Personal projects

~~This gives you a fairly good idea of my hand-eye coordination~~.
Me taking a screamer.

Writing and speaking

On Sport

I have maintained a sporadic cricket blog since 2009: Batsy. It’s mostly personal reflections on the game as it happens, mostly lighter, some heavier.

Here are a few samples:

On Steve Smith’s concussion at Lords: Steve Smith Feels Great, or the Follies of Lords
On Steve Smith and the sandpaper: Sentimental Education
On the Problem of West Indian cricket: Windie Willows
On the death of Peter Roebuck: Peter, Peter, Peter
On Andrew Flintoff 2005 vs 2009: A Dish Served Reheated

I was moved by the reactions to the Michael Wilson photo of Kayla Harris to write a Roar article on how Pierre de Coubertin felt about female athletes.

Faster, Stronger, Higher: Kayla Harris and the Olympic Ideal

I recently gave a presentation on the French Vichy government’s ban on rugby league for the one-day symposium Rugby League Reflections, organised by the Tom Brock Bequest people, an organisation attached to the Australian Association for Sports History. A paper based on the presentation is being prepared and the session I spoke in has been made into a podcast at The Rugby League Digest. This work also led to being interviewed by Tony Collins on his Rugby Reloaded pocast:

Rugby Reloaded: Vichy, amateurism and the banning of rugby league in France

I wrote an academic article for Deleuze and Guattari Studies applying Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of film to the aesthetics of sport.

The Other Industrial Art: Deleuze, Cinema, Affect and Sport

On Translation

Magazine articles in In Touch, the magazine of the Australian Institute for Interpreters and Translators:

Industry presentation on ‘Machine Translation from a Professional Angle’ for a Multilingual Health Information Stakeholders Forum organised by the NSW government’s Multicultural Health Communication service: