Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions
Peinture, histoire, et la gravité du plaisir au siècle des Lumières.
· June 4, 2020
- June 7, 2020
Invited Talk
Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art,
Fontainebleau, France
Seeing through touch, touching with the eyes: the sensorial construction of Rome in the age of the Enlightenment
· December 2019
Invited Talk
Bard Graduate Center,
New York
History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in Eighteenth Century France
- Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium
· November 2019
Invited Talk
Harvard University,
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
History, Painting, and Love in the Age of Louis XV
- Universities Art Association of Canada
· October 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Universities Art Association of Canada,
Quebec City, QC
Roman Stories: Mapping the Foreigner's Urban Narratives and the Representation of the Early Modern City
- Western Society of French History
· October 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Western Society of French History,
Bozeman, MO
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Genre Paintings and the Constrution of Italian Identities
- International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
· July 2019
International Meeting or Conference
The University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, UK
“History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV”
· March 2019
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, UK
Breakout Session "Space, Objects, Audience: the Future of Eighteenth-Century Art"
· November 2018
International Meeting or Conference
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture,
SMU, Dallas
“L’Invention du Bonheur. Peindre l’Histoire au siècle des Lumières”
· May 2018
Invited Talk
Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Paris, France
“Assembling Rome for the Eighteenth-Century Viewer”
· March 2018
International Meeting or Conference
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Orlando
“Indolence is a woman. Greuze’s Lazy Italian girl and the debate over Italian cultural collapse”
- Bettie Allison Rand Symposium in honor of Mary D. Sheriff
· February 2018
Invited Talk
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium
· April 2017
Invited Talk
Harvard Art Museums,
Harvard Art Museums
The Invention of Happiness
- Painting History in the Enlightenment
· October 2016
Invited Talk
Iowa University,
School of Art and Art History
"Weighty Matters in Delightful Images"
- The Delight of the Eye: Eighteenth-Century Painting and/as Decoration
· March 2016
Invited Talk
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Pittsburgh
"Painting of Love as Ideology of Harmony"
- Eros and Elightenment
· February 2016
Invited Talk
College Art Association,
Washington, D.C.
Dionysos Trublion
- Peindre la Fable à l'âge des Lumières
· October 2015
Invited Talk
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte,
Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
The "Action of Repose" in the Theory and Practice of Painting
- Workshop
· March 2015
Invited Talk
University of Chicago
"Wandering in Rome, the Psycho-Geography of the Solitary Walker"
· March 2015
Invited Talk
Renaissance Society of America
Resting Beauties
- Academic Practice and History Painting in the French Enlightenment
· January 2015
Invited Talk
De Paul University
"Wandering around Rome. The Esthetics of the Mobile Gaze in the Eighteenth Century"
- The Mobile Spectator: Viewing on the Move
· July 2014
Invited Talk
University of Nottingham
"The Eternal Modernity of Rome. The Poetics of the Past in French 18th-century Painting"
- Representing the Past
· March 2014
Invited Talk
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Berlin
"Drawing New Foundations for History Painting. Life Drawing and the Crisis of Historia at the French Royal Academy"
- Drawing Foundations in Early Modern Europe
· February 2014
Invited Talk
College Art Association,
Chicago
De l'imminent au potentiel
- L'action de repos' dans la peinture d'histoire sous Louis XV
· December 2013
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris
"De l'imminent au potentiel. L'action de repos' dans la peinture d'histoire sous Louis XV"
- Temporality and Potentiality in the Artworks
· December 2013
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris
"Touching Rome: The Emotional Construction of the Eternal City"
- Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe 1600-1900
· October 2013
Invited Talk
Institute of Historical Research,
London
Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777), le dessin à l'origine de la création artistique
- Exhibition
· June 2012
- September 2012
Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nimes, France
Exhibition
"La Tapisserie de l'Histoire de Don Quichotte' de Charles-Joseph Natoire. Œuvre de Traduction ou Récit Renouvelé"
- De l'Apocalypse d'Angers à Alechinsky
· June 2012
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris
Du Sacré au Profane: Problèmes de Sécularisation de l'Image en France au XVIIIe Siècle"
- Le Sacré en Question. Sujets Bibliques, Sujets Mythologiques sur les Scènes du XVIIIe Siècle
· June 2012
Invited Talk
Université d'Artois,
Maison de la Recherche
"L'hybridation des genres dans la peinture d'histoire en France au XVIIIe siècle"
- Genres littéraires et peinture
· October 2011
Invited Talk
Université Blaise Pascal,
Clermont-Ferrand
"La sociabilité à L'Académie de France à Rome sous le directorat de Charles-Joseph Natoire (1751-1775)"
- Art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815)
· June 2011
Invited Talk
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris
Peindre l'histoire de France au XVIIIe siècle
- Workshop
· March 2011
Invited Talk
Université de Poitiers
"Peindre l'histoire de France au XVIIIe siècle"
- Ecrire l'histoire de France de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle
· March 2011
Invited Talk
Université de Poitiers
"Le Transfert de modèles comme pratique artistique. Le cas de la peinture d'histoire en France au XVIIIe siècle"
- Transfert de modèles dans le sillage des Lumières
· April 2010
Invited Talk
Université de Limoges
"Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) ou l'œuvre ultime comme anamnèse"
- Le grand âge et ses œuvres ultimes (XVIème-XXIème siècles)
· December 2009
Invited Talk
Université de Poitiers
Service to the Profession
Reviewer, Pandemic Relief Fund Commitee
·
2020
Committee Service
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA)
Field Editor for the 18th-Century Art, College Art Association
·
July 2019
Editorial Activities
Co-organizer, International symposium. "Suspendre le temps, continuer l’espace"
·
2019
Administration
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3,
Paris, France
Committee Member, Mary Vidal Memorial Award Committee
·
2019
Committee Service
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture
External Reviewer, Journal 18
·
2019
Editorial Activities
Editor-in-Chief, "The Body in Art"
·
2017
Editorial Activities
Brepols
External Reviewer
·
2017
Editorial Activities
Rives méditerranéennes
Organizer, Internationl symposium. "Body Narratives: Motion and Emotion in the French Enlightenment"
·
2015
Administration
The University of Chicago
Committee Member, The France Chicago Center (FCC) Travel Grant Committee
·
2014
- 2016
Committee Service
University of Chicago
Hiring Committee, History/Art History Department
·
2011
- 2012
Committee Service
Université de Limoges
Organizer, Symposium. "Le prince et les arts en France et en Italie (XIVe-XVIIIe siècles)"
·
2011
Administration
Universite de Limoges, France
Library Committee
·
2011
- 2012
Committee Service
Université de Limoges,
Limoges, France
Co-organizer, Symposium. "Transfert de modèles dans le sillage des Lumières"
·
2010
Administration
Universite de Limoges, France
Vice-Chair, History Department
·
2009
- 2010
Administration
Université de Limoges
Member
·
2007
- 2010
Committee Service
Ministry of Culture,
Paris, France
Hiring Committee, History/Art History Department
·
2007
- 2008
Committee Service
Université de Limoges
Co-organizer, Symposium. "L’événement “tragique” aux époques moderne et contemporaine"
·
2007
Administration
Universite de Limoges, France
Co-organizer, Visiting speakers series
·
2003
- 2005
Administration
Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Quimper, France
Service to Duke
Bass Connections Advisory Board, Project Vox
·
2019
Projects & Field Work
Co-organizer, Visiting speakers series
·
2019
Administration
Department of Art, Art HIstory & Visual Studies
External Reviewer, Bass Connections
·
2019
Editorial Activities
Lilly Library Liaison
·
2019
Consulting
Library Council (University)
·
2019
Committee Service
Arts &Sciences Council (University)
·
2018
- 2019
Committee Service
alternate representative
Language Exams (Italian, French)
·
2018
Other
Graduate Committee (Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Candidacy of Prof. C.Gruber (Department)
·
2018
Committee Service
Academic & Administrative Activities
MEMBERSHIP
College Art Association
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in the Enlightenment
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Universities Art Association of Canada
Western Society for French History