Selected Lectures
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Evaluative Attitudes and Imaginative Immersion
Turin Workshop on Fiction, May 7, 2021
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Emotion, Absorption, and Experiential Imagining
CUNY Graduate Center Workshop on the Emotions, May 3, 2019
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Material, Medium, and Sculptural Imagining
London Aesthetics Forum, University of London, February, 2019
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Imaginative Immersion and Inflection
British Society of Aesthetics, Oxford, U.K., September, 2018
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A Promise of Happiness: Self-Realization, Alienation, and Affective Imagining
Conference in Honor of Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, NJ, October, 2016
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Rational Affective Imagining: Emotions Fit for Fictions
Uppsala University, Sweden, October, 2016
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Affects and Artifacts
University of Oslo, Norway, October, 2016
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The Contemporary Artworld and Conservation of Art
University of Turin, Italy, July, 2017
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The Problem of Discrepant Affects
American Society of Aesthetics, Savannah, GA, November 12, 2015
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Emotions Fit for Fictions
Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, November 11, 2015
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The Problem of Discrepant Affects
British Society of Aesthetics Meeting, Cambridge, UK, September, 2015
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Affects and Norms of Imagining
Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, May, 2015
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Imagination, Emotion, and Neuroscience of Art
NY LASER/Leonardo Education and Art Forum, New York, January, 2015
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Panelist, Vermeer Symposium, “Vermeer’s Daughter?”
New York Institute for the Humanities, May, 2013
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Comment on Eva Dadlez, “Make-Believe Wickedness”
American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Conference, April, 2013
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Comment on Georg Bertram, “Experience or Reflection? The Question of Modern Art”
American Society for Aesthetics, St. Louis, October, 2012
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Empirical Psychology, Artistic Autonomy, and the Question of Invariant Norms
Royal Institute of Philosophy, Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art, Leeds University, U.K., June, 2012
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Apt Emotions and Imaginings
American Society of Aesthetics Conference, October, 2011
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Reasons, Causes, and Emotions Elicited by Imaginings
British Society of Aesthetics Conference, Edinburgh, U.K., September, 2011
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The Art History Lecture
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Contemporary Art Symposium, June, 2011
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Artistic Value
Christie’s Auction House, New York, January 2011
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Apt Emotions for Fictions and Imaginings
Columbia University Aesthetics Group, September 2010
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Pictorial Decorum
Philosophy Department, Temple University, April 2009
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Public Curiosity: Ethics, Aesthetics and Pictorial Representation
Symposium on Ethics and Aesthetics, American Philosophical Association, December 2007
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Public Curiosity: Ethics and Artistic Representation
Columbia Aesthetics Group, 2007
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Expression and Style
Philosophy Department, New York University, March 2006
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Public Curiosity: Rights of Self-Representation
Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, November 2005
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Public Curiosity
Art History, Visual and Performance Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 2005
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“Internal and External Beauty,” on Arthur Danto’s The Abuse of Beauty
American Society of Aesthetics Conference, October 2003
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Paintings Without Content
Comparative Literature Colloquium, Princeton University, March 2003
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Style and Art History
Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, November 2002
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Art, Censorship, and Formalism
Society of Fellows, Princeton University, April 2002
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Aesthetic Autonomy, Internal Art History, and the Political Origins of Artistic Form
Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies Conference, Clark Art Institute, May 2001
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Censorship, Aestheticism and the Invention of Artistic Form
Society of Fellows, Columbia University, April 2001
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Sensation’ at the Brooklyn Museum
Williams College and Williams Art Museum, April 2000
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The History of Art and the Limits to a Style
Society of Fellows, Columbia University, February 2000
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History, Narrative and Style
UC Berkeley, Department of Philosophy, January 2000
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Phenomenology, Narrative and History
Dartmouth College, Department of Philosophy, February 1999
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Art History and Aesthetics
The American Society for Aesthetics, Montreal, 1996
Panels
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Public Conversation with Leonard Barkan on his Michelangelo: A Life on Paper
Labyrinth Books, Princeton, November 2010
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Chair, panel on Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness
American Society for Aesthetics, October 2009
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Commentary on Noël Carroll, On Criticism
ASA/APA, December 2009
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Introduction for Arthur Danto, Instruments of Passion Conference
Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2009
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Art and Vision workshop presentation
Yale University 2008
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Panelist, Conference on Aesthetics and Politics
Vanderbilt University, April 2006
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Commentator on Wendy Steiner, “Venus in Exile,” Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
Princeton University, February 2003
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Chair, “Philosophy and Art History,” Conference in Honor of Arthur Danto
Columbia University, September 2002
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Gerhard Richter conference, Center for Media and Culture
Princeton University, May 2002