INVITED LECTURES
“Dirty Secrets in the French Theatres of Justice.” Paper on BBC/Canal Plus Co-Production Engrenages/Spiral, delivered in the “Complex TV” series, Department of English, UCL, May 2013.
“Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the Photography of Exile,” UCL Lunchtime Lectures, 13 November 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkR7fPFIMI
“Seeing Ghosts with Zola,” Lecture for the Émile Zola Society Annual Symposium, London, February 2012.
Introduction and Chair, “Reflections on the Afterlife of Modernity's Dead Things: Moving Images and Cultural History,” The Autopsies Research Group presentation at the Screen Media Research Group, CRASSH, Cambridge University, March 2011.
“L’Histoire culturelle et mondialisation,” Presentation, Round Table, Congrès annuel, ADHC, September 2010.
“Object Lessons, Dead Media, Live Wires and the Twenty-first Century Police,” Public Lecture. The Film Studies Space, UCL, February 2010. Lecture featured on Itunes University: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/object-lessons-dead-media/id390422166
“La Photographie d’exil: Hugo ailleurs,” Groupe Hugo, Université de Paris 7, Équipe Dix-neuvième siècle,” 15 March 2008.
“La Censure et le roman au XIXe siècle,” Séminaire sur la Censure, IMEC, Paris, January 2006.
“Violences de l’oeil. Où est le corps souffrant dans l’imaginaire des perversions?” Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Université de Paris I, in Seminaire “Le Corps à l’épreuve,” May 2005.
“Looking at Risk: Popular Prints, and the Voyeur’s Censored Look in Third-Republic France,” University of Pennsylvania, April 2005.
“Lettres pillées des archives: retour aux Scenes of Seduction,” Centre de recherches en histoire du XIXe siècle, Université de Paris 1, Nov. 2004.
“Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, From Goethe to Gide Conference, Institute of German and Romance Studies, University of London, November 2003.
“Making Olympia French,” Cambridge University, Department of Art History, November 2003.
“Looking at Risk,” King’s College London, Department of French, Spring 2002.
“Olympia devient française, ou comment la modernité a perdu la mémoire,” Lecture presented at Conference entitled “Ruptures: de la discontinuité dans la vie artistique,” Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, May 2000.
“The Perils of Olympia.” Lecture presented at the “Medien und Mnemosyne” Conference, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, November 1999.
“Looking at Risk: The Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur.” Slade School of Fine Art, London, October 1999.
“Sujects of spectacle/Subjects to spectacle: Vermeer, Hitchcock, Recovered Memory, and the Gaze.” Lecture, Center for Anthropology, University of Lisbon, Portugal, May 1999.
“Sujets de spectacle: ‘Gender,’ le regard et les possibilités de l’oeil.” Lecture presented at the Colloque sur le “Cinéma et Psychanalyse,” du Centre de Recherche sur les Images et leurs Relations et du Laboratoire de Psychanalyse de L’Université de Paris VII, 9-10 April 1999.
“Lettres volées aux archives... Crises de la littérature et de l’histoire.” Lecture presented in Seminar series on Histoire des sciences de l’homme et de la société, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS-CNRS, January 1999.
“Au risque de voir: histoires de regard, phantasmes du voyeurisme au XIXe siècle.” Lecture presented at conference on “Le Corps et l’esprit face à la médecine du XIXe siècle,” Centre Charles et Louis Blanc, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, November 1998.
“Purloined Letters from the Archive.” Lecture presented at the University of Miami, Ohio, October 1999.
“Monet’s Eye.” Lecture presented at the Walters Museum, Baltimore, Conference in conjunction with exhibition on the late Monet, April 1998.
Archive.” 21-minute video presented with talk on architectural memory at the American Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Los Angeles, April 1998.
“Au Risque de voir: Préhistoires du voyeurisme, fantasmes du regard.” Series of three lectures presented at the Université de Paris, VII, Jussieu, Jan-March, 1998.
“La Représentation de la sexualité: Au-delà d’une histoire de censure.” Presentation and participation in a debate entitled “La Sexualité a-t-elle un avenir?” under the auspices of Les Forums Diderot, Centre d’études du vivant, Paris, Dec. 1997.
“Purloined Letters from the Archive.” Lecture presented at the University of Minnesota, Department of French and Italian, October 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled.” Lecture presented at Union College, New York, Departments of Art History and Women’s Studies, October 1996.
“Pour une histoire culturelle du regard au 19e siecle.” Lecture presented at the Université de Paris, Nanterre, Program in Art History, November 1995.
“Pilfered Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented, “Literature in the Library” Conference, Columbia University, October 1995.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled: Visual Culture in France, 1800-1802.” Lecture presented in the Program in European Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, April 1995.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Departments of Art History and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, March 1994.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties.” Paper presented for discussion, French Visual Studies Group, University of California, Berkeley, March 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, February 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Williams College Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, November 1993.
“Scandals of History: Reading the Choiseul-Praslin Case.” Lecture presented, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, April 1993.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Historicizing the Gaze.” Lecture presented, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Art and Architecture, November 1992.
“Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1885-1930.” Lecture presented, University of Denver, Departments of Literature and Women’s Studies, November 1990.
“Gavarni’s Masquerades of Femininity: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Lecture presented, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 1990.
“Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the Photography of Exile,” UCL Lunchtime Lectures, 13 November 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkR7fPFIMI
“Seeing Ghosts with Zola,” Lecture for the Émile Zola Society Annual Symposium, London, February 2012.
Introduction and Chair, “Reflections on the Afterlife of Modernity's Dead Things: Moving Images and Cultural History,” The Autopsies Research Group presentation at the Screen Media Research Group, CRASSH, Cambridge University, March 2011.
“L’Histoire culturelle et mondialisation,” Presentation, Round Table, Congrès annuel, ADHC, September 2010.
“Object Lessons, Dead Media, Live Wires and the Twenty-first Century Police,” Public Lecture. The Film Studies Space, UCL, February 2010. Lecture featured on Itunes University: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/object-lessons-dead-media/id390422166
“La Photographie d’exil: Hugo ailleurs,” Groupe Hugo, Université de Paris 7, Équipe Dix-neuvième siècle,” 15 March 2008.
“La Censure et le roman au XIXe siècle,” Séminaire sur la Censure, IMEC, Paris, January 2006.
“Violences de l’oeil. Où est le corps souffrant dans l’imaginaire des perversions?” Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Université de Paris I, in Seminaire “Le Corps à l’épreuve,” May 2005.
“Looking at Risk: Popular Prints, and the Voyeur’s Censored Look in Third-Republic France,” University of Pennsylvania, April 2005.
“Lettres pillées des archives: retour aux Scenes of Seduction,” Centre de recherches en histoire du XIXe siècle, Université de Paris 1, Nov. 2004.
“Bodies in Crisis: Zola, Gender, and the Dilemmas of History, From Goethe to Gide Conference, Institute of German and Romance Studies, University of London, November 2003.
“Making Olympia French,” Cambridge University, Department of Art History, November 2003.
“Looking at Risk,” King’s College London, Department of French, Spring 2002.
“Olympia devient française, ou comment la modernité a perdu la mémoire,” Lecture presented at Conference entitled “Ruptures: de la discontinuité dans la vie artistique,” Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, May 2000.
“The Perils of Olympia.” Lecture presented at the “Medien und Mnemosyne” Conference, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany, November 1999.
“Looking at Risk: The Fantasy of the Dangerous Voyeur.” Slade School of Fine Art, London, October 1999.
“Sujects of spectacle/Subjects to spectacle: Vermeer, Hitchcock, Recovered Memory, and the Gaze.” Lecture, Center for Anthropology, University of Lisbon, Portugal, May 1999.
“Sujets de spectacle: ‘Gender,’ le regard et les possibilités de l’oeil.” Lecture presented at the Colloque sur le “Cinéma et Psychanalyse,” du Centre de Recherche sur les Images et leurs Relations et du Laboratoire de Psychanalyse de L’Université de Paris VII, 9-10 April 1999.
“Lettres volées aux archives... Crises de la littérature et de l’histoire.” Lecture presented in Seminar series on Histoire des sciences de l’homme et de la société, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS-CNRS, January 1999.
“Au risque de voir: histoires de regard, phantasmes du voyeurisme au XIXe siècle.” Lecture presented at conference on “Le Corps et l’esprit face à la médecine du XIXe siècle,” Centre Charles et Louis Blanc, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, November 1998.
“Purloined Letters from the Archive.” Lecture presented at the University of Miami, Ohio, October 1999.
“Monet’s Eye.” Lecture presented at the Walters Museum, Baltimore, Conference in conjunction with exhibition on the late Monet, April 1998.
Archive.” 21-minute video presented with talk on architectural memory at the American Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Los Angeles, April 1998.
“Au Risque de voir: Préhistoires du voyeurisme, fantasmes du regard.” Series of three lectures presented at the Université de Paris, VII, Jussieu, Jan-March, 1998.
“La Représentation de la sexualité: Au-delà d’une histoire de censure.” Presentation and participation in a debate entitled “La Sexualité a-t-elle un avenir?” under the auspices of Les Forums Diderot, Centre d’études du vivant, Paris, Dec. 1997.
“Purloined Letters from the Archive.” Lecture presented at the University of Minnesota, Department of French and Italian, October 1997.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled.” Lecture presented at Union College, New York, Departments of Art History and Women’s Studies, October 1996.
“Pour une histoire culturelle du regard au 19e siecle.” Lecture presented at the Université de Paris, Nanterre, Program in Art History, November 1995.
“Pilfered Letters from the Archives.” Paper presented, “Literature in the Library” Conference, Columbia University, October 1995.
“The Invisible Woman and Her Secrets Unveiled: Visual Culture in France, 1800-1802.” Lecture presented in the Program in European Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, April 1995.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Departments of Art History and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, March 1994.
“Male Masquerades and Female Travesties.” Paper presented for discussion, French Visual Studies Group, University of California, Berkeley, March 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, February 1994.
“Censoring the Realist Gaze.” Lecture presented, Williams College Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, November 1993.
“Scandals of History: Reading the Choiseul-Praslin Case.” Lecture presented, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, April 1993.
“Exhibiting and Exposing: Historicizing the Gaze.” Lecture presented, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Art and Architecture, November 1992.
“Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-dressing, Fetishism, and the Theory of Perversion, 1885-1930.” Lecture presented, University of Denver, Departments of Literature and Women’s Studies, November 1990.
“Gavarni’s Masquerades of Femininity: Lithographic Jokes and Female Spectacles in Nineteenth-Century France.” Lecture presented, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 1990.