Bard
Graduate Center
RECENT SYMPOSIA AND PUBLIC LECTURES
Symposia
King’s College, University of London, workshop Historical Distance and the Shaping of the
Past, London, UK, 2009 (paper and respondent)
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, workshop World Visuality, Washington, DC, 2009
(co-organizer and paper)
College Art Association annual conference, Los Angeles,
2009 (paper:
podcast)
Global Center of Excellence: Death and Life Studies,
University of Tokyo, conference Miraculous
Images in Christian and Buddhist Culture, Tokyo, 2008 (paper)
The Walters Art Museum, symposium The Public Object: Facing Contemporary Challenges in the Art Museum,
Baltimore, 2008 (respondent and session chair: introduction)
American Society for Aesthetics national annual
conference, Los Angeles, 2007 (plenary and session chair)
School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia,
conference World Art: Ways Forward,
Norwich, UK, 2007 (paper)
American Philosophical Association Western Division annual
conference, San Francisco, 2007 (paper)
Cambridge University, Exploring Cultural History: An International Conference
in Honour of Peter Burke, Cambridge, UK, 2007 (session chair: introduction)
American Society for Aesthetics national annual
conference, Milwaukee, 2006 (paper)
University of Barcelona and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones
Lletres, conference La Historia imaginada:
Construcciónes visuales del pasado en la Edad Moderna, Barcelona, 2006 (paper)
Harvard University Art Museums, and Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, symposium Crossing Boundaries: Art Museums and Anthropology
Museums in Search of Common Ground, Cambridge, Mass., 2006 (co-organizer
and chair)
Annual Max Wasserman Forum in Contemporary Art at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006 (paper)
College Art Association annual conference, Boston, 2006 (response)
University of Victoria, colloquium The Ethics of
Cultural Appropriation, Victoria, BC, 2005 and 2006 (papers, with A.W. Eaton)
American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division annual
conference, Philadelphia, 2005 (paper)
Clark Art Institute, colloquium After Critique: Art Museums
in the World, Williamstown, Mass., 2004 (co-organizer, co-chair, and paper)
Historians of Netherlandish Art congress, Antwerp, 2002
(paper)
American Society for Aesthetics national annual
conference, Miami, 2002 (session chair)
Clark Conference, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Mass., 2001 (paper)
American Society for Aesthetics national annual
conference, Reno, 2000 (paper)
Comité international d’histoire de l’art 30th
congress, London, UK, 2000 (paper)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, conference on the future of
museums, 2000 (paper)
Clark Conference, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Mass., 1999 (paper)
Lectures
at universities and museums (selected)
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
Design, and Culture: Seminar in Cultural History, New York, 2009
Lecture on Rembrandt, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD, 2007
Presidential Initiative Fund for the
Humanities Lecture, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2006
Edmonia Lewis Lecture, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2005
Lecture on Drawings, Hood Museum of
Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2004
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Memorial
Lecture, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY, 2003
Slade Lecture, Oxford University,
Oxford, England, 2002
Annual Interpretation Theory Lecture,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 2001
Felicity Meshoulam Memorial Lecture,
National Gallery, London, England, 2001