Selected Presentations & Appearances
Bergsonian Vitalism: Class, Soviet or Nation State?
· December 12, 2013
Lecture
Conference, Relating Ideologies: The migration of ideas between different political thought systems, University of Virginia
Henri Bergson and Cubism: Subjectivity and the Road to Abstraction
· November 28, 2013
Lecture
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Henri Bergson and the European Avant-Garde: Art, Politics and Communitas
· June 15, 2013
Lecture
Institutions, Markets, Technologies (IMT): Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
Keynote Lecture: Bergson and Modern Sculpture
· January 30, 2013
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde: Anarchism and Art for Insurrection's Sake, c. 1913
· January 28, 2013
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Bergsonian Vitalism: Class, Soviet or Nation State?
· December 12, 2013
Lecture
Conference, Relating Ideologies: The migration of ideas between different political thought systems, University of Virginia
Henri Bergson and Cubism: Subjectivity and the Road to Abstraction
· November 28, 2013
Lecture
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Henri Bergson and the European Avant-Garde: Art, Politics and Communitas
· June 15, 2013
Lecture
Institutions, Markets, Technologies (IMT): Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
Keynote Lecture: Bergson and Modern Sculpture
· January 30, 2013
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde: Anarchism and Art for Insurrection's Sake, c. 1913
· January 28, 2013
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
From Bergson to Byzantium: The Case of Henri Matisse
· April 22, 2012
Lecture
Yale University
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Vorticism and Anti-Colonial Discourse in London
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
College Art Association, New York
Richard Aldington, Vorticism and Degeneration
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Gaudier-Brzeska and Contemporary Politics
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
Tate Britain, London England
The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, Italy
'The New Sculpture’: Vorticism and the Politics of Direct Carving
· December 18, 2010
Lecture
University of New Mexico
Politicizing the New Sculpture
· December 18, 2010
Lecture
Duke University
Sculpture Against the State: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Dora Marsden, Ezra Pound
· December 18, 2010
Lecture
Anarchist Vortex/ Sculptural Nominalism: Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Ezra Pound
· December 1, 2009
Lecture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, Vorticism
· January 1, 2009
Lecture
University of Victoria, Canada
Their Country: Anti-Patriotism and the Vorticist Aesthetic of Henri Gaudier.
· November 1, 2008
Lecture
UAAC Conference, Toronto
Vorticism, Violence and Modernity
· September 1, 2008
Lecture
Modernism/Anti-Modernism Conference, Bucharest, Romania
Fascism, Modernism and the Cult of Youth
· May 1, 2008
Lecture
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Aestheticized Violence: The Vorticism of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
National Humanities Center
Machine Age Fascism: Philippe Lamour and the New Vision Photography of Germaine Krull
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
University of Iowa
Framing Intuition: Bergson and the Art of Matisse
· April 1, 2008
Lecture
Grinnell College
The Violent Muse: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and World War One
· February 1, 2008
Lecture
Special session in honor of Robert L. Herbert, College Art Association Conference, Dallas, Texas
Service to the Profession
Advisory Board
·
January 2, 2013
Editorial Activities
Center for Avant-Garde Studies, University of Iceland
International Center for Avant-Garde Studies : Advisory Board
·
2013
Editorial Activities
University of Iceland
Editorial Board, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
·
2011
- December 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
·
2011
- December 17, 2011
Other
Fellowships Committee, Guggenheim Foundation
·
2011
- 2012
Other
Advisory Board
·
January 2, 2013
Editorial Activities
Center for Avant-Garde Studies, University of Iceland
International Center for Avant-Garde Studies : Advisory Board
·
2013
Editorial Activities
University of Iceland
Editorial Board, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
·
2011
- December 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies
·
2011
- December 17, 2011
Other
Fellowships Committee, Guggenheim Foundation
·
2011
- 2012
Other
External Evaluator, Promotion to Full Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth College
·
December 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
·
December 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
Jurer, Academy of Finland
·
December 18, 2010
Editorial Activities
External recommender for appointment to Full Professor with Tenure Stanford University; and Tenure, Associate Professor Rank at Columbia University
·
January 8, 2008
Other
Session Co-Chair with Patricia Leighten, UAAC Annual Conference, University of Toronto : “Expatriate Modernists”
·
2008
Event/Organization Administration