Panel Participant/Moderator/Discussant (select)
2025
Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 14, 2025. Moderator of conversation with artists, part of the exhibition “Between Material and Being: What Persists, What Emerges” organized by Atif F. Sheikh
Center for Craft, June 25, 2025. “Shaping and Reshaping: 20 Years of Craft Research Fund.” Moderator of online panel discussion with Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch, Maria Elena Buszek, Faythe Levine, and LJ Roberts.
KINOMUZEUM, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, April 6, 2025. Panel discussion after screening of Wojciech Puś’s Endless and Stefan Węgłowski’s light concert Nécessité, with Pat Dudek and Jorge Benavides.
Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland, April 4, 2025. Conversation with Dr. Jacek J. Kolasiński, Dr. Hab. Maciej Aleksandrowicz, and Dr. Antonina Konopelska as part of the closing of Kolasiński’s Poloné Nwa exhibition.
Florida International University–Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, March 14, 2025. Panel discussion on Sunset Colonies exhibition with Diego Waisman and Dr. Louis H. Marcelin
2023
Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 22, 2023. Moderator of conversation with artists, part of the exhibition “Proposal for a Memorial for Partition,” organized by Murtaza Vali
Loughborough University Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), England, March 17, 2023. Planetary Feminisms: Decoloniality, Ecological Thinking, Creative Praxis Roundtable
Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, February 27, 2023. Online conversation with Yasmeen Siddiqui: “Art History as Storytelling”
2022
UrbanGlass, New York City, March 25, 2022. Conversation with Kris Rumman regarding her solo exhibition, “Till Human Voices Wake US, And We Drown”
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 13, 2022. Moderator for two ninety-minute artist panels connected to the exhibition #fail
2021
WOPHA: Women, Photography, and Feminisms Congress, Miami, Florida, November 19, 2021. Conversation with Carlotta Boettcher: “Productive Failure and Queer Photography”
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA)/The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, June 22-23, 2021. Panelist for online workshop “Transnationalism and its new spatial frames: artists, objects, and forms of deterritorialization”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Vcwe2AJ3w
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
New York Academy of Art, November 7, 2018. “Creating Visual Histories: The Role of Art History Today.” Conversation with Sharon Louden and Yasmeen Siddiqui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FVfhhqLW6w
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