Emily Lenton, ‘Towards structural reform and social justice: Analysing trauma-informed care in Australian alcohol and other drug and mental health strategies’, Seventh International Contemporary Drug Problems conference, The University of Manchester, England, 27 August 2025.
Kate Seear, ‘On dogs and frogs: Drug law as a multispecies concern’, Seventh International Contemporary Drug Problems conference, The University of Manchester, England, 27 August 2025.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Chemsex and the law – Exploring the legal borderlands and narco-frontiers in the justice system’s response to drug related sexual offences’, Seventh International Contemporary Drug Problems conference, The University of Manchester, England, 27 August 2025.
Alejandra Zuluaga Duque, ‘Epistemic barriers in drug policy: A decolonial perspective on the interpretation and application of human rights’ Seventh International Contemporary Drug Problems conference, The University of Manchester, England, 27 August 2025.
Kate Seear, ‘An abcedarium of multispecies matterings’, Law, Drugs and the Moving Body symposium, The University of Manchester, England, 25 August 2025.
Alejandra Zuluaga Duque, ‘Epistemic barriers in drug policy: A decolonial perspective on the interpretation and application of human rights’, Law, Drugs and the Moving Body symposium, The University of Manchester, England, 25 August 2025.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Chemsex and the law – Exploring the legal borderlands and narco-frontiers in the justice system’s response to drug related sexual offences’, Law, Drugs and the Moving Body symposium, The University of Manchester, England, 25 August 2025.
Kate Seear, ‘Just elimination’, 15th Australasian Viral hepatitis Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 8 August 2025 – keynote address.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Addressing stigma and discrimination against people with (a history of) hepatitis C through human rights law’, 15th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 6 August 2025.
Kate Seear, ‘When tobacco screams’, Law, Literature and Humanities Association Conference, Hong Kong, 16 December 2024.
Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear, ‘Are We Human or Are We Dancer?: Sex, Drugs, and Bodies of Law’, Law, Literature and Humanities Association Conference, Hong Kong, 16 December 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘Meaningful engagement’, Creative research methods in socio-legal research studies workshop, Monash University, Melbourne, 5 December 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘Remembering Poccum: Stigma, suffering, and the death of Veronica Nelson’, Tacking Stigma conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 November, 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘Pain, power, performance and pastiche’, Endometriosis. Current and historical images in medicine and culture, Berlin, Humboldt University, 2 November 2024
Emily Lenton, ‘Medical records and stigma production: Insights from a national research project to reduce stigma in healthcare’, 14th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, Darwin, Australia, 1-3 August 2024.
Cama E, Lenton E, Seear K & Treloar C, ‘The power of universality is that everybody is treated the same’: Exploring the possibilities and limitations of a universal precautions approach to stigma reduction’, Panel, 14th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, Darwin, Australia, 1-3 August 2024.
Emily Lenton, ‘Embedding stigma interventions: Existing systems, opportunities and areas for reform and advocacy’, Tackling Stigma Conference, Sydney, Australia, 14th August 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘Dysmenorrhoea: Stigma, discrimination and rights’, World Congress on Pain, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8 August 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘When tobacco screams’, Thinking with Drugs: Interventions in the Social, Kings College London, England, 22 July 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘The emergence of narcotechsolutionism: Inside the possibilities of care’, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology/4S conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 July 2024.
Kate Seear, ‘Opportunities and challenges for law reform’, AIVL Support. Don’t Punish symposium, 26 June 2024
Kate Seear, ‘Stigma, human rights and alcohol and other drugs in a changing landscape’, Association of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies Northern Territory forum, Darwin, May 2024 – keynote speaker
Kate Seear, ‘What do human rights mean for drug policy? Insights from a major study’, Centre for Social Research in Health online seminar series, The University of New South Wales, Sydney (online), 13 February, 2024.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Apprehending the “human” in human rights: Recognising the subjects of drug-related laws from a feminist legal perspective’, Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 13 December 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Making kin with rights: Lessons in dialogue on human rights and drug policy from interviews with global experts’, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney, Australia, 7 December 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘When is a corpse? Drugs, addiction and the matter of ungrievable life’, Visuality, Death and the Law Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 4 December 2023.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘On fragments and petrified remnants: Searching for performance in the legal archive’, Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 29 November 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Tackling stigma through hepatitis C elimination’, Keynote presentation at South Australia Network of Drug and Alcohol Services Symposium, Adelaide, Australia, 27 September 2023.
Alejandra Zuluaga, ‘Ontopolitically-oriented research on coca growing: Integrating decolonial knowledges and Latina feminisms’, Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Paris, France, 6 September 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Troubling human rights in the matterphorical lawscape: A dopesick ontology’, Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Paris, France, 6 September 2023.
Emily Lenton, ‘Troubling complaint: The legitimate subject and hepatitis C-related stigma’, Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Paris, France, 6 September 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Stigma, drugs and the inquest into the death of Veronica Nelson’, Judging Drugs Symposium, Paris, France, 5 September 2023.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Imaging people who use drugs: How parliamentary actors picture and tell stories about the subjects of drug law reform’, Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, London, United Kingdom, 27 July 2023.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘”The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth”: Parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinising laws’, Law and Humanities Roundtable, Verona, Italy, 12 July 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Are we compromising cure? Examining
the elimination agenda against post-cure life and human rights’, Keynote presentation at HIV Coinfection and Viral Hepatitis Elimination Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 22 July 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Pinning endometriosis down: The need for onto-politically oriented research’, Keynote presentation at Reframing Endometriosis: Power, Politics and Potential Futures Conference, Birmingham, UK, 7 July 2023.
Kate Seear and Becky Batagol, ‘The safety of family violence victims in an ethical matter’, Emerging Challenges in Management of Sexual Assault Trials Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 29 June 2023.
Kate Seear, ‘Power, pain and “problem” patients’, Monash Health Humanities Talk, Melbourne, Australia, 30 May 2023.
Emily Lenton, ‘Hepatitis C data justice: The implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C’, 27th Harm Reduction International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 18 April 2023.
Dion Kagan, ‘”I’m not hep C free”: The persistence of
hepatitis C after cure’, ARCSHS Research Seminar Series, Bundoora, Australia, 15 February 2023.
Emily Lenton, ‘Hepatitis C data justice: The implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C’, ARCSHS Research Seminar Series, Bundoora, Australia, 15 February 2023.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Coming together in parliamentary committee rooms’, Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 8 December 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Drugs, human rights and the remaking of the “the human”‘, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1 December 2022.
Dion Kagan, ‘Cured bodies in flux: Living with/out hepatitis C in the era of viral elimination’, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1 December 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Stigma undermining the elimination of hepatitis C’. Keynote presentation at Australian Stigma Conference, Canberra, Australia, 17 November 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Making rights and realities’, Feminist Legal Research Group Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 10 November 2022.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Mournful mothers and damaged damsels: Are we really listening to women during parliamentary human rights scrutiny?’, WOMEN, LISTENING AND LAW SYMPOSIUM, Wollongong, Australia, 3 November 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘On hepatitis C, injecting drugs and making rights claims’, Burnet Institute World Hepatitis Day Webinar, 25 July 2022.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘A “tick and flick” exercise: Calligraphic practices in Australian parliamentary human rights scrutiny reports’, Global Meeting on Law and Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 14 July 2022.
Emily Lenton, ‘Hepatitis C data justice: The implications
of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C. Dangerous Consumptions Colloquium, Canberra, Australia, 30 June 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Performing health and gender via human rights scrutiny’, Material Selves: Gender, Health and Performance Symposium, London, UK, 16 June 2022.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Establishing an LGBTIQA+ advisory committee and action plan’, Rainbow Local Government Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20 May 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Meaningful inclusion of affected communities in research’, Alcohol and Drug Research Innovation Agenda Webinar, 28 April 2022.
Kate Seear, ‘Stigma, the law and BBVs’, Spotlight on Stigma Occasional Seminar Series, Sydney, Australia, 31 March 2022.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Performing the law: On performance-based legal research methodologies’, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, 9 December 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Health, human rights, stigma and drugs’, Keynote presentation at Yarra Drug and Health Forum Community Forum, 6 December 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Hepatitis C in a post-cure world: Ongoing challenges for reform’, 2nd National Hepatitis Elimination Forum, 18 November 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Forging new habits: Critical drugs scholarship as an otherwise to rights’, After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics Workshop, Sussex, UK, 10 November 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Critical analysis of human rights approaches to alcohol and other drugs in Australia’, Sixth Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Coimbra, Portugal, 12–14 October 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Addressing alcohol and other drug-related stigma: Where to next?’, La Trobe School of Psychology and Public Health Seminar Series, Melbourne, Australia, 15 September 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Against elimination? Legal veridiction and the elusive struggle for a post–hepatitis C world’, Melbourne Law School Legal Theory Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 10 September 2021.
Sean Mulcahy, ‘Digital legal performance and the kinesphere in the era of coronavirus’, Critical Legal Conference, Dundee, Scotland, 2 September 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Making addicts: Critical reflections from lawyers and judges on cases involving alcohol and other drugs’, Keynote presentation at Rethinking Criminal Responsibility Symposium: Emerging Perspectives in Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia, 7 August 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Pinning endometriosis down: The need for ontopolitically oriented research’, Endometriosis Social Research Network International Symposium, 20 July 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Menstrual stigma, collateral realities and reform’, Tax Symposium: Critical Junctures/Critical Perspectives – A call for new voices in tax reform, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Melbourne, Australia,16 July 2021.
Kate Seear, ‘Hepatitis C imaginaries: Findings from a new study on stigma, discrimination and post-cure lives’, 12th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, 1 June 2021.
Emily Lenton, ‘Hepatitis C testing and gaining informed consent: Taking stock and innovating for the future’, 12th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, 31 May 2021.