INVITED LECTURES
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2023. Topic: Artemisia Gentileschi
Yale Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Pre/Early Modern Forum, October, 2022. Topic: Vermeer and the Art of Love.
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Jan. 2021. Lecture cycle on Velázquez. Topic: Conversando con bufones (full presentation through the Museo del Prado)
Clark Art Institute, Sept., 2016. Topic: Mythology and Meaning in Rubens, joint presentation with Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania.
The 2015 Anne d’ Harnoncourt Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art and University of Pennsylvania, October, 2015. Topic: New Perspectives on Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens. Presentation: Prometheus and the Eagle.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, D.C. Sept. 2025. Session: Interrogating Female Vices - Moderator and Chair.
Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Cambridge University, England, July 2025. Topic: For the Love of Art: The Music Lesson and The Art of Painting.
Lovis Corinth Colloquium XIII: The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture, Emory University, September, 2024.
Topic: The Self-Aware Images of Clara Peeters.
Janson-La Palme *76 Workshop: Rubens in 21st-Century Perspectives, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton University, May 3, 2024.
Topic: The Art of Peace – from the Adoration of the Magi to the Surrender of Breda
Visual Poetry: The Politics and Erotics of Seeing, Titian and Beyond, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Harvard University, April, 2022. Topic: Recognitions and their Echoes in Titian's Poesie.
Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, D.C. Sept. 2021. Topic: Clara Peeters, The Bridal Knife, and the Bubbles of Being.
Art into Public Spaces, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, October, 2016. Topic: Just(ified) Vandalism: Macedonia’s Government Project to rebuild History and the Citizen revolt it Provoked, 2016.
Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Boston, June 2014. Presentation: Vermeer and the Matter of Faith, Session: Personification and Embodiments in Early Modern Art.
Renaissance Society of America, NYC, March 2014. Session: Dialectics of Faith and Doubt in Seventeenth-century Spain, co-organizer and chair
Renaissance Society of America, NYC, March 2014. Presentation: Ille hic est… Juan de Pareja and the Limits of Knowledge
Renaissance Society of America, Washington D.C., 2012. Session: The Long Shadow of the Venetian Cinquecento. Velazquez, Rokeby Venus, and Gracian.
Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, 2011. Co-organizer and chair of a session: Versions of Realism in Seventeenth-century Art
Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, 2011. Session: Representations of Nature in Seventeenth-century Art. “Rubens and the Savage Eloquence of Painting.”
Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, 2009. Session: Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions. “Caravaggio, Velázquez, and the Substance of Bacchus”
Barnard Conference, 2008. Representation of time in the Renaissance: “Titian’s Venus and Adonis at the Melancholy Portal of Eros”
Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, 2008. Session: New Approaches to Velázquez. “Velázquez and the Philosophers in Torre de la Parada”
Renaissance Society of America, Miami, Florida, 2007. Session: The Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art. “Velázquez and the unfinished story of Arachne”
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2002. “Some Notes on the Sense of the Tragic in Rubens’ Fall of Phaeton”
College Art Association, Chicago, 2001. Classical Mythology in the Early Modern Period: “Observations on Rubens’ invention in the Finding of Erichthonius.”
Third Interdisciplinary Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Palermo, Italy, 2001, Art and Science: “Rubens and the Seductions of the Rainbow.”
New Scholars/New Ideas Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2000. “On Juno and her Double in Rubens’ Ixion.”
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Dutch Art and Culture, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, 1995. “Vermeer and the Allegory of Faith.”
Southeastern College Art Conference, Washington D.C., 1995. “Levels of Allegory in Rubens' Juno and Argus.”
PROFESSIONAL PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Moderator, Gerard ter Borch Study Day, 2005, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2005.
Moderator, Public Symposium on Gerard ter Borch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004.
Historians of Netherlandish Art, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002 Co-chair of a workshop session: Rubens’ approach to allegories