Conference and Event organizing (recent selected) Decolonizing the Anthropocene, New York University (NYU), October 19, 2017. How To See The World. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. June 5, 2015 Sound, Vision, Action with Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck at McGill University, Montréal. Nov. 13-15, 2014. In Visible Crisis: A Collective Visioning of Militant Research, NYU, February 7-8, 2013. Now! Visual Culture, International Association of Visual Culture annual conference, May 31-June 2, 2012, NYU. Visual Culture 2010, conference. Keynote: W. J. T. Mitchell (London) The New Everyday, unconference, NYU (2009). Keynote listener: Arjun Appadurai NYC Visual Culture Working (2001-2009). Presenters including: Andrew Ross, Allen Feldman, Marita Sturken, Dana Polan, Alex Galloway, & Rachel Adams. War, Violence and Global Visual Culture lecture series, Cooper Union/NYU (2006-7), including W.J.T. Mitchell, Susan Buck-Morss, Michael Taussig, & Eduardo Cadava. Dis/ability and Visual Culture, College Art Association panel, New York (2005), speakers include Lennard J. Davis and W.J.T. Mitchell What is the Contemporary Now?, conference at the University of Canterbury, Christ Church, Aotearoa New Zealand (2005) Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Visual Culture, conference at the University of Nottingham, U.K. Including: Griselda Pollock, May Joseph, Roshini Kempadoo (2002) Lectures and Scholarly Papers (selected since 1995) Date/locale Title of Presentation 2017 Performa 17 Festival “Forever and A Day” Center for Culture and Human Rights, Utrecht University. Keynote address 2016 Lisbon Consortium VI: “Transvisuality.” Keynote address “Archiving Countervisuality” “Decolonizing the Space of Appearance” “Appearance Unbound #BlackLivesMatter.” Law and Picturing a Theory conference. Birkbeck College, University of London “Spaces of Law #BlackLivesMatter” Université de VIII 2015 “Visualité et droit de regard: le cas de Black Lives Matter
Narcissus and Eros: Image and Text, Deutsche Haus, NYU “Water, Visuality, Slavery: From to Katrina” “Corpolíticas: Body Politics en las Américas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender,” Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina “I Noticed That…” Closing Plenary presentation “Towards a New Visualization of Secrecy,” conference, organized by the Jan van Eyck Academy and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam concluding address “Open Secrets: The Police and Visual Culture” “Surrendering to the FS-1 Photography Symposium, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway, keynote address “The death of ‘the death of photography’” 2006 Visual Culture conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, keynote speaker “Visual Rights: A politics for the global contemporary” “Art History in An Age of Visual Culture” conference, New York University, opening address “Borders Are U.S.” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin “Striking: The Right to Strike/Striking the Right” Performance Studies International #12, London “The Right to Look” University of Denver, invited speaker “Before and After Jewishness: Frédéric Brenner and Jewish Diaspora” House of World Cultures, Berlin. “Image Wars” conference “On Visuality and Image Wars: The Graphic and the Hero Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Keynote Speaker, SICS Conference, “Threat [a]n[d] “Visual Culture and the Crisis” 2005 Cooper New York “The Sideways Look: Minority and Visual Rights” Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art “The Event of Violence: Cai Quo Giang”
Visual Culture Seminar, Bryn Mawr College “What is the Contemporary Now? The Place of the ‘South’?” Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Kentucky, Lexington “What is the Contemporary Now? The Place of the ‘South’?” Keynote speaker, “What is the Contemporary Now?” conference, Christchurch, New Zealand “What is the Contemporary Now?” Institute, New York “Visual Rights: Minority and Modernity” 2004 Visual Culture Gathering, Ohio State University, keynote speaker “Invisible Empire: Globalization and the War in Iraq” Visual Culture and Globalization conference, University of Southern California “Invisible Empire: Globalization and the War in Iraq” “Object and Visual Culture” conference, Penn State University, keynote speaker “Visual Culture Objects” ARCO Madrid: Visual Studies Conference, keynote speaker “Watching the War in Babylon” University of Potsdam/Berlin Free University conference: “Visual Cultures and Globalization,” keynote speaker “Watching the War in Babylon, Long Island” Modern Language Association meeting, San Diego “War in Babylon” of World Cultures, Berlin “Aboriginality: Gesture, Encounter and Visual Culture Zacheta Gallery, University of Warsaw and Goethe Institute, Krakow, Poland “The Empire of Camps” College Art Association Meeting “Visual Culture and Its Discontents” 2002 Columbia University Graduate Colloquium “Enlightening Signs: The Performance of Gesture in the South Pacific” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA “Strange Attractors: Jewish-Queer Affinities in the Age of Oscar Wilde” Leverhulme Lecture Series: Institute for Research in Visual Culture University of Nottingham, Spring/Fall 2002 And lecture tour of Sweden, 2002: Umeå, Linkoping, and Stockholm The Ghost and the Gaze Strange Attractors: Affinities in the Age of Oscar Wilde Ghetto Moderns The Empire of Camps Keynote speaker, “9-11 as Visual Spectacle” conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey “The Empire of Camps” 2001
University of Western Sydney, Sydney “Visual Culture After 9/11” Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra “Enlightening Signs: Gesture and Performance in Colonial Culture” Keynote speaker, Visual Cultures conference, de Balie Arts Center, Amsterdam “Intervisuality: Working Out Visual Culture Keynote speaker, The Glasshouse Conference, La Sapienza University, Rome “FLAGing Desire: Visualizing the Global Economy” Invited Speaker, University of Rochester “Intervisuality: Working Out Visual Culture.” 2000 Archaeology of Conference (invited speaker), Brown University “Desire in Camera: First Exposures from de Sade to the Webcam” Global Humanities Conference (invited speaker), Dartmouth College “Post-Post: The Visual Turn in the Humanities” Vera List Center, New School University, New York (invited speaker) “Strange Attractors, Strange Perspectives: African—Jewish—Queer diasporas 1900/2000” Global and Multicultural Critiques of Whiteness Conference, Dartmouth College (Invited speaker) “Strange Attractors: African-Jewish-Queer diasporas in the age of imperialism.” Crossroads International Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, England “Remembering Rwanda: Photography and Performance After Genocide College Art Association, New York “Intervisuality: The Practice of Visual Culture in the era of global capital” 1999 Fashion and Identity, Chicago Cultural Center “Parisiennes from Bukhara to The body and resistance on modernity's borders” 1998 American Studies Association, New York City “What Is Visual Culture?” College Art Association, Toronto “The Diasporic Mirror: Pissarro and the Caribbean” 1997 Jewish Museum, New York City The Saul and Gladys Gwirtzman Lecture: “Pissarro’s Passage: The Jewishness of Camille Pissarro” Gallaudet University, invited speaker "A Deaf Variety of Modernism" Wellesley College, "Recovering Benin,” national conference. "The Horror of Modernism: Sexuality and Cultural Geography in colonial Africa" 1996