| 2016 | Key Note Speaker. “Building a Collection of Modern Sculpture in Copenhagen: Carl Jacobsen’s Patronage of Constantin Meunier,” symposium “Sculpting Abroad. The International Mobility of Nineteenth-Century Sculptors and Their Work,” University of Ghent, and Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium |
| 2015 | Conference paper. With Bonnie Vigeland, Rachel Beckwith and Mike Meo, “Re-Designing for the 21st Century: A Reading Room?!” Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter, Worcester, MA
Invited Speaker, “Another Kind of Document: Felix Nussbaum’s Art During the Holocaust,” European Holocaust Research Initiative workshop at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2014 | Conference paper, “Unlike Any Other Night: The Attack on the 20th Convoy” Lessons and Legacy Conference, Boca Raton, FL |
| 2012 | Invited Speaker, “Another Kind of Document: Jewish Artists and the Holocaust,” Boston University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Boston, MA |
| 2011 | Guest Lecturer, “Politics and French Impressionism,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA |
| 2008 | Invited Speaker, “Between the Street and the Cathedral: Constantin Meunier’s period in Sevilla 1882-83” (given in French) Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels. |
| 2007 | Conference paper, “Realism from the Margins. Redefining Realist Art from a Belgian Perspective.” College Art Association. |
| 2006 – 2010 | Invited Lecturer, “Turn-of-the-century Art in Belgium.” Christie’s Masters Program in Connoisseurship. |
| 2006 | Invited Speaker, “The Spectacle of Paris and the Impressionists,” Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield |
| 2005 | Invited Speaker, “Unlike Any Other Night: The 20th Convoy,” interdisciplinary symposium on the resistance during World War II, Cooper Union, New York
Invited Speaker, “Constantin Meunier and Guillaume Charlier: Two Belgian Sculptors and France,” symposium on nineteenth-century sculpture, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University |
| 2004 | Scholars Roundtable, Fernand Khnopff, The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College |
| 2003 | Conference paper, “Capital and Constantin Meunier’s Representation of the Working Class” College Art Association |
| 2002 | Invited Speaker, “The 20th Convoy: Resistance and Rescue in Belgium” Five-College Judaic Studies Faculty |
| 2000 | Invited Speaker, “Mining Class and Gender in Belgian Art” Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Invited Speaker, “Monet’s Garden at Giverny: Landscape and Architecture” Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA |
| 2000 | Co-chair of session, “Out of the Academy and into the Arcades” CAA |
| 1996 | Moderator, Panel on the monarchy and sexuality. “Prerogatives of Power: The Representation of Royalty in the Early Modern Period”, Amherst College Conference Paper, invited, “Nobility and the Working Class: Designing a Monument to Labor in Brussels” National American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University |
| 1998 | Invited Speaker, “Constantin Meunier: A Life of Labor” Hampshire College, President’s Speaker Fund |
| 1996 | Invited Speaker, “Degas’ Rehearsal Before the Performance: Labor and Leisure in French Painting” Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA Co-chair of Session, “’The Golden Age is not in the Past, it is in the Future’: Decadence, Renewal and Social Activism” CAA |
| 1996 | Invited Speaker, Symposium, “The Politics of Modernity, the Representation of Politics” University of Massachusetts |
| 1995 | Invited Speaker, “French Impressionists: The Painters of Modern Life” Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA |
| 1992 | Invited Speaker, “The Political Culture of the Belgian Avant-Garde” Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium |
| 1990 | Conference Paper, “Contested Spaces: Constantin Meunier’s Monument to Labor” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference |
| 1990 | Conference Paper, “Monumental Transformations: Constantin Meunier’s Monument to Labor” CAA |
| 1987 | Conference Paper, “Flanders and the Esthetics of Looting during the Terror” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| 1988 | Invited Speaker, Symposium, “Belgian Neo-Impressionism” The David and Alfred Smith Museum of Art, Chicago |
| 1987 | Conference Paper, “A Palace for the People: Victor Horta’s Maison du peuple” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference |