Conferences, Presentations, Lectures

Upcoming:

Pedagogy and Architecture Archives
A Case Study of Avery Drawings & Archives at Columbia University
Hosei University, Tokyo (online)
29 November 2023

Past:

Design History Society Annual Conference
Porto – Matosinhos, Portugal
Panel: Changing Spaces: Gender and Display in Interwar East-Central Europe
Paper Title: Raumkunst for the People: “Spatial Art” and Exhibitions of Interior Design in Interwar Vienna
7-9 September 2023

Art Glass Forum, New York
Guest Speaker: Glass Ceilings and Class Struggle: Glass Labor Disputes and the Gender Divide in New York City, 1890-1910
11 April 2023

College Art Association 111th Annual Conference
New York, NY
Session Chair and Panelist: Folk Fantasies: Exploring Folk Modernisms in Interwar Central Europe
15–18 February 2023

Society of Architectural Historians – Historic Interiors Group Emerging Scholars
Moderator: From Dissertation to Book (and Everything in Between): Publishing Academic Research in the History of Interiors
12PM-1:30PM EST | Zoom Event, Free & Open to the Public
4 November 2022

Design History Society Annual Conference, Design and Transience
Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
Panelist (online): “Disappearing Acts: Rethinking Modern Design Practice in Vienna”
10 September 2022

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Centre for Modern Art and Theory SMArt Talks
Paper Title: “An ‘American Egypt’ in the Motor City: Detroit’s Fisher Theatre and U.S. Appropriations of Maya Cultural Heritage”
25 April 2022

Society of Architectural Historians, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group
First Annual Research Symposium
Paper Title: Vienna’s Other Modernism: Exhibitions of Interior Design, 1927–1937
21 May 2021

Krúžok – Working Group for Central and Eastern European History, Yale University
Paper Title: Der gute, billige Gegenstand: The “Good Design” Phenomenon in Interwar Vienna
11 March 2021

Goethe Institut, Washington, DC with Form Function Studio and DC Public Library
Guest Speaker and Panelist
Design for Everyone: An Intro to Bauhaus | Bauhaus Graphic Design
5 February 2020

American Studies Association
Honolulu, HI
Paper Title: Glass Ceilings and Class Struggle: A New Light on Glass Labor Disputes and the Gender Divide in 1890s New York
9 November 2019

Archivists Roundtable, New York Archives Week Symposium
The Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
Paper Title: Radical Records: Design and Disruption in Italy, 1965-75
17 October 2019

College Art Association
New York, NY
Paper Title: Immigration and American Design Education: Walter Sobotka and Design Pedagogy in 1940s Pittsburgh
15 February 2019

MICA Graphic Design Department
Baltimore, MD
Guest Lecturer, History of Graphic Design
Lecture Title: Graphik-künstler*innen: Women in the Graphic Arts and the Wiener Werkstätte
12 February 2019

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York, NY
Guest Lecturer, Public Education Course: Highlights in the History of Graphic Design
1 April 2018

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York, NY
Guest Lecturer
Lecture Title: Reform and Revival: Austrian Modernism(s) in Design and Architecture, 1897-1914
19 October 2018

Design History Society
Parsons School of Design, New York
Design and Displacement
Paper Title: From Black Bottom to Lafayette Park: Reexamining the History and Memory of Displacement and Urban Planning in Detroit
6-8 September 2018

MICA Graphic Design Department
Baltimore, MD
Guest Lecturer, History of Graphic Design
Lecture Title: Art and Design in Vienna’s Frauenkunst (Women’s Art) Movement
18 February 2018

ICOM International Council of Museums
Annual ICOM Conference, Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami
Rethinking Art Deco in the History of Design and Decorative Arts
Paper Title: Revival by Design: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte Textile Department 1919-1932
29 November – 1 December, 2017

Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum / Parsons School of Design
26th Annual Graduate Student Symposium: “Design and Displacement”
Paper Title: Austrian-American Modernism at RISD: The Influence of Ernst Lichtblau’s Pedagogy and Practice
7-8 April 2017

MICA Graphic Design Department
Baltimore, MD
Guest Lecturer, History of Graphic Design
Lecture Title: Wiener Werkstätte Graphic Design: Koloman Moser as Case Study
28 February 2017

College Art Association
New York, NY
Panel: “Architectural Gesamtkunstwerk”
Paper Title: Gesamtkunstwerk and Gemeinschaft: Mies van der Rohe and Urban Planning in the Case of Lafayette Park, Detroit
17 February 2017

Design History Society
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
How We Live and How We Might Live: Design & The Spirit of Critical Utopianism
Paper Title: Utopian Facades: A Sociopolitical Examination of East German Architecture and Identity in DEFA Films, 1980-1989
12 September 2015

Southeastern College Art Conference
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Session Chair: New Unities: Transatlantic Conversations in Art, Design, and Technology in Europe and America, 1890-1933
8-11 October 2014

Victorian Society of America, Metropolitan New York Chapter
Guest Lecture: Curious Creatures: Designing Nature from the Crystal Palace to the Modern Zoological Garden
11 February 2014

Parsons School of Design and Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
MA History of Design and Curatorial Studies Program
Guest Lecture: Objects of Health in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg
23 November 2013

Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Research Forum Conference
Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory
Panel Speaker, “Territories and Affiliations”
Paper Title: Longing for Past and Future: Cultural Identity and Central European Revivalist Glassware Designs
23-24 November 2012