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.’