Selected Speaking Engagements
A chronological record of selected keynotes, invited lectures, panels, masterclasses, and public conversations.
2026 Point Park University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Invited Speaker: Art, Politics and the Aesthetics of Social Practice | 31 Mar
American Society of Interior Designers Pennsylvania West | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Invited Speaker: The Art of Maximalization | 12 Feb
2025 Virginia Commonwealth University, Masterclass Discussion Series | Richmond, Virginia
Invited Speaker: Media & Creative Entrepreneurship | 13 June
2024 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cultural Management Programme | Hong Kong
Invited Speaker: Creative Entrepreneurship and Communication in Cultural Leadership | 30 Oct
International Platform of Research in Performing Arts and Cultural Management | Sibiu, Romania
Invited Panelist: Visual Theatricality / Performative Visuality | 21-22 June
2023 VCUarts Qatar | Doha, Qatar
Invited Speaker: Strategies & Visions for Arts & Gallery Development | 17 May
2021 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cultural Management Programme | Hong Kong
Invited Speaker: On Fatigue and Recovery | Oct
The Duquesne Club | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Invited Speaker: Daring Dreams & Audacious Art: Making Art Happen at the Mattress Factory | July
Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Invited Speaker: Making Art Happen | June
K11 Concepts Ltd | Hong Kong
Invited Speaker: Storytelling and Narrative Strategy | April
2020 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cultural Management Programme | Hong Kong
Invited Speaker: “Do this instead: Curating as practice” | 24 May
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Arts Public Lecture | Hong Kong
Keynote: “On Fatigue and Recovery” | 16 May
2019 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Community Arts Forum | Hong Kong
Keynote: “Strangelove Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love art | 2 Nov
2018 University of Texas, Austin | Austin, Texas
Viewpoints Guest Lecture Series | Feb – Apr 2018
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Community Arts Forum | Hong Kong SAR, China
Keynote: “Community Arts” | 18 Mar
2017 Brown University, Public Humanities | Providence, Rhode Island
“What do curators know?” | 7 Dec
Ormston House Gallery | Limerick, Ireland
“Sustainability Models for Urban Artist Housing” | 4 Sept
2016 University of the Arts, Helsinki, Exhibition Laboratory | Helsinki, Finland
Keynote: “The Art of the Past: Before and after Archaeology” | 14 Dec
Rhode Island School of Design, Glass Department | Providence, Rhode Island
“Political Ecology and Socially Engaged Practice” | 24 Feb
Williams College, Museum of Art | Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Contemporary Curating” with Denise Markonish | 10 Feb
2015 Firestation Artists’ Studios | Dublin, Ireland
“Political Ecology and Socially Engaged Practice” | 11 Nov
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cultural Management | Hong Kong SAR, China
“New Thoughts on Community Arts” | 30 Apr
2014 Contemporary Istanbul | Istanbul, Turkey
“Curating Tomorrow,” Panel Discussant | 13 Nov
Brown University, Department of Visual Arts | Providence, Rhode Island
“Approaches to studio visits” | 6 Oct
Artpace | San Antonio, Texas
“Political ecology & socially engaged art” | 21 July
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto | Biella, Italy
“The Educational Turn in Contemporary Art” | 12 July
New York University, Radical Archives Conference | New York, New York
“An Innocent City: Archiving Everyday Istanbul” | 12 Apr
2013 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts | Guangzhou, China
“Designing Heritages: Creativity & Preservation” | 18 Dec
Koç University, Inter-Asian Connections IV | Istanbul, Turkey
“Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary,” Panelist | 2 – 5 Oct
2012 Brown University, Public Humanities | Providence, Rhode Island
“The Future of Museums and the Public Humanities” | 24 Oct