Lisa E. Bloom, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
Scholar-in Residence
Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
Beatrice Bain Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, June 1990.
M.F.A., Museum Studies and History of Photography and Video, Rochester Institute of Technology and Visual Studies Workshop, 1985.
B.A., Art History, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1980.
POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS
Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in art history, 1993-5.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Pembroke Center for Women, Brown University, 1992-3.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
Climate Change and The New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Durham: Duke University Press, October, 2022).
Guest Co- Editor, “Introduction to Special Issue: Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to the Arctic and Antarctic, in The Scholar and the Feminist (Barnard Center for Research on Women. Written in collaboration with Laura Kay and Elena Glasberg. New York, Issue 7.1: Fall 2008. Online at: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/ice/
Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity (London: Routledge, 2006).
Editor, With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Japanese Translation: Tokyo, Japan: Saiki-sha, 2000.
Guest Editor, “Introduction,” Gender, Colonialism, Discourses of Popular Science and Development Special issue for Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Volume IX, Fall, 1998.
Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
“Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene. A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework.” Eds. Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson, eds., London: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming, 2022.
“A View from the Future: Feminist Artists, Scholars, and Activists Turn to Science Fiction to Address the Climate Crisis.” Eds., Lesley Shipley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi. Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2022.
“At Memory’s Edge: Climate Trauma in the Arctic Through Film.” Eds., Subhankar Banerjee, TJ Demos and Emily Eliza Scott. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change. Routledge, London, 2021, 194-203.
“Feminist Artists and Activists.” National Gallery of Melbourne, Australia. Commissioned for an Online Feminist Art Course. Melbourne, Australia, 2021.
“Planetary Precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica.” Eds., Janet Wilson. Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis), Volume 56, Issue 3, August 2020.
“Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene: From Chernobyl to Polar Landscapes in the Work of Lina Selander and Amy Balkin.” Eds., Susi K. Frank, Kjetil A. Jacobsen, Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, 269-284.
“Hauntological Environmental Art: The Photographic Frame and the Nuclear After-Life of Chernobyl” in Lina Selander’s “Lenin’s Lamp.” Eds., Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Wolfson. Journal of Visual Culture. Special issue titled “Affect at the Limits of Photography.” Fall, 2018.
“Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices.” Eds., Anna Stenport, Scott Mackenzie, and Lill-Ann Korber, Arctic Environmental Modernities:Arctic Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene. London, Palgrave, 2017: 183-195.
“Antarctica: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Polar Landscapes.” Eds., Klaus Dodds, Alan J. Hemmings and Peder Robers, Handbook on the Politics of the Antarctic. London, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2017: 175-190.
“Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes.” In UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women’s Newsletter, Spring 2015. Online at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx8m9gb
“When Ice is Just Ice: Gender and the Everyday in the Arctic Art of Katja Aglert.” Published for the Winter Event – Antifreeze, published in Art and Theory, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014: 127-133.
“Connie Samaras’ Futures in Extreme Environments: Toward a New Aesthetics of Daily Life and Survival.” For the exhibition catalogue edited by Irene Tastsos, Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow. DAP Press, 2013: 82-86.
“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien, True North and Fantôme Afrique.” Catalogue for the Retrospective of Isaac Julien, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012: 92-129.
“Extreme Temperatures: The Work of Nathalie Talec,” for the exhibition catalogue: Nathalie Talec: The One Who Sees Blindly, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, April 2012.
“Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Visual Culture of the Polar Regions and Global Warming.” Written in collaboration with Elena Glasberg. In eds., Andrea Polli and Jane Marsching, Far Fields: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, Intellect Press, 2012: 119-141.
“Connie Samaras, “After the American Century,” for the exhibition catalogue: Connie Samaras: built environments, speculative landscapes, and consumer excesses of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography, February 2011.
“Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions.” Written in collaboration with Elena Glasberg. Media N-Journal, the Journal of the New Media Caucus, College Art Associate Affiliate Society, Vol. 6, No,1, Spring, 2010. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/5196342/_Disappearing_Ice_and_Missing_Data_Visual_Culture_of_the_Polar_Regions_and_Global_Warming._Written_in_collaboration_with_Elena_Glasberg
“Arctic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics in Gender on Ice and True North,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, issue 26, Spring 2010: 30-37.
“Negotiating Feminisms in Contemporary Asian Women’s Art.” In ed., Amelia Jones Feminism and Visual Culture, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2010: 14-18.
“Tableaux Vivants, Dying Empires: Eleanor Antin’s The Last Days of Pompeii, Roman Allegories and Helen’s Odyssey (2001-2007).” Special issue on "Material Histories.” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 24, July 2009: 13-2.
“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien and Connie Samaras,” in The Scholar and the Feminist (Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York City, Issue 7.1: Fall 2008). Online at: http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/ice/bloom_01.htm
“Barbies’ Jewish Roots: Jewish Women’s Bodies and Feminist Art.” Nathan Abrams (ed.) Jews and Sex, London, Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2008: 121-137.
“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art,” in Daniel Rosenberg, Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Online at: http://conferences.library.wisc.edu/conney2007
“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager,” republished in German and English in Isaac Julien: True north: Fantôme Afrique, edited by Veit Görner and Eveline Bernasconi : [Distributed in North America by] D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, 2006: 42-45.
“The Contradictory Circulation of Fine Art and Antiques on eBay.” In Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, eds. Ken Hillis, Michel Petit with Nathan Scott Epley. Routledge, New York, 2006: 231-244.
“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager,” in Isaac Julien: True North. Mak Center for Art and Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2005: 7-15.
“Creating Transnational Women’s Art Communities in Asia,” in Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, 2003: 18-21.
“Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism.” The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. London: Routledge, 2002: 215-226.
“Gender, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Japanese Contemporary Art: Some Recent Writings and Work.” in n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, vol. 5 (London, England, 2000): 35-43.
“Writing Your Own Script: Revisioning the 1970s and the 1980s Through the Work of Eleanor Antin,” in Eleanor Antin, Eds. Howard N. Fox, Lisa E. Bloom, and Eleanor Antin. (New York and Los Angeles: Distributed Art Publishers in Conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum, 1999):159-189.
“Contests for Meaning in Body Politics and Feminist Art Discourses of the 1970s: The Work of Eleanor Antin.” Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds., Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson. London: Routledge, 1999: 153-169.
“Rosie at Home: Life Magazine and the Remaking of the American Nation-State During World War II,” Rim: Pacific Rim Women's Studies Association Journal, vol. 1, no.7. March 1999: 32-46.
“Gender, Jewish Identity and Representation: U.S. Photographer and Feminist Martha Rosler Reconsidered.” The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Josai International University Issue 2, March 1998: 31-43.
“The Arctic Imagined in 19th and 20th Century Visual Culture.” Rim: Pacific Rim Women's Studies Association Journal, vol. 1, no.6, March 1998. In Japanese.
“Science and Writing: Two National Narratives of Failure.” In Writing Science. Ed., Tim Lenoir. Stanford University Press, 1998: 328-350.
“Introduction.” Special issue: Gender, Colonialism, Technology, and ‘Development.’ Vol. 9, December 1997: i-iv.
“Gender, Popular Science” and National Geographic, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Special issue: Gender, Colonialism, Technology, and ‘Development.’ Vol.9, December 1997: 36-47.
“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Rethinking Art Discourses of the 1940s and 1980s.” Socialist Review 94:1-2. Special Double Issue titled" Arranging Identities."(Winter/Spring, 1995): 129-164.
“Constructing Whiteness: Popular Science and National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism.” eds. Roddey Reid, Mario Biagioli, Sharon Traweek, Configurations, 2:1, Winter 1994:15-32.
“A Sixties/ Eighties Comparison of Two Feminist Texts: Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères and Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames,” The Barnard Occasional Papers on Women's Issues, 2:2, Spring 1987.
ART REVIEWS (EXHIBITIONS)
“About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging.” Exhibition Review of an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum. Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. September 2019. See: https://brooklynrail.org/2019/09/artseen/About-Things-Loved-Blackness-and-Belonging
“Forest Law: Exhibition Review of Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery.” Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. February 8, 2019. See: https://brooklynrail.org/2019/02/artseen/Forest-Law
“Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games.” Exhibition Review, Kunstmueum-Gegenwart, (Basel, Switzerland).” Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. September 4, 2018. Online at: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/09/artseen/Martha-Rosler-and-Hito-Steyerl-War-Games
“Environmental Art at the 56th Venice Biennale.” For the College Art Association’s Online Review Journal, May 2016. Online at: http://lookup.addressmachine.com/reviews/2938#.XIauNhNKjoc
“What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11th Istanbul Biennial (12 Setp-8 Nov 2009). Written in collaboration with Betti-Sue Hertz. n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 25, July 2010: 16-20.
BOOK REVIEWS
A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris, by Judith Wechsler, foreword by Richard Sennett. Afterimage, Summer 1984:34.
Photography and Reform: Lewis Hine and the National Child Labor Committee, photographs by Lewis Hine, text by Verna Posever Curtis and Stanley Mallach. Afterimage, December 1984:20.
Roy Stryker: U.S.A., 1943-1950/The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photographic Project, by Steven Plattner, foreword by Cornell Capa. Afterimage, October 1984:17.
Frederic Remington, The Camera, and the Old West, by Estelle Jussim. Afterimage, February 1984: 17.
The World of Allah, by David Douglas Duncan. Afterimage, November 1983:19.
Images of Persons in Calabria/Immagini di persone in Calabria, photographs by Enzo Crea, introductory (bilingual text by Rosario Villari. Afterimage, October 1983: 20.
The Frozen Image: Scandinavian Photography, Introductory essays by Martin Friedman, essays by Robert Meyer, Bo Granieh, et. al. Afterimage, Summer 1983: 51.
Kew: The Royal Botanic Gardens, by Lyle Rosobotham. Afterimage, Summer 1983: 50.
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, biographical text by Robert Coles and afterword by Therese Heyman. Afterimage, Summer 1983: 50.
F. Jay Haynes: Photographer, by the Montana Historical Society. Afterimage. May 1983: 19.
Masks, photographs by Krystina Baker, foreword by A.D. Coleman. Afterimage. March 1983: 20.
Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light and Ansel Adams: An American Place, 1936. Afterimage, March 1983: 20.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, Beatrice Bain Center, Women and Gender Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2017- Summer 2020, 2021-2022.
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, Art History and Film Dept., Spring 2016.
Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Women, Fall 2013-Spring 2017.
Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego, Communication Department, Spring 2004-Spring 2009; Spring 2010-2012.
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts Department, Fall, 2009-Winter, 2010. Spring 2012.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts, 2002-2003.
Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego, Ethnic Studies, Spring 2000-2001.
Josai International University, Chiba-ken 283, Japan, Associate Professor with tenure, Fall 1998—Winter, 2000, and Winter, 2001.
San Francisco State University, Lecturer and MA Graduate Advisor, Inter-Arts Program, Spring, 1996—Spring 1997.
San Francisco Art Institute, Lecturer for MFA Graduate Program, Arts and Science Department, Fall 1995—Spring, 1996
Stanford University,Visiting Assistant Professor, Art Department, Fall 1993-Spring 1995.
Rhode Island School of Design, Lecturer, Liberal Arts Department, Spring, 1993.
University of California, Irvine, Lecturer, Art History Department, Fall 1991—Spring, 1992.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Lecturer, Art History Board, Winter 1989—Spring, 1991.
SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT
Visual Culture of the Arctic (Stanford University)
Documentary Film and Theory (UCSD)
Photographic Strategies (UCSD)
The Price of Remembering and Forgetting (UCSD)
Histories of Photography (UCSD)
Autobiography, Communities and Communication (UCSD)
Biography and Life Stories (UCSD)
History, Memory and Popular Culture (UCSD)
Questions of Gender and Race in Cinema (Josai International University)
Race and Gender Politics in Contemporary Visual Culture (Josai International University, Japan),
Asian -American Visual Culture (Josai International University, Japan)
Introduction to Women's Studies (Josai International University, Japan)
Feminist Theories and Methods (Josai International University, Japan)
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Visual Arts (San Francisco State University)
Alternative Documentary Forms (San Francisco State University)
Introduction to Media Culture (San Francisco State University)
Thought and Image (San Francisco State University)
Cultural Politics and Imperialism: Images of the Non-West (Stanford University)
Primitivism and Modernism, Multiculturalism and Postmodernism (Stanford University)
Post WWII Transnational Art and Culture: Black and Jewish Diasporas in the U.S. (Stanford University)
Imaginations of Contemporary Masculinities (Stanford University)
The Relationship between Popular Culture and High Culture (Stanford University)
Contemporary Art and Theory Since 1975 (Rhode Island School of Design)
Topics in Modern Art History (UCI)
Introduction to 18th, 19th and 20th Century Art (UCI)
Imaginations of Contemporary Masculinities (UCSC)
Introduction to 18th, 19th and 20th Century Art History (UCSC)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives.” For the panel “Gender in the North.” Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape. Bergen, Norway, June 17, 2022.
“Reimagining a More Just World: Science Fiction and Populist Media,” for the International online conference, “Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability.” Organized by Janet Wilson, Om Dwinedi, and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, February 18, 2022.
“At Memory’s Edge: Collaborative Perspectives on the Environment in Arctic Cinema.” For the panel, “Aesthetic Responses to Environmental Emergencies: Creating New Forms of Collaborative Art and Media Practices.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) 2021 Emergence/y Virtual Conference, July 26-August 6, 2021.
“Planetary Precarity and Feminist Art Practices in Antarctica.” Key-note for virtual conference, Heroes on Ice? Conquest and Doomsday Vision. Organizer: Anne Hemkendreis. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, July 28-29, 2021.
“At Memory’s Edge: Climate Trauma in Arctic Film.” Organizer Professor Hanne Stien at Tromso University, Tromso, Norway, March 11, 2021.
“Three Virtual Lectures on the New Aesthetics of Climate Change.” Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts. Funded by a National Endowment of the Arts Grant, Nov. 30, December 7 &14, 2020.
“Climate Trauma in Arctic Film.” Dept. of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley (For Jeffrey Skoller’s Film Class), Oct. 27, 2020.
“At Memory’s Edge: Film and Indigenous Perspectives on the Accelerating Climate Crisis.” Inhuman Screens Online Conference. Sydney, Australia. Keynote Speaker. September 12, 2020.
“Art of the Polar Regions in the Time of Climate Change,” and “A View from the Future: Writers and Filmmakers Turn to Science Fiction to Write a Message About Our World.” Henan University, Department of Foreign Languages, Kaifeng, China, Online from June 14-19, 2020.
“Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Trauma in Arctic Cinema.” Symposium on Imagining Post 3.11 Futures and Living with Anthropogenic Change. Invited Speaker for the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. February 14-15, 2020.
“Memory’s Edge: Climate Trauma in Arctic Cinema,” Linnaeus University, Sweden. Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Invited Keynote Speaker for 2020 retreat in Copenhagen, Denmark. February 4, 2020.
“Planetary Precarity and Feminist Art Practices in Antarctica.” Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures. Conference at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” January 29-31, 2020.
“Polar Aesthetics and the Environmental Crisis.” Multi-year symposium: “Sacred Ecologies, Expressive Culture, and Environmental Crisis.” Yale University, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, November 15-16, 2019.
“Archives of Knowledge and Potential Disappearances: Chernobyl in the Work of Lina Selander.” Nuclear Ecologies Conference, Invited Speaker. Organized by Dan O’Neil, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, December 7, 2019.
“Contemporary Art about Climate Change in the Polar Regions,” San Francisco Art Institute. Invited Evening Lecture and Class Presentation. October 4, 2019.
“Attachments for the Microscopic in the Anthropocene. Feminist Climate Change Art.” Symposium: Degrees of North: Representations and Evolutions of the Anthropocene. Anchorage Art Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, May 5, 2019.
“Jewish “Ghosts” in Antarctica and Germany: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Landscapes in the work of Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller.”
Symposium: New Perspectives on Jewish Feminist Art. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 7, 2019.
“Polar Aesthetics and Climate Activism: Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis,” To the Point Lecture Series at Hunter’s Point Shipyard, San Francisco, California, March 9, 2019.
“Political Art in the U.S. and Germany in the Age of Right-Wing Populist Movements.” Panel: “Art and Politics: Just a Gesture and no future? Debating the political force of public art in the US and Germany from the 1960s until today.” College Art Association, New York, N.Y. February 14, 2019.
“Environmental Discourses in the Global South and the Arctic: Extreme Oil and Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices.” Conference: “Rethinking the Global South: Literatures, Cultures, and Media.” Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India. February 2-3, 2019.
“At Memory’s Edge: Film and Indigenous Perspectives on the Accelerating Climate Crisis.” Conference: Challenging Precarity. Auro University, Surat, Gujarat, India, January 27-29, 2019.
“New Critical Realities: Indigenous and Scientific Collaborative Filmmaking in the Time of Climate Change.” A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene, UC Santa Barbara, June 14-30, 2018.
“Polar Art and Climate Change: Perceptual Shifts in Polar History Mediated by Art.” Panel: “Polar History.” Polar 2018. Davos, Switzerland, June 21, 2018.
“New Critical Realities: Indigenous Filmmaking in the Time of Climate Change” Polar 2018. Panel: “Polar Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Approaches and Challenges.” Davos, Switzerland, June 23, 2018
“Polar Aesthetics: Archives of Knowledge and Disappearances in the Anthropocene.” Chair and organizer for the panel “Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene.” College Art Association, Los Angeles, California, February 23, 2018.
“Feminist Polar Aesthetics in the Anthropocene.” HASSEG Conference 2017: Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, July 4-7, 2017.
“Political Art Matters to Build Environmental Social Movements: Art and Visual Culture on Climate Change in the Anthropocene,” Pro-Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA., June 15, 2017.
“Polar Environmental Discourses: Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene,” University of California, Los Angeles, CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag, April 21, 2017.
“True North: Race, Sexuality and Science in Arctic Exploration,” Lecture Series for Black History Month. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, February 7, 2017.
“Polar Environmental Discourses: Film, Politics and Oil in the Anthropocene.” For the 4S EASST Conference, “Science and Technology by Other Means, Exploring Collectives, Spaces and Futures.” Panel Title: “Science and Technology through Critical Art Practice.” Convenors: Prof. Merete Lie (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Prof. Lisa Cartwright (University of California, San Diego), Barcelona, Spain, September 3, 2016.
“Experimental Documentary and Oil Culture in the Alaskan Arctic and the Gulf of Mexico,” and “Connie Samaras’ Futures in Extreme Environments: Towards a New Aesthetics of Daily Life and Survival in V.A.L.I.S,” Feeling Photography Conference, UC San Diego, Visual Arts Department, April 15, 2016.
“Polar Environmental Discourses: Politics and Art in the Era of the Anthropocene.” Lecture Series for Cultural Studies, UC Davis, March 10, 2016.
“Gender on Ice Revisited in the Context of Climate Change,” Keynote for CircumPolar Gender Conference at the Svalbard Polar Museum. Svalbard, Norway, September 30, 2015.
“Archives of Knowledge and Potential Disappearances in the Anthropocene: Amy Balkin’s A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting.” Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences for panel on “Living and Dying in the Anthropocene.” San Diego, California, June 25, 2015.
“Archives of Knowledge and Potential Disappearances in the Anthropocene: Arctic and Antarctic Landscapes in the Work of Amy Balkin.” Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Ohio State University, May 8, 2015.
“Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene: Arctic Landscapes in the Work of Amy Balkin and Lina Salander,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, for panel on “Ecocriticism.” Montreal, Canada, March 25, 2015.
“Witnessing Climate Change: Oil, Geopolitics and Landscapes of Invisibility.” Presented for UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. Respondent: Sharon Traweek. March 4, 2015.
“The Paradoxes of Modernity in the Arctic: Climate Change, Gender, and Landscapes of Invisibility,” on the panel “Climate Change and Gender.” For Arctic Modernities – an international interdisciplinary conference that took place at UIT: The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, November 16-18, 2014.
“Antarctica: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Polar Landscapes,” The Art of Stewardship of the Antarctic, Seminar and Exhibition, Port Clyde, Maine, July 17-20, 2014.
“Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Anthropocene in Ursula Biemann’s Deep Weather (2012) and Brenda Longfellow’s “Dead Ducks,” for the Southern California Ecocritical Theory Symposium: The Future of Ecocritical Theory. UC Irvine, May, 16, 2014.
“Anthropocene Feminism: Ursula Biemann’s Deep Weather (2012)” and Brenda Longfellow’s “Dead Ducks,” for the Center for 21st Century Studies’ conference on Anthropocene Feminism, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 12, 2014.
“Climate Change and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions: Gender After Ice.” Invited Speaker for the Winter Event for the Antifreeze Book Project at Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden, April 3, 2014.
“Climate Change and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions: Gender After Ice,” Invited Speaker for the Salt Lecture in English Park Camput, Uppsala University, Centre for Gender Research and Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2, 2014.
Chair and Presenter on the Panel, “Feminist and Environmental Art Practices on Climate Change: Temporality, Affect and Loss,” for the PostNatural Conference, the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, October 3-6, 2013.
Keynote at the Conference, “Textures of Technology: Film Production and Aesthetics,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September 19-20, 2013.
“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien, True North and Fantôme Afrique.” UCLA Film Studies Department, January 29, 2013.
“Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Landscapes of Disappearance at the Poles” for the Polar Seminar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,” January 8, 2013.
“Contemporary Art and the Polar Regions: Feminist and Queer Engagements with Narratives of Empire and Climate Change.” For the panel, “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future," San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15-18, 2012.
“Public Conversation with Isaac Julien on True North and Fantôme Afrique.” Invited speaker for the discussion panels held in conjunction with the Retrospective of Isaac Julien, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, San Paulo, Brazil, October 20, 2012.
“Public Conversation with the Artist Nathalie Talec.” In conjunction with the exhibition, “Nathalie Talec: The One Who Sees Blindly,” at the Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, April 22, 2012.
“Feminist Landscapes and Climate Change: The Aesthetics of Disappearance at the Poles,” for the panel, “Climate Change and New Art Landscapes and the Polar Regions,” The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (US) Culture Matters, University of California, San Diego, March 29, 2012.
“Negotiating the Visual Culture of Antarctica in the Artwork of Anne Noble,” for the panel, “Tourism (and) Culture, Part II,” organized by Laurie Beth Clark. College Art Association, Concourse Meeting Room 406B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center, Saturday, February 25, 2012.
“Jewish ‘Ghosts’ and the Landscape Tradition in the work of Susan Hiller,” Panel organizer for “Jews and Women’s Landscape Photography and Video.” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington D.C., December 18, 2011.
“Climate Change, Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in the work of Feminist Artists.” Panel co-organizer with Judit Hersko for “Far Field 1: New Art Practices on Landscapes and the Polar Regions: Politics, Emotion, and Culture.” 2011 ISEA Conference, the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Sabanca University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 7, 2011.
“Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Jewish Ghosts” within Judit Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 6, 2011.
“The Aesthetics of Disappearance: Climate Change, Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in the Art Work of Judit Hersko, Anne Noble, and Connie Samaras,” The History of Art and Visual Culture Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz, November 19, 2011.
“Climate Change in the Polar Regions and its Visualization.” Presentation for the Dept. of Intercultural Studies, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, June 28, 2010.
“Climate Change in the Polar Regions and its Visualization.” Presentation for the Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, June 25, 2010.
“Geopolitics and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions.” Panel organizer and presenter for the International Cultural Studies Conference at Lingham University, Hong Kong, June 17, 2010.
“Arctic Discourses, Climate Change and Contemporary Art.” Presentation for the Association of American Geographers in Washington D.C. for the panel: Critical Geopolitical Perspectives on the Polar Regions: Governance (Chairs: Klaus Dodds, and Phil Steinberg), April 18, 2010.
“Visual Culture of the Polar Regions and Global Warming.” Presentation for the College Art Association in Chicago for the panel: Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles (Chairs: Andrea Polli & Jane Marsching), February 13, 2010.
“An expanded view of contemporary Jewish art's geographical scope emphasizing a transnational frame.” Presentation for the Council of American Jewish Museums for the panel: “Making the Artistic Transition: Identity and Politics Encountered by the Jewish Institution in the 21st Century.” (Chair: Vicki Fox), Feb. 3, 2010.
Nostalgia and Fantasy in Eleanor Antin’s The Last Days of Pompeii, Roman Allegories, and Helen’s Odyssey.” Presentation for the Association for Jewish Studies in Los Angeles for the panel: In/Of/From/Made in... California (Chair: Reesa Greenberg), Dec. 21, 2009.
“Visual Culture in the Arctic and Antarctic.” Presentation for the National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu,, Taiwan, Dec. 9. 2008.
Co-organizer and presenter, “Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to the Arctic and Antarctic.” Barnard College, New York, November 20-21, 2008.
“American Decline and Decadence in Eleanor Antin’s Roman Allegories. Presentation for the San Diego Museum of Art, October 17, 2008.
“Politics and Aesthetics in Gender on ice and True North.” Presentation for the conference, “Imagining Antarctica,” Christchurch, New Zealand, Sept. 4-6, 2008.
“Reversing a Tradition of Artistic and Cinematic Representations of the Arctic.” Presentation for the conference, “North by Degree,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 22-24, 2008.
“Arctic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics in Gender on Ice and True North.” Presentation for the conference, “Art History and Diaspora: Genealogies, Theories and Practices,” Clark Conference in Williamstown, Mass., April 25-26, 2008.
“Digital markets and Digital Capitalism: The Impact of eBay on the Art and Antiques Market.” Presentation for the conference, “Markets: From the Bazaar to e-Bay,” University of Toronto, March 6-9, 2008.
“Reversing a Tradition of Inuit Representations: Staffen Julien’s The Prize of the Pole,” Barnard College, Feb. 25, 2008.
“Gender on Ice: 15 Years Later.” Key-note address for the conference, “Arctic Discourse,” University of Tromso, Norway, Feb. 21-23, 2008.
“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art.” Key-note address for the conference, :Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23-27, 2007.
“Jewish Feminist Art and Media Practices.” Workshop with Martha Rosler, Mierle-Laderman Ukeles, and Barbara Rose Haum. Center for Religion and Media, New York University. November 3, 2006.
“Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity,” Book talk at the University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts Department, May 2006.
“Feminist Art and Post Nationalist Jewish and Arab Identities.” College Art Association Panel, February 2006.
“Second Wave Feminism and U.S. Jewish Women Painters,” Jewish Museum. August 1, 2005.
“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager,” for conference on Isaac Julien: True North, Mak Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles July, 2005.
“California Feminist Art and Post-Nationalist Jewish Identities.” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, October 25, 2004.
“Jewish Bodies in Public Space: Feminist Art Practices from the 1980s and 1990s.” University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women and Gender,” September 20, 2002.
“Jewish Feminist Art Practices from the 1970s and 1980s,” Women’s Studies, The Graduate Center, City College of New York, March 22, 2002.
“Renegotiations: Women Artists and Jewish Identities Across Three Generations,” Jewish Museum, New York City, panel discussion with Elaine Reichek, Rhonda Lieberman, and Danielle Abrams, November 6, 2002.
“Re-Viewing 1970s and 1980s Feminist Art Practices in the 1990s: Three Major Exhibitions on Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Martha Rosler.” College Art Association, Chicago, Ill., March 2, 2001.
“The Politics of Polar Exploration.” Lecture Series on the exhibition, “To the Ends of the Earth: Exploring the Poles.” Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill., December 9, 2000.
“Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Lucy Lippard's Mixed Blessings” Conference on the Legacy of Lucy Lippard's Work in Feminist Art Criticism of the U.S., Osaka Women's University, Women's Studies Centre, December 11, 1999.
“Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism.” University of California at Irvine's Colloquium, “Straddling the Pacific Rim: Politics of Representation on the Move,” February 16, 1999.
“With Other Eyes: Race and Gender Politics in Visual Culture,” Gender and Image Group, Shimokitazawa La Place, Tokyo, Japan, October 10, 1998.
“Some Thoughts on Feminist and Anti-Racist Pedagogy,” Presentation for panel “On Feminist Pedagogy.” The Third China-Japan Women's Studies Forum, Beijing, China, September, 14-15, 1998.
“Gender, Ethnicity and Representation: Judy Chicago Revisited.” October 27, 1997, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan.
“Gender on Ice.” Faculty Symposium, Josai International University, October 24, 1997. (Translated into Japanese)
“Rethinking 1970s U.S. Feminist Art Discourses: The Work of Eleanor Antin.” Pacific Rim Women's Consortium, Tokyo, Japan, October 18, 1997." (Translated into Japanese)
“The Figure of the White Woman Explorer and Scientist in National Geographic Discourse.” Gender, Technology and Development Conference, Josai International University, Togane-shi Chiba-ken, Japan, October 3, 1997. (Translated into Japanese)
“Rethinking 1970s U.S. Feminist Art Discourses: The Work of Judy Chicago.” Pacific Rim Women's Consortium, Tokyo, Japan, September 20, 1997. (Translated into Japanese)
“The Workings of Inter-Racial Personas in Feminist Practices: The Work of Eleanor Antin.” Unnatural Acts Conference, UC, Riverside, April 11-12, 1997.
“Race and Gender Politics in Visual Culture” Race and Gender Politics in Visual Culture, San Francisco State University, April 10, 1997.
“Contests for Meaning in Body Politics and Feminist Art Discourses of the 1970s: The Work of Eleanor Antin” presentation for panel chaired by Amelia Jones: “Body Politics: Performativity and Postmodernism.” College Art Association, N.Y., New York, February, 1997.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-editor, Routledge book series on Ocean and Island Studies, 2021-2022: https://www.routledge.com/Ocean-and-Island-Studies/book-series/OISTU
Chair and panel organizer, “Planetary Survival Aesthetics: New Forms of Collaborative Art and Media Practices.” For the international online conference, “Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability.” Organized by Janet Wilson, Om Dwinedi, and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Panelists include May Joseph, El Glasberg, Sofia Varino, and myself. February 18, 2022.
Chair and panel organizer, “Aesthetic Responses to Environmental Emergencies: Creating New Forms of Collaborative Art and Media Practices.” Panelists include May Joseph, El Glasberg, Sofia Varino, and myself. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) 2021 Emergence/y Virtual Conference, July 26-August 6, 2021.
Chair and panel organizer for the panel “Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene.” College Art Association, Los Angeles, California, February 23, 2018.
Panel organizer and Presenter on the Panel, “Feminist and Environmental Art Practices on Climate Change: Temporality, Affect and Loss,” for the PostNatural Conference, the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, October 3-6, 2013.
Panel organizer and presenter, “Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Landscapes of Disappearance at the Poles.” Postnatural Conference: SLSA Conference, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Oct. 3-6, 2013.
Panel organizer and presenter, “Jews and Women’s Landscape Photography and Video.” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington D.C., December, 2011.
Panel co-organizer and presenter, “Far Field I: New Art Practices on Landscapes and the Polar Regions: Politics, Emotion and Culture.” ISEA Conference, the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Istanbul, Turkey, September, 2011.
Panel organizer and presenter, “Geopolitics and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions.” International Cultural Studies Conference at Lingham University, Hong Kong, June 17, 2010.
Guest co-editor with Professors Laura Kay and Elena Glasberg “Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to Polar Studies,” special issue of The Scholar and the Feminist, Barnard College, Fall, 2008.
Conference co-organizer with Professors Laura Kay and Elena Glasberg “Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to Polar Studies,” Barnard College, November, 2008.
Panel Chair, “Jewish Feminist Art and Media Practices.” Workshop with Martha Rosler,, Mierle-Laderman Ukeles, and Barbara Rose Haum. Center for Religion and Media, New York University. November 3, 2006.
Panel Chair, “Feminist Art and Post Nationalist Jewish and Arab Identities.” College Art Association Conference, Boston, February 2006.
Conference organizer, “Renegotiations: Women Artists and Jewish Identities Across Three Generations,” Jewish Museum, New York City, panel discussion with Elaine Reichek, Rhonda Lieberman, and Danielle Abrams, November 6, 2002.
Panel chair, “Re-Viewing 1970s and 1980s Feminist Art Practices in the 1990s: Three Major Exhibitions on Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, and Martha Rosler.” College Art Association, Chicago, Ill., March 2, 2001.
Job Search Committee, two faculty positions in Women’s Studies, Josai International University, Chiba, Japan, Fall- Winter, 1999.
Organizer, Lecture Series on Women's Studies and Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Josai International University, Chiba, Japan, 1998-2000.
Conference co-organizer, The Third China-Japan Women's Studies Forum, Beijing, China, September, 1998.
Guest editor, Gender, Colonialism, Discourses of Popoular Science and Development. Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Fall, 1998.
Conference organizer, “Race and Gender Politics in Visual Culture,” San Francisco State University. April 10, 1997.