Conferences and Panels Organized:

Socialism/Modernism: Overcoming Binaries in Twentieth Century Asian Art. Tuesday March 23, 2021. Roundtable organized with Yang Wang (University of Denver) at the Asian Studies 2021 Annual Conference.

Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933-1966. March 7 and 8, 2017. Conference organized with Chelsea Haines (The Graduate Center) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, in collaboration with the Center for Humanities, CUNY, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Curatorial Knowledge Forum: Curating in Pakistan. November 17, 2012. Conference organized with Adeela Suleman at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Part of the Vasl Artists’ Collective ‘Curatorial Knowledge Program,’ 2012.

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Conference Presentations:

June 8, 2022 – “Printmaking in Pakistan,” Panel: Printmaking and Pedagogy, Art Schools of Asia online symposium, Asia Art Archive as part of the “Connecting Art Histories” initiative.

February 18, 2022 – “Graphic Intimacies: Sadequain Naqvi and the Artist’s Book (1966-1971),” College Art Association. Panel: The Interstices of Print.

June 24, 2021 – “The Odder Story: Iqbal Geoffrey’s London,” Panel: Thinking Through Empire, London, Asia, Art, Worlds. Watch here.

March 16, 2019 – “Radical Returns: Printmaking in Lahore, c. 1983,” College Art Association. Panel: Haunted: Cross-Historical and Cross-Cultural Specters in Print Practice.

March 13, 2015 – “Don’t Say Radical: Issues in the Display of Contemporary Pakistani Art,” State/Terror Interdisciplinary Graduate Theory Workshop, Social and Political Theory Student Association. The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.

March 19, 2013 – “Curating or not,” Curating in Asia: Patterns of Dissent: Contemporaneity in South Asian Art: Research Forum. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK.

December 5, 2012 – “Factual Fictions,” Hubs and Fictions: A Touring Forum on Current Art and Imported Remoteness. Exhibitions and Visual Research Centre (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design), hosted by The Baltic Mill, Gateshead, UK.

July 19, 2010 – “Please Read it Carefully: Art Writing and Conflicted Territories,” Reading Conflict: Postgraduate Conference. Institute of English Studies and the Open University at Senate House, London, UK.

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Invited Talks, Workshops and Lectures

November 19, 2021 – “Modernist Agencies: Iqbal Geoffrey v. MoMA,” Global Modernisms Group, Work In-Progress Talks, with Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Columbia University, (online).

December 10, 2020 – “Printmaking at the National College of Arts and Slade School of Arts,” closed door workshop organized as part of the Asia/London research project, Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art.

May 5, 2019 – “Hamja Ahsan and Gemma Sharpe in Conversation: Shy Radicals: The Black Panthers for Shy People,” Interference Archive, New York.

October 17, 2018 – “Methods and Strategies of Research in Pakistani Modernism: Formalism and the Social History of Art,” National College of Arts (NCA), Department of Cultural Studies, Lahore, Pakistan.

October 5, 2018 – “Medium Matters,” The Institute of Business Administration (IBA),Karachi, Pakistan.

September 24–26, 2018 – “Medium Matters,” three-day lecture series, The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan.

August 10, 2017 – “National Exhibitions across East and West in the 1960s,” Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

July, 21 2012 – “Illiberal Cosmopolitanism,” no.w.here, London, UK.

March 4, 2012 – “Stereotypes of Englishness in Reconstruction,” lecture as part of Reconstruction: Contemporary British Fashion, a British Council touring exhibition, The National Museum, Lahore, Pakistan.

October 4, 2011 – “Unbearable Likeness of Being,” in conversation with Ehsan ul Haq and Iqra Tanveer, Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.

September 10, 2010 – “Fitzroy, there is a typhoon coming on,” lecture/reading as part of Inheritance programmed by Claire Louise Staunton, Space Gallery, London, UK.

November 7, 2009 – “Symphony of a Missing Room: In conversation with Lundahl & Seitl.” Weld in association with the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.

July 31, 2009 – “My Voice will Come from the Other Side of the Room: In conversation with Lundahl & Seitl,” A Foundation, London.

April 12, 2008 – “Polyphonics: Viewer as medium in the work of Lundahl & Seitl,” Weld, Stockholm, Sweden.

February 10, 2007 – “Tino Sehgal’s trilogy of exhibitions at the ICA,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.