Invited
Lectures (selected)
“German
Artists in Occupied Norway,” University of Bergen, Norway, November
22, 2010.
“Making
Radioactive Art Safe: The De-Nazification of Cultural Collaborators
in West Germany,” German Department, Duke University, October 21,
2010.
“Modernism
and Nazi Art,” University of Northampton, United Kingdom, March 18,
2010.
“Nostalgia
for the Future: Modernism and Nazi Art,” Public Lecture, National
Humanities Center, January 14, 2010.
“The
American Confiscation of German Art in Post-War Germany,” Triangle
Seminar for Jewish Studies, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
May 11, 2009.
“House
of Art: A Cultural History of Nazi Germany,” Social Science
Research Seminar, Wake Forest University, April 20,
2009.
“Nostalgia
for the Future: Tradition and Modernism in German Art, 1933-1945,”
Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke
University, March 18, 2009.
“Nazi
Art in Museums?” The Sought Foundation, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, February 15, 2008.
“The
Invisible Museum: Unearthing the Lost Modernist Art of the Third
Reich,” Deutsches Historisches Museum, February 28,
2007.
“The
Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art,”
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, October
11, 2006.
“Hitler’s
List and the Real Canon of Nazi Art,” English Department
Colloquium, Rutgers University, September 20,
2006.
Conference Papers
(selected)
Keynote Speaker, “Symposium on Visualizing and Exhibiting Fascism,”
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom,
March 19, 2010.
Keynote Speaker, “Symposium on Political Fascism and Cultural
Modernity,” University of Konstanz, Germany, November 14,
2009.
“Nazi Art in Museums? Canonization and Controversy,” German Studies
Association Annual Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 5,
2009.
“Controlling the Legacy of Nazi Culture: Official U.S. Art Seizures
in Occupied Germany,” College Art Association Annual Conference,
Dallas, February 23, 2008.
Keynote Speaker, “
The Wehrmacht and
Official Modernism in the Third Reich,” German Department Graduate
Student Conference, Rutgers University, February 23,
2007.
“Hitler’s List: New Canonical Documents,”
Modernism-Fascism-Postmodernism Symposium, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, September 21, 2006.
“The
U.S. Army’s Program of Art Confiscation and Repression, 1946-2005,”
Deutsches Historisches Museum Symposium, Berlin, March 4,
2006.
“The
Troost Achive: Rare Artifacts in the Collection of the
Wolfsonian-FIU,” The Wolfsonian Tenth Anniversary Workshop, the
Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, December
10, 2005.
“Sequestration
and Repression: The U.S. Army’s German War Art Collection,”
Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 5,
2005.
“When
Art is Not Art: Nazi Art and Post-War Politics,” College Art
Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, February
2005.
“Secret
Archives and Hidden Artifacts: The U.S. Army's German War
Art
Collection,”
American
Historical Association, Seattle, January 2005.
“Wort aus Stein:
Architecture as Political Ideology in Albert Speer’s Reich
Chancellery,” Society of Architectural Historians, Providence,
Rhode Island, April 16, 2004.