self, Body, and Memory’
  Symposium on Art, Emotion, Identity, for the exhibition ‘The Naked Face: self-portraits’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February.

2007

• ‘On memory and truth’
  Colloquium at the Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blue Mountains, NSW, July.

2004

• ‘Memory, Habit, and Movement’
  Panel member Is There Thought Without Language (in Art)?, with J.M. Coetzee, University of Western Sydney, August.

1998

• ‘The Arts of Memory’
  The Philosophy interest group of the NSW Psychiatry Association, University of Sydney.

Public philosophy

2013

• Panel member with David Papineau on The Yips, along with Steve Crook of Northamptonshire and MC Daniel Norcross, at Words and Wickets, Wormsley, September
• ‘Collaborative Cognition: the philosophy and science of teamwork’
  Philosophy lunch, the Universities, Union, and Schools Club in Sydney, May.
• ‘Collaborative Cognition: the philosophy and science of teamwork’
  Nerd Nite Sydney with Amanda Barnier, March.

2012

• ‘Coordination and Teamwork: lessons and puzzles from sport’
  Colloquium at the Media Lunch, Sydney, September

2011

• At Movies at Macquarie session on Inception
  (with Doris McIlwain), September
• Philosophy in Film night on Memento
  University of Wollongong, September

2009

• Celebration and memorial for Charlie Martin
  University of Sydney, March

2006

• ‘Intersecting Worlds: the intersecting worlds of science and society’
  National Science Week 2006, hosted by the Ultimo Science Festival, August.

2004

• ‘Children’s Dreams’
  2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum, Crows Nest Community Centre, Sydney.

2003

• ‘The Philosophy of Dreaming’
  2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum, Crows Nest, Sydney, August.

2001

• ‘Problems with Presentism’
  Workshop on historiography for high school history teachers, Macquarie University, July.

2000

• ‘Connectionism, culture, and cognition’
  Hard/Soft/Wet: Artificial Life, dLux Digital Media Art/ Powerhouse Museum, ‘Futurescreen 2000’ program, Sydney, October.

Book launches

2014

• Ian Bedford’s novel The Last Candles of the Night, with Ross Poole
  Gleebooks, Sydney, June.

2008

• Richard Menary’s book Cognitive Integration: mind and cognition unbounded (Palgrave)
  University of Wollongong, June.

2007

• Max Deutscher’s book Judgment After Arendt (Routledge)
  Gleebooks, Sydney, August.