Presentations

  • “Everyday Art-workers in the Greek Sculpture Industry,” 124th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA/Virtual Meeting (2023)
  • “Women Artists in Ancient Greece and Rome,” Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA via Zoom (2021)
  • “Art, Work, and Identity in the Greek Sculpture Industry,” Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (2021)
  • “Egyptian, Jewish, and Far Eastern Art and Architecture in Graeco-Roman Art-historical Writing,” 122nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Virtual Meeting (2021)
  • “Non-Greek and Non-Roman Art and Architecture in Graeco-Roman Art-historical Writing,” 2020 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Eugene, OR, USA (abstract accepted; conference cancelled owing to COVID-19)
  • “Rubbish, Rhetoric, and Hellenism in Sosos’s Unswept Room Mosaic,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA (2019)
  • “Asian-Greek Identity on the Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar at Pergamon,” History of Art and Architecture Faculty Colloquium Series, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (2019)
  • Co-chaired session (with Isabelle Pafford): “Art, Architecture, and the Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East,” 107th Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York, NY, USA (2019)
  • “The Construction of Asian-Greek Identity on the Telephos Frieze,” 120th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, USA (2019)
  • “Near Eastern Art and Architecture in Ancient ‘Global Art History,'” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Denver, CO, USA (2018)
  • “The Progymnasmata and the Reproduction of Hellenism in the Ancient Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Migrations, Mediterranean Seminar/University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (2018).
  • “Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece,” Books by Design Lecture Series, College of Design, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA (2017)
  • “Rediscovering the Women Artists of Greece and Rome,” Archaeology and the Humanities, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA (2017)
  • “Cross-cultural Exchange in Gandharan Sculpture from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,” 2017 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA (2017)
  • “Viewing Hybridity in Gandharan Art,” Asian Studies Development Program 23rd National Conference, Portland, OR, USA (2017)
  • “Why Aren’t the Great Women Artists of Greece and Rome Better Known?,” Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Willamette University/Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Salem, OR, USA (2016)
  • “The Social Construction of Greek Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Art History and Criticism,” 2016 Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA (2016)
  • Co-chaired session (with Isabelle Pafford): “Space and the Sacred in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East,” 104th Annual Conference, College Art Association, Washington, DC, USA (2016)
  • “The Playful Use of Mimesis and Surface in Hellenistic Mosaics at Pergamon,” 103rd Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York, NY, USA (2015)
  • Co-chaired session (with Andrew Stewart): “Drachma-tic Art: The Economics of Ancient Greek Visual Culture,” 102nd Annual Conference, College Art Association, Chicago, IL, USA (2014)
  • “Greek Rhetoric and Insular Cultural Production in the Hellenistic World,” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Baltimore, MD, USA (2013)
  • “Cultural Interaction (and Reaction) in the Courtly Art of the Hellenistic World” and “Art History and Criticism in Ancient Greece,” Haines-Morris Distinguished Lectures in Classics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville/East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, TN, USA (2013)
  • “Rhetoric and Cross-cultural Exchange in Gandharan Sculpture,” 101st Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York, NY, USA (2013)
  • “The Local Perspective on Graeco-Roman Classicism in Gandharan Sculpture,” 114th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, WA, USA (2013)
  • “The Anxiety of Social Status among Greek Artists and Craftsmen,” Craft and People, British Museum, London, UK (paper read in absentia because of hurricane) (2012)
  • “Trashing the King: Patronage, Ekphrasis, and Sosos’s Unswept Room Mosaic,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (2011)
  • “A Shared Heritage in both ‘East’ and ‘West’: The Use of the Classical Tradition in Islamic Art,” 2011 Southeastern College Art Conference, Savannah, GA, USA (2011)
  • “Ancient Greek Theories of Authorship and the Creation of Art History,” 99th Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York, NY, USA (2011)
  • “The Image of Dacia in Roman Art,” Bridging the Past and Present in Romania, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA (2010)
  • “Food for Thought: Sosos’s Unswept Room Mosaic and Sympotic Games,” 111th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Anaheim, CA, USA (2010)
  • “The Rhetorical Basis of Hellenistic Aesthetics,” Hellenistic Aesthetics Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA (2007)
  • “Archaic Greek Sculpture in the National Museum, Athens,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece/National Museum, Athens, Greece (2006)
  • “Fourth Century B.C.E. and Hellenistic Sculpture in the National Museum, Athens,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece/National Museum, Athens, Greece (2005)
  • “The Archelaos Relief: An Enkomion?,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece (2005)
  • “A New World View: The Personification of Oikoumene in Hellenistic and Roman Art,” 106th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, USA (2005)
  • “The Aphrodite of Knidos, Magic, and the Spectator,” 104th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA, USA (2003)
  • “Wall-painting, Politics, and Style in the Age of Augustus,” 2002 Berkeley Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representation, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (2002)
  • “The Image of the ‘Incredible Hulk’ in Third-century C.E. Rome,” The Archaeology of the Body, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA (2002)
  • “The Appropriation of Narrative Art in Early Greek Poetry: The Case of Archilochus,” 103rd Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2002)
  • “The Aphrodite of Knidos, Copying, and the Creation of a Precious Original,” Precious: Objects and Changing Values, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK (2001)
  • “Personifications of the Iliad and the Odyssey,” 102nd Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, USA (2001)
  • “Hellenistic Art as Historical Evidence,” Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (2001)
  • “Personifications of Literature in Greek Art,” Personification in the Greek World, King’s College/Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, London, UK (2000)
  • “The Study of Hellenistic Art Today,” Hellenistic Studies Symposium, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA (1999)
  • “Reconstructing the Female Viewer,” Department of the History of Art, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (1999)
  • “Athletes and Agora-phobia? Commemorative Athletic Sculpture in Classical Athens,” The Athenian Body Politic, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (1997)