Selected Presentations

“Matriarchy in the Countryside: On Gender in Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record,” presented on the panel “Art and Female Subjectivities in Communist Europe” organized by Magdalena Moskalewicz (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), College Art Association, Chicago, February 2024 (forthcoming).

“Zofia Rydet and the ‘Close Other,’” In-Between: Art & Cultural Practices from Here, 7th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 28, 2023.

Discussant, Roundtable on Agata Pietrasik’s Art in a Disrupted World, Poland 1939-49 (University of Chicago Press, 2021), The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 54th annual ASEEES conference, Chicago, November 11, 2022.

“Troubled Inheritance: Christina Fernandez’s Untitled Multiple Exposures, 1999,” Boundaries and Borders, Third photographies journal conference, University of Texas, San Antonio, September 23, 2022.

“Exporting the Polish Village: Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record in Cold War-Era Publications,” The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals Across Cold War Borders, International workshop organized by Vincent Fröhlich (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) and Mary Ikoniadou (Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora, and Exile, University of Central Lancashire, UK), online, May 12, 2022.

“The avant-garde collection: An Introduction” (co-authored with Julian Myers), Museum of the avant-garde or the avant-garde museum: Collecting the radical conference, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, December 2, 2017.

“A Pseudo Collective Responds: On Pamela Lee’s Forgetting the Art World, 2017” (co-authored with Julian Myers), presented on the panel “Creativity in Crisis: Artistic Collectivity and Political Engagement” organized by Elizabeth Ferrell (Arcadia University, Philadelphia), Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/9, UC Berkeley, October 28, 2017.

“Revising the Past, Remaking the Future” (co-authored with Tyler Stallings), Alternative Futurisms, annual Sawyer Seminar on Science Fiction and Technoculture, UCR, October 16, 2015.

“Charles Sheeler's Office Interior, Whitney Studio Club, 10 West 8 Street, c. 1928,” 99 Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, August 16, 2015.

“Curating Beyond Selection,” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas, March 10, 2015.

Panelist, “Remembering Forward: Conversations on Photography,” organized by Kim Schoen and Eric Golo Stone, LA><ART, March 8, 2015.

“Curating Beyond Selection,” guest lecture series organized by Thomas McGovern, California State University, San Bernardino, January 20, 2015.

“Máquinas solteras,” PST: LA/LA seminar for participating museums, Getty Center, October 6, 2014.