My presentations explore modern British history, civil defence, media, and political culture.
“As Safe As Houses: Invasion Literature and Interwar Challenges to British Concepts of Home.” The Space Between conference.
“Keep Calm and Protest On: The Memetic Nature of Civil Defence Protests in Cold War Britain.” Newmedia conference.
“The Thatcherite Decade?: Reconsidering the Narratives of 70s Decline and 80s Neo-Liberalism.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies.
“The Bomber and the End of Splendid Isolation: Shifting Spatial Identities Through the Memories of WWI Homefronts.” Tri-University History Conference.
“From the Blitz to D.I.Y. in Four Easy Documents: Cold War Britain and the Economics of Nuclear Civil Defence.” International Graduate Historical Studies Conference.
“And now for something colonially different: Monty Python and the Influence of Decolonization on British Identity.” History and Classics Graduate Student Association conference.
“The ‘bloody Union Jack’ and ‘egalitarian twaddle’: The Long Tradition of Deterrence Over Survivability in Cold War Britain’s Nuclear Civil Defence Policies.” Strategic Studies Conference.
People’s Choice winner, University of Waterloo Three Minute Thesis finals, 2015. Further speaking experience includes guest lectures on decolonization, British imperial culture, archival research, and cultural history, alongside teaching-development workshops and seminars.