“Palestine in Venice: Representation and Dissent,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2025.
“Identity and Expression in the Arab American National Museum,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Virtual, November 2024.
“What Did Women See? Gender and Viewing Experience in Early Modern Italy,” session chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2024.
“At the Scene of the Crime: Observer as Witness to the “Finding Our Voice: Sister Survivors Speak” Exhibition,” co-presenter with Francine Banner, Law and Society Conference, Puerto Rico, June 2023.
“Contemporary Women Artists from the Gulf: Identity and Interpretation,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2023.
“It Takes a Union: Developing and Supporting Women in the UAE Arts Sector,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago (virtual), February 2022.
“Expressing Female Identity in the Middle East: Perspectives from Emirati Students,” session co-chair with Stefan Messam, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York (virtual), February 2021.
“Representing Displacement: Analysing Migrant Experiences through Art, Material Culture and Museums,” session co-chair with Sarina Wakefield, The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Dialogues Past, Present and Future Conference, London, UK (virtual), September 2020.
“Regional Heritage on the Global Art Scene: A Case Study of the Sharjah Biennial,” Association for Critical Heritage Studies Conference, London, UK (virtual), August 2020.
“The Louvre Abu Dhabi: A Case Study in Contemporary Cultural Diplomacy,” Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2020. [Accepted but not presented; conference cancelled due to COVID-19]
“Art of War: Street Art, Cultural Identity, and Creative Expression in Yemen and Syria,” Museums in Arabia Conference, London, UK, June 2019.
“Public Heritage, Public Space: Street Art and Cultural Identity in the UAE,” Tangible/Intangible Heritage(s) Conference, London, UK, June 2018.
“Material Culture in the Louvre Abu Dhabi: Museological and Art Historical Perspectives,” co-presented with Sarina Wakefield, The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, London, UK, June 2018.
“Art, Culture and Materiality in the Arabian Peninsula,” session co-chair with Sarina Wakefield, The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, London, UK, June 2018.
“Showing and Seeing the Body in Emirati Contemporary Art,” Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2018.
“Where are the Women? Representation of Emirati Women Artists in the Local, Regional and International Art World,” Museums in Arabia Conference, Manama, Bahrain, October 2017.
“Gender and Identity in the Gulf: Cultural Constructions and Representations,” workshop co-chair with Sarina Wakefield and Laila Prager, Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, UK, August 2017.
“Towards an Appropriate Pedagogy in the United Arab Emirates: Local vs. International Educational Models,” session chair, The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Conference, Edinburgh, UK, July 2017.
“Image and Identity: Reflections of the Female Body in the Work of Emirati Women Artists,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 2017.
“Global Art History in the Middle East: Pedagogy and Practice,” Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2016.
“Earth as Means and Metaphor in Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, February 2016.
“Teaching Global Art History in the Gulf Region: A New Approach,” 3rd Annual International Conference on Humanities and the Arts in a Global World (ATINER), Athens, Greece, January 2016.
“Street Art and Cultural Context in the MENA Region,” HISTART ’15, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2015.
“Life Behind the Veil: United Arab Emirates and Iran,” invited lecture, Philadelphia Geographical Society, Philadelphia, PA, July 2015; also delivered in February 2016.
“Memory of Absence: Krakow’s Jewish Ghetto Memorial as Counter-Monument,” Re-Inventing Eastern Europe Conference, Krakow, Poland, April 2015.
“Martyrs and Victims: Memorial Architecture in Iran and the U.S.,” AUD/BRISMES conference on Re-Locating Middle East Studies, Dubai, April 2015.
“Memorial Architecture and Aesthetic Pleasure,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 2014.
“Materiality and Memory in Post-War El Salvador,” Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2014.
“The City Revealed: Vittore Carpaccio and Narrative Painting in Renaissance Venice,” invited lecture, The Annual Raymond S. Schmandt Lecture, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, April 2014.
“The Banksy Effect: The Rise of Street Art in Contemporary Visual Culture,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2014.
“The Legacy of ‘The Wall’: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Memorial Design,” Athens Institute for Education and Research: Fine and Performing Arts Conference (ATINER), Athens, Greece, June 2013.
“The Contested Space of Memory: New York’s 9/11 Memorial,” Arts in Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK, July 2012.
“What’s in a Name?: Personal Identity and the 9/11 Memorials,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 2012.
“Commemoration and Caution: Artistic Responses to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Art After Disasters Conference, EWHA University, Seoul, South Korea, May 2011.
“The Art of War: Conflict, Trauma, and Representation from the Vietnam War to Today,” session chair and speaker, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2010.
“À la recherche du temps perdu: Reflections on Technology, Multiplicity, and Meaning in Contemporary Art,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, February 2006.
“A Practical Guide to Collecting Photography,” invited lecture co-presented with Rick De Coyte, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, February 2005.
“Hidden in Plain Sight: How Images Obscure and Reveal the Realities of Women’s Lives,” invited lecture, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.
“Does Perception Influence Reception in the Visual Arts?” Annual Conference of the American Synesthesia Association, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 2004.
“Incorporating the Student Portfolio in Online Courses: Practical and Pedagogical Strategies,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 2003.
“Neither Virgin nor Whore: The Symbolic Status of Women in Cinquecento Venice,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 2002.
“From Brushstrokes to Bytes: Art Historical Approaches to Digital Art,” session chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2002.
“Only Connect: Digital Art and the New Role of the Spectator,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2001.
“Viewer as Player: Interactivity in Digital Art,” Small Computers in the Arts Network Conference, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, November 2000.
“Does Digital Art Have an (Art) History?,” International Congress on the History of Art, London, UK, September 2000.
“A Feminist Dilemma: How Do We Read Depictions of Rape?” Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY, October 1999.
“Illicit Arousal: Pornographic References in Tintoretto’s Paintings of Tarquin and Lucretia,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 1998.
“Interpret This!: Art Historical Approaches to New Media,” Conference on Art and Technology, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, October 1998; also presented at the Small Computers in the Arts Network Conference, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA November, 1998.
“Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia: Reading a Narrative of Rape in its Historical Context,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 1997.
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