Upcoming Lectures and Talks
“Developing New Feminist Methods: Sexism, Misogyny, and Modern Art"
Research Forum Speaker: ECR French Nineteenth-Century Network December 10, 2026 17:00 GMT / 12:00 EST (virtual) |
“Painting Against Women: Misogyny, Modern Art, and the Impacts of Sexist Oppression, Then and Now”
Invited keystone speaker: Laura C. Harris Series Denison University September 29, 2026 |
Recent Lectures
“Pop Life: Warhol and the Culture of Visibility” Invited speaker for a two-part lecture series: Hilliard Art Museum (Lafayette, LA) Lecture 1: “Warhol as Influencer” (August 6, 2026) Lecture 2: “Warhol as Voyeur” (August 13, 2026) |
“Navigating the Perils of Teaching Feminist Art History Today"
Speaker: Engaged Art History Series May 18, 2026 (virtual) |
Older Lectures and Talks
“Picasso: The Last Chapter”
Invited speaker for the Picasso Summer Series, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA Lecture 1: “Picasso’s Brothel” (delivered on June 24, 2025) Lecture 2: “Picasso’s Cage” (delivered on June 17, 2025) Lecture 3: “Picasso’s Hate” (delivered on July 1, 2025) |
“Rodin's Sculpture:
The Art of the Hole and the Lump” Invited speaker: Rodin: Toward Modernity Symposium Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA October 2024 |
“Expanding the 19th Century:
Trial and Error in the Classroom” Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) Virtual Salon, co-sponsored by the Dahesh Museum of Art October 2023 (virtual) |
“Edouard Manet’s Syphilis:
Painting, Debility, and Adaptation in the 1880s” Conference: American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) June 2021 (virtual) |
“Using Digital Art History
to Reassess the Catalogue Raisonné: The Case of Edouard Manet” “(En)coding Heritage" Seminar Series Hosted by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Durham University May 2021 (held virtually) |
“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 |
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“Cultural Bilingualism in Eighteenth-Century Russian Portraiture” Conference: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Panel: Material Forms April 2021 Conference held virtually |
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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 |
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“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) |
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“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 |
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“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
ArTech Fusion Event at the Acadiana Center for the Arts
March 29, 2019 | Lafayette, LA
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"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 |
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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 |
“The St Petersburg Military Gallery and the Production of Masculinity in Russia”
College Art Association Conference
February 13-16, 2019 | New York, NY
College Art Association Conference
February 13-16, 2019 | New York, NY
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"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
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
Invited Keynote Speaker, 4th Annual Art History Symposium
April 7, 2018 | University of Texas at Tyler