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Papers & Panels

This is a running list of the papers I've given and panels I've chaired since graduate school. If you'd like to talk about any of these in more detail, drop me a line. 

Jan 27

142nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans

Chair of panel: Afterlives of the World’s Fair: Urban Space, Historical Reception, and the Enduring Legacies of International Expositions

Sep 26

European Association for American Studies, Bologna

Paper: ‘Hemispheric Security and Pan-American Identity at the World’s Fairs of 1939.’ 

Nov 25

Institute for the Study of International Expositions, Paris

Workshop organizer: “Looking to the Past Seeing the Future: International Expositions, 1851–Today.” 

Nov 25

57th Italian American Studies Conf., Montclair State University

Paper: 'Understanding the Role of the Order of the Sons of Italy in Interwar America.' (remote participant)

Jul 25

23rd Transatlantic Studies Conference, Centre for International Studies, Lisbon

Paper: 'Americans in the RAF: The Diplomatic and Legislative Legacy of the Eagle Squadrons.' (remote participant)

Feb 25

113th Annual College Art Association Conference,  New York City

Paper: ‘Spectacles of Nationhood: World’s Fairs and Identity Formation.’ 

Jan 25

138th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City

Chair of panel: International Expositions in Historical Context: Understanding the Social, Cultural, and Diplomatic Consequences of World’s Fair Planning.

Apr 24

Ocean Modern Workshop

University of Glasgow

Paper: ‘“The Greatest thing the Regime Ever Built”: Fellini, Film, and the Legacy of International Fascism.’

Apr 24

Heritage and Conflict Conference University of Granada

Paper: ‘Reconsidering the Infrastructural Heritage of Francoism.’ 

Mar 24

3rd Annual Symposium of the Institute for the Study of International Expositions

Paper: 'New Voices in Exposition Research.'

Jan 24

 Institute of Historical Research

SAS, University of London

Paper: ‘Re-evaluating the Transatlantic Cruise Liners of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.'* 

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*nominated for the Pollard Prize via Transport & Mobility History Seminar

Jan 24

137th  Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco

Paper: ‘Revisiting the “Temple of Liberty”: Nazi Germany and the Czechoslovakian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.'

Jan 22

135th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans

Paper: 'Conflicts of Conscience: Diplomacy on the Eve of War.'*

 

*co-organized with Timothy J. Schmalz.

May 21

Cultural Identity & Memory Studies Institute, EUI Florence

Paper: ‘Infrastructure and Identity in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the New Deal United States.’ 

Dec 20

The History of Soft Power Workshop

Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile

Paper: ‘Soft Power and the Coming of the Second World War: Axis Europe, Latin America and the Good Neighbor Policy of the US, 1936-41.’ 

Nov 19

Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World Radboud University

Paper: ‘Classical Design and the Fascist Construction of International Legitimacy at the World’s Fairs of 1933–42.’ 

Sep 19

Centre for Port & Maritime History University of Liverpool

Paper: 'Strength Through Sea Travel: Designing the Transatlantic Cruise Liners of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.’ 

Jun 19

ASMI Summer School

University of Milan

Paper: ‘Un’arte ancora in embrione: International Expositions, Empire, and the Evolution of Fascist Architectural Design, 1922–42.’ 

Jun 19

GRAINES Summer School

Charles University Prague

Paper: ‘Exporting Expertise: State Architecture, Architects, and Fascism at the Interwar World’s Fairs.’

Jun 18

Publication Workshop

University of Cambridge

Invited Discussant: ‘‘What Remains?’: Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-War Era.’ 

Feb 18

Modern European History Workshop University of Cambridge

Paper: ‘Cooperation, Construction, Coercion, Consent: Understanding the Role of Reimagined Urban Spaces within Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.’

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