Recent Presentations
“Gerhard Richter: 600 Years of Painting, 200 Years of Photography,” Teacher Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (November 2)
"Translating Slavery: Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James on the Meaning of the Haitian Revolution for Anglophone Blacks," French Identity and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism and Race, University of California, Santa Cruz (April 18)
"The Illustrated French Revolution," Art History Symposium, University of California, Santa Cruz (May 17)
"A Day in the Life of Louis XIV," pre-concert talk, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California (May)
"Defamation as Deformation: Thoughts on the Physiognomy of the Traitor during the French Revolution," New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Culture and Society: Deformity, Monstrosity and Gender, 1600-1800, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles (October 19)
"Vis/Vir/Virago: Masculinity and Citizenship in the First French Republic," 9th Annual De Bartolo Conference, The Eighteenth-Century Male, University of South Florida, Tampa (February 17)
"Different Ways of Telling the Truth about the French Revolution," Colloquium Series, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (February)
"Mapping the Postmodern," talk on J.-F. Lyotard given in a regular series arranged by the Radical Teachers' Forum, Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, California (April)
"Representing Court Society in Film and Dance, or Taking the Dead to the Movies," commentary on papers delivered by Peter Wollen and Peter Brunette, Performing the Body, third and final conference in the series Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles
"David/Marat: The Proscription and Proposed Inhumation of Jacques-Louis David as Performed by the French State under the Influence of the Artist's Most Famous Work, The Death of Marat," The Politics of the Body, second conference in the series Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles
"David's Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on his Deathbed: Assassination and the Jacobin Cause," The Revolutionary Moment: A Bicentennial Conference on Representations of the French Revolution in Literature, Art, and Historiography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (July)
Moderator, "Representations of Our (R)age: A Community Discussion of "Feminism, Art, and Media Activism," two-day conference organized by graduate students in History of Consciousness and Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz