Presentations

2022

• ‘Revisiting Polish Carpets’, Virtual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Transcultural Things in Central and Eastern Europe, online conference, Dec. 2022

• ‘Can the Wolf Speak? Dumb Peasants, Articulate Animals, and the Polish Aesop (1578)’, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Panel: Languages of the Non-human in Early Modern Muscovy and Poland-Lithuania, Chicago, Nov. 2022

• Discussant, ‘Catholics and Orthodox in Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia in Modern Times: Volatile Reality and Conflicting Interpretations’, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Chicago, Nov. 2022

• ‘Doublethink: Polish Carpets in Transcultural Contexts’, Department of Art and Art History, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Oct. 2022

• ‘Where Do Polish Carpets Come From’, Polish Studies Program, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mar. 2022

• ‘Exoticism’, Department of Art and Art History, University of Calgary, Jan. 2022

2021

• ‘Where Do Polish Carpets Come From’, Department of Art and Architectural History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Nov. 2021

• Invited online roundtable to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the journal Kunsttexte, Current State and Possible Approaches to Art Histories of Eastern Europe, Heidelberg University Library, Oct. 2021

• ‘A Material to Think With: Prussian Carved Ambers, Self-Reflexivity, and a New Geography of Art’, German History Society Annual Conference; Panel: Materialities, Bodies, and Selves in Early Modern Germany, London, Sep. 2021

• ‘Almost Different But Not Quite: Poles, Dutchmen, and Cultural Entanglement’, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Hybridity in the Early Modern World, online conference, Apr. 2021 (paper delivered via Zoom due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2020

• ‘Almost Different But Not Quite: Poles, Dutchmen, and Cultural Entanglement’, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Hybridity in the Early Modern World, Philadelphia, Apr. 2020 (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2019

• ‘Seeing Ukraine for the First Time’, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Panel: Visual Vocabularies of Early Modern Ruthenia, San Francisco, Nov. 2019

• ‘Ottomanisation as Europeanisation: Poland-Lithuania and the Search for a Shared Past’, Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Oct. 2019

• ‘Almost Different But Not Quite: Poles, Dutchmen, and Cultural Entanglement’, Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada; Panel: The Art of Visualising Others: Early Modern Cultural Encounters, Quebec City, Oct. 2019

• ‘Seeing Ukraine for the First Time’, workshop Invisible Rus, Ukrainian Studies Programme, University of Cambridge, Jun. 2019

• ‘Why Care About “Polish Carpets”’, and ‘Why Care About Early Modern Art’, two presentations at the workshop Renaissance Studies NOW: Old Margins and New Centers, Renaissance Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, Apr. 2019

• ‘Why Care About “Polish Carpets”?’ Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Decorative Arts in the Early Modern Era and Now, Toronto, Mar. 2019

• ‘Where Do “Polish Carpets” Come From?’ College Art Association Annual Conference; Panel: Renaissance Exchanges, New York City, Feb. 2019

2018

• ‘Cartography as Entangled History: Geographic Depiction and the Search for a Shared Past’, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Panel: The Memory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Boston, Dec. 2018

• 'Where Do "Polish Carpets" Come From?', Globalising Polish Histories, Christ Church, University of Oxford, Sep. 2018

• ‘Ottomanisation as Europeanisation: Polish-Lithuanian Costume and the Search for a Classical Past’, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: 'Deep Classics’ and the Renaissance, New Orleans, Mar. 2018

• ‘Of Mixed Origins: Tracing Michał Boym’s Sum Xu’, College Art Association Annual Conference; Panel: Archives, Documents, Evidence, Los Angeles, Feb. 2018

• ‘Almost Different But Not Quite: The Dutch Republic, Poland-Lithuania and the Co-Dependency of Centre and Periphery', Faculty Research Seminar, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Jan. 2018

2017

• ‘Ottomanisation as Europeanisation: Polish-Lithuanian Costume and the Search for a Shared Past’, Multicultural Commonwealth: Diverse Identities in Poland-Lithuania, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, Dec. 2017

• 'Of Mixed Origins: Michał Boym’s Flora Sinensis and the Circulation of Images’, Making Worlds: Art, Materiality and Early Modern Globalisation, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Apr. 2017

2016

• 'Thinking through the Periphery: Masquerading as a Pole in the Dutch Republic', 48th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Panel: Horizontal Art History / Global Perspectives: The Work and Legacy of Piotr Piotrowski, Washington DC, Nov. 2016

• ‘An Imaginary Animal and Its Doubles: Michał Boym’s Sumxu in Replication’, Annual Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada; Panel: Of Diptychs, Doubles and Mirrors: Towards a Theory of Twoness, Montreal, Oct. 2016

• 'Connoisseurship as a Dialogic Process: The Kunstkammer of Sigismund III Vasa', The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Collecting and the Patron's Input, Boston, Mar. 2016

2015

• 'Materiality and Conversion', roundtable discussion with Allison Stielau, Benjamin Schmidt, Helen Smith and Lyn Tribble, Annual Meeting of the SSHRC Early Modern Conversions Project, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Jul. 2015

• 'Practice Without Theory? Unscripted Connoisseurship at the Polish-Lithuanian Court, 1587-1648', Early Modern Cross-Cultural Conversions: Summer Research Seminar, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Jul. 2015

• '"Tears Hardened by the Sun": On Amber's Cross-Cultural Fluidity', 41st AAH Annual Conference; Panel: Flow in World Art (1500-1750), Sainsbury Institute for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Apr. 2015

• '"Tears Hardened by the Sun": The Discursive Lives of Baltic Amber in Italy', CAA 103rd Annual Conference; Panel: Early Modern Cross-Cultural Conversions, New York City, Feb. 2015

• 'Lost in Translation: Baltic Carved Ambers in the Medici Collections', La séminaire des Noveaux Modernes: groupe de recherche en histoire de l'art du Moyen âge aux Lumières, Montreal, Feb. 2015

2014

• 'Globalising Provenance: After-Lives of a "Polish-Lithuanian" Squirrel', East European Art Seen from Global Perspectives: Past and Present, Centre for Contemporary Art 'Galeria Labirynt', Lublin, Oct. 2014

• 'Converting Histories: Baltic Amber in the Medici Collections', Annual Meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society; Panel: Early Modern Conversions, New Orleans, Oct. 2014

• 'Between Metamorphosis and Conversion: Baltic Amber in Italy', Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies, McGill University, Montreal, Aug. 2014

• 'Vertiginous Carpets: The Unstable Confluence of Nationality and Textiles', Internationales Doktorandenforum Kunstgeschichte des östlichen Europas / First International Forum for Doctoral Candidates in East European Art History, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, May 2014

• 'Michał Boym's Flora Sinensis and the Concept of Artistic Innovation', The 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America; Panel: Prints as Agents of Cross-Cultural Exchange, New York City, Mar. 2014

• 'Stabilising Polish-Lithuanian Kingship: Carpet as Publicity', Graduate and Postdoctoral Symposium, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University, Montreal, Feb. 2014

2013

• 'Homecoming of the Exotic: Oriental Rugs at the Vasa Courts in Poland-Lithuania', European Courts in a Globalized World 1400-1700; Panel: At Europe's Doors, Centro de História de Além‐Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Nov. 2013

• 'Translating the Untranslatable: The Circulation of Michał Boym's Images', Onzième École Internationale de Printemps: World Art/l'Art Mondial; Panel: Trade Networks, University of East Anglia, Norwich, May 2013

• 'Can Early Modern European Periphery Have a 'Global' Art History?', Early Modern Orientations: Current issues in the Arts and Humanities, 1500-1800, Sainsbury Institute for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, May 2013

• 'A Miscarried Transcultural Exchange? Michał Boym's Flora Sinensis and the Multiple Origins of Visual Forms', Migration, Mobility, and Movements: Crossing Borders in World History; Panel: Performances and Publications: Early Modern Images in Motion, Northeastern University, Boston, Mar. 2013

2012

• 'A Transcultural Body Politic? Portraits of the Impostor Imperial Couple Dmitry I and Maryna Mniszech', Conversion, Materiality and Early Modern Globalization; Panel: Interiority and Exteriority: Social Identity and the Body Politic, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Apr. 2012

• 'Portraits of the impostor Tsarina Maryna Mniszech and the politics of public imagery in Poland-Lithuania (1605-1606)', First Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium. Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe, c.1400 – 1650; Panel: Private Faces in Public Places, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, Apr. 2012

• 'Religious Image as a Medium of Representation: Iconoclasm and Iconophilia in Post-Reformation Poland-Lithuania', Religion and Cultural Mediation in Early Modernity; Panel: Images and Iconoclasm, McGill University, Montreal, Mar. 2012

• 'The formation of publics for art in Poland-Lithuania in its global context (1587-1668)', Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University, Montreal, Mar. 2012

2011

• 'Caravaggio’s Conversions', co-presented with Angela Vanhaelen and Sonia Del Re, Forms of Conversion: Transformation in Europe and its World, 1500-1700, McGill University, Montreal, Dec. 2011