Panel Participant/Moderator/Discussant (select)

2021

  • College Art Association annual conference, New York City, 2021. Participant, “Intimate Acts: Reimagining Publics in Contemporary Art” panel

2020

  • College Art Association annual conference, Chicago, October 2, 2020. Discussant for “Technologies of Drag: South Asians Queering American Art Through Craft and Design” panel

  • Humboldt University, Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, and Wilzig Erotic art Museum, October 14, 2020. Participant, “History of Sexuality: Temporary Exhibitions - Permanent Collections,” part of Exhibitionism: Sexuality at the Museum workshop

  • Society for Contemporary art Historians, October 2, 2020. Participant, “Anti-racist Contemporary Art History” panel

2019

  • New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, October 8, 2019. Moderator, “Thinking Unruly Aesthetics: A Roundtable with Kandice Chuh, Allan deSouza and Gayatri Gopinath”

  • History Miami Museum, May 23, 2019. “Miami’s LGBTQ+ Past, Present, and Future.” Conversation with Jafari Allen, Brenna Munro; June Raven Romero, Dani Dominguez, and Julio Capó, Jr.

  • Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, March 23, 2019. Conversation with curator Abby Chen and artist Lam Tung Pang regarding Pang’s solo exhibition

  • Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, February 27, 2019. Panel discussion with Cassils and Laura Gutierrez

  • Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, January 17, 2019. Conversation regarding my book Productive Failure: writing queer transnational South Asian art histories with curator María Elena Ortiz

2018

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), California, February 21, 2018. “The #MeToo Age: Power & Gender Equity in the Art World” panel. Participant, along with Hrag Vartanian, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Tim Doud, and Courtney Fink. Moderated by Sharon Louden

  • Locust Projects, Miami, January 24, 2018. Conversation with artist Pepe Mar regarding his solo exhibition

2017

  • Twelve Gates Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 11, 2017. Discussion of my monograph Productive Failure with art historian Natasha Bissonauth

  • Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, September 12, 2017 (unable to attend). Discussion with Sharon Louden, Chloe Bass, and Ellen Harvey of Louden’s book Artist as Cultural Producer

  • Queens Museum of Art and Asia Society, New York City, June 31–July 2, 2017. “Fatal Love: Where Are We Now?” convening, presented by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and copresented by Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York City.

    • Participant on “Queer Theorists” panel with Natasha Bissonauth, Dr. Ronak Kapadia, and Allan deSouza. Moderated by Kareem Khubchandani.

    • Moderator, “Creating Visual Patois: Extending regional forms to conceptual ones” panel. Panelists included Ambreen Butt, Mahwish Chishty, Shahzia Sikander, and Khalil Chishtee.

  • The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, February 2, 2017. Moderator, ARTalk panel discussion in conjunction with opening of trio of exhibitions exploring gender, identity and the human body: Cassils: Phantom Revenant,Paula Wilson: The Backward Glance, and Chimeras. Panelists included exhibiting artists Cassils and Paula Wilson; and Risa Puleo, curator-in-residence

2015

  • Adam Mickiewicz University,Poznań, Poland, October 21, 2015. Invited to give a workshop on the book project “Productive Failure: Writing Transnational South Asian Art Histories”

  • POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland, September 9, 2015. Invited to give a presentation and participate in discussion regarding the book From Museum Critique to the Critical Museumto which I contributed. Other speakers include Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, John Onians, Krzysztof Zwirblis, and Ewa Toniak

  • David Castillo Gallery, Miami, April 10, 2015. Conversation with artist Lyle Ashton Harris regarding his solo exhibition

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, April 4, 2015. Conversation regarding Alternative Contemporaneity (TAZ) exhibition

2014

  • The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, November 19, 2014. Conversation with artist Ryan Trecartin 

2013

  • Miami Beach Urban Studios, November 20, 2013. Pecha Kucha event for WOMEN exhibition, “Signifiers in Queer/Feminist Contemporary Art in Asia and Miami”

  • Coral Gables Museum, Miami, October 3, 2013. Panelist regarding the exhibition Relevance of Phillip Johnson and his Glass House to Art and ArchitectureToday

  • Reed College, Portland, Oregon, September 2013. Invited to be a part of a discussion on Amelia Jones’s 2012 book Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

  • Locust Projects, Miami, August 10, 2013. Conversation with artist Nick Gilmore

2012

  • The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, February 2012. Moderator of panel “Geometric Abstraction,” accompanying the exhibition Color on Color

2011

  • University of Manchester’s Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, England, July 2011. Respondent to panel “Viewing, Living, and Representing the City” at Diasporic Conviviality, Cosmopolitanism, and Urban Spaces workshop