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"Ivan Aivazovsky’s Imperial Sublime: The Politics and Aesthetics of Romantic Landscape Painting in the Age of Empire"
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
University of Padua, Italy
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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“Between Imperialism and Revolution: The Romantic Imaginary of Alexander Orlowski”
History of Art Department
University of California, Berkeley, CA
November 4, 2022
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"From Constantinople to Moscow and St. Petersburg: Byzantium and New Theories of Russian Modernism in the 1910s”
24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
Venice, Padua, Italy
August 25, 2022





Roundtable participant on panel on “Decolonizing the Russian and Soviet Art History Survey”
ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention: Diversity, Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, New Orleans, LA
December 3, 2021
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“Exotic Aesthetics: Depictions of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century Russian Painting”
ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention: Diversity, Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, New Orleans, LA
December 1, 2021


 “Ориентализм в изобразительном искусстве и театральных постановках Абрамцевского художественного кружка"
(Orientalism in the fine and performing arts of the Abramtsevo Artistic Circle)
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia,
November 15, 2021
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 “‘The Russian Cézanne’: Mikhail Vrubel
and the Invention of Russian Modernism
at the Fin de Siècle”
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
June 28, 2021


        “From Sacrilegious Monstrosities to   Modernist Masterpieces: The Changing  Reception of Mikhail Vrubel’s Religious Murals at the Fin de Siècle”
The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria
October 15, 2020 | Virtual Talk via Zoom




 “Exoticism Abroad: Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s Visual Experimentations with Ethnic and Racial Difference in Paris”
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University, NY
September 9, 2020 | Virtual Talk via Zoom
 



“‘An Icon of the Times’: Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square and the Politics of Originality”
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
November 20, 2020



​“From the Caves of Hindustan to the Avant-Garde: Exoticism, Mysticism and the 'East' in the works of Mikhail Vrubel and Kazimir Malevich”
ASEEES 51st Annual Convention: Belief, San Francisco, CA
November 26, 2019
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           “Eastern Encounters in Paris and London: Ilia Repin and Russian Orientalism Abroad and at Home”
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
June 14, 2019
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“Looking East: Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Painting”
ASEEES 49th Annual Convention: Transgressions, Chicago, IL
November 11, 2017
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“Before and Beyond the Avant-Garde: The Forgotten Art Histories of Nikolai Punin and Nikolai Tarabukin”
 Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
September 22, 2017
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“Vrubel and Lermontov: A Case Study in Russian Imperial Aesthetics”
Conference on The Russian Century: The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, 1801-1917.
Yale University, New Haven, CT
October 1, 2016
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“Between East and West: Reconsidering Mikhail Vrubel's 'Nativist' Aesthetics”
Conference on the Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920
Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
July 9, 2016





“Blurring Boundaries: Mikhail Vrubel's Decorative Turn and the Rise of Russian Modernism”
College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
February 5, 2016