Exhibitions - Upcoming
Sonia Delaunay: A Life in Design, Bard Graduate Center, January-May 2024. Curatorial and editorial advisor.
Exhibitions - Past
French Fashion, Women, and the First World War, Bard Graduate Center, September 2019-January 2020. Curator in charge.
Mode & Femmes 14/18, Bibliothèque Forney, February-June 2017. Curator in charge.
Online exhibitions - Virtual Reality, Writer in collaboration with museum and Google Arts and Culture
The Black Dress, MAD Paris
The Stiletto, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
How did Japanese Design Refine Beauty? KCI Japan
Online exhibitions - Writer or editorial collaboration with the Arts décoratifs and Google Arts and Culture
Fashioning the body
Fashion in the 19th century
Haute Couture
Fashion in the 18th century
Fashion in the 18th century, Part II
Talks - Past
"Sonia Delaunay: fashion and interior design," Sartoria research group conference on Fashion and Architecture, Paris, February 2, 2022.
"Fashion, 1917," Victoria & Albert Museum, May 21, 2022.
"Work in Progress: the exhibition Sonia Delaunay, A Life in Design," Curator's workshop, Bard Graduate Center, October 27, 2021.
"Bal des bêtes: fashion, camouflage, and travestissement," Workshop Camouflage and Art, Ghent University, September 30-October 1, 2021.
"7 rue de la Paix, Paris," Excursions@Home, Department of Architecture, Ghent University, May 29, 2021
"French women, fashion, and the First World War," lecture given in a seminar directed by Gayle Levy, Univeristy of Missouri-Kansas City, February 12, 2021.
"French Fashion, women, and the First World War: The Practice of Exhibition Making," Vandenhove Center, Ghent University, November 20, 2020.
"Fashion and Display at the Expositions Universelles in Paris, 1855-1900,” International Study Course on The Paris World Fairs led by the Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte (DFK) Paris, March 13, 2020.
"Fashion, 1780-1800," talk given in a seminar directed by Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge, Febrary 27, 2020.
"Inaugural lecture," Ghent University, February 25, 2020.
“The spectacle of architectural drawings in nineteenth-century France: the envois de Rome, public display, and print culture,” Cambridge Art History Research Seminar, February 20, 2019.
“The Past as Presence: Towards a Dynamic Understanding of Past Transfer in Historicist Objects,” Conference Les nomenclatures stylistiques à l’épreuve de l’objet. Construction et déconstruction du langage de l’histoire de l’art, Villa Medicis, October 24-25, 2019.
“Fashion collections, collectors, and exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century France,” École des Chartes, Entangled Histories Seminar, September 12, 2018.
“The envois de Rome and the problem with Print,” Symposium The Printed and the Built, Oslo School of Architecture, June 21, 2018.
“The Past in Fashion: Fashion, Historicism, and the Reception of Antiquity in 19th century France,” École du Louvre, May 22, 2018.
“Style Formation and the Transfer of the Past in Fashion and Architecture,” Workshop on Style Formation and the Transfer of Culture, University of Leiden, May 18, 2018.
“Vêtements et revêtements à l’Opéra Garnier : l’expérience du passé à travers la mode et l’architecture,” Conference “L'architecture à travers les arts visuels dans la France du XIXe siècle,” Musée d’Orsay, Paris, December 12, 2017.
“The Birth of Dress History in Nineteenth-Century France: Archaeology and the Historic Imagination,” Conference, The Society for French Historical Studies, Washington D.C, April 20-22, 2017.
“The History of Dress History in France and Germany: Two Nineteenth-Century Stories,” Conference “Franco-German Exchanges in Fashion,” Paris and Berlin, October 6-7, 10-11, 2016. Presented with Dr. Frederun Scholz.
“The Musée rétrospectif du costume and the Palais du Costume: Costume Exhibitions, French Identity, and Material Authenticity at the 1900 Paris World Fair,” Conference, The Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, March 5, 2016.
“Exhibiting Dress at the 1900 Exposition Universelle: French Identity and Material Authenticity,” Inaugural Speaker, Rubin Forum, Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Study, Tel Aviv University, November 5, 2015.
“La Parisienne et le Poilu: Fictions and Fantasies of Fashionable Women during the Great War,” ‘Fashion, Dress, and Society in Europe during World War I,’ International conference, IFM, Paris, December 12-13, 2014.
"The Trials and Triumphs of French Couture During WWI," ‘Fashion and Conflict: Not Living in Khaki’ London College of Fashion Study Day, October 18, 2014.
"The birth of academic fashion thinking in nineteenth-century France: Jules Quicherat’s archaeology of French dress history," Fashion Thinking – Theory History, Practice, University of Southern Denmark Kolding, Copenhagen, October 30-November 1st, 2014.
“Travestissement and historic dress revival in 19th-century France: Fancy dress at home,” 2013 Costume Society of America National Symposium, Las Vegas, May 29-June 1, 2013)
“Rehabilitating Jules Quicherat’s fashion historicism: the evolution of fashion history out of antiquarian studies in 19th-century France,” Association of Dress Historians New Research Day, London, February 16, 2013.
"Jules Quicherat: de l’image à l’histoire, ou comment visualiser l’histoire de la mode en France au 19e siècle," INHA: “Du projet à l’objet: une approche critique de l’histoire du vêtement,” Paris, June 28-30, 2012.
"Researching Fashion for Renoir: Impressionism, Fashion, and the Full-Length Painting,” The Frick Collection Study Day on Renoir, NYC, May 8, 2012.
"From the ‘union parfaite’ to the ‘union brisée:’ The French Couture industry and the midinettes during the Great War," Developments in Dress History, Brighton University, UK, December 8-10, 2011.
