2008

• ‘Tang Wei: sex, the city and Beijing’s Olympic year’, Language and International Studies, Research Seminar, Nottingham Trent University, November.
• ‘Anachronism, apologetics and Robin Hood: televisual nationhood after TV’, China Media Centre, University of Westminster, November.
• ‘Monumental Memories a discussion of Xu Weixin and his pedagogic art’ CAC /discuss/ series, Centre of Oriental studies, University of Vilnius, October.
• ‘Tang Wei: sex, the city and Beijing’s Olympic year’, Film Studies Talks, KCL, October.
• ‘Tang Wei and cosmopolitan moments in film’, in Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks seminar series, World Cinema Series, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, September.
• University of British Columbia's Centre for Chinese Research. Global Beijing: 'The World' Is A Violent Place: a talk on Jia Zhangke's film 'The World'. May 15th 2008
• 'Mobile Me: Regional Networks in a Multiethnic Society', Communicating for Social Impact, The 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May, 2008.
• 'No Place for Young Girls [in the Chinese Market]?' Marketization in China: A Contested Project from the Communication Perspective, Hong Kong Baptist University http://www.comm.hkbu.edu.hk/cmcr/mcc/
• 'Global Beijing: 'The World' is a Violent Place' at Globalization and Violence, International Symposium on Visual Culture and the Urban Environment, London Institute (University of London), Paris, January. http://www.engl.niu.edu/paris/

2007

• 'The Cultural Turn', Branding cities, marketed identities and the politics of culture in cosmopolitan urban societies, University of Middlesex, November.
• 'Branding and Visual Politics', Face and Place: visibility and invisibility in Chinese propaganda posters, University of Westminster, October.
• 'Branding as a Cultural Turn' Keynote: East Asia Media Conference, QUT, Brisbane, June.
• 'Global Class "C Jia Zhangke and 'The World'' CSAA, Brisbane, June.
• 'Internationalisation as a community concept: praxis and service in higher education in the Asia-Pacific region', Paradigms for the 21st century, University of Indianapolis, May.
• 'Flatlands revisited: Sydney and the cinematic brand', San Diego State University, May.
• 'Landscapes of class in contemporary Chinese film: Yellow Earth to Still Life'
• Seminars at: University of California at San Diego, May and Screen Studies, University of Glasgow, February;
• 'Landscapes of Class and the logic of Chinese migration', Shanghai University, March.
• 'What brand and how much? Paying for the city', Sydney Futures talks, UTS, February.

2006

• 'Methods and modernity in Children's film research', Keynote APFRN international seminar: Youth Media, and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region, Monash University, November.
• 'Internationalisation and the Asia Pacific Region', Ningbo International Conference on Higher Education and the Regional Economy, Ningbo, October 29-Nov 1st.
• 'Global Class, Salaried Class, Middle Class', Politics of Belonging seminar, Centre for Social Policy, University of Middlesex, September.
• 'China and Latin America: the relationship with the new world power' International seminar held at ITESM Monterrey Campus, Monterrey, Mexico. August.
• 'China and Latin America' seminar held at the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico. August.
• 'Richer than Before: the Making of Middleclass Taste in Urban China." Invited seminar, Renmin University, Beijing, China. July.
• 'China's Middle Class': Shanghai University Australian Research Centre symposium. July.
• 'Stripes and my country' Sydney Biennale, opening symposium. June.
• 'My Life as McDull', Keynote: QUT Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries, Chinese Media and Education Workshop, April.
• (with Zheng Yi), 'Martial Arts, Star dust and Historical Memory: The Culture of a Blockbuster', International Film Workshop on Hero: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.
• 'Film, Cosmopolitanism and the Branded City in Europe and Asia: a discussion on new ways of thinking about cultural and creative industries' Keynote: The International Forum on Cultural Industries, Creative Media and Entertainment Business',, Taipei, April.
• 'Stripes and My Country: City Brands for 2006', Branding Cities and Urban Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism in Asia and Europe, Australia House, London, January.

2005

• 'Out on a Limb?: Urban Traumas on the West Pacific Rim' Visualising the City Conference, Manchester University, June.
• 'Little Friends and the Film Course: Participation, Sociality and Visual Media in Children's China' Seminar, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, June.
• 'Leadership and Authority in Creative China', From Made in China to Created in China, Conference, Beijing, July. Also: Panel member with Wu Qidi (Vice Minister for Education)
• 'Cultural Policy and Creative Leadership' Third Space of the Commons Workshop, Renda, Beijing, July. (MIT/Harvard seminar)
• 'The Cultivation of Middle Class Taste: Tourism and Education Choices in China', Whither Literary Theory: frontiers and new directions in the 21st century. Weihai, August.
• 'Television in Asia' ICAS, (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Funded Panel) Shanghai, August.
• 'Women and Middle Class Film Spectatorship in Contemporary China' Women in Asia Conference, Sydney, September.
• Television in Asia Symposium: Asia Pacific Futures Network, La Trobe, December.

2004

• J.G Gammack and S.H Donald, 'Branding the City on the Pacific Rim: colour narrative and the hyper-logo' CAUTHE (International Conference of Tourism and Hospitality), Brisbane 10-13 February, Book of refereed extended abstracts. 205-207.
• J.G Gammack and S.H Donald, 'Establishing identity: Collaborative Methodologies in Film and Tourism' in Frost W, Croy, G and Beeton S. eds. Proceedings: International Tourism and Media Conference, Melbourne: La Trobe, Nov 24-26, 119.(refereed working paper).
• J.G.Gammack and S.H Donald 'Images of Cities: A psychological method for mapping conceptual understandings' Fulbright symposium: Hong Kong// Hollywood at the Borders: Macao ,April.
• 'Regime Branding in the City of Life', Empire, Media and Political Regimes in Asia', Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University August.
• 'Shanghai Distance Education: Access and Pressure in a Demanding New Economy' Educational Research Alliance Deakin University, July.
• 'Film, Family and Feeling: Ganqing' The Child in Film and Television, Screen Studies Conference 2004, Glasgow University, July.
• 'Thematic Insecurity in China' First International Conference on Sources of Insecurity, RMIT Globalism Institute, 2004.
• 'Branding Chinese Cities' City Branding Workshop, Logan City, April.

2003

• 'Women, Teaching and Technology in the PRC' Chinese Studies Association Australia Meeting, UNSW, Sydney, July.
• 'MATE: Unravelling the culture-services-knowledge paradigm in post-WTO China (with Michael Keane) Chinese Studies Association Australia Meeting, UNSW, Sydney, July
• 'Narratives and Locality: An exploration of city stories in contemporary Austral-Asian cinema and tourism' Griffith Asia-Pacific Research Institute Seminar
• Panel member: Location: Just another character in the script?. Brisbane Writers' Festival

2002

• Panel discussant, American Asian Studies Conference panel on Political Visuality in China, Washington, DC, April.
• 'Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition', UCLA, Center for International Research CIRA, April.
• 'Australian Children's Film and Television: An Intercultural Perspective', International Conference on Film Education, Zibo, PRC, July.
• 'Children and Socialisation in Chinese Film Culture', Media in China, Melbourne.
• 'Working metaphor: Children, Media and Transition in the PRC': at The New Economy, Creativity and Consumption, Creative Industries Symposium, QUT, December.
• 'Nations Online: Or: Another Fine Shot by Lawrence', Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne, December.

2001

• 'Media in China: New Convergences, New Approaches' (with Michael Keane), Media seminar series, University of Sussex.
• 'Children and Citizenship in China', Linking Latitudes, Asialink Conference, Shanghai (published online) (http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/aef/shanghai/papers/sdonald/html)
• 'Modern Citizenship in China: Children's Day' Linking Latitudes, (Shanghai) Perspectives: Contemporary Issues in China Conference, April.
• 'Virtual Tourism and New Media Citizenships in Scotland and Hong Kong: Complementary Case Studies' (with John Gammack), Virtual/Informational/Digital
• Seminar series, Murdoch University
• The Virtual Tourist' Transnational China Advertising Project and the Centre for the Study of Globalising Cultures, Hong Kong University and Rice University, Texas.
• 'Nations Online: Virtual Tourism and Political Transition', What's Left of Theory? Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Hobart.

2000

• 'Children as Political Messengers: Posters and Film in China 1960s-1980s', American Asian Studies Association Conference, Washington DC.
• 'A Parallel Cultural History (of Migration) 'Childhood and Publicness in Beijing 2000' (with Yingchi Chu and Andrea Witcomb), Capstrans Conference on Migration, Wollongong.
• 'History, Education, and Jiaoy': A Western Australian Perspective on Children's media and some Chinese Alternatives', Mount Tambourine Summit on Asia-Pacific Media, Brisbane.
• 'Listening to Hong Kong: An Ex-pat Perspective on the Sophistication of Satire', Second International Conference on Hong Kong Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• 'Media, Violence, Popular Culture and Literacy', Guest speaker, Australian Libraries and Information Association Annual Dinner Debate.
• 'Children and Publicness in the Media-sphere', Asian Studies Australia Association Conference (with Yingchi Chu and Andrea Witcomb), Melbourne, July.
• 'Exchange and Display: Republics of Taste and the Vision of Elder Statesmen', Communications Faculty Seminar, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• 'The Impact of Media on Current Literary and Cultural Studies OR The Necessary Privations of Growing Up', open lecture, Beiyu, Beijing Language and Culture University.
• 'Children and Chinese Media Culture', invited workshop at Chinese Studies Centre, University of California-Berkeley.
• 'La Chine in Culture/China', University of Nottingham Film Seminar.
• 'Ambiguous Women in Chinese Cinema' (with C Lee), University of Westminster, New Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies.

1999

• 'Children and the Media in Chinese Australia' Asian-Australian Identities conference, Australian National University, Canberra.
• 'Women in Chinese Film', China and Visual Culture Symposium, Indiana University
• Cultural Memories of the Cultural Revolution symposium, Indiana University.
• 'Contemporary Violence - Children's Media as a Modality of National Memory', State Fictions, Post-national Realities: Cultural Perspectives on Institutions and Violence, Institute of Ethnology, Academica Sinica, Taipei, June.
• 'Taking Time in the Gallery', Artists Regional Exchange Forum: Singapore/Hong Kong/Perth
• 'Asia in Film and On Video', Access Asia: Asia in Profile Conference, WA Asia Ed. Foundation.
• 'A Short Talk about Citizenship', panel presentation at Children and the Media, a public event sponsored by Meerilinga, Education Department WA, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Channel Nine.

1998

• 'Seeing White: Female Whiteness in Chinese and British Visual Culture', International Conference on Globalisation and the Future of the Humanities, Beijing Language and Culture University.
• 'Children as Political Messengers: Posters and Film in China 1960s-1980s', Mediating China: Gender, Generation, and Citizenship, New York University.

1997

• 'Mapping the Millennium', Australian and South Pacific Association of Comparative Literary Studies Conference, Fremantle, WA.
• 'Children as Political Messengers', Cultural Crossroads, Sydney.
• 'Mapping China', Centre for Research in Culture and Communication (CRCC) Seminar, Murdoch University.
• 'The Publicness of Film' (with James Donald) CRCC Seminar, Murdoch University
• 'Symptoms of Alienation', Cultural Values and Cultural Capital of Pop Music in Asia Conference, Edith Cowan University.
• 'Public Spaces in Contemporary Chinese Film', Open Seminar on Public Space, Chinese and the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.
• 'Symptoms of Alienation; The Female Body in Recent Chinese Film', Open Lecture, University of Westminster.

1996

• 'The Singer and the Criminal: Political Friendship in Contemporary Chinese Cinema', Media Graduate Seminar, University of Sussex, November.

1995

• 'Chinese Cinema: Landscape and Nationhood', Theory, Culture, and Society Conference, Berlin, August.
• 'Perpetual Peace: The Kantian Aesthetic of Enlightened Statecraft' The World University Students' Peace Summit, (representing UK), Kyoto, December.

Exhibitions, Symposia, Workshops

2008

• Co-convenor: Symposium/ ECR workshop funded by Cultural Research Network: The Space Between: Languages, Translations, Cultures, University of Melbourne, February (Convened as part of the Multiliteracies project, with Vera Mackie).

2007

• Convenor: Symposium and postgraduate workshop: Class and Place: cosmopolitan perspectives on a 'grounded' sensorium, IIS, June 18-19.
• Co-convenor: Symposium: Branding cities, marketed identities and the politics of culture in cosmopolitan urban societies, Hendon Town Hall and Ort (Camden), with Middlesex University, November.

2006

• Convenor: Symposium: Comparative perspectives on cosmopolitanism and theories of belonging: Australia, Asia and the EU, IIS, December 8.
• Convenor: Conference on Branding Cities and Urban Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism in Asia and Europe, Australia House, London, January 12-14. http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/news_events/past.html#branding
• Convenor: Cultural Research Network Workshop: Cultural Literacies and Multi-Lingual Literacy, http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/projects/language.html
• Convenor for China Node: 1) Doctoral Colloquium with Professor Gary Rawnsley (Nottingham University, Ningbo): "Understanding and Analysing Propaganda." June 21, 2006, UTS. 2) Presentation on contemporary Chinese film theory by Professor Yingjin Zhang, Director of China Studies at the University of California, San Diego; November 21, 2006; 3)
• Convenor of Sydney event: APFRN Signature theme on media: "Documentary Making in China." Guest Speakers included Dr. Paola Voci, University of Otago, New Zealand; Mr. Jiang Yue, Beijing; Mr. Cui Zi'en, Beijing. Nov. 25.

2005

• Chair: 4A Gallery Talks. TfC events (see 2004); Frequent speaker at postgraduate mentoring events for ARC- Cultural Research Network and ARC- Asia Pacific Futures Network.
• Fresh and Salt: Water and Border debates in Australia and Asia
• Workshop/Symposium: 8-10 May, 2005. Speakers funded by: the Asia-Pacific Futures Network and ICEAPS International Centre for Excellence in Asia Pacific Studies at ANU.

2003

• Panel member, KidsSquiz. Children's Television Symposium, Cultural Precinct, QUT.
• Speaker, 'Morning Sun', Brisbane International Film Festival (with Geremie Barm')
• Panel convenor, New Asian Documentary, Australian International Documentary Conference, Byron Bay.
• Convenor Surface City #1. CIRAC and the Faculty of the Built Environment, QUT.

2002

• Convenor (with Lisanne Gibson, Australian Centre), symposium on Public Space: Cultural Practice and Participation in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, Melbourne.
• Convenor (with Jim Leibold, Asialink), Media in China: Content, Consumption and Crisis: International Symposium@Asialink, Melbourne (a symposium run in conjunction with events for teachers, an art exhibition, and a lecture for the business community).
• Panel member, 'Chinese Film Futures', Melbourne International Film Festival.

2001

• Convenor, symposium on Cultural Informatics, University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts
• Panel Convenor, 'Diasporic Film-making', Visible Evidence conference, Brisbane.

2000

• Director, children's segment on Pok'mon and Monkey King for Channel 31: Chunghwa Association pilot show.

1999

• Member, organising committee, Australian Association of Chinese Studies, Sixth Biennial Conference, Murdoch University, 8-10 July; Convenor of the Culture strand.

1998

• Presenter, 'Teaching China through Film: Strategies and Pitfalls', School of Education outreach, Murdoch University.
• 'Themes and familiarities', lecture, In and Out Exhibition, John Curtin Gallery, WA.

1997

• Convenor, Public Space and China symposium, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster.

1995

• Curator, Badgering the People - Mao Badges, a Retrospective, Brighton Museum: (with Robert Benewick); co-directed accompanying film Badgering the People (with Chad Wollen).

1994

• Convenor, day workshop on Chinese Cinema, Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Manchester.

Talks

2009

• ‘Why mobility matters: young people and media competency’ Beijing Normal University, June 5th.
• 'Monumental memories: a discussion of Xu Weixin and his pedagogic art’, Joseph Regelstein Library, University of Chicago, May 19.
• ‘Monumental memories: Xu Weixin and Chinese Historical Figures 1966-1976’, University of Sydney, April.

Previous Research Grants and Awards

2006

• ARC (Fellowship): The Great Transformation: Accounting for the Shift from Cultural Institution to Creative Enterprise (with Michael Keane and Zhang Xiaoming)

2005

• ICEAPS: Fresh and Salt water workshop subvention (online and hard copy publication).
• ICEAPS research seed grant (with Robin Jeffreys). Television in Asia. (this resulted in Nalin Mehta's forthcoming volume in my series)
• APFN travel grant (with Robin Jeffrey). Television in Asia.
• ATN Challenge Grant. Community Networks: Human Communication as a Source of Sustainability in Global Australia.

2004

• Communities and Places: Youth and Mobile Phones CRC (ACID)
• Youth and Mobile Phones NSW Commission for Children and Young People

2003-2005

• ARC Discovery CI-1 Branding Cities on the West Pacific Rim: Cinematic Traditions and Tourism Marketing Strategies in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sydney
• ARC Discovery CI-4 Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge-based Economy (with CIRAC)

2002

• University of Melbourne Early Career Grant for The Beijing Children's Film Studio: A History of Changing Cultural Attitudes to Children's Media

2000 - 2001

• CI-1 Small Research Grant for Murdoch ENGLISH CDROM and Education in Beijing
• Associate Investigator, Small ARC at University of Tasmania (with Professor Mobo Gao) for Australian Print Media on China Since 1989: Media Content and its Sources.

2000

• Small ARC Grant for Chinese Childhoods in Australia: Multiculturalism and the Media
• CI-1 Small Murdoch SSHE grant for The State of Media and Information

1998-1999

• Small Research and Early Career Grant for Public Meanings of Childhood: Images and Experiences in Chinese Communities.

1998

• Murdoch University, Library Resources Grant for Chinese Films