Refereed Journal Contributions. 
'Shanghai's Modernity in the Western Eye', East-West Connections, 9, 1 (2009) pp.120-145
‘Gabrielle Vassal and the Countess von Hoenstadt’, Notes & Queries 56, 3, (2009) pp.425-426
‘European Perceptions of Malacca in the Early Modern Period’, BiblioAsia 5, October (2009) pp.8-11
‘Sophia Chen Zen and Westernised Chinese Feminism’, Journal of Chinese Overseas 4, (2008) pp.258-274

Presentations. 
American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Diego, 7-10 January 2010:
    ‘Identity and Resistance: Havana and the British Invasion’ 

Museums, Material Culture and the British Empire Symposium, National Maritime Museum,
    London, 29-30 October 2009: ‘Gabrielle Vassal and the Natural History Museum’ 

Metropolitan Desires: Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space Conference,
    Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 September 2009: ‘Forging an Identity in Havana’ 

World History Association Annual Conference, Salem, Mass., 25-28 June 2009: 
    ‘Faith and Trade in the Colonial City’ 
 
Strategies and Consequences of Intercultural Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia Conference, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 25 April 2009:
   ‘Cultural Exchange in the City of Malacca’

Permanence and the Built Environment in the Pacific Basin Conference, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Los Angeles, 17-18 April 2009:
    ‘Permanence and the City of Malacca’ 
 
American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York, 2-5 January 2009: 
    ‘Knowledge and the Colonial City: the Case of Malacca’
 
Stories of Empire Conference, University of Vienna, 13-15 September 2007: 
    ‘Narratives of Going Native’ 

Travel and Cross-Cultural Encounters Conference, University of Cambridge, 20 July 2007: 
    ‘Travels with My Husband: Gabrielle Vassal as Imperial Observer’ 

Orientalism Symposium, University of Cambridge, 23 February 2007: 
    ‘Orientalism on Paper? Western Women Making Japanese Art’
 
Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, 10-11 February 2006: 
    ‘Women’s Writing and Modernity in China and Indonesia’
 
Aboriginal History Journal symposium, Australian National University, 4 August 2003: 
    ‘Nativism and Transgression’
 
Poetics of Exile conference, University of Auckland, 17-19 July 2003: 
    ‘Exile and the Wild White Man’