New York Public Library
“L’Arctique à la Parisienne: Visual Cultures of the Polar North in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” The Arctic throughout History: Visual and Cultural Conceptions. New York, April, 2024
ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network & French Colonial Historical Society
“The Domestic North,” Imperial Imaginaries: Visions of a Second French Colonial Empire. Online, March, 2024
College Art Association
“Animal Extractions,” co-chaired with Maura Coughlin (Northeastern University). With panelists Anne Ronan (Virginia Tech), Nathan Shui (UC Berkeley), Francesca Soriano (Boston University), and Daniel Peacock (George Eastman Museum). Chicago, February 2024
College Art Association
“Postmortem Biography of a Snowy Owl,” co-presented with Rachael DeLue (Princeton). Panel “Animal Subjects” (chaired by Margaryta Golovchenko, Oregon). Chicago, February 2024
Cambridge University
“Looking North: Canada at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886,” co-hosted by the Cambridge Modern British History Workshop and Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop, November 2023
Modernist Studies Association
“Other Oceans, Oceans’ Others: Human-Animal Encounters Underwater,” co-chaired with Magdalena Grüner (Universität Hamburg). With panelists James Cahill (University of Toronto), Alex Zivkovic (Columbia University), and Christina Heflin (Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne). New York, October 2023
Princeton University
“The Siberian Fur Trade in French Nineteenth-Century Art,” guest lecture in Elena Fratto’s graduate seminar “Russian and Eurasian Environments,” Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Princeton, April 2023
Jackman Humanities Institute / NiCHE Canada
Virtual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Virtual Roundtable
Chaired by Mark Cheetham (University of Toronto) and Isabelle Gapp (Aberdeen). With speakers Andrew Bateman (Toronto Metropolitan University), Clare Benson (University of Connecticut), Ivana Dizdar (University of Toronto), Sarah Pickman (Independent Scholar), Rowan Red Sky (University of Toronto), Jonathan Westaway (University of Central Lancashire). Online, April 2023
Brown University
“Polar Bears After Delacroix: French Romanticism and the Arctic as Hell,” Corporeal Conversations / Conversations Corporelles, French and Francophone Studies. Providence, March 2023
Network in Canadian History & Environment
”Making a Polar Splash: On Arctic-Themed Attractions at Amusement Parks,” co-written with Keri Cronin (Brock University), February 2023
College Art Association
“Charting Constellations of Oceans, Rivers, and Islands Through Artistic Interventions,” co-chaired with Julie Nagam (University of Winnipeg). With panelists Sanna Valkonen, Noor Bhangu, Serena Keshavjee, Rachael Rakena, and Marja Helander. New York, February 2023
Yale University
“Arctic-Themed Panoramas in Nineteenth-Century France,” guest lecture in Tim Barringer and Katie Trumpener's graduate seminar “Perspectives on the Panorama,” History of Art. Online, November 2022
Universities Art Association of Canada
“Poison,” co-chaired with Siobhan Angus (Carleton University). With panelists John McElhone (formerly National Gallery of Canada), Maya Ben David (artist), Hana Nikcevic (MIT), Dijana O. Apostolski (McGill University), Rowan Red Sky (University of Toronto), and Noni Brynjolson (University of Indianapolis). With a response by Linda Steer (Brock University). Online, November 2022
Cambridge University
“The Unbearable Failure of Looking,” Doing History in Public, November 2022
University of Oslo
“Between a Rock and a Landscape: François-Auguste Biard and the Visual Culture of Arctic Mineralogy,” Collecting the North. Online, October 2022
Williams College Museum of Art
“Lifespans” / Closing Remarks, Women Shaping Space: Feminism and Materiality. Williamstown, October 2022
Yale University
“Les Zones Terrestres: Picturing Hydroimperialism in French Scenic Wallpaper, ca. 1855,” (Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of Knowing / Ways of Being. New Haven, October 2022
Cardiff University
"Cold and Fuzzy: Coca-Cola’s First Polar Bear,” Arctic Relations, September 2022
National Gallery of Canada Magazine
”General Idea: Works in Public Spaces and Beyond,” August 2022
Durham University
“The Arctic in Paris and Paris in the Arctic: Expressions of the North by François-Auguste Biard and Léonie d'Aunet, 1839-1854,” Modern Travel, Modern Landscapes: Connections and Exchanges in Europe, c. 1850-1950. Online, July 2022
University of Lagos
“Stamps of Glory: On the Iconography of Postage Stamps in Ghana, c. 1957,” The Materiality of Everyday Life in Africa. Online, June 2022
University of Ottawa x Venice Biennale
“Thinking CuratorItaly,” curator talk. Venice, June 2022
Boston University
“Liquescent Interiors: Water in French Nineteenth-Century Decorative Art,” (Under)Water, Mary L. Cornille 38th Annual Graduate Symposium. Online, April 2022
Dahesh Museum of Art
“Embracing the North: Panoramic Visions of Global Commerce in Triumphal France, 1889,” Nineteenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, Dahesh Museum with the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Online, March 2022
Universities Art Association of Canada
“Fire and Ice: Elemental Art and Its Histories,” co-chaired with Siobhan Angus (Yale). With papers by Isabelle Gapp (Toronto), Leman Berdeli (Sapienza Università di Roma), Georgia Phillips-Amos (Concordia), Kai Woolner-Pratt (Stanford), Laura Petican (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), and Elizabeth Went, (Tate/UCL). Online, October 2021
ExPosition
“Camp en mouvement de Versailles au Met : Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun et Marie-Antoinette,” No. 6, 2021
Thresholds (MIT Press)
“He Loves Me Not: Marriage and Migration in the Work of Tanja Ostojić,” No. 48: Kin, 2020
Vistas (Institute for Studies on Latin American Art)
“Moving from Celebration to Critique: Daniela Ortiz and Xose Quiroga’s Ofrenda,” No. 5: Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas, 2020
Vtape
“A truth, if it is a truth,” moderator. With artists Zack Khalil, Akram Zaatari, Niklas Sven Vollmer, and Laura Kissel. Online, December 2020
Koffler Centre for the Arts
“History in Remaking,” invited panliest. With Rosalie Favell and Anique Jordan. Moderated by Madelyne Beckles. Online, November 2020
MIT
“Space and Death After Laika,” invited talk. Online, May 2020
Ed Video
Open Circuit, with Scott McGovern, interview. Online, April 2020
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“From Colonial Celebration to Contemporary Critique,” Annual Symposium of Latin American Art. New York, April 2019
Lapis (NYU Press)
“Toward Art, Toward Torture: Drawing the Line in the Work of Santiago Sierra,” No. 1, May 2019
Columbia University
“Balkan Body as Metaphor,” invited lecture, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. New York, April 2019
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
“Horseback Maid: Mary Sibande’s The Reign as Counter-Monument,” Annual Symposium of the Consortium for Asian and African Studies. Paris, October 2018
Princeton University
“Looking for a Husband: Biopolitics, Gender, and Citizenship in the Work of Tanja Ostojić,” The Secret Life of Crowds. Princeton, April 2018
Trinity College Dublin
“Not Another Landscape: Intervention and Critique in the Work of Kent Monkman,” International Postgraduate Research Conference. Dublin, May 2018
Columbia University
“In Conversation with Goran Marković,” invited interlocutor. New York, March 2018
Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto
“Aesthetics of Death in Contemporary Art,” invited lecture. Toronto, January 2018
Forest City Gallery
“In Attendance,” invited panelist. London, ON, 2018
Pratt Institute
“Success and Failure: A Marriage”
Invited exhibition text, Lust for Life: A Wedding. New York, 2018
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
“Ydessa Hendeles: The Milliner's Daughter,” invited lecture. Toronto, August 2017
Y+ Contemporary
“Faking It,” invited talk. Scarborough, 2017
Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto
“Being Someone Else,” invited talk. Toronto, 2017
Bienal de Curitiba
“Ed Pien: Corridor of Rain,” invited exhibition text, Brazil, 2017
8eleven Gallery
“Is It Worth It? Let Me Work It: A Panel on Artists and Money,” with various panelists, panel organizer/moderator. Toronto, 2016
Hart House, University of Toronto
“On Art and Activism,” with Dina Georgis, Leah Houston, and Wanda Nanibush
Panel organizer/moderator. Toronto, 2015