Lectures and Conferences

Lectures (selected)

  • "Snapshots of Intimacy. Artists Photograph Themselves and their Circles", Van Gogh Museum, 8 January 2012
  • “The Declaration of Autonomy and the Denial of Interest in Images of the Artists Studio", Nineteenth Century French Studies Association conference Law and Order, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27-29 October 2011
  • “The Field Made Flesh. Deploying Cultural Capital in Images of the Artist’s Studio”, Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art panel at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference Money/Myths Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3-4 March 2011
  • “The Photograph in the Studio”, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 14 November 2010
  • “Collecting Photographs: From the Archive to the Museum Wall,” FOAM – Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 25 November 2008
  • "Presence in Absence: The Empty Studio as Self-Portrait and Artistic Manifesto," AAH Conference: Location -The Museum, the Academy and the Studio, London, 2-4 April 2008
  • “Charcot/Pygmalion: Aesthetic Vision in the 'Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière,'” Kennis in beeld: illustraties tussen kunst en wetenschap, Amsterdam , 23 November 2007
  • “La peinture allemande au XIXe siècle von Antoine Rous, Marquis de laMazelière: Die deutsche Kunst und das Ende der romanischen Kultur,”Médiateurs francophones sur l’Allemagne: 1870-1940, Paris, November 2000
  • “Ein ‘Preuße’ in Paris: Wandlungen des Ruhmes und Nachruhmes Menzels, 1855-1905,” Adolph von Menzel, Berlin, May 1997
  • “’Art Knows no Fatherland’: The Reception of German Art in France, 1870-1900 - A Case of Unexpected Cosmopolitanism,” The Mechanicsof Internationalism: Culture,Society and Politics from the 1840s to World War I, London, December 1996
  • “History Without Allegory: Genre, Narrative and the ‘Reality Effect’ in French Images of the Franco-Prussian War,” Allegorie und Geschichte imBild des 19. Jahrhunderts, Tübingen, May 1993
  • “Gloria victis: French Images of the Franco-Prussian War,” Visionen zeitgenössischerGeschichte. Ereignisse der europäischen Politik in Malerei, Illustrationsgraphik und Photographie (1848-1871), Mannheim, January 1993
  • “A Reencounter: German Art at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878,” Annual Meeting ofthe College Art Association, Chicago, February 1992

Conferences and Symposia

  • [Conference] Hiding Making – Showing Creation. Strategies in Artistic Practice from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, Haarlem (Teylers Museum) and Amsterdam (Rijksakademie), 7-8 January 2011
  • [Conference] Visual Culture and National Identity, Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum), 9-10 June 2010
  • [Symposium] Kennis in beeld: illustraties tussen kunst en wetenschap, Amsterdam (Artis Bibliotheek), 23 November 2007
  • [Symposium] TheoretischHolland: Reflectie op 30 jaar kunstgeschiedenis in Nederland. Amsterdam (Club 11, SMCS), 2 February 2007
  • [Conference] Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm. Amsterdam (KNAW), 11-12 May 2006


Program Visual Culture and National Identity

Program Hiding Making