Talks

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Mapping Refugee Modernisms.” Paper presented at Understanding Displacement in Visual Art, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, October 24, 2023.

“Mediterraneanism under Pressure: The Geopolitics of yam tikhoniut.” Paper presented at Decentering Art and Design History: Research, Practice, Education, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, June 16, 2023.

“Mapping Refugee Modernism(s).” Paper presented at Relocating Views on Global Art, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 16, 2023.

“Zionism in Translation: Israeli Art in Western Europe, 1954-55.” Paper presented at National Identity and Exhibition Histories conference, University of Leicester and University of Warwick, January 14, 2023.

“Zionism in Translation: Israeli Art in Western Europe, 1954-55.” Paper presented at The Global Rise of Traveling Exhibitions at Mid-Century, 109th College Art Association Conference, Chicago, March 4, 2022.

“Transatlantic Solidarities: Gershon Knispel in Brazil.” Paper presented at the 19th Latin American Jewish Studies International Research Conference. Virtual, June 28, 2021.

“Redrawing the Mediterranean: Dora Gad’s yam tikhoniut.” Paper presented at Coastal Landscapes and the Politics of Leisure in the Global Sunbelt, 74th Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference. Virtual, April 18, 2021.

“Visualizing the ‘Old New Land’: Modernism, Zionism, and Exhibition Culture.” Paper presented at Unsettling Visual Culture, 107th College Art Association Conference, Chicago, February 12, 2020.

“Naftali Bezem Inside and Outside the Green Line.” Paper presented at (De)Constructing Walls, Association for Art History Conference, London, April 7, 2018.

“Modern Art, National Politics: Israeli Art in Venice, 1948–1952.” Paper presented at Beyond Boundaries: Art and Design Exhibitions as Transnational Exchange from 1945, 105th College Art Association Conference. New York, February 17, 2017.

“From Collection to Archive, One Scan at a Time: Dor Guez’s Christian Palestinian Archive Project.” Paper presented at Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, June 3, 2016.

“Site-Specificity as Curatorial Strategy at the Museum of Modern Art, 1967–1973.” Paper presented at the American Studies Graduate Conference, St. Louis University, October 11, 2014.

“Civic Arena: Reconsidering exhibitions and their histories following the Arab Spring.” Paper presented at Acts of Dissent: Reflections on Art and Politics in the 21st Century, 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago, February 13, 2014.

“What Makes Paint Political?” Paper presented at New Sensibility, School of Visual Arts Critical Information Conference, New York, December 8, 2013.

CONFERENCES AND PANELS CONVENED

“Migratory Modernisms: Race, Ethnicity, and Twentieth-Century Jewish Art of Latin America” (with Abigail Lapin-Dardashti), College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 14, 2024.

“Art, Institutions, and Internationalism, 1933–1966” (with Gemma Sharpe), The Graduate Center and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 7-8, 2017.

 “Exhibit A: Authorship on Display” (with Natalie Musteata and Grant Johnson), The Graduate Center, April 7, 2014.

GUEST LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

Guest Lecture, “Redrawing the Mediterranean: Dora Gad’s yam tikhoniut,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Irvine, May 18, 2022.

Guest Lecture, “Exhibiting the Holocaust: Traumatic Realism and Exhibition Design in Israel,” Art, Trauma, and Museums, Arizona State University, March 29, 2022.

Co-Chair, “Making the Future Museum We Want: Museum Studies in Conversation with Museums,” American Alliance of Museums, Museum Studies Network, virtual event, October 28, 2020.

Guest Lecture, “Modern Architecture in the Middle East,” Survey of World Architecture, Spitzer School of Architecture, City College, March 27, 2019.

Discussant, “The Sick Man of Europe: The Architect,” Screening and discussion with Dor Guez, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, April 11, 2015.

Panelist, “Who is Silencing Whom? Censorship, Self-Censorship and Charlie Hebdo,” The New School, Theresa Lang Community & Student Center, February 23, 2015.

Moderator, “The Infiltrators,” The Graduate Center, CUNY, October 27, 2014.

Moderator, “RE-Establishing Shot,” Cabinet, Brooklyn, September 17, 2014.

Panelist, “What is good public art?” Shanghai Fine Arts Academy. September 15, 2014.

Discussant, Book launch for Joshua Decter's Art is A Problem, New York Public Library, April 23, 2014.

Panelist, “Conflict and the Rebel City,” Dorsky Gallery and Curatorial Program. Long Island City, October 21, 2012.

Moderator, “Cultural Introductions,” The Armory Show. New York, NY, March 8, 2012.