Keynotes and Panel Presentations
Bayley, A. Blaikie, F., Coats, C. and Knochel, A. (2024). AI, Posthumanism and Pedagogy. The Arts Education Research Institute Symposium. University of Cambridge, September 2024.
Keynote: Blaikie, F. (2024). Private and public feelings, energy/ies and intensity/ies: Local-global a/symmetries of power in relation to pedagogy, the arts, and scholarship. The Global South Studies International Symposium at Thai Binh Duong University in Nha Trang, Vietnam, forthcoming, August 2024.
Blaikie, F. (2024). Worlding Intensity/ies and Energy/ies n a Portrait of “Ann”. Entangled Futures Festival. University of Cambridge, June 2024. https://www.entangledfutures.com/
Sinner, A., White, B., Blaikie, F., et al. (2024). Art Education in Canadian Museums: Practices in Action. Canadian Society for Studies in Education, McGill University, June 2024.
Blaikie, F., Hutzel, K., Irwin, R., Smith-Shank, D., and Wexler A., and Willis, S. (2024). International Society for Education through Art: InSEA North America’s InSEA Legacy Panel. https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/83412318178?pwd=Rk96Q21LZ2JGTTJrNm9TNVNJdEprdz09. March 14, 2024 via webinar.
Blaikie, F, Nguyen Hoang Giang, L., Leonard, N. and Sweeny, R. (2023). Posthumanism, transhumanism, and AI: Situated and shifting materialities, entanglements, inquiries, and making practices in art education. Art Education Research Institute. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ., October 2023.
Blaikie, F., and Fancy, D. (2023). Special panel presentation: Posthumanist Entanglements: Beyond Embodiments. The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture and the Posthuman Research Institute at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, May 2023.
Blaikie, F., Varga, B., Strom, K., Kayumova, S. and Sidebottom, K. (2023). Posthumanism and Pedagogy/ies. Posthuman Research Insittute, Brock University, March 24th 2023. https://brocku.ca/pri/2023/03/10/posthumanism-and-pedagogy-ies-panel-discussion/
Blaikie, F. (2023). Research-Creation: Legacies, Praxis, and Entanglements Invited Keynote at the Faculty of Education Conference, February 24th, 2023, University of Sheffield.
Blaikie, F. (2022). Legacies of Arts-based Research and the Post Qualitative. Presentations for the Writerly Workshop Series in the Faculty of Education, September 12th, 2022, Brock University.
Keynote: Blaikie, F. (2021). Posthumanism energy/ies and art education. USSEA/InSEA (held online due to covid). July 17, 2021.
Blaikie, F., Nguyen, L, Ivashkevich, O. and Tombro, M. (2021). Panel presentation Drawing on the Aesthetics of Place, Space, Social-Media, Visual and Material Culture as Ways of Knowing and Being in the World. [1] Arts Education Research Institute. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, November 2021.
Blaikie, F., Koo, A., Lim, M., Sickler-Voigt, D. Shin, R. (2021). Inclusiveness and Diversity through Asian Art and Culture in Research and Practice. USSEA/InSEA Virtual Conference. July 15-17, 2021. Livestreamed.
Keynote: Blaikie, F. (2021). How do art pedagogies and the arts work on us and through us, and how do we engage aesthetically, materially, and pedagogically? International Ziegfeld Award Lecture. National Art Education Association Conference, March 2021. Livestreamed.
Blaikie, F., Lu, V., Koo, A., Sickler-Voigt, D., Shin, S. (2021). Asian Art and Culture Interest Group (AACIG) AACIG Forum II: Asian Art and Culture Practices: Historic, Contemporary, and Mixed Approaches. Deep Dive Research. National Art Education Association. March 4th, 2022, live streamed. (My talk was titled Vignettes of resistance, appreciation and appropriation: Leona, Ana and Zi).
Blaikie, F., Burgess, J., Karrow, D., Norris, T. (2020). Posthumanism and Education Round Table. Moderated by Dr. David Fancy, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, and sponsored by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Livestreamed on December 8th, 2020. file:///Users/fblaikie/Downloads/Posthumanism_Education_Round_Table%20(2).pdf
Ballengee-Morris, C., Blaikie, F., Doan, W., Knochel, A., Wilson McKay, S. (2020). The Arts in Healthcare. Arts Education Research Institute. Livestreamed on October 23rd, 2020.
Blaikie, F., with Daigle, C., Vallee, M., Fancy, D., Fromet de Rosnay, E., Mccullagh, S. Plance, J. (2020). Posthuman energy/ies,a visual-textual trans-disciplinary assemblage. Posthuman Energy/ies. Posthuman Research Institute Live Streamed, Brock University, June 1st, 2020. pri@brock
Blaikie, F. The Visual Aesthetics of Berlant’s Cruel Optimism: Social-Media, Celebrity Influencers, Beauty Ideals, and Visual Identity Impacts on Adolescent Girls; Nguyen, L. What Does It Mean to Live a Queer Life in Vietnam? Tombro, M. Women Write New York City.
Blaikie, F., Bea-Dimitriadis, M., Cosier, K., O’Donoghue, D. (2019). Supersession: Contested Visual and Subcultural Identity Constructions of Youth: Class, Gender, Race, Material Culture and Social-media. National Art Education Association (NAEA), Boston, March 2019.
Baldacchino, J., Blaikie, F., Freedman, K., O’Donoghue, D., Rolling, J., Rosiek, J., Siegesmund, R., Staikidis, K. (2018). Rendering judgements in arts-based research. Art Education Research Institute Symposium. Northern Illinois Naperville Campus, September 2018.
Freedman, K., Baldocchino, J., Blaikie, F., Haywood Rolling, J., Kallio-Tavin, M. (2018). Supersession: The International Encyclopaedia of Art and Design Education. National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA., March 2018.
Irwin, R., Blaikie, F., De, M., Manifold, M., Sanders, J. (2013). Strengthening Ties: Advocating for Regional, National and International Arts Education Partnerships. National Art Education Association Conference, Forth Worth, Texas, March 2013.
Blaikie, F., Irwin, R., Keifer-Boyd, K., Smith-Shank, D., Stuhr, P. (2012). Online Journals, Promotion, and Tenure. The National Art Education Association Conference, New York, NY. March 2012.
Blaikie, F., De, M.. Irwin, R., Sanders, J., Smith-Shank, D. (2012). Public Policy and Arts Administration Panel: Strengthening Ties: Advocating for Regional, National and International Arts Education Partnerships. TheNational Art Education Association Conference, New York, NY. March 2012.
Keynote: Blaikie, F. (2008). The Teacher as Artist and Transformer. NORAC/Rainbow School Board. October 2008.
Keynote: Blaikie, F. (1994). Qualitative assessment of senior secondary studio art: Definitions, problems, and solutions. Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union Conference, Summer Institute on Assessment and Accountability. Halifax, August 1, 1994.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Blaikie, F. (2024). Creating pedagogical and aesthetic spaces for reflexive engagement in fashioning and making a self in an IB course in southeast Asia: Contemplating art and culture pedagogy. Art Education Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, September 19-21, 2024.
Bayley, A. and Blaikie, F. (2024). Immanently, we re/make: New forms of participatory contemporary art, scholarship, and pedagogy. Art Education Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, September 19-21, 2024.
Nguyen, Le., Blaikie, F., and Vu-Hoang, V. (2024). Autoethnographic explorations of the impacts of cultural and gender conventions that frame childhood. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. McGill University, Montreal, PQ, June 2024.
Blaikie, F. (2023). Serving competing agendas of Intercultural understanding and global standards: A history of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme 1968 – 2023. Mapping International Histories of Art Education. Columbia University Teachers’ College. November 30 to December 2, 2023.
Blaikie, F. and Maras, K. (2023). Truth constructs inherent in aesthetic values framing high-stakes visual art examinations: IBO and New South Wales. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL, May 2023.
Blaikie, F. and Rousseau, V. (2023). Playful, Caring, Scholarly and Reckless Adventures in Posthuman Doctoral Research and Supervision. AiPH Online Doctoral Conference, University of Plymouth, UK. 18th April 2023
Blaikie, F. (2023). Immanent Energy/ies in a portrait of Ann. Hawaii International Conference on Education and the Posthuman Research Nexus. January 2023.
Blaikie, F. (2022). Theorizing praxis. Arts Education Research Institute. AERI Symposium at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA., October 27-29, 2022.
Blaikie, F., and Maras, K. (2022). What makes ‘good’ art? Creative resistance, standards, and high-stakes examinations in two visual arts curricula: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and the New South Wales Visual Arts Curriculum, Australia. Australian Association for Educational Research, University of South Australia, November 27-Dec 1, 2022.
Maras, K., and Blaikie, F. (2022). A comparison of philosophical framing, praxis, and assessment in visual arts: International Baccalaureate Organization Diploma Programme, NAEA Standards, and the New South Wales Australia Stage 6 Syllabus. National Art Education Association Conference, March 2022, Midtown Hilton Hotel, New York, NY.
Blaikie, F. (November 2021). Immanence and Transcendence as Lenses for Thinking about Contemporary Art. Arts Education Research Institute. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, November 2021. (Conference postponed due to covid-19
Blaikie, F. (November 2021). Serving Competing Agendas: Global International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Art Standards, Peace, and Intercultural Understanding. Mapping International Art Education Histories, after the Arts Education Research Institute. Teachers’ College, Columbia University, November 2020. (Conference postponed due to covid-19
Blaikie, F. (2021). Adolescent subcultures and evolving visual identities in relation to social media and celebrity influencers. USSEA/InSEA Virtual Conference. July 15-17, 2021.
Blaikie, F. (2021). Multimodal autoethnographic pedagogy: Towards a self-reflexive culture of self. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. University of Alberta May 29 to June 4, 2021. Livestreamed.
Blaikie, F. and Nguyen, L. (2021). LGBTQ youth and gender/sexual hegemony in Vietnam. Family shame and possibilities for porous gender and sexual identities. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. University of Alberta May 29 to June 4th, 2021. Livestreamed.
Blaikie, F. (2021). Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Becoming and Belonging. British Education Research Association: Gender and Sexuality. April 29th, 2021. Livestreamed.
Blaikie, F. (2021). Keynote speech: How do art pedagogies and the arts work on us and through us, and how do we engage aesthetically, materially, and pedagogically? International Ziegfeld Award Lecture. National Art Education Association Conference, March 6, 2021. Livestreamed.
Blaikie, F. (2020). Auto-ethnography as Embodied Subjectivity: A Pedagogical, Arts-led Narrative Inquiry in Arts Education. Seventh International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (NIME7) Trauma, Resilience, and (Re)Engagement in Music Education. Virtual Conference Platform: Microsoft Teams. October 15th, 2020. Video Link: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/57dd3684-85f1-41d6-8e87-07d7022b7d57
Blaikie, F. (June 2020). Self-reflexive, contextual, multi-modal autoethnographic work: Teaching visual inquiry. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Western University, London, Ontario, May 31-June 3, 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. and Nguyen, L. (June 2020). To Know, To Love, and To Heal: Photo-Story and Cross-cultural Experiences of Gender Performances in Schools. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Western University, London, Ontario, May 31-June 3 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. (June 2020). Worlding and Storying through immanence and transcendence: Affect, weak theory and im/possibilities. Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Society. Western University, London, Ontario, May 31-June 3, 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. (2020). New Materialism, Affect, Youth, and Celebrity Influencers: Being, Becoming and Belonging. Posthuman Research Institute Conference: Media and the Construction of the Posthuman. Brock University, May 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Nguyen, L. and Blaikie, F. (2020). GBTQ youth and gender/sexual hegemony in Vietnam: Familial \shame and possibilities for porous gender and sexual identities. Gender and Education Conference. University of Calgary, June 15-18, 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. (2020). Celebrity Influencers, Popular Culture and Social-Media Practices: Canadian Adolescents’ Shifting Gender, Sexual, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructions. Gender and Education Conference. University of Calgary, June 15-18, 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. (2020). Worlding: Legacies in art education. Ziegfeld International Award Lecture. National Art Education Association (NAEA), Minneapolis, March 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19 talk presented in 2021).
Blaikie, F. (2020). Embracing a K-pop visual identity as a form of youth resistance to dominant western adolescent values and beauty ideals. The AACIG Forum II, Asian Art and Culture Practices: Histories, Contemporary, and Mixed Approaches. National Art Education Association (NAEA), Minneapolis, MN, March 2020. (Conference canceled due to covid-19).
Blaikie, F. and O’Donoghue, D. (2019). Making: Qualities of Experiential Studio Processes in Arts Inquiry. International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), Vancouver, July 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2019). Adolescent Identities, Social Media, Popular Culture, Celebrity Influencers and Impression Management Strategies. International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), Vancouver, July 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2019). The scholarship of Rita Irwin and Donal O’Donoghue: Approaches to situating arts-based research within the visual arts, and the visual arts within arts-based research. The 6th AB&AR (InSEA pre-conference). InSEA. Vancouver, July 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2019). Impression Management, Popular Culture and Social-Media Practices: Canadian Adolescents’ Visual and Cultural Identity Constructions. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, April 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2019). Embodied, constructed and performed youth identities in relation to global celebrity influencers, popular culture, social media and intersectionality: Dreaming the im/possible dream. Research Symposium: Impression Management: Constructions of Visual and Cultural identities in North American Youth. Brock University. February 1 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2019). Youth visual identity and the impact of social media and corporate branding. NAEA, Boston, March 2019.
Blaikie, F. (2018). Art education epistemologies and aesthetics in conflict: Exploring spaces and connections in and through the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic. Deep Dive session with Juan Carlos Castro, Kerry Freedman and Richard Siegesmund. Art Education Research Institute Symposium. Northern Illinois Naperville Campus, September 2018.
Blaikie, F. (2018). Critical self-reflection through habitus-based, visual auto-ethnographic work as an approach to teaching, learning and creating. Canadian Society forEducation through Art. Winnipeg, MA, May 2018.
Blaikie, F., Hutzl, K., Irwin, R., Manifold, M., Sanders, J., and Willis, S. (2017). International Connections and Global Initiatives for Change: Possibilities for Participation in InSEA. National Art Education Association, New York, March 2017.
Blaikie, F. (2017). Arts Based Research through Imaginary Abstractions. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Ryerson University, May 2017.
Blaikie, F. (2016). Creative Scholarship: Gendered, Ethnic, Aged and Religious Expressions of the Changing Body, Clothed and Accessorized. Art Education Research Institute Symposium. Northern Illinois Naperville Campus, March, 2016.
Blaikie, F., Eca, T., Manifold, M., Barbero, A. (2015). An INSEA Survival Kit for Arts Education. USSEA/InSEA conference, Queens Museum, Queens, New York, July 2015.
Blaikie, F., Muldoon, J., Richardson, C., Buzza, D. (2015). Mental Health Accommodations in Teacher Education. The Canadian Society for Studies in Education. University of Ottawa, May 2015.
Blaikie, F., O’Donoghue, D. (2014). Variations of Arts-Based Research in Canada. BMBF-Workshop: International Perspectives of Research in Arts Education II, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, September 2014.
O’Donoghue, D., Blaikie, F. (2014). Arts Practice, Scholarship and Research. BMBF-Workshop: International Perspectives of Research in Arts Education II, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, September 2014.
Blaikie, F. (2014). Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Possibilities for Arts Based Educational Research. International Society for Education through Art. Melbourne, Australia, July 2014.
Blaikie, F. (2014). The Clothed Body as Art: An Arts-Informed Study of Mean Girls’ Performances of an Aesthetics of Hegemony. International Society for Education through Art. Melbourne, Australia, July 2014.
Blaikie, F., Laurier, M. and Mandzuk, D. (2014). Who Comes Next? Preparing the Ground for Becoming a Dean. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 2014.
Blaikie, F. (2014). Arts Based Research since 1993: Contexts, Scholars, Methods. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 2014.
Blaikie, F. (2013). An arts informed study of male and female sexual, religious, ethnic and gender identities. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. University of Victoria, BC. June 2013.
Blaikie, F. (2013). Pinkalicious: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into the Mean Girls Phenomenon. National Art Education Association Conference, Forth Worth, Texas, March 2013.
Klein, S., Blaikie, F., Kay, L., Smilan, C. (2013). Silence, Neutrality, Audibility, and Audience: Four Scholars' Experiences of Voice in the Academy. National Art Education Association Conference, Forth Worth, Texas, March 2013.
Blaikie, F. (2012). Creativity and Democracy: Mean Girls. International Journal of Art and Design Conference, Liverpool, John Moore’s University, October 2012.
Blaikie, F. (2012). Pinkalicious Mean Girls: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry. International Society for Education through Art Regional Conference, Lemesos, Cyprus, June 2012.
Blaikie, F. (2012). Pinkalicious: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into the Mean Girl Phenomenon. The Canadian Society for Studies in Education. University of Waterloo, May 2012.
Blaikie, F. (2011). Scholars’ perceptions of their clothing in relation to sexual identity: An arts-informed inquiry. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2011.
Blaikie, F. (2011). Engaging in self-directed arts-based research, criticism and assessment in junior, intermediate and senior classrooms. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2011.
Blaikie, F. (2011). An overview of research in Canadian visual arts education from 2007 to 2010. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2011.
Blaikie, F. (2011). Cultural identity and arts-informed research: A visual and poetic inquiry into dress and the professoriate. Canadian Society for Studies in Education Conference, Fredericton, NB, May-June 2011.
Blaikie, F., Irwin, R. (2010). Reflecting on the UNESCO Roadmap for Arts Education, Lisbon 2006: Advocating for Arts Education through Partnerships Provincially, Nationally and Internationally. UNESCO and The Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea, May 2010.
Blaikie, F. (2010). Strategies for Authentic Qualitative Assessment in Art presented in the category of “Promoting Indicators of Arts education: how to access and document the outcomes of arts education”. UNESCO and The Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea, May 2010.
Blaikie, F. (2010). Artworks, Issues and Research: Expanding Possibilities for Art Teacher Education and Training. UNESCO and The Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea, May 2010.
Blaikie, F., Patteson, A. (2010). The Canadian National Arts and Learning Symposium Analytical Review of Canadian Research in Arts Education. UNESCO and The Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea, May 2010.
Blaikie, F. (2010). Cultural Identities and Arts-Informed Research: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into Dress and the Professoriate. UNESCO and The Government of the Republic of Korea World Conference on Arts Education, Seoul, Korea, May 2010
Blaikie, F. (2010). Engaging in Arts-Informed and A/R/Tographic Research in Junior, Intermediate and Senior Arts Education Classrooms. Ministry of Education / Faculties of Education Forum 2010. Toronto, May 2010.
Blaikie, F. (2010). Cultural Identities and Arts-Informed Research: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into the Professoriate. Social and Environmental Justice Symposium Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, May 2010.
Blaikie, F. and Irwin, R. (2009). Advocating for Arts Education through Partnerships Provincially, Nationally and Internationally. The Canadian Symposium on Arts and Learning, Symposium Canadien sur les Arts et l’Apprentissage. Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, December 2009.
Blaikie, F. (2009). Arts-Informed: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into Dress and the Professoriate. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Vancouver, October 2009.
Blaikie, F. (2009). Expanding Possibilities for Teaching Featuring Artworks, Issues and Visual Research. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Vancouver, October 2009.
Blaikie, F., and Irwin, R. (2009). Partnering with UNESCO: Advocating for Arts Education Provincially, Nationally and Internationally. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Vancouver, October 2009.
Blaikie, (2009). Expanding Possibilities for Art Teaching Featuring Artworks, Issues and Visual Research. Ontario Society for Education through Art. Toronto, October 2009.
Blaikie, F. (2009). Artworks, Issues and Research: Art Teacher Education. Ontario Ministry of Education/Faculties of Education Forum 2009: A Focus on Inclusive Education K-B.Ed. Toronto, May 2009.
Blaikie, F. (2008). Canadian Art/Works: A Resource for Primary, Junior, Intermediate and Senior Teachers. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Montreal, November 2008.
Blaikie, F. (2008). Knowing Bodies: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into Dress and the Male Professoriate. Symposium for Graeme Chalmers, University of British Columbia, May 2008.
Blaikie, F. (2008). The Aesthetics of Scholarship. Canadian Arts and Learning Symposium. Queen’s University, October 2008. (Poster presentation).
Blaikie, F. (2008). An arts-informed study of male scholarship in poetry and paint. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Vancouver, May 2008.
Blaikie, F. (2008). The Aesthetics of Scholarship. Research and Innovation Week. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, February 2008.
Blaikie, F. (2007a). The Aesthetics of the Scholar: An art-based educational research study. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Toronto, October 2007.
Blaikie, F. (2007b). Taboos and Conventions: Painting and Poetizing the Clothed Scholar. UNESCO/National Arts and Learning Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario, May 2007.
Blaikie, F. (2007c). The Aesthetics of Female Scholarship. The Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 2007.
Blaikie, F., and O’Donoghue, D. (2007d). The Aesthetics of Scholarship. The American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2007.
Blaikie, F. (2006). Putting theory to work: A practical guide to assessing the portfolio work of teacher candidates. Canadian Society for Education through Art Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 2006
Blaikie, F. (2006). High school students’ experiences of portfolio assessment. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. York University, Toronto, Ontario. May 2006.
Blaikie, F., Schonau, D., Steers, J. (2006) Preparing for portfolio assessment in art and design: A study of the opinions and experiences of exiting secondary school students in Canada, England, and The Netherlands. UNESCO Arts in Education Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2006.
Blaikie, F. (2006). Art education epistemologies and aesthetics in conflict as students transition from high school to university fine arts programs in Canada. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Viseu, Portugal. March 2006.
Blaikie, F. (2005). Bad Art: Emma’s lived experience of being taught art. The Canadian Society For Education through Art. Edmonton, Alberta. October 2005.
Blaikie, F. (2005). The School Art Style: The Transition from High School Art to Art and Design Studies at the Tertiary Level. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. London, Ontario. May 2005.
Blaikie, F, Schonau, D, Steers, J. (2004). Students’ gendered experiences of high school portfolio art assessment. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Goose Bay, Labrador, October 2004.
Blaikie, F, Schonau, D, Steers, J. (2004). Students’ experiences of high school portfolio art assessment. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Winnipeg, MN, May 2004.
Blaikie, F. (2000). Art criticism: An overview of interactive models. Arts and Education 2000 Ontario Society for Education through Art conference, Toronto, ON, November 2000.
Blaikie, F. (1999). Two models for art criticism. Canadian Society for Education through Art conference, Halifax, NS, October 1999.
Blaikie, F. (1999). Researching ourselves: A collaborative study conducted in a qualitative research methods class on the lived experiences of transformation. Qualitative Research in Education conference, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 1999.
Blaikie, F. (1998). Meaning and values in postmodern assessment. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Calgary, AB, October 1998.
Blaikie, F. (1997). Assessment and postmodernism: Are they incompatible? Canadian Society for Education through Art, Montreal, PQ, October 1997.
Blaikie, F. (1997). Design, myth, meaning and culture: Untold stories about perception. Symposium for Ron MacGregor, University of British Columbia, June 1997.
Blaikie, F. (1996). Grace as a form of nurturing behaviour in teaching. Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, June 1996.
Blaikie, F. (1996). Exploring connections between design, myth, meaning and culture. The Canadian Society for Education through Art, Fredericton, NB, October 1996.
Blaikie, F. (1995). Strategies for the secondary student in approaching and portfolio assessment. The Ontario Society for Education through Art and The Canadian Society for Education through Art Conference, Toronto, ON, October 1995.
Blaikie, F. (1994). A case study on art education in a township high school in South Africa: Donatello in Kwa Mashu. The National Art Education Association Conference, Baltimore, MD April 1994.
Blaikie, F. (1994). A case study on art education in South Africa. The Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Calgary, AB, June 1994.
Blaikie, F. (1994). Invited keynote speaker at the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union Conference, Summer Institute on Assessment and Accountability: Qualitative assessment of senior secondary studio art: Definitions, problems, and solutions, 1994, Halifax, NS, August 1.
Blaikie, F. (1993). Values inherent in studio art assessment in Britain and North America. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Montreal, PQ, August 1993.
Blaikie, F. (1993). Teaching art in South Africa in changing and contrasting contexts: The township school versus the private school. The International Society for Education through Art Conference, Montreal, PQ, August 1993.
Blaikie, F. (1993). The impact of socio-political conflict and change on art education in two South African high schools. The National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 1993
Blaikie, F. (1993). Feminism and censorship in art education (panel presentation). The National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 1993
Blaikie, F. (1993). Strategies of and values inherent in senior secondary studio assessment. The National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 1993.
Blaikie, F. (1992). The role of self evaluation in critical studies at the secondary level in Britain. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May 1992
Blaikie, F. (1992). Critical studies as a conceptual model in art education in Britain. British Columbia Art Teachers' Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, February 1992.
Blaikie, F. (1991) A comparative analysis of assessment structures in Britain and North America. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 1991.
Blaikie, F. (1991). Philosophical bases for evaluation: A proposal. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 1991.