“Artists as Agents of Change: Eco-Activism and Contemporary Art.” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, March 2023.
“What if? Ecological Activism and the Framework of Art.” Performing Landscapes Laboratory, Metropolis. Copenhagen, January 2023.
“Arte e Scienza nell’ Antropocene.” Dialogue with Massimo Bernardi, MUSE Museo delle Scienze, Trento. November, 2022
Art and the Climate Crisis.” Lecture, Columbia University, November, 2022.
“Climate Change: Artists Respond.” Organizer and Moderator. Baruch College, We Are Climate Action, November, 2021.
“Public Art and Climate Change in New York 2021.” Lecture, Municipal Art Society, August 2021.
“Earth Day 2021: Art and Action.” Hosted webinar, Christie’s Education, April 2021.
“Spotlight on ecofeminism(s).” Hosted webinar, Christie’s Education, September 2020.
“Fertile Land, Barren Land; Sopheap Pich’s Ratanakiri Grids.” Conference paper, Art + Anthropocene: Culture, Climate and Our Changing Planet, University of York, March 2021.
“Contemporary Art in the Climate Crisis.” Lecture, St. Anthony Hall, Yale University. October 2019.
“The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis.” Organized symposium, Christie’s Education, June 2019.
“Contemporary Art in the Anthropocene.” Lecture, SUNY Stony Brook, April 2019.
“Changing Hands: Where Art History Meets the Art Market.” Session Chair, Collage Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2018.
“Take A Deep Breath: A Case Study of Authenticity in Installation Art.” Panelist, Dedalus Foundation, NY, 2018.
“Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene.” Panelist, Wave Hill, NY, March 2019.
“Art and Sustainability in the Anthropocene.” Session chair and discussant, 24th International Conference of Europeanists, Glasgow, Scotland, 2017.
“This is Not My Artwork: Fabrication, Re-fabrication and Renunciation in Contemporary Art.” Silipo Art and Art History Lecture, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2017.
“Debunking the Original? Technology, Public Perception and Tim’s Vermeer. 250th Anniversary Conference, Creating Markets, Collecting Art, Christie’s Education London 2016.
“Siting, Transforming and Interacting: Contemporary Artists and the Public Sphere.” Panel organizer and moderator, Christie’s Education, NY, 2016.
“Terra Incognita: Exhibiting Ice in the Anthropocene.” College Art Association Annual Conference, NY, 2016.
“Mapping, Extracting and Remaking; Contemporary Artists and the Environment.” Panel organizer and moderator, Christie’s Education, NY, 2015
“Shifting Domains: Contemporary Art in the Threatened Ecological Commons.” Panelist, Marfa Ballroom Dialogues, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, NY, 2013.
“Global Connections: Artists at the Venice Biennale Address Climate Change.” Lecture, Bergen Community College, 2013.
“Picasso in the Cone Collection: Points of Intersection.” Lecture, The Jewish Museum, NY, 2011.
“Carsten Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room: The Museum as Private Domain.” Lecture, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2009.
“Installation Art at the Cross-Roads,” Patron speaker, Rice University Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2007.
“Installation Art and its Origins,” paper given in symposium, In Transit: From Object to Site,” List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2006.
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