Speaking
Keynote And Plenary Lectures
Keynote Lecture, “Troubling Monuments in 21st Century America,” New Monuments: Iconoclasm, Reenactments, and Alternative Commemorations in the United States Since 2000, INHA (Institut national d’histoire de l’art), Paris, March 16.
Keynote Lecture: “Edward Hopper’s American Things,” Cape Ann & the Making of Edward Hopper, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, September 29.
Keynote Lecture: “Men, Men, Men: Maynard Dixon’s Masculinist Take on the American West,” Maynard Dixon: Searching for a Home Symposium, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, March 23.
Keynote Lecture: “Memory Matters: Visions of America in Public Art,” International Teacher Academy, American Studies, University of Education Vorarlberg, Austria, June 22.
Keynote Lecture: “‘Technology and Sex and Blood’: How Life Magazine Shaped Postwar American Tastes and Desires,” Postwar Faculty Colloquium, University of North Texas, April 8.
Keynote Lecture: “Public Art Matters, 2020: Thoughts on Context, Stewardship, and Accountability,” GSA Art Program Annual Conference, Washington, DC, August 18. (remote)
Conference Papers
“Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion,” Multiple Modernities: Initiatives in Art and Culture 28th Annual American Art Conference, New York, May 10.
“Honest Illustration: Maynard Dixon and the American West,” Blind Spots: 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, November 3.
“The Gentling Brothers and American Art History: Contemporary Realists in the Lone Star State,” Gentling Symposium, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, November 13.
Invited Lectures
“Monuments Are Mortal,” Glass Humanities Lecture, Pitzer College, April 15.
“Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion,” Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas at Dallas, April 23.
“Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion,” Sensory Cultures of Religion Research Group, Yale University, October 24. (online)
“Public Art Land Art Public Art,” Groundswell: Women of Land Art Symposium, Nasher Sculpture Center, September 24.
“Troubling Monuments in 21st Century America,” Department of Art History, East Tennessee State University, April 6. (online)
“Looking at Gift Horses: Hans Haacke, Ivan Mestrovic, and Public Art in Chicago,” Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas at Dallas, March 30.
“How American Art Made Relief, Recovery, and Reform a National Project During the Great Depression,” Humanities in Class Webinar, National Humanities Center, March 7. (online)
“Spirituality & Religion in American Art,” New Perspectives: Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, February 21. (online)
“The Myth of Freedom in American History and Memory,” Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, June 20.
“Monumental Troubles: Public Art, Permanence, and Cultural Vandalism in Contemporary America,” University of Texas at Dallas, April 12.
“Creative Diversity: Subjects and Styles in The Baker Museum’s Permanent Collection,” The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, January 14.
“Cultural Futures: Public Art and Racial Reckoning in 21st Century America,” Albion College, March 25. (online)
“Goodbye Columbus: Rethinking Troubling Monuments in America,” JCA Signature Series: Monument(al) Crisis, Butler University, October 12. (remote)
“Monuments,” Klau Center for Civil & Human Rights, University of Notre Dame, October 2. (remote)
Professional Participation: Other
Session respondent, “Alphabet Soup Landscapes: Understanding the New Deal Legacy Today,” Society of Architectural Historians Virtual 2024 Conference, September 21.
Author Response, “Spiritual Moderns: A Roundtable Conversation with Erika Doss,” College Art Association 112th Annual Conference, Chicago, February 16.
Co-Chair, “Confronting the Legacy of New Deal Art in the 21st Century,” College Art Association 112th Annual Conference, Chicago, February 14.
Invited panelist, “Arts Philanthropy in Turmoil: The Museum-Industrial Complex,” Tyson Ten Workshop, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, October 6.
Workshop leader, “Cultural Futures: Public Art and Racial Reckoning in 21st Century America,” International Teacher Academy, American Studies, University of Education Vorarlberg, Austria, June 23.
Moderator, “Toppled Monuments Archive: Bearing Witness,” International Sculpture Conference, November 11 (online)
Invited speaker for “Monumental Labor: Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine,” National Park Service public event and podcast, October 28 (online)
Panelist, “The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier: Vandalism and the Legacy of the Founding Fathers,” for the webinar series “The Lives of Monuments: Memory, Revolution, and Our National Parks,” National Park Service, June 17 (online)
Panelist, “Ivan Meštrović’s Equestrian Sculptures and Public Art in Chicago,” Chicago Monuments Project, Community Partnership Series, May 11 (online)
Panelist, “Monuments and Memory: Deconstructing Power in Antiquity and the Contemporary,” Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, April 29 (online)
Panelist, “Monuments and Memory in America,” New Jersey Council for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, County College of Morris, April 28 (online)
Chair and moderator, “Messy Modernism: Art in 20th Century American Magazines,” Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, Norman Rockwell Museum, April 21 (Webinar online)
Invited participant, 2021 National Park Service/Boston 250th Virtual Engagement Series, February 3, 17-18, 24 (online)
Introduction and moderator to Steven Heller, Keynote Speaker, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Annual Conference, Norman Rockwell Museum, January 15 (online)
Consultant, Templeton Religion Trust Grant, “Art Seeing Understanding,” with Robin Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Panelist, Who Owns Public Art? Program on Intellectual Property & Technology Law, Notre Dame Law School, October 29. (remote)
Invited participant, Falling and Rising: Public Monuments and Cultural Heritage in a Time of Protest, The University of Texas at Dallas, September 2. (remote)