Writing

Books

The Honey Trail. 2010. New York: St Martin’s Press

Sons of Sindbad: the Photographs. 2006. Pundyk, G., Facey, W., Al-Hijji, Y., (eds.), Greenwich: National Maritime Museum and London: Arabian Publishing

Sea Change: Alan Villiers and the subversion of the Arabian travel narrative. 2006. Dubai: Gulf Research Centre

Plays

Steppe (a journey of unforgetting). 2018. Australian Plays.org; 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival (premier)

Thesis

‘Invisible Words: the semaphore of skin’, PhD thesis, VCA, The University of Melbourne, 2017, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9156-5757

Sea Change: Alan Villiers and the subversion of the Arabian travel narrative. Masters thesis, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, 2004 (published) Dubai: Gulf Research Centre, 2006

Book chapters/ Journal articles

Heirloom: a celebration of her stories’, in Garland Magazine, Issue 23, June 2021

‘Beyond the written: embodying the sensorial as an act of remembering’ in Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory and Culture, Susannah Radstone, Rita Wilson and Mridula Chakraborty (eds.), Translation Studies Series. London: Routledge 2021

‘Reading the Invisible’ in Convention and Revolution: Life writing by women in the 1800s and 1900s: archives, critiques and methods, Teksty drugie (English edition), vol. 1 2020. Institute of Literary Research-Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Pp235-256

‘The promise of a hospitable memory: encounters on the threshold’ in Aftermath: the rise and fall after the event, Topographies of (post)modernity series. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press 2019

Keep going sister: I will translate for you’. 2019. Pundyk. G. & D. Abela & E. Hall. in State of Play. AustralianPlays.org, March

‘Between the Living and the Dead: skin and the inhabiting of the traumatic periphery’ in Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 3:1, Summer 2018. Pp 88-111

‘Sailing with the Sons of Sindbad: Alan Villiers, the Australian Arabist’ in Signals, issue 92, Sep/Nov, 2010. Pp 14-21

‘Reading the Heart: Intertwined Journeys of a Persian Zoology’ in Island, 117, Winter, 2009. Pp 37-46

(Review of) Murden, S., ‘Islam, the Middle East and the New Global Hegemony’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, May 2006

The Kuwaiti Digest, Vol 25 no 4, Vol 26 nos. 1-4, Vol 27 nos. 1-2 , 1999-2001. Kuwait: Kuwait Oil Company

India, Middle East and Arab Gulf, Lonely Planet travel guidebooks, 1999-2003

Lectures/Conference papers/Workshops

2023 ‘Just because they said it doesn’t make it true’ - paper, Reckoning with the Past: Soviet communism in post-colonial Australia, ANU Centre for European Studies, Canberra

2019       ‘Setting sail: Alan Villiers' Kuwait sojourn, 1939' – keynote lecture, Dar Al-Islamiyah Cultural Series, Kuwait

2019       ‘Performing Europe’s Past in Australia’ – publications workshop, ANU Centre for European Studies, Australian National University, Canberra

2019       ‘Made in Poland: Textile anamnesis and the Australiana souvenir’ – paper, Redefining Australia and New Zealand: changes, innovations, reversals, University of Warsaw, Poland

2019 ‘ Between the living and the dead: Inhabiting the traumatic periphery‘ - paper, Creaturely Ethics, Poetics and Critical Animal Studies at Critical Management Studies Conference, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

2018       ‘From road to gallery: contemporary parchment-making as a practice of mourning and memory’ – talk and workshop, International Conference on Conservation, Brimbank Centre of Conservation, Melbourne

2018       ‘The promise of a hospitable memory: encounters on the threshold’ – paper, Aftermath: the fall and rise after the event, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

2018       ‘Esteppe’ – reading/talk, 11th International Women Playwrights Conference, GAM, Santiago de Chile

2017       ‘Reading the invisible: letters between the living and the dead’ – paper, Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2017       ‘Reading the invisible: letters between the living and the dead’ – paper, Convention & Revolution - Life writing by women in the 1800s and 1900s:  archives, critiques and methods, University of Warsaw, Poland

2017       ‘Beyond the written: embodying the sensorial as an act of remembering’ – paper, Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory & Culture, Monash University, Melbourne

2017       ‘Inheriting the silenced periphery: the shame of remembering, from Poland to Australia’ – paper, Why Remember? Memory and forgetting in times of war and its aftermath, Sarajevo, Bosnia

2016       ‘Shame and silence’ – panel with Alexandra Lewis, Linda Devereux and Grace Pundyk, 1st International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions,  University of Wollongong, Sydney

2016       ‘Invisible Words’ – paper, Memory, Trauma and Recovery, University of Gdansk, Poland

2015       ‘Parchment: From medieval goats to Tasmanian marsupials’ – a paper presented in two parts with Libby Melzer, An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book and other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

2015       ‘Skinning the beast: imagining the silent, invisible other’ – paper, Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism, University of Melbourne

2014       ‘How to preserve the memory of the flesh?’ – paper, Topologies of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray, RMIT, Melbourne

2014       ‘Invisible Words: the semaphore of skin’ – paper, Regimes of Memory II, University of Wroclaw, Poland

2011       ‘A journey to no place: Alan Villiers’ Arabian journey’ – lecture, The Royal Society, TMAG, Hobart

2010       ‘Bees’ – panel, Sounding the Earth: Music, Language, Acoustic Ecology, ASLEC-ANZ, Launceston

2008       ‘The Idea and Reality of Travel’ – lecture, Brisbane Writers Festival, Brisbane

2008       ‘Travellers Tales’ and ‘Hives, Souls and Billy Thorpe’ – lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney

Digital/Interactive

The Echidna and the Dress. 2012. (Script consultant/writer), YijalaYala, BigHart’s indigenous program, Roebourne, Western Australia

Ngurrara: Australian Aboriginal Interactive Storybook. 2013. (Script writer), Weerianna Street Media, Roebourne, Western Australia