PRESENTATIONS
“Black Men in Red,” Milwaukee Art Museum, April 2024
“Ornamental Blackness: What, Why, So What?” What’s Race Got To Do With It?, Historians of Eighteenth Century Art and Architecture conference, Boston, October 2023
“Fraught: On Sculpting Abolition,” Plenary Speaker, Abolitionism and the Arts, Symposium, Columbia University, May 2023
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“Black Baroque: Contemporary Art and Spectacular Presence,” High Museum of Art, April 2023
“The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture, in Conversation with Nicola Jennings and Lynda Nead” -Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Video, Volume 22, Issue 1, Spring 2023
“Race and Ornament: Seeing the Black Body in European Porcelain,” Gardiner Signature Lecture Series, the Helen E. Gardiner Lecture, Gardiner Museum, April 2022
“David Driskell’s Intimate Landscapes,” American Landscapes: Nature, Beauty, History, David C. Driskell Center and The Phillips Collection, October 2021.
Bernard Osher Lecture, “David C. Driskell: Interiors, Objects and the Spirit of Form,” Portland Museum of Art, July 2021
“Bob Thompson, Goya and the Caprice of Art History,” Research Symposium, Art by African Americans, Lunder Institute, Colby College Museum of Art, March 2020.
“Material Matters: Race and Materiality in the Decorative Arts,” Keynote Address, The Clark Art Institute, Williams College, November 1, 2019
The Eda G. Diskant Memorial Lecture, “Ornamental Blackness and the Decorative Arts,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 5, 2019
“Ornamental Blackness: Seeing the Black Body in European Luxury Arts,” Keynote Address, 9th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium, April 19, 2019
“Silver, Slavery, and the Laboring Black Body,” College Art Association, New York, February 15, 2019
Keynote Discussion, Shared Ground: Cross Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies, Bard Graduate Center, September, 2018
“The Moorish Bath: Women of Color in Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art,” The Devens Lecture Series, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December, 2017
“Race, Exoticism, and the Decorative Conceit: Black Figures in Fine and Decorative Arts” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, March 2017
“The Marble Moor,” Black Portraitures II: Revisited, New York University, February 2016
“The Marble Moor,” Black Portraitures II, The Black Body in the West, New York University and Harvard University, Florence, Italy, June 2015
“Uncontrollable Beauty: Fred Wilson’s Murano Glass Chandeliers,” College Art Association, New York, February 2015
“The Glazed Blackamoor: Minton’s Majolica Jardinières and the African Body (1867)” La Sculpture entre 1850 and 1880, INHA and École du Louvre, Paris, France, May 2014
“Beauty and the Blackamoor,” Black Portraitures in the West, NYU, Harvard University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Musée du Quay Branly, Paris, France, January 2013
“A Blackamoor’s Progress: The Black Male Body in European Decorative Arts,” Fall
Colloquium Series, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, November 2012