2018
| Jan. 18 | Brussel, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA), “Edited Objects. A Material Reception of Lacquer in the 18th Century,” in European Lacquer in Context, Conference Paper. |
2017
| Sept. 21 | Cambridge, Cambridge University, “Unfolding the Specimen. Displays and Dioramas,” in Collections, Displays & The Agency of Objects, Conference Paper. |
| July 10 | Lausanne, Université de Lausanne, “La reproduction par contact: des corps et des objets dans les dioramas à New York, 1900,” in Les tableaux vivants, contre-modèles de la reproductibilité technique?, International Association of Word and Image Studies, Conference Paper. |
| March 10 | Lausanne, Université de Lausanne, “Des praticiens frontières. Art, artisanat et anthropologie aux Etats-Unis, 1900,” in “Petites mains” d’artistes dans les pratiques scientifiques, Conference Paper. |
| March 3 | Paris/Ecouen, Musée Cognac-Jay/Musée de la Renaissance, “Assembling Asia. Asiatic Lacquers and French Furnitures in the 18th Century,” in Nomadic Objects. Material Circulations, Appropriations, and the Formation of Identities in Early Modern Europe, Conference Paper. |
| Feb. 20 | New Haven, Yale University, “Crafting Authenticity in Arthur Parker’s Dioramas,” Art History Department, Lunchtime Talk with Ruth Phillips. |
2016
| Dec. 1 | Bern, University of Bern, “Native American Dioramas in New York, 1900,” in Seeing Through? The Materiality of Dioramas, Conference Paper. |
| Oct. 21 | Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Institut, “Life-Casts, Relics, and Human Remains. The Return of Museum Tools,” in What do Contentious Objects Want?, Conference Paper. |
| Oct. 14 | Berlin, Technishe Universität, “Unformal Market: Fayolle’s Cabinet and his Private Networks (1750-1800),” in All the Beauty of the World. The Western Market for non-European Artifacts, Conference paper. |
| Oct. 12 | Berlin, Humboldt University, Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung“, Workshop. |
| Sept. 28 | Geneva, University of Geneva, Actualité de la Recherche, Guest Lecture. |
| Sept. 5 | Geneva, University of Geneva, “Epistemic Images: Diorama, Science, and Resistance,” in Apparatuses of Simulation: From the 19th Century to the Present, Conference paper. |
| Jan. 29 |
New York, New York University, “Native American Objects at Versailles,” in Versailles in the World, Conference paper. |
2015
| Nov. 30 |
Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, “The Materiality of Dioramas. Art and Craftsmanship in the Contact Zone,” Research Presentation. |
| April 6 | Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, “Objects and Modes of Existence,” Invited Lecture. |
| April 3 |
New York, Columbia University, “From Sgraffio to Graffiti: Archeology of a Gesture in the Early Modern Period,” Session Chair. |
| March 20 |
Boston, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, “Manufacturing Authenticity: Clothes and Craft in Anthropological Dioramas (New York, 1900),” Conference paper. |
2014
| June 20 | Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, “Touching the Specimens: Art and Anthropology, New York, 1900,” in Matérialité de l’art à l’âge patrimonial, Conference paper. |
2013
| Dec. 7 | New York, Institute of Fine Arts, “Conservation and Art History: Shared Histories,” Conference paper. Watch online. |
| Oct. 10 | New York, Institute of Fine Arts, “Does Conservation challenge Art History? Diderot, Goethe and the Materiality of Artworks,” Invited lecture. Does Conservation challenge Art History.pdf  |
2012
| Dec. 13 | Leiden, the Leiden University Center for the Arts and Humanities, “The Living Objects. Cross-cultural Conservation, Artefacts and Art History,” in Presence and Agency, Annual Conference of LUCAS, Conference paper. Living Objects.pdf |
| Nov. 17 | London, Courtauld Institute, “From the Wall to the Museum: Material and Symbolic Transformations of Paintings in Paris in Eighteenth Century,” in Arts and its Afterlife, Fourth Early Modern Symposium. From the Wall to the Museum.pdf |
