Academic conferences

Instruction and the Didactic Impulse in Postwar Art from Eastern Europe at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA) in Iași, Romania, June 11 to June 12, 2026 | Paper: “Political Pedagogy and Reception of Socialist Realism at the First Nationwide Exhibition of Polish Visual Arts”

Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington D.C., November 21, 2025 | Paper: “Specters of Stalinism: Public Art and Political Memory in 1948 Poland”

XXXVI. Deutscher Kunsthistorikertag at the University of Stuttgart, March 23 to March 27, 2022 | Paper: “’Form and Content’: Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski and the Evolution of Polish Socialist Realism”

Figuring Magic Realism at The Graduate Center, CUNY, April 9, 2021 | Paper: “Labor Embodied: The Realism of Felicjan Szczęsny-Kowarski’s Pstrowski Coal Miner (1948)”

Things Left Behind: Material Culture, Disaster, and the Human Experience at University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, March 9-March 11, 2018|Paper: “War, Trauma, and Andrzej Wróblewski’s Execution (1949)”

Revolution in the Margins, 1917-2017: Graduate Student Conference on Modern and Contemporary Art in Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe at The Graduate Center, CUNY, October 13, 2017 | Conference Co-Organizer

Lectures and talks

Art After 1945: New Research, New Methodologies at the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, February 19, 2026 | Paper: “Polish Socialist Realism and the Plight of Its Public” | Online

Inside the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 16, 2024 | Online lecture: “Palimpsests"

Reality Reimagined: Vision as Process in the Work of Ruth Asawa and Harry Smith at the Whitney Museum of American Art, January 9, 2024 | In-person

Art History from Home series at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 2023 | Online lecture: “Realisms and Revolution”