PRESENTATIONS
Including Conferences Organized & Invitations
2024
2023
“Facing the Archive: Reading Declassified Eastern Bloc Documents Along and Against the Grain.” Co-presented with Cristina Vatulescu (NYU) for the Global Socialisms Network. Virtual (November 8).
“Experimental Art in Late East Germany,” presented as part of the panel “Socialist, Ephemeral and Globalized: New Directions in the Study of German Art,” German Studies Association annual conference, Montreal, Canada (October 7).
Keynote speaker for the 2023 Humanities Symposium (“Surveillance and the Self”), University of Missouri (April 21).
“Parallel Public. Experimental Art in Late East Germany, in conversation with Dr. Briana J. Smith,” European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum Book Series (January 30).
"Radical Patience: Intimacy and Multiplicity in Gabriele Stötzer's Photo Books," Research Forum for German Visual Culture (online, April 17).
“Grrrls on Video: Joanie4Jackie as Feminist Craft in the Pre-Internet America,” Craft History Workshop Seminar Series (online, April 9).
2022
"BITTERFELD IS EVERYWHERE: Industrial Hauntings in the Former East,” presented as part of “Halloween in Ostberlin: Memory, Space, and the East,” German Studies Association annual conference, Houston (September 18).
“Early Career Publishing in Visual Culture,” University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Visual Cultures. (December 8).
“The Collective Impossible: The Feminist Performance Art of Exterra XX in Late East Germany,” Michigan State University (Part of the Stanley & Selma Hollander Lecture Series). (November 16).
Book launch of Free Berlin by Briana J. Smith and Parallel Public by Sara Blaylock. Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (October 28).
"BITTERFELD IS EVERYWHERE: Industrial Hauntings in the Former East,” presented as part of “Halloween in Ostberlin: Memory, Space, and the East,” German Studies Association annual conference, Houston (September 18).
MIT Press Book launch of Parallel Public by Sara Blaylock and Paper Revolutions by Sarah James. ChertLüdde Gallery, Berlin, Germany. With Kathleen Reinhardt. (June 24).
“Making a Scene. Artists, Gay Life and German History in the Films of Gino Hahnemann,” University of California Santa Barbara’s Graduate Center for Literary Research and Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy, (Part of the “New Approaches to Art in the German Democratic Republic” series). Virtual (May 20).
“The Valor of the Misfit: Experimental Art in Late East Germany,” Conversation with Dr. Seth Howes (Associate Professor of German, University of Missouri), Deutsches Haus at New York University and DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Virtual (April 14).
“The Body in Ruins. Radical Performance in the Late East Germany,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (March 31).
“Parallel Public with Sara Blaylock,” Conversation with Dr. Lynette Roth (Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University), Virtual (March 30).
“Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany,” presented as part of the “Socialist, Ephemeral and Globalized: New Directions in the Study of German Art,” College Art Association annual conference, Zoom (February 17).
2021
Interview with the film director Annekatrin Hendel on the film Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit, DEFA Summer Film Institute (June 16).
Final paper: “Parties, Portfolios, and the Occasional Egg: EIGEN+ART and Creative Dissent in a Late East Germany,” Creative Dissent: Alternative Cultures during Socialism and Beyond, 1945 – 1991, Zoom (April 14).
“Alternative Space: Experimental Culture in the GDR,” Wende Museum Cold War Spaces Discussion Series (March 24). https://vimeo.com/528523170
2020
“Parties, Portfolios, and the Occasional Egg: EIGEN+ART and Creative Dissent in a Late East Germany,” Creative Dissent: Alternative Cultures during Socialism and Beyond, 1945 – 1991, Zoom conference (October 27 - 28).
2019
Seminar on Teaching East German Culture, German Studies Association 43rd annual conference, Portland, Oregon (October 3-6).
“Birth Stories of a Mutation Scenario: Chernobyl and the East German Body in Gundula Schulze Eldowy's Birth Portraits,” College Art Association 107th annual conference, New York, New York (February 14).
2018
Invited Speaker “The Subject Who Knows: Photographers and Photographed in a Late East Germany,” University of Minnesota Morris (December 7).
Conference Organized International Association for Visual Culture fifth biannual conference (“Visual Pedagogies”), London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (September 13-15).
“Crossing Media, Forging Community – The Experimental Films of East Germany’s Feminist Art Collective, the Künstlerinnengruppe Exterra XX,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies 59th annual conference, Toronto, Canada (March 17).
2017
Invited Speaker / Visiting Scholar Museum of Modern Art, C-MAP Central and Eastern European research initiative, New York, New York (March 22).
“Enacting the Citizen: Artist Publications in East Germany as a Counter-Public Sphere,” College Art Association 105th annual conference, New York, New York (February 17).