Lectures, upcoming and past (selected)

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

Panels

• Public Conversation with Leonard Barkan on his Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, Labyrinth Books, Princeton, November 2010
• Chair, panel on Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness, American Society for Aesthetics, October 2009
• Commentary on Noël Carroll, On Criticism, ASA/APA, December 2009
• Introduction for Arthur Danto, Instruments of Passion Conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2009
• Art and Vision workshop presentation, Yale University 2008
• Panelist, Conference on Aesthetics and Politics, Vanderbilt University, April 2006
• Commentator on Wendy Steiner, “Venus in Exile,” Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, February 2003
• Chair, “Philosophy and Art History,” Conference in Honor of Arthur Danto, Columbia University, September 2002
• Gerhard Richter conference, Center for Media and Culture, Princeton University, May 2002