"Social Movements, International Politics and the Global Human Rights Regime.” Paper presented at the Department of International Studies Speaker Series, University of Regina, 17 February 2011.
"The October Crisis and Current Trends in Canadian Historiography: Reflections from a New Generation of Historians." Keynote Address, Just Watch Me conference on the anniversary of the October Crisis of 1970, Carleton University, 14 October 2010.
“Human Rights in Canada: Social Movements and International Politics.” Paper presented at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies conference A New Global Morality? Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the 1970s (Freiburg, Germany), 10 June 2010.
“Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1984.” John Porter Traditional of Excellence Annual Lecture, Canadian Sociological Association, (Montreal, QC), 31 May 2010.
“The Sociology of Human Rights.” Closing Address, Confining the Unbound Society: Restraints and Resistance conference, University of Alberta Sociology Graduate Student Association (Edmonton, AB), 9 May 2010.
"Working for Rights: Organized Labour and the Human Rights Movements in Twentieth Century Canada and Australia."University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), 27 September 2002.
"Was there a “national” women’s movement in Canada? The Historiography of Second-Wave Feminism and the Myth of the National.” Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association conference (Fredericton, NB), 2 June 2011.
"Freedom of Information: Implications for Historical Research and Graduate Training.” Paper presented at the Canadian Historical Association conference (Fredericton, NB), 1 June 2011
"Social Movements, International Politics and the Global Human Rights Regime.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association conference (Boston, MA), 15 January 2011.
"Roundtable: Speaking Across Generations – The Future of Women’s History.” Paper presented at the Canadian Committee on Women’s History conference (Vancouver, BC), 12 August 2010.
“Workplace Discrimination and Human Rights Law in British Columbia, 1953-1984.” BC Studies (Victoria, BC), 20 April 2009.
“The Women’s Movement and the Human Rights State in Post-World War Two Canada.” University of Alberta, Department of Women’s Studies Feminist Research Speakers’ Series (Edmonton, AB), 4 February 2010.
“The Dubious Success of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Prohibiting Sexual Discrimination in Canada, 1953-1984.”American Society for Legal History (Ottawa, ON), 16 November 2008.
“‘An Anachronism Failing to Function Properly’: How the Baby Boom Generation Transformed Social Movements in Canada” University of Victoria, Department of Sociology, Speakers’ Series (Victoria, BC), 13 February 2008.
“Reconciling Human Rights with Feminism: The Dubious Success of Human Rights Law in Prohibiting Sexual Discrimination in British Columbia, 1953-1984”Western Canadian Studies conference (Edmonton, AB), 20 June 2008.
“‘Matrimony is the Most Important Career of All for a Woman’: Sexual Discrimination in the Workplace in Canada, 1953-1984”Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in Europe and Beyond International (Stockholm, Sweden), 29 August 2008.
“‘I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights’: Ideological Divisions and Strategies for Change in the British Columbia Women’s Movement, 1953-1984”Canadian Historical Association (Vancouver, BC), 1 June 2008.
“Est –ce que les associations professionnelles des droits de l’homme peuvent défier le statu quo? La Ligue des droits de homme, 1964 à 1982 ?”Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française (Kingston, Ontario), 19 October 2007.
“A New Generation of Human Rights Activism: Civil Liberties and Human Rights Associations in Canada in the Sixties,”New World Coming: The Sixties and Shaping of Global Consciousness (Kingston, Ontario), 14 June 2007.
“The Charter and Canada’s Rights Revolution: The Role of Non-State Actors in the Realization of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1944-1982,” Canadian Rights and Freedoms in Our Future conference organized by the Association for Canadian Studies (Ottawa, Ontario), 17 April 2007.
“Human Rights as an Obstacle to Social Change: New Social Movements Confront the Human Rights Paradigm in Canada, 1969-1984,”Mobilization and Engagement: Social Movements in Canada (Sackville, New Brunswick), 9 March 2007.
"Radicalism or Reformism? Rights Discourse and Social Movement Activism in Canada," Thinking Through Action (Vancouver, B.C.), 11 June 2005.
"The Fall of the Jewish Labour Committee, 1956-1982: A Case Study in the Institutionalization of the Canadian Labour Movement,"Canadian Historical Association (London, Ontario), 1 June 2005.
"Who Should Lead? Regionalism as an Obstacle to the Formation of a National Rights Association in Canada," BC Studies (Prince George, British Columbia), 29 April 2005.
"Human Rights Activism in Twentieth Century Australia and Canada: Ideological Divisions,"Canadian Law and Society Association (Halifax, N.S.), 4 June 2003.
"Australian Civil Liberties and Canadian Human Rights: Two Commonwealth Societies' Response to an International Social Movement,"Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, 13 September 2002.
