Some Recent Talks
2023
"Barbon's Technics," at "The Lure of the Machine in the Medieval and Early Modern Centuries” workshop, Princeton University; April 2023
“Hazard, Risk and Protection in Anglo-American Art: From West to Turner,” St. Louis Art Museum, March 2023
2019
" 'The Sun is God': Turner, Angerstein and Insurance," at RAA19, Montreal; December, 2019
“ ‘The Sun is God’: Turner’s Insurance,” at Picture, Structure, Land: New Directions in British Art and Architecture, 1550-1850, Columbia University; May 2019“Sun Pictures: The Aerial View of Solar Images,” at “The Aerial Image” conference, Yale University; April 2019
“From the Ship and Bladebone to The Slave Ship and Back Again,” in “Interactions Between Art and Insurance” panel at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, Denver; March 2019
“How to Draw a Risk: Diagramming Fire in Nineteenth-Century Insurance,” at “Informational Images and the Legacy of Humanism” workshop, University of Pennsylvania; February 2019
“An Engine, Not a Camera: Photography in/as the History of Combustion,” Society of Fellows, Columbia University; February 2019
2018
“An Engine, Not a Camera: Photography in/as the History of Combustion,” HTC Lecture Series, Department of Architecture, MIT; December 2018
“The Cup of Time: Fossils, Beds and ‘Photography’ in the Early Anthropocene” at “Geologics” symposium, Brown University; December 2018
“Turner, Angerstein and Insurance: From the Ship and Bladebone to The Slave Ship and Beyond,” at “Art and the Actuarial Imagination II” workshop, McGill University; December 2018
“An Engine, Not a Camera: Photography and Combustion in the Early Anthropocene,” at “Bugs, Boulders, and Beakers: The Materiality of Artists’ Colors,” Pennsylvania State University; October 2018
"An Engine, Not a Camera: Photography and Combustion in the Early Anthropocene," at "Mining Value: Art and the Extraction of Resources," Power Institute/University of Sydney; August 2018
“How to Draw a Risk: Frederic Edwin Church's South American Landscapes” at “Critique/Desire/Practice: Photography and Beyond, selon Joel Snyder” symposium, Department of Art History, University of Chicago; June 2018
“An Engine, Not a Camera”: Photography and Combustion in the Early Anthropocene," Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon, Washington University, St. Louis; May 2018
"Pictures ... in time petrif'd: The Temporally Evolving Chemical Object in the Early Royal Society"; Le Séminaire des nouveaux modernes, UQAM, Montreal; April 2018