The Contemplation of Art and Neuroscience
“The Aesthetics of Flow: Achieving Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Optimal Experience through Contemplative Practice with Visual Art” at The Fluid Humanities Virginia Humanities Conference, Virginia Wesleyan University, April 12-13, 2019
“Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity and the Transformative Potential of the Visual Arts” Hosted by Brain Awareness Week, University of Mary Washington, March 12, 2019.
“Through the Virtual to the Real: An Object Oriented and Contemplative Approach to Online Art Information” at the Virginia Humanities Conference held at Virginia Military Institute, April 30, 2016.
“The Sculptures of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth and the Neuroscience of Ecstasy,” at the Virginia Humanities Conference held at Longwood University, March 31, 2014.
“Aesthetic Experience as Meditative Practice: Neuroplastic Transformation though Ritual and Reiteration.” 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, November 13-16, 2008, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Art History and Criticism
“Nicolas Calas as Educator” at Regarding Nicolas Calas Symposium at Athens School of Fine Art, Athens Greece, October 21-21, 2016.
“Magic Icons: Nicolas Calas as Collector” at Regarding Nicolas Calas Symposium at Athens School of Fine Art, Athens Greece, October 21-21, 2016.
“Public Art as Reportage and Critique: Leon Golub’s Interrogations” for the panel “Art and Purpose in the Public Sphere” at the Virginia Humanities Conference, “Humanities in the Public Sphere,” Marymount University, April 10-11, 2015
“The Landscape Interventions of Andy Goldsworthy “”The Intertwining of Nature and Culture” Virginia Humanities Conference Christopher Newport University, March, 15-16, 2013.
“Direct Encounters with Nonhuman Nature: The Landscape Interventions of Andy Goldsworthy” 26nd Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, November 27-30, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Google Art Project and the Representation of the Art Work qua Object.” Faculty Academy on Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington, May 2012.
“Modern Art and the Art of Children” Virginia Humanities Conference “Children and Childhood in the Humanities” Roanoke College, March, 2012.
“The Work of Art as Analogon: Sartre’s Notion of the Immateriality of Art” Mysterium Humanum Studies, University of Mary Washington, March 2012.
“Advanced Imaging Technology in ARTH 303 Methods of Art History: Using Google Art Project to Apply Morellian Connoisseurship Method.” Faculty Academy on Teaching and Learning Technologies, University of Mary Washington, May 2011.
“Leon Golub’s Interrogations and the Abu Ghraib Photographs: Human Nature on Display in Painting and the Media” at the annual Virginia Humanities Conference “Humanities on Display” Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, April 2010.
“Psychoanalytic Art, Quantum Physics and the New Mind/Matter Paradigm,” Thursday, March 26, 2009, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Va.
“Spero’s First Language and Bartky’s Phenomenology of Oppression.” Nancy Spero: A Symposium, Fall, 2000.
“Melchers in New York,” paper presented at “Gari Melchers: A Symposium,” Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 11, 1990.
On Golub: The Reality of Fiction” Panel Discussion held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 18, 1985.