2025
“A Right, Not A Charity: Insuring the Artistic Life in Imperial Britain," Getty Research Institute, May 2025
2024
“ ‘Nature’s Statistics’: Frederic Edwin Church, Joseph B. Bennett and the Abundance of Insurance”; “Abundance” talk series, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, December 2024
“Is the Sun Still God? Refiling Turner’s Insurance”: Agnes Claflin Lecture at Vassar College, October 2024
“How to Draw a Risk: Diagramming Fire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”: keynote lecture at “Conceptualizing Uncertainty: Reflections on Risk and Disaster in France and the Francophone World (1600-present)” conference; Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto; April 2024
2023
“How to Draw a Risk: Diagramming Fire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States,” Ann Arundel Community College, Annapolis, Maryland; May 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