“Expressionism, Collectivism, and the Development of Modern Architecture,” paper accepted to College Art Association (CAA) panel “Modernism & Collectivism,” Chicago, Feb. 2010.

Session chair of “Expanding Expressionism: The Role of Expression in Architectural Theory and Practice,” Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) conference, Chicago, April 2010.

“Bauen: Expressionism and the Course of Modern Architecture,” paper at College Art Association (CAA) panel “Radical Failure: Unrealized Exhibitions and Publications,” for annual conference in Dallas, TX, Feb. 2008.

“Expressionism as Democratic Art: Adolf Behne’s Criticism of Art For and By the People,” paper at panel of “Art & Democracy,” sponsored by Historians of German and Central European Art (HGCEA) at the College Art Association (CAA) conference, Boston, 2006.

“Expressing a ‘Higher Passion to Build’: The Impermanent Nature of Bruno Taut’s Glashaus as Critique of Capitalism,” paper at Center for Arts and Society conference “(Im)Permanence,” CMU, 2005.

“Modern Planning as Civilizing Agent: Ernst May’s Kampala Extension Scheme,” paper at American Schools of Architecture (ACSA) conference “Recalibrating Centers & Margins,” Louisville, KY, 2003.

“The Culture of Criticism: Adolf Behne & the Development of a Modern German Architecture,” lecture at University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Departmental Colloquia Series, 2002.

“Example-Counterexample: The Role of Visual Comparisons in Creating a Modern German Architecture,” paper at 13th Berkeley Symposium “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representation,” Berkeley, CA, 2002.

“Vernacular Architecture in the Age of Mass Media: Publishing the Um 1800 Aesthetic around 1900,” paper at Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Conference, Toronto, 2001.

“Restructuring Architecture’s History: Historicism in Karl Bötticher’s Theory of Tectonics,” paper at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) conference “(Re)Viewing the Tectonic,” Ann Arbor, MI, 2000.

“German Modernist Planning Confronts Africa: Ernst May’s Master-Plan for Kampala,” paper at Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) conference in Baltimore, MD, 1997.

“Schultze Naumburg's Heimat : A Nationalist Conflict of Tradition and Modernity,” paper at International Association forthe Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) Conference “Development vs. Tradition,” Paris, France, 1992.