‘See Britain First on Shell’: Modernism, Imperialism, and the British Petroleum Industry (talk on Shell Oil and The Artist’s View of an Industry), Extractivism/Activism, The Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph, London, March 2023 Watch
Turner’s Pencil: Graphite Landscapes and Extractive Industry J.M.W Turner: State of the Field Symposium, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 2023 Watch
Minerals of the Island: Tracing the Fossil Landscapes of the 1951 Festival of Britain, British Art and Natural Forces, A State of the Field Research Programme, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London October 2020 Watch
Recorded Presentations
Graphite, Coal, and Diamonds: Carbon Allotropes, Pencils, and British Nineteenth-Century Extractive Industry, The Geological Imagination in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, The Huntington Library, San Merino (April 2025)
Petro-modernism: Artistic Commissions from BP and Shell, Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, Online Symposium (March 2025)
Modern Wastelands: Slag Landscapes in Twentieth-Century British Art, A Legacy of Landscape, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (December 2024)
Crude Oils: Petroleum Culture in Twentieth Century Britain, New Perspectives in Energy History, Yale University, New Haven (March 2024)