Panels & Lectures
Keynote Lectures
August 11, 2018
Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco
Video
October 27, 2016
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
Video
October 4 and November 7, 2016
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
video
Refereed Conference Panels Organized
at Professional Organization Annual Conferences
February 13 - 16, 2019
New York City
April 6 - 8, 2017
Leicestershire, UK
February 3 - 6, 2016
Washington, DC
April 10 -12, 2014
London, UK
June 27 - July 1, 2012
Leeds, UK
Refereed Conference Papers
at Professional Organization Annual Conferences
February 21 - 24, 2018
Los Angeles, CA
April 2017
Loughborough, UK
April 25, 2015
Chicago, IL
February 2014
Chicago, IL
April 2013
Seattle, Washington
June 2012
Leeds, UK
March 2012
Milton Keynes, UK
February 2010
Chicago, Illinois
August 2008
Copenhagen, Denmark
Other Invited Papers/Lectures (select)
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
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