2022
Dec. 12 | Conservations Divergentes. Préservation et transmission des collections, International Conference at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, Co-organized with Lotte Arndt.
See parts of the conference: https://vimeo.com/793393433 And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAC1b0eMWXM Full agenda Photo: Rosanna Raymond ©Stefan Marks |
2021
Feb. 17-18 | Swiss Art and/in the World, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, in the framework of the Exotic? exhibition.
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2019
June 6 | Exotic as Process. Art, Material Culture, and the History of Collection in Switzerland, Panel at the 4th Congres of Swiss Association for Art History, Mendrisio. See more here. |
2018
Oct. 11 and 12 | “From B to X. Art History (making) since John Berger,” October 11 and 12, Unil (SIK-ISEA) and Musée de l’Elysée. See more images here.![]() |
Feb. 20 | “Circulating Crafts. Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities (1600-2000),” CAA Panels, Los Angeles. |
Jan. 24 | Workshop, La Colonie, Paris, co-organized with Yaelle Biro. More pictures.![]() |
2016
Dec. 1 – 2 |
”Seeing Through? The Materiality of Dioramas (1560-2010),” International Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Art History, co-organized with Nadia Radwan. |
April 2 |
”Tableaux Vivants: Life and/as Art in the Eighteenth Century,” Panel for the American Society for 18th Century Studies, Pittsburgh, co-organized with Meredith Martin (NYU). |
2015
March 27 | “Surfaces,” Mellon Research Conference, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Program. Watch online. |
March 20 | “Pilgrim Arts in the 18th Century,” Panel for the American Society for 18th Century Studies, Los Angeles, co-organized with Meredith Martin (NYU). Program. |
2013
April 25 | “Objects from Abroad. The Life of Exotic Goods in France and the United States (18 th-20th Centuries),” International Symposium, New York University, US, co-organized with Manuel Charpy (CNRS). |
See online: “Becoming Exotic. Notes on the Workshop Objects from Abroad,” Material World Blog, 2013. Publication. |
2011
October 20 – 21 |
“Head on,” Principal Organizer of the International Symposium in collaboration with the Art and Design University of Geneva (HEAD), the Art History Department and the Gender Studies Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. |
2010
October 1st – 2nd |
“The restoration of artworks in Europe between 1789 and 1815: Practices, Transfers, Issues,” Principal Organizer of the International Symposium, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandSee online: La restauration des œuvres d’art en Europe (1789 et 1815). Pratiques, transferts, enjeux, Ceroart Special Issue, 2012. |
2009
June 30 | “The Restoration of Artworks: actors and practices (18-21th Centuries),” co-organized with Léonie Hénaut (CNRS), National Institute of Art History, Paris, France. Publication. |