Talks & Papers

Papers Presented

2022

“Murder, and the Politics of Research”, Association for Art History annual conference, Goldsmiths, University of London

2021

“The Status and Future(s) of Queer Photography in Britain in the Eighties”, Grassroots: Artmaking and Political Struggle, University of Cambridge and Kettle’s Yard

“Documentary and Staged Work in the 1980s”, at “Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation: From Here To Eternity,” for Sunil Gupta: A Retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery

2020

“The Future is Lesbian and So Is the Past”, College Art Association annual conference, Chicago

2019

“Performance and World Making in London’s Sex Radical Club Cultures”, Association for Art History annual conference , Brighton

“Queer/Lesbian/Feminist: Thinking Queer Art History Through the Sex Wars”, at “Queer Conversations: Looking to Art History and Visual Culture,” Courtauld Institute of Art

2018

“‘These Women Are Beyond Recognition’: Del LaGrace Volcano’s Xenomorphisis and the Queer Lesbian Feminist”, Association for Art History annual conference, Courtauld Institute of Art

2017

“Over-Identification and Attraction”, at “Researching with Difficult Feelings,” Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre

“‘Her Main Objection Seems to Be the Presence of Naked Bodies Themselves’: Tessa Boffin and the Politics of Representation”, at“Speak, Body,” University of Leeds

2016

“Art Out Side the Gallery: Derek Jarman’s Public Queerness”, Association for Art History ‘New Voices’, University of Plymouth

2014

“The End Belongs to Others: On Amorous Mourning and the Social Imperative of ‘Getting Over’”, at “Radical Negativity,” Goldsmiths, University of London

2012

“‘Each Becomes the Other in Consumption’: Irigaray’s Feminist Intersubjectivity and the Work of Eva Hesse”, at“Women and Art,” Concordia University

Public Lectures, Keynotes, and Events

2022

“The Tessa Boffin Archive,” UK & Ireland Art Libraries Society, UCA Rochester

In conversation with Sunil Gupta and Mason Leaver-Yap, Studio Voltaire

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics exhibition tour, Barbican Art Gallery

2020

Hot Moment exhibition tour, Auto Italia, London

“Feminists Look at Masculinities”, Feminist Duration Reading Group event for Masculinities , Barbican Art Gallery

2019

“Do You Have Place?: Keynote Conversation with Sunil Gupta”, at “Cruising the Seventies: Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now,” Edinburgh

2018

“We’re Reclaiming Dyke Completely: Legacies of the Lesbian Sex Wars”, public lecture at Jerwood Space, London

Veronica 4 Rose” panel at Focal Point Gallery, Southend

2017

“‘Lots of Iced Tea and No Deep Thinking’: Romance, Representation, and the Lesbian Sex Wars”, introduction to Desert Hearts at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton

Panels and Events Organised

2021

“Art, Obscurity, and the Politics of Rescue”; panel co-convened with Amy Tobin at the Association for Art History annual conference

“Feminism and Censorship” reading group with Sue O’Sullivan, part of the Feminist Duration Reading Group

2019

“Resisting Relations” symposium, Goldsmiths, University of London

2018

“Soft Covers: Queer Feminist Publishing”; workshop with Helena Reckitt, Amy Tobin and Kefiloe Siwisa at Strange Perfume book fair