Panels & Lectures

Keynote Lectures

Refereed Conference Panels Organized

at Professional Organization Annual Conferences

Refereed Conference Papers

at Professional Organization Annual Conferences

Other Invited Papers/Lectures (select)

2019

• Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, New York, June 28, 2019, “Art History as Storytelling” (with Yasmeen Siddiqui)

2018

• School of Visual Arts, New York City, November 6, 2018, “Surviving Election Night or Art (History) as World-making”

• Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, June 16, 2018, New Black Queer Audiovisuals Symposium, “Queer Exhaustion and Radical Vulnerability”

2017

• Museum of Art–Deland Downtown, Florida, January 5, 2017. Invited to give lecture “Back to the Future: Works of Natvar Bhavsar and Cy Twombly” as part of Natvar Bhavsar’s solo exhibition

2013

• New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, July 14, 2013, Process/Practice/Portfolio 2.0 day-long event, “Authorship and Contemporary Art History”

2010

• New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, November 2010, “Camp Aesthetics” as part of visiting scholar appointment at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

2008

• University of Manchester, England, June 2008, Sexuality Summer School (theme: Queering Culture), “Researching Queer Desi Visualities”

Panel Participant/Moderator/Discussant

2020

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

2019

• 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

• Pérez Art Museum Miami,March 6 and 8, 2018. Conversation on Steve McQueen’s “End Credits” with Susan Robeson and curator María Elena Ortiz

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

  • 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,Chimeras, and Paula Wilson: The Backward Glance. 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