ProfessorPhilip Armstrong

Secretary, Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (1999-2001)

Plenary Speaker at Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference, Auckland, July 200

Invited and funded to present a keynote paper at the British Animal Studies Network colloquium: In 2008 the British Animal Studies Network paid my airfare and accommodation for a trip to London to present the keynote paper at their meeting on February 9 2008. The title of my 50-minute paper was "Feral Feelings: Animals, Agency and Affect in Narrative Fiction".

Invited and funded research presentation at Otago University's Department of Media, Film and Communication, July 27 2010.

In August 2011 I was invited to attend conference at the University of Olso, Norway, on 'The Rhetoric of Animal Rights', as a fully funded keynote speaker in May 2012.