“Gaia’s Return: Earth-Goddesses in Contemporary Indigenous Eco-Activism,” Sponsored panel of The Feminist Art Project, College Art Association (Feb. 12-15, 2025)

“Redefining Queer Bohemia: A Postpartum Perspective,” Queer Avantgarde (organized by Prof. Dr. Änne Söll), Ruhr Universität Bochum (Dec 4–5, 2024)

“Queering Matricidal Modernism,” Between Care and (Pro)Creation, Akademie der bildenden Künste München (Nov 13, 2024)

Keynote Lecture, ““Durable Fragility’: Ruth Asawa and the Materiality of Line,” The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (April 11, 2024)

“The Bad Mother,” Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (Jan. 2024)

“Michelangelo’s Matrix: The Childbirth Metaphor in Italian Renaissance Art Theory,” Meta, Matrix, Mater: Les metaphors de la matrice à la Renaissance (L’Atelier du CHAR), Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne (June 13, 2022).

“Hausfrau Photography: Value and Gender in an Unrealized Photobook,” Global Perspectives on The New Woman Behind the Camera, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (Jan. 19-20, 2022).

“Mermaids, Monsters, Mammals: Figures of Maternal Creation in Contemporary Art,” Ringvorlesung: Tiere. – Bestien, Verwandte, kulturelle Akteure?, Prof. Robert Felfe, Universität Graz (Nov. 22, 2021).

“Carola Giedion-Welcker and the Gendered Language of Sculpture’s Histories,” Why Have There Been No Great Female Art Historians?, 21. Internationale Tagung des Verbandes österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker (VöKK), Vienna (Nov. 4-7, 2021).

“(Pro)creation,” a performance-lecture with artist Antje Engelmann, invited as part of the exhibition Mothers*, Poets, Warriors, Kunstverein Wagonhalle Stuttgart (Sept. 11, 2021)

„Anna Maria Maiolino and the Absence of Work Abroad,” Travel and Collaboration: Entangled Artistic Practices Across the Americas, Department of Art History with the Center for Inter-American Studies, Universität Graz (Jun 17-18, 2021).

“Learning by Doing: Pedagogy and Sculpture in the San Francisco Renaissance, c. 1968,” Praktiken des Wissens, Spring School des Doktoratsprogramms “Soziologie und Geschichte der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften,” Universität Graz (Mar. 1-3, 2021).

“The Permutations of Camino Real: Anni Albers and Textile Intermediality, c. 1970,” Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Tübingen (Feb. 18, 2021).

“Art and Nature: Cultural Production with the Environmental Context,” in conversation with Daniela Zyman, KM-Künstlerhaus, Graz (Dec. 6, 2020).

“Modernist Art Criticism Between the Decorative and the Literary,” Department of American Studies, Universität Graz (May 7, 2020). (Cancelled)

“Photographic Documentation and Turkish Modernity,” Association of Art Historians Annual Conference (Newcastle, England), (Apr. 3, 2020). (Cancelled)

“A Postcolonial Bauhaus? The Legacy of the School in an Era of Neo-nationalism,” Annual Study Day organized by the Verein der Freunde des Busch-Reisinger Museums e.V. an der Harvard Universität, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (October 19, 2019).

“Ruth Asawa on Paper: The Two-Dimensional Work of a Sculptor.” Symposium: Bauhaus 100: Object Lessons from a Historic Collection, Harvard Art Museums (March 2019).

“Lucia Moholy in Turkey: The Afterlife of the Bauhaus Archive.” Symposium: Bauhaus Effects. University College Dublin, organized with the National College of Art and Design, Dublin; University College Cork; and the Goethe-Institut Dublin (February, 2019).

“Sculpture as Design: Ruth Asawa and the Postwar Interior.” Symposium: “Designs for Living,” Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (February 2019).

“Anni Albers as Architect.” Symposium: The Event of a Thread, as part of the exhibition Anni Albers, Tate Modern, London (December 2018).

“Class and the Politics of Exile in Lucia Moholy’s English Portraits.” Symposium: Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics, and Culture in Britain and Germany, 1919–1951, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (November 2018).

“The Realism of the Redacted Image: Alma Siedhoff-Buscher’s Designs on Display.” Symposium of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Universität Münster (September 2018).

Respondent for panel “Tactility, materiality and humanism.” Symposium: Eccentric, Realist, Populist, Procedural: The Politics of Figuration in American Art 1929–1980, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (May 2018).

“Weaving and/as Architecture.” XVIII. Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium Dust and Data, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (October 2016).

“Das Bauhaus am Ort.” DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten,” Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus-Senftenberg (November 2015).

“Das metallische Fest: Vom Bauhaus zu Josiah McElheny.” Symposium: Skulptur und Zeit im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Universität der Künste, Berlin (January 2015).

Co-chaired panel with Johanna Burton, “Women and War.” Symposium: Making Ourselves Visible: A Day-Long Project in Feminist Space-Making, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (May 2010).

“Against Abstraction: Zoe Leonard’s Analogue.” ISP Critical Studies Symposium, Whitney Museum of American Art (May 2009).

Scholarly Workshops

Invited participant in closed workshop, “Feminist Politics of Refusal,” The Courtauld Institute of Art (Jun 13, 2024)

Radcliffe Institute Accelerator Workshop, Harvard University, Bauhaus Media: Lessons after 100 Years of Bauhaus, led by Laura Frahm (Apr. 19-20, 2021).

Warburg-Haus, Universität Hamburg, Forming Collectives: Strategien moderner und zeitgenössischer Kunst (Warburg-Seminar), led by Petra Lange-Berndt and Isabelle Lindermann (2017)

Graduiertenkolleg “Das Wissen der Künste,” Universität der Künste, Berlin, Performance und Architektur: Realisation (in) der Fotografie?, led by Constance Krüger, Ralf Liptau and Dennis Pohl (2016)

EIKONES Summer School, Universität Basel, Ästhetiken der Skulptur: Form, Bild und Mensch (1766–1920), led by Malika Maskarinec (Universität Basel) and Megan R. Luke (USC) (2014)

History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cast in Bronze: A Workshop in Exploring and Creating Bronze SculptureA week-long interdisciplinary course on bronze casting, led by Suzanne Blier, involving studio sessions at the art foundry New England Sculpture Service (2012).