Lectures, Talks, and Conferences
Recent Presentations
“Female Sculptors in the Low Countries and their Visual Strategies,” Unforgettable Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, 21–22 May 2026
“Fleeting Colors: Pigments, Decay, and the Loss of Art,” Medici Art Project Forum, 21 Apr. 2026
“A Tale of Three Pitchers: Metalwork between the Low Countries and the Mamluk Sultanate,” Reenvisioning the Medieval World(s) in the 21st Century, annual conference of the New England Medieval Consortium, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 10–11 Apr. 2026
“Drawing Taught in All its Branches,” IFPDA Curatorial Summit, New York, 9 Apr. 2026
“Wiped Clean: Erasure and Early Modern Paper,” Mundus Chartaceus: Paper, Virtual Presence, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700,organized by Sarah McPhee and Walter S. Melion, Emory University, 25–27 Sept. 2025
“Surface Level: Patinas, Corrosion, and the Value of Renaissance Sculpture,” Tenth Quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference, Stony Brook University, 1–3 May 2025
“Painting Gold and Prestige in Late Fifteenth-Century Europe,” University of Toronto, 28–29 Mar. 2025
“Authenticity, Copies, and Authority in Prints and Money in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries,” Renaissance Society of America, 20–22 Mar. 2025
“Foxed: The Environmental Making and Unmaking of Drawings in Early Modern Europe,” Mettere mano: Reworking Early Modern Drawings, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome4–5 Mar. 2025
“Intersections of Netherlandish Art and Congolese Pavilions in Belgium’s International Expositions,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, London/Cambridge, 10–14 Jul. 2024
“Reproducing and Reflecting on Metalwork in the Early Modern Low Countries,” M-Museum, Leuven, 6 June 2024
“Beatrice Hamerani and Women as Early Modern Sculptors,” in “Molding Matters: Women in Early Modern Sculpture,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Mar., 2024
“Curating European Art Now,” NEH-Curatorial Studies Speaker Series, Hamilton College, Feb. 2024
“Beatrix Hamerana: Women Making Medals in Seventeenth-Century Rome,” Society for Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Baltimore, Oct. 2023
“Water, Rust, Acid, and Dürer’s Etchings,” Materializing Transparency, eikones: Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel, May 2023
“A Paradise of Priests, a City of Saints: Relics and Crisis in Late Medieval Liège,” City of Relics, Dartmouth College, May 2023
“Styling Reform: Lambert Lombard’s Drawings for Sculpture,” Netherlandish Drawings Symposium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 2022
“The Sculptress: Carving Women in the Early Modern Low Countries,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Amsterdam/The Hague, June 2022
“Foreign Sculpture, Local Sculpture: Receptions of Netherlandish Altarpieces in Sixteenth-Century France,” Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, May 2022
“Out from the Low Countries: The Circulation of Early Modern Devotional Sculpture,” in Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, Apr. 2022
“Miniatures acting out: narratives and statuettes in Early Modern Germany and the Low Countries,” Miniatures as Narrative: Small World and Dream Worlds, University of Toronto, March 2022
Between Altar and Collection: Miniature Devotional Sculpture, Objects of Devotion Conference, organized by the University of Ghent, May 2021
With Samantha Chang, “Art History and Social Media: Considerations for Conversations,” Open Art Histories Network, May 2021
“Making the Reformation Reliquary,” Renaissance Society of America, April 2021
“Creating a Nationalist Middle Ages: The 20th-century Wallonian Independence Movement and the Appropriation of Medieval Sculpture," ARDS Colloqium, organized with the Courtauld Institute of Art, V&A Museum, and British Museum, December 2020
“Mass-Produced Statues in the Late Medieval Maasland,” College Art Association, 2020
Recent Sessions and Conferences Organized
Roundtable co-organizer, “Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration: New Directions for Early Modern Art in the Museum,” Renaissance Society of America, 20–22 Mar. 2025
Session co-organizer with Katherine Calvin (Kenyon College), “Replicating Value: New Approaches to Printmaking and Money,” sponsored by the Association of Print Scholars, Renaissance Society of America, 20–22 Mar. 2025
Conference organizer, Living with Sculpture Colloquium, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 7 Sep. 2024
Co-organizer with Laura Tillery (Hamiliton College), “Netherlandish-ism: Art and Nationhood in 20th-Century Europe,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, 2024
Co-organizer with Laura Tillery, “Intermedial Collaboration in Artistic Processes,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, 2022
Co-organizer with Ashley Offill, “Roundtable: Re-envisioning Early Modern Collections,” Renaissance Society of America, 2023
Co-organizer with Meredith Steinfels, Ashley Offill, and John Bell, Terms of Art: Design, Description, and Discovery in Cataloguing, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2023
Co-organizer with Isabelle Lecocq, “The Miniature in and Around the Low Countries,” sponsored by the Historians of Netherlandish Art, Renaissance Society of America, 2022