‘The Architecture of "Greater Britain": Style and Empire, c.1885-1915’, lecture, The Victorian Society (March 2024)
‘Why Edwardian Baroque Architecture Matters: Empire, Identity, and Geo-political Rivalry’, lecture, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Feb. 2024)
‘Art and Matronage: G. E. Street, the ‘Buffalo Girls’, and the Gothic Revival between London and Rome’, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (Oct. 2023)
‘Edwardian Baroque Classicism and the Idea of Empire’, seminar, Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, University of Cambridge (Feb. 2023)
‘The Edwardian Period and the Grand Manner Tradition’, The British Architectural Library Trust(Jan. 2023)
Keynote address, ‘Seeing is Believing: Visible Infrastructure and Notions of Securitization in Colonial Trade’, at Navigating Encounters and Exchanges: Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour Mobility in the Asia Pacific, 1800s-1950s, University of Melbourne (Nov. 2021)
‘“Coal is King”: Architecture and Energy Regimes in Victorian Britain’, Martin Centre, University of Cambridge (May 2021)
‘Propagating Power: Gender, Language, and Empire in the English Baroque Revival’, Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), World Congress, Florence (September 2019)
‘Water Worlds: Structural Connectivity in the Oceanic Trading Networks of Jardine Matheson & Co.’, international workshop/conference, Connected Histories, Cosmopolitan Cities: Toward Inter-Imperial and Trans-Colonial Histories of Cities in Asia, 1800-1960, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Nov. 2019)
‘A Tale of Two Churches: G E Street in Rome’, Victorian Society, London (Oct. 2019)
‘(Re)considering Empire: Networks, Infrastructure, Identity and Other Themes in the Architecture of the British Imperial World’,Collins/Kaufman Forum for Modern Architectural History, Columbia University, New York (April 2019)
‘Blue, Green, and Grey: Towards a New History of Architecture and Empire’, Sydney School of Architecture, University of Sydney (March 2019)
Keynote address, ‘Moving Buildings and Bodies: Experiencing the New World(s) of Victorian Architecture’ at Architecture and Experience in the Nineteenth Century, University of Oxford (March 2016)
‘Architecture, Religion, and British Global Expansion in the Nineteenth Century: Rethinking Empire and the Built Environment’, History of Art Department Research Seminar, University of Oxford (November 2013)
This paper was also given at Collins/Kaufman Forum for Modern Architectural History, Columbia University, New York (17 April 2013)
Department of Art History Research Seminar Series, Northwestern University, Chicago (16 April 2013)
‘Great and Greater Britain: Architecture and the Politics of New Imperialism, 1887-1915’, invited speaker at one-day symposium Object of Empire, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Jersey (Oct. 2014)
Keynote address, 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Launceston, Tasmania (5-8 July 2012)
‘Scott’s Religious Architecture Abroad: The Colonial Cathedrals, 1846-74,’ invited paper at conference to celebrate the bicentenary of G. G. Scott’s birthday, George Gilbert Scott: An Architect and His Influence, University of Oxford (May 2011)
‘Identity in Conflict: Religion, Architecture, and Anglican Church Expansion in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900,’ lecture given in the History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK (November 2011)
‘Fabricating Justice: Conflict and Contradiction in the Making of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, 1898-1912,’ invited paper at international conference in Hong Kong titled ‘From Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment 1840-1940,’ University of Hong Kong (June 2010)
‘Architecture on the Edge: Reinventing Space in the Anglican Mission Field, 1840-1920,’ invited lecture, Modern Cultural History Seminar, University of Cambridge (November 2010)
Invited to organised workshop titled ‘Architecture for Victorians,’ at ‘Past versus Present’ conference, major joint meeting of the British Association of Victorian Studies/North American Victorian Studies Association, Cambridge, UK (July 2009)
‘Architecture on the Edge: Disciplinary Space in the Anglican Mission Field,’ public lecture, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia (August 2008)
‘Edwardian Architecture in the Colonies,’ lecture given at the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (AHSS), Edinburgh, UK (2007)
‘The India Office: Architecture and Empire in London, 1858-68,’ invited lecture, Victorian Society, London (2006)
‘Colonial Clergy and Their Buildings: Some Thoughts on the Development of Anglican Architecture in Britain’s Empire, 1840-70,’ National Library of New Zealand, Wellington (2006)
‘Viewing the Metropolis from the Outside In: Perspectives on Architecture and Empire in the Nineteenth Century,’ invited lecture, Department of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006)
‘Memorialising Empire: the Second Anglo-Boer War and London’s Admiralty Arch,’ invited lecture, School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006)
‘Building an “Empire of the Spirit”: Sophia Gray and the Origins of Anglican Church Architecture in South Africa, 1850-70,’ 9th Annual Lecture of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (AHSS) (2006)
‘Imperial London?: Architecture, Empire, and the Making of the India Office, 1858-68,’ lecture given in the History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK (2005)