​“Masculinity and Association: 
The Peredvizhniki and Fraternal Values in the 1870s” 

Conference: “The Peredvizhniki in the Context of Russian and European Culture. History of the Partnership of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Myth and Reality”

State Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow
​
May 2021
​“Cultural Bilingualism in Eighteenth-Century Russian Portraiture”

Conference: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Panel: Material Forms

Toronto, Canada

​April 2021
“High-Resolution Photographic Technology:
New Pedagogical Opportunities in Art History” 

College Art Association (CAA)
Panel: Behind the Scenes of Object-Based Art Histories

February 2021 
​Conference held virtually
Gender & Sexuality
in the Afterlives of Byzantium:
​
An Online Roundtable with
Roland Betancourt, Allison Leigh,
and Roman Utkin

​A virtual event sponsored by
Borderlines: Foundation for Academic Studies

December 4, 2020 
4:00 - 5:30 PM EST
"Horizontal Art History and New Transnational Narratives"
SECAC Conference
Panel: Art Historiography as Creative Nonfiction

December 7, 2020
Conference held virtually
“Delacroix's Misogyny” 

Invited Talk presented for the
Yale University Department of Art History

"18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium"

Semester Theme: “Vital Conversations: Visual and Structural Legacies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”

November 12, 2020

(held virtually due to COVID-19)
“On Monumental History and Masculine Vulnerability: Ilya Repin in 1885”

Conference:
​Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
​
Panel: “Rendering History in 19th-Century Russian Art”

November 2020 
(held virtually due to COVID-19)
"Alexander Ivanov: Painting, Desire, and the 19th-Century Male Nude" 
19v Seminar Series hosted by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University
July 1, 2020 | Virtual Talk via Zoom
“Portraits of Greatness: Images of Churchill”
 Churchill in Conflict and Culture: A Symposium
January 17, 2020 | LITE Center, Lafayette LA
**Dr. Leigh's presentation on Churchill begins at 1:42:50
“Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as Art Historical Method”
Conference: Artifacts, Images and Forms in Global Circulation: A Digital Approach of Visual Semantics
Ecole Normale supérieure
June 2019 | Paris
“Points of Encounter: Ivan Kramskoi between Petersburg and Paris in the 1870s"
Conference: Frictions and Friendships: Cultural Encounters in the Nineteenth Century
The Netherlands Institute for Art History
June 19-20, 2019 | The Hague, RKD
“Digital Enchantment: High Resolution Imagery and the Experience of Art History”
ArTech Fusion Event at the Acadiana Center for the Arts
March 29, 2019 | Lafayette, LA
"George Dawe and the Petersburg Military Gallery:
Picturing Heroic Masculinity for the Russian Court"
Conference: Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
March 22, 2019 | London
Joint UCSB/UCLA series: Returns of Realism
“The Audacity of Russian Realism: Painting Critically in the 19th Century"
University of California Los Angeles
March 13, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
Picture
“The St Petersburg Military Gallery and the Production of Masculinity in Russia”
College Art Association Conference
February 13-16, 2019 | New York, NY
"Avenues for Disseminating Art History Research"
Professional Practices Symposium
University of Texas at Tyler
February 7-8, 2019 | Tyler, TX
“An Experiment in Horizontal Art History: Critiquing Modernist Geographies”
Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art Conference, Piotr Piotrowski Center and Adam Mickiewicz University
October 26 - 27, 2018 | Poznan, Poland
“Ilya Repin and Edouard Manet: Modernist Interlocutors”
Invited Keynote Speaker, 4th Annual Art History Symposium
April 7, 2018 | University of Texas at Tyler

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