Representative academic presentations are listed below. Various non-academic talks that I do within the community can be found by topic in the menu e.g. adoption, skateboarding, Asian Australian and general. This includes doing volunteer talks, workshops and seminars at schools, ethnic community events, community education programs, festivals and more. Note the table below is best viewed on computer screens rather than phone devices.
| Date | Conference details | Representative Papers and Talks |
| September 2019 | Racism, Sport and Genders: Moving Together and Beyond Binaries. Event Co-Convened by Willing, Indigo and Pavlidis, P., Griffith University, Australia
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‘Skateboarding and Social Inclusion’ (Co-Convener and Panelist) – Sandy O’Sullivan A/P, Adele Pavlidis, Indigo Willing OAM, Laura Rodriguez Castro and Diti Bhattacharya |
| September 2019 | Women in Sport Symposium 3. Griffith University, Australia | ‘Community Engagement and Social Change through Sport’ (Panel Speaker) – Simone Fullagar, Adele Pavlidis, Indigo Willing
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| August 2019 | Pushing Boarders, International Skateboarding Conference, Malmo, Sweden | ‘The University of Skate: Support Your Local Academic’ (Invited Panel Speaker / Sponsored) – Willing, Indigo, Abulhawa, Dani, Adelina. Ong, Cianciotto, Luke Chaired by Holsgens, Sander and Maclure, Stuart |
| November 2018 | Women in Sport Symposium 2. Griffith University, Australia | ‘Skateboarding, Diversity and Identity’ (Group panel featuring Girls Skate Brisbane and She Slays Gold Coast Skateboarding Representatives) – Willing, Indigo, Ryder, Evie, Day, Summer and Waldren, Tora |
| October 2017
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Asian Australian Identities 6 Conference: Hosted by Asian Australian Studies Research Network, Melbourne Immigration Museum | Exploring Diversity and Asian Diasporic Identities in Skateboarding (Plenary and Sponsored Speaker) |
| August 2016 | Cosmopolitanism Symposium: Post-national, mobilities and identity, University of Western Australia | Cosmopolitan Encounters: Approaches and Insights from an Australian Case Study – Willing, Indigo, Plage, Stefanie, Woodward, Ian and Skrbiš, Zlatko |
| March
2016 |
Sosiologipäivät Jyväskylässä (Annual Sociology Conference, Finland), Jyväskylä, Findland | Lone Wolves or Sisterhood: Female Participation in Male Dominated Cultures – Malin Fransberg and Indigo Willing |
| Nov. 2015 | The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, Cairns, Australia | Conceptualisations of Place, Otherness and Cosmopolitan Encounters in Tropical Australia – Willing, Indigo, Plage, Stefanie, Woodward, Ian and Skrbiš, Zlatko |
| Nov. 2015 | Histories of Youth Cultures Symposium, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia | Skateboarding and Ageing in an Historically Alternative Youth Culture (Invited talk) – Willing, Indigo, Bennett, Andy, Piispa, Mikko |
| Sept.
2015 |
Seminar, Finnish Youth Research Network, Helsinki University, Finland | International Perspectives on Social Research: Issues and Communities on the Margins (Invited talk) |
| Aug. 2015 | Societas Ethica’s 52nd Annual Conference, Linkoping, Sweden | Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Australian Context’ – Plage, Stefanie and Willing, Indigo |
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2015 |
European Sociological Association, Prague, Czech Republic | Contradictions and Challenges in Cosmopolitan Encounters – Plage, Stefanie and Willing, Indigo |
| June 2015 | Finnish Youth Research Network Summer School, Helsinki, Finland | Researching Under-Explored Actors, Places and Perspectives: Current Projects and New Possibilities (Invited Plenary Talk)
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| Dec. 2014 | The Australian Sociological Association conference, University of South Adelaide | ‘Cosmopolitanism in Australia: Encounters in Context’ – Woodward, Ian and Willing, Indigo |
| July 2014 | ‘Inequality in a Global World’ conference, International Sociological Association, Yokohama, Japan | Cosmopolitanism, Place and Spatiality: Encounters in Context’ – Woodward, Ian and Willing, Indigo
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| May 2014 | Culture Club Seminar Series, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University South Bank campus, Australia | Diverse Voices and Representations of Community Support for Skateboarding -Willing, Indigo, Shearer, Scott
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| July 2013 | The CosmopolitanIdeal: Challenges and Opportunities, Roehampton, University, London, UK | The Study of Everyday Cosmopolitan Encounters: Contexts, Frames and Strategies
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| March, 2012 | Mapping Adoption: Histories, Geographies, Literatures, Politics – ASAC 4th International Conference, Claremont College, CA, USA | Chinese Transnational Adoption – Willing, Indigo, Ballard, Bert |
| Dec.
2011 |
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Newcastle, NSW, Australia | Unlikely Cosmopolitans: Family Farmers who are Globally Engaged – Cheshire, Lynda, Willing, Indigo, Skrbiš, Zlatko |
| November 2011 | Asian Australian Film Forum and Asian Australian Studies Research Network and The University of Melbourne | Event Co-host and Co-convener: Asian Australian Film Forum 2 Day Event |
| Sept. 2010 | The International Adoption Summit, Toronto, Canada | Sociology of Transnational Adoption |
| 2007 | Adoption Conference, University of Pittsburgh USA | Celebrity Adoptions Paper |
| 2007 | Asian Australian Occasion Film Festival, University of Queensland, Brisbane | Welcome and Concluding Remarks as Event Convener |
| 2002/2003 | Rockefeller Research Fellowship in the Humanities, UMASS, Boston | Vietnamese Adoptees in the Diaspora Project Reports |
| 2002 | Yale University South East Asian Students Association, New Hampton, USA | Vietnamese Adoptees: A Study |
