Recent Talks Given

Selected Invited Lectures, Plenaries & Comments:

  • “Image History/History in Images” University Museum, University of British Columbia, December 5, 2024.
  • “Image Time,” Art History, University of Tubingen, October 31, 2024.
  • Keynote, “On Media Moguls,” Transmedia Empires Conference, Paris. October 23, 2024.
  • “Around the World with Mike Todd,” Jules Verne, Around the World Conference, Amiens, October 16, 2024.
  • Distinguished Lecture: “The Visual Archive,” Ecole des Chartes, March 26, 2024. • Distinguished Lecture: “The Visual Archive,” Ecole des Chartes, March 26, 2024.
  • Lecture, “Globetrotting and The History of the World Tour,” Department of Geography, University of Geneva, March 6, 2024.
  • Keynote, “The Cinematic Century” at Thinking the Twentieth Century: Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, February 2023.
  • Distinguished Lecture, “With Franklin, Jefferson and Charles and Ray Eames: Presenting the Past through Connections” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 1, 2022.
  • Keynote, Closing Talk, “We Can Never Go Back to Before,” Visual Culture of Pre-History in the Americas, INHA, Paris, April 6-7.
  • “Time-Life Books: From News to History” Paris, Terra Foundation, April 4, 2022.
  • “Enfin Le Cinéma et les études visuelles” Paris, Fondation Pathé-Seydoux, December 6, 2021.
  • Mercator Distinguished Lecture “Jet Age Aesthetic” Marburg, December 1, 2021.
  • Keynote Closing Comment, “Media Constellations Conference” University of Cologne, November 25-27, 2021.
  • Disneyland’s Jet Age Aesthetic, Rochester Institute of Technology, November 16, 2021
  • Keynote: “Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion,” “It Moves!” Colloquium, on-line and in Udine, October 2021.
  • Cullman Conversations, New York Public Library, with Jed Perl, NYRB, about Jet Age Aesthetic, March 2020: Cancelled
  • Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion: Conversation with WJT Mitchell, March 8, 2020, Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago
  • “Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion” Northwestern University, March 6, 2020, History Institute, Chicago
  • “Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion” Media and Modernity, Princeton University, February, 2020
  • “Excess of Images: Time/Life Books” Kunstmuseum, Basel, November, 2019
  • Keynote: “Time and Early Cinema” at “L’invention du concept de montage” Lausanne, November, 2019
  • Conference Summary, “Commercial Pictures and The Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion: Hagley Museum, Delaware, November 2019.
  • Communications Distinguished Lecture, “Ernst Haas: The Photojournalism of the Jet Age” Rochester Institute of Technology, September 2019
  • “Paris and the Eternal Belle Epoque” Portland Art Museum, August 2019
  • “Time/Life Books” Photobook Conference, Maison Française Oxford, March 2019
  • “On Visual History,” Department of History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, November 2018
  • “Arrivals and Departures: The Jet Set and the New Photojournalism in the Jet Age,” Departments of Art History and History, Tel Aviv University, October 2018
  • “The Jet Age Airport and Flow,” University of Geneva, Geography Dept., October 2018
  • Keynote, “Fake News” Geneva Historical Society, October 2018
  • Keynote, “There’s Always a Tomorrowland: Disneyland, 1955.” Theme Park Workshop, Mainz, Germany, October, 2018
  • Keynote, “La presse parisienne: fin-de-siècle.” INHA, Paris, September 2018
  • “Media in Motion: Photojournalism and the Reorganization of Time and Space in the Jet Age” Photography’s Black Box Conference, Ryerson Image Center, March 2018