Surrealist Masculinity, La Maison Francaise, November
6, 2008.
The Voyeurism of Courbet, The National Arts Club, September
18, 2008.
Memorializing vs. Documenting a Traumatic Event:
The French Exodus of 1940, Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, March
13 and 14, 2008.
Reinventing Allegory, School of Visual Arts, April 12, 2007.
The Cone Sisters and The Art of Their Time, The National Arts Club,
May 16, 2006.
The American Enemy by Philippe Roger discussed, The National Arts
Club, September 19, 2005.
The Dani Karavan Memorial in
PortBou or "Walter Benjamin's Last Passage," Bryn Mawr
College, Fall 2003; also College Art Association meeting February 2001.
The Destruction of 19th Century French Bronze
Statuary during World War II, School of Visual Arts panel, March
21, 2002.
Hitler equals de Gaulle in a May '68 poster,
Royal Academy, London, symposium on Paris Capital of the World, 1900-1968,
March 16, 2002; also NYU, luncheon seminar October 19, 2001;also New School
Symposium on May '68, 10/1/98.
Pierre Restany and friends, Columbia
University, Maison Francaise, February 21, 2002.
20 decorators of the 40s, Bard Center
for Graduate Studies in The Decorative Arts,April 19, 2001.
20 Decorators of the 40s: The Writing of History
and The Physiognomy of dates, the XXXth International Congress
of the History of Art in London, September 2000.
Soutine in Vichy France, The Jewish
Museum, 5/5/98.
Decadence and Renewal of The Decorative Arts
during Vichy, Bard Graduate Center for the Study of Decorative
Arts, 10/28/97.
"Painting with the Enemy"
the Channel Four (London) broadcast with Cone as consultant and participant,
presented at Maison Française of Columbia University, 4/7/97.
Lefebvre, the situationists, and the New Realists,
Yale University Conference on the French Fifties, 9/13/97; also round
table, Maison Française of New York University on the Quotidian
in Postwar French Culture, 3/27/97.
The Freud/Breton missed rendez-vous,
Henry Peyre Symposium, 11/12/93 at the Graduate Center of City University.
On the Use of Bataille's Theory of Potlach
vis-a-vis Art against Excess, College Art Association, Seattle,
2/6/93.
Bleu-Blanc-Rouge Painting in Vichy France,
French Institute Alliance Française, New York, 3/1/1993.
A Modernist Canon against Decadence. Painting
in France under The Vichy Regime, College Art Association, New
York, 1990.
Abstraction as a Veil: The Case of Tricolor
Painting in Vichy France, SUNY Stony Brook, 11/28/90.
Artistic Reception during Vichy, World
Sociology Congress, Madrid, 1990; also
French Studies Colloquium , University of Iowa, 1990.
The Vichy regime, the German Occupation and
Art Criticism, XVIIe Congres International d'Histoire de l'Art
(Strasbourg), 1989; also Northwestern University, Department of Art History,
1989.
Art and Politics in France from the Revolution
of 1789 to Vichy, Institute of French Studies, NYU, summer course,
1989.
Picasso, Desnos et Girodias, trois comparses
de fortune, Paris, Sorbonne-Jussieu symposium on Robert Desnos,
1987.