PAST LECTURES AND EVENTS
PANELIST
Architecture and …, ETH Zurich, April 26, 2024.
LECTURE
“NaturKultur: Leitmotive in der Umweltgestaltung des Anthropozäns,” Ethik und Ästhetik im Anthropozän, Universität Augsburg, March 1–2, 2024.
LECTURE
“From Breathing Space to Palliative: Urban Forests and Public Health in the Plantationocene,” Forests Futures, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, February 16, 2024.
LECTURE
“Occupying Public Space, Generating Public Spheres: Street Tree Art and Activism in East and West Berlin,” Europaeum winter school 2024: Survivance and Survival: Theory and Method, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, February 1, 2024.
COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATION
“Streets of Philadelphia: Window Gardening and Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century,” The Green Hour, Universität Augsburg, December 21, 2023.
LECTURE
“Forest Urbanism: A History in Five Places,” Forest Urbanism, Landscape-based Urbanism, & Ecological Urbanism, TU Delft, The Netherlands, December 14, 2023.
SHORT LECTURE
“‘Save a Tree, Save a Neighborhood!’: Trees for Beauty, Shade, and Empowerment in 1960s NYC,” La Beauté Essentielle des Allées d’Arbres, Carcassonne, France, November 19–21, 2023.
ROUNDTABLE CONTRIBUTION
FocusLMU: Ringvorlesung LMU München, November 14, 2023.
KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Der Geist der Umwelt. Umweltgeisteswissenschaften und die Geschichte der Landschaft,” FSP-Tage, University of Innsbruck, Austria, November 9, 2023.
LECTURE
“Planting Inside-Out: Window Gardening and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,” Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino, September 19, 2023
CONFERENCE LECTURE
“Tree Time: Urban Trees as Timekeepers and Seasonal Indicators,“ Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, September 1, 2023.
LECTURE
“Urbanisierung und die Rückkehr der Bäume,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 10, 2023.
KEYNOTE LECTURE
ETH Zürich, May 26, 2023.
LECTURE
“Planting Inside-Out: Window Gardening and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,” international conference Privacy Matters. How Interiors Make and Break our Cities. Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, April 20–21, 2023.
CONFERENCE LECTURE
“Von Schafen, Gras und Flugzeugen.” Alltagsgeschichte von Flughäfen. Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Wien, Vienna, March 29-31, 2023.
CONFERENCE LECTURE
“Frederick Law Olmsted, Race, and the Rural Roots of Landscape Architectural Education.” Dans les pas de Frederick Law Olmsted. Arpenter l’héritage entre Etats-Unis et Europe. ENSA Paris La Villette, HESAM Université, November 9, 2022.
LECTURE
“Sylvan Cities: The Urban Life of Trees.” Shanghai Normal University, October 27, 2022, 7 pm BJT, online.
LECTURE
“Frederick Law Olmsted, Race, and the Rural Roots of Landscape Architectural Education”, International Symposium. The Genesis of the Green Infrastructure. May 25, 2022. [online due to COVID-19]
ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION
“Activist Film and the Environment in West Berlin,” Media Urbanism Roundtable, chaired by Erica Stein, with Dave Colangelo, Germaine Halegoua, Noelle Griffis, and Brendan Kredell, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference , March 31–April 3 [online due to COVID-19]
KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Frederick Law Olmsted, Race, and the Rural Roots of Landscape Architectural Education”, Olmsted Plenary, CELA 2022 Annual Meeting, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, March 17, 2022, 8.30 am.
LECTURE
“Tree Times,” Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, December 14, 2021, 6 pm CET.
KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Landscape is Gendered!” University of Copenhagen, DK, October 28, 2021. Live-streamed in the context of the PhD course run by Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner on Architecture, Landscape, and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology, and Practice.
ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION
“Growing Climate Bridges: Designing and Governing with Trees.” Climate Bridge Conference, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, October 14-15, 2021.
LECTURE
“The Stony Paths Through Deep Time: Landscape Design, Geology, and Education in Prussia.” Calls from the Earth and Messengers in the Sky: Geology, Landscape, and Architecture in the Time of Schinkel and Today, international conference on occasion of the Schinkel-Preis awarded to Kurt W. Forster, Neuruppin, Kulturkirche, October 10, 2021.
LECTURE
“ ‘Ick habe Durscht!’ Zur Geschichte der Straßenbaumpflanzung in Berlin.” 17. Symposium zur Pflanzenverwendung in der Stadt, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau, ISL3, Arbeitskreis Pflanzenverwendung im Bund deutscher Staudengärtner, Mainfrankensäle Veitshöchheim, September 27, 2021. Live-streamed.
ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION
Urban Environments Initiative Conference: Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, June 30-July 2, 2021. online
ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION
Daylight Awareness Week, May 27, 2021. 6–7.30 pm CEST. online.
ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATION
Urban Tree Festival, The Politics of Street Trees, May 23, 2021. 2 pm BST. online.
LECTURE
“Am Straßenrand–Im Zentrum. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Straßenbäume in New York City und Berlin,” Grüner Salon online, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur e.V., April 29, 2021. 7 pm CEST. online
LECTURE
“Tree Talk: On the Nature, Culture, and Politics of Street Tree Planting,” The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway, April 13, 2021. online
TEDx TALK
TEDxPenn 2020, UPenn, Philadelphia, April 4, 2020. postponed to April 10, 2021. online
LECTURE
“Humboldthain in Berlin: Landscape Architecture, the Geographical Imagination, and Education in Prussia,” International Conference at La Sapienza, Rome: The Landscape as Union between Art and Science, Alexander von Humboldt and Ernst Haeckel, March 30-31, 2021. online
LECTURE
The Knowlton School, The Ohio State University. March 22, 2021. 4 pm EST. online
PANEL DISCUSSION
Celebrating Women in Architecture: Stories of Collaboration, Diversity, and Care. University of Copenhagen, March 8, 2021. 2 pm CET. online
BOOK LAUNCH: Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper, eds., The Botanical City (Berlin: Jovis, 2020)
conversation with editors and authors, February 9, 2021, 6.15 pm CET. online.
KEYNOTE
Model Trees: Standards, Systems, and Science in the History of Urban Arboriculture, ARBORTECH Weihenstephaner Forum 2020, TU München, October 15, 2020, 7 pm CET. online.
LECTURE
“Tree Talk: On the Nature, Cultures, and Politics of Street Tree Planting.” Philadelphia Horticultural Society. online, October 14, 5 pm EST
COLLOQUIUM LECTURE
Labyrinth, Hippodrome, Racetrack: Shaping Landscapes and Bodies for Sports in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Berlin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, September 29, 2020.
LECTURE
“Seeing Trees & the Forest.” Urban Tree-Sources: Discussing Safety, Stormwater and Tough Trees, Virginia’s Urban Forest Council. Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, VA, March 18, 2020. Postponed and moved online because of COVID-19: September 16, 2020, at 12 –1 pm EST. online
LECTURE
“The Nature, Culture, and Politics of Street Trees.” From the Rooftops, LARP Faculty Summer Series, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. June 8, 2020. [online]
PANEL CO-CHAIR
[with Susan Herrington]: Prescription Landscapes: Designing for Human Health. Panel at the 73rd Annual International SAH Conference, Seattle, WA, May 1, 2020. [moved online because of covid-19]
LECTURE
“Landscape, Contagion, and Health: Histories and Current Questions.” UPenn Weitzman School of Design, April 25. Online event organized by and for Weitzman School students.
LECTURE
“Entanglements of Urban Nature: Street Tree Stories in New York City and Berlin.” Politecnico di Torino, March 12, 2020 [online because of covid-19]
LECTURE
“Tree Talk: The Nature, Culture, and Politics of Street Trees” Rutgers University, February 26, 2020.
TALK
“Counting and Caring for Urban Trees: Street Tree Surveys and Citizen Protest in Twentieth-Century West Berlin.” University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design PhD Talks, February 7, 2020.
LECTURE
“Tracing Trees: Paper Technologies and Urban Arboriculture.” Speaking of Trees…, School of Architecture, Princeton University, December 5, 2019.
KEYNOTE
“Seeing Trees and the Forest.” Green Cities Summit. Kellogg Center, Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., December 4, 2019.
LECTURE
“In der Luft und am Boden. Sichtwechsel in Stadt und Landschaft der Moderne.” Weimarer Kontroversen 2019: Bauhaus. Erwartungshorizonte und Zukunftsvorstellungen in 100 Jahren Bauhaus. November 20-22, 2019.
LECTURE
“Occupying Public Space, Generating Public Spheres: Street Tree Art and Activism in East and West Berlin.” Street Trees and Politics, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, September 19-20, 2019.
EVENING LECTURE
“Challenges and Opportunities: Female Landscape Architects between 1930 and 1970.” Reception and Book Launch in Honor of Prof. Ruth Enis. Technion Israel Institute of Technology, July 30, 2019.
BOOK READING
“Seeing Trees.” Caring for NYC’s Forest: A Story of Research, Community, and Inspiration. Part II: Street Trees. NYC Urban Field Station and the J.M. Kaplan Fund. New York City, June 17, 2019.
KEYNOTE
“The Bauhaus Out-Of-Doors: Landscape Architecture, the Avant-Garde, and Its Legacy in Twentieth-Century Germany.” 20th International Conference on Information Technologies in Landscape Architecture, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, May 22, 2019.
SYMPOSIARCH
Landscape, Sport, Environment: The Spaces of Sport from the Early Modern Period to Today. Garden and Landscape Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, May 3-4, 2019.
MODERATOR
Aerial Futures: The Third Dimension. Evening panel. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 25, 2019
BOOK TALK
“Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin.” Harvard COOP, Cambridge, MA, April 23, 2019.
LECTURE
“Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-Ins in New York City.” Rising Urbanists Conference 2019: Reframing the Urban Forest, The City College of New York, New York City, March 30, 2019.
ASSEMBLY LECTURE
“Landscapes of Sport.” Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, February 26, 2019.
BOOK TALK
“Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin.” New York Botanical Garden, February 1, 2019.
LECTURE
“Airport Landscape.” Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, January 16, 2019.
LECTURE
“Natur in Zahlen. Zur Geschichte der Straßenbäume als natürliche Ressource in der Stadt.” Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, January 7, 2019.
LECTURE
“Die Stadt als Wald und der Wald als Stadt.” Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur. Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2018.
LECTURE
“Planting Street Trees for the Future.” Planting the Future: Urban Trees Symposium. New York City, Madison Square Park Conservancy, November 5, 2018.
PANELIST
A Convergence at the Confluence of Power, Identity, and Design. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, November 3, 2018.
FACULTY TOUR LEADER
Harvard Alumni Association: “Art and Architecture of Berlin.” October 13-19, 2018.
LECTURE
“ ‘Landscape Architect better carries the professional idea.’ On the Politics of Words in the Professionalization of Landscape Architecture in the United States.” Herrenhausen Symposium: From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture–Traditions, Re-evaluations, and Future Perspectives. Hannover. September 14-15, 2018.
LECTURE
“Airport Landscape” and “Up in the Air and Down to Earth: On the Dialectics of the Aerial View in Urban Planning and Design.” Universidad de Sevilla, November 23, 2017.
LECTURE
“Straßen-Baum-Geschichten.” Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst no. 8: StadtRaumDetail, Internationale Bauakademie Berlin, October 30, 2017.
LECTURE
“Die Stadt als Wald und der Wald als Stadt.” Kurt-Schwitters-Symposium 2017: Design und Mimesis. University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, October 19-20, 2017.
BOOK LAUNCH
“Kult und Krise des Großen Plans im Städtebau,” edited by Harald Bodenschatz and Celina Kress. Bücherbogen, Berlin, July 5, 2017.
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LECTURE
“Herausforderung und Chance: Landschaftsarchitektinnen 1930-1970.” Leibniz Universität Hannover, June 13, 2017.
MODERATOR
Landscape Architecture in Latin America. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 14, 2017.
RESPONDENT
Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art. Harvard University, April 6-8, 2017.
EVENT ORGANIZER AND MODERATOR
Planting in the Public Realm: Projects and Projections. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, March 7, 2017.
TALK
“Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City.” Princeton University, Program in European Cultural Studies. Spaces, Techniques, Knowledge: Workshop Series. Princeton University, February 9, 2017.
LECTURE
Lectures That Last 2017. Harvard University, February 23, 2017.
TALK
“Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City,” Harvard Environmental History Working Group. Harvard University, December 5, 2016.
LECTURE
“Seeing the City for the Trees and the Trees for the City,” ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture, November 18, 2016.
TALK
“Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City,” Dumbarton Oaks Midday Dialogue. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C. October 19, 2016.
LECTURE
“On Ghosts and Graphophones.” Symposium on Architecture: Anachrometrics. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, October 14, 2016.
TALK
“Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-Ins in New York City.” A Green City Mandate? Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg. July 14-16, 2016.
LECTURE
“Airport–A Cultural Landscape?” 2016 International Landscape Architecture Symposium: Landscape Value and Preservation. Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. May 28-29, 2016.
RESPONDENT
Cambridge Talks X: Bound and Unbound: The Sites of Utopia. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 14-15, 2016.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Serial Trees: Planting and Pruning in Urban Arboriculture.” SAH 69th Annual Conference, Pasadena, April 6-10, 2016.
PANEL CO-CHAIR
[with Michael Lee] Utopian Landscapes and Landscape Utopias. Panel at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, CA, April 6-10, 2016.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Planting Civil Rights in Theory and Practice: The Tree Corps in 1970s Brooklyn.” Interdisciplinary Workshop “Theorien der Aneignung von Urbanen Freiräumen, Universität Kassel, Germany, March 4, 2016.
COMMENT
Environmental History Seminar: Thomas Robertson, “Airplanes and Postwar America: An Environmental History of the Jet Age.” Massachusetts Historical Society, January 12, 2016.
LECTURE
“Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City.” 21st Annual Mary Kim McKeown Lecture. University of Oregon, January 20, 2016.
LECTURE
“Strassen-Baum-Geschichten.” Public Lecture Series 2015/16: Zukunft der Pflanze in Urbanen Räumen. Technical University Berlin, Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung. November 26, 2015.
SPEAKER
Black in Design Conference, Design Pedagogy and Practice Panel. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, October 9, 2015.
LECTURE
“Der Flughafen als Landschaft.” Technical University Munich, Vorhoelzer Forum. June 10, 2015.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Tree Stories: Landscape as a Complex of Histories.” SAH 68th Annual Conference, Chicago, April 15-19, 2015.
SPEAKER
GSD Talk hosted by Charles Waldheim, with John Beardsley: “Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture.” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, March 24, 2015.
LECTURE
“Up in the Air and Down to Earth: On the Dialectics of Aerial Vision in Landscape and Urban Design.” Collins/Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History, Columbia University, New York City. December 4, 2014.
LECTURE
“From Airfields to Green Fields: A Genealogy of Airport Landscape.” Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. November 28, 2014.
LECTURE
“Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and the City.” Außergewöhnliche Frauen und Gartenkultur. Beiträge zur Professionsgeschichte der Landschaftsarchitektur im 20. Jahrhundert. Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. November 21, 2014.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Shades of Red: Aerial Photography in Service of Green Cities.” 12th International Conference on Urban History, European Association of Urban Historians, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3-6, 2014.
MODERATOR
GSD Talks: “Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Susan Herrington: Making the Modern Landscape.” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, September 11, 2014.
LECTURE
“Designing the ‘Shapely City’.” Women and the City—From the Landscape Perspective. The New York Botanical Garden, New York City, June 20, 2014.
PANEL CHAIR
Landscapes of Scale. 67th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Austin, TX, April 9-13, 2014.
LECTURE
“From Airfields to Green Fields: A Genealogy of Airport Landscape.” Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk. Smith College, Northampton, MA. March 10, 2014.
LECTURES
“Up in the Air and Down to Earth: Aerial Vision and Twentieth-Century Design and Planning.” Tromsø Art Academy. Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and Tromsø University, Norway, November 21-22, 2013.
CO-ORGANIZER AND CO-CHAIR
[with Charles Waldheim] Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age, international conference at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, November 14-15, 2013.
TALK
“Flowing, Flooding, Filtering: Water and Designed Landscapes in Rome, Paris, Boston.” City Parks and Green Infrastructure: How Can Parks Help Manage Stormwater? Harvard University, November 7, 2013.
EXHIBITION
From Airfields to Green Fields: A Genealogy of Airport Landscape. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Loeb Library, October 30, 2013–March 2014.
EXHIBITION
[with Charles Waldheim] Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age. Exhibition at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, October 30–December 19.
LECTURE
“Camouflaging Camouflage: Creating the Anti-Aerial Landscapes of War.” Studio X-NYC. Columbia University, New York City. October 16, 2013.
LECTURE
“Up in the Air and Down to Earth: On the Dialectics of Aerial Vision in Landscape and Urban Design.” Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Washington D.C., July 16, 2013.
LECTURE
“Up in the Air and Down to Earth: On the Dialectics of the Aerial View in Urban Planning and Design.” Public Lecture Series 2013: The World in the City: Global Theories and Local Research. Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, July 4, 2013.
PANEL MODERATOR
Thinking the Contemporary Landscape – Positions and Oppositions. International Conference. Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, June 20-22, 2013.
POP-UP EXHIBITION
[with Jeanne Haffner] Networks + Natures: New Work On Aerial Vision, two short talks and a pop-up exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, April 23, 2013.
LECTURE
“Up in the Air and Down to Earth: On the Dualism of the Aerial View in Landscape Design and Planning,” Harvard GSD Ph.D. Talks. April 4, 2013.
RESPONDENT
Cambridge Talks VII: Architecture and the Street, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, March 29, 2013.
LECTURE
“Flights of Imagination: Powered Aviation and the Art and Science of Landscape Design and Planning.” Guest Scholar Lecture Series of the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association. Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, February 28, 2013.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Der Flughafen als Landschaft,” Flughäfen. Multimodale und multifunktionale Verkehrsknotenpunkte. Konferenz des AK Verkehrsgeschichte, Kelsterbach, Germany, January 17-18, 2013.
PUBLIC TOUR LEADER
Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. Public tours of Meridian Hill Park in Washington D.C. on occasion of the “What’s Out There Weekend” organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, May 19-20, 2012
PANEL CO-CHAIR
[with Marc Treib] Landscape Architecture and Economics. 65th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Detroit, April 18-22, 2012.
CO-ORGANIZER
[with Susan Herrington] Landscapes in Time. Symposium of the Landscape Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Detroit, April 18, 2012.
LECTURE
“Flights of Imagination – Past and Present Projects in Landscape Architectural History.” University of Virginia, School of Architecture, February 23, 2012.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Bombs and Oranges: Turning California’s El Toro Air Base into the Orange County Great Park.” 6th European Society of Environmental History Conference, Turku, Finland, June 28-July 2, 2011.
LECTURE
“Hammerbacher, Crowe, Parpagliolo: New Landscapes for Old Europe.” Women and Modernism in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, February 17‐18, 2011.
LECTURE
“The Greater Green: Park System Planning at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in Chicago, Berlin and Rome.” Der “Kult” des großen Plans um 1910/ The “Hype” of Big Plans around 1910, conference organized by the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the TU Berlin, IRS Erkner, and TU Dortmund, at the TU Berlin, November 25-26, 2010.
LECTURE
“Der Blick von oben. Neue Perspektiven in der Landschaftsarchitekturgeschichte.” Technische Universität Dresden, October 28, 2010.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Invisible Landscapes: Camouflaging Landscapes for War and Peace.” Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, September 16-18, 2010.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Taking Turns: Landscape and Environmental History at the Crossroads.” SAH 63rd Annual Conference, Chicago, April 21-25, 2010.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Invisible Landscapes: Camouflage and Contemporary Landscape Architecture.” CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“From Air Parks to Air Ports and Back Again: Landscape Architecture and the Reclamation of Airports as Parks.” The 13th National Conference on Planning History, Oakland, CA, October 15-18, 2009.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“From Air Fields to Green Fields: Reclaiming Airports for Urban Ecology in Toronto and Berlin.” First World Congress for Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 4-8, 2009.
LECTURE
“Der Blick von oben: versteckte und entdeckte Landschaft zwischen 1920 und 1945.” Kunst– Garten–Kultur: Perspektiven gartenkultureller Forschung an der Universität der Künste. University of the Arts Berlin, July 3-5, 2009.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“In Tandem: Group and Cross-Cultural Learning in a Transatlantic Interdisciplinary Seminar.” Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, April 24, 2009.
LECTURE
“ ‘Per la difesa del giardino’: Gardens, Parks, and Landscapes between Tradition and Modernism in early Twentieth-Century Italy.” Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890-1940 Part II, organized by National Gallery of Art, Washington, CASVA, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, CGL, and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Hannover, October 17-18, 2008.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Between Science and Aesthetics: ‘Air-minded’ Landscape Architecture.” SAH 61st Annual Conference, Cincinnati, April 23-27, 2008.
PANEL CHAIR
Imperial Outgrowths: Asian Landscape and the British Colonial Project. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 3-6, 2008.
LECTURE
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974) - Her Work in Britain.” Study day of the Garden History Society: Important Figures in Post-War British Public Landscapes and Their Works. London, November 10, 2007.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Planning for Greener Cities: Park Systems as a Transatlantic Phenomenon at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” SACRPH 2007, Portland, Maine, October 25-28, 2007.
PANEL CHAIR
Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective. International Conference, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., September 13-15, 2007.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Municipal and Metropolitan Park System Planning as an International Phenomenon: National Traditions and Transnational Exchange in the United States and Europe.“ ESEH 2007, Amsterdam, June 5–9, 2007.
LECTURE
“‘Alberi e Fiori per il Popolo’: Plants, Parks and Politics in Fascist Italy.” Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism under Fascism, Columbia University in the City of New York, April 27-28, 2007.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“International Exchange and National Traditions: Park Planning in North America and Italy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” SESAH 2006, Auburn, September 29, 2006.
CO-ORGANIZER
[with Stiftung Fürst Pückler-Park Bad Muskau] Pückler’s Cultural World and Literary Fame. International, interdisciplinary conference Pückler and America in Bad Muskau, June 22-25, 2006.
CONFERENCE PAPER
“Breaking Ground: Women Pioneers in Landscape Architecture. An International Perspective.” CELA 2006, Vancouver, June 16, 2006.
PANEL MODERATOR
Envisioning Change: Visionary Solutions. CELA 2006, Vancouver, June 14, 2006.
CO-ORGANIZER
[with Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch] The Place of Nature in the City in Twentieth Century Europe and North America. International conference, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., December 1-3, 2005.
CO-ORGANIZER
[with Bavarian American Academy] The Pursuit of Public Happiness: Gardens and Parks in Europe and North America. International conference, Bavarian American Academy, Munich, June 16-18, 2005.
LECTURE
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard: una paesaggista tra tradizione e modernità.” Public Lecture Series organized by the Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio. Casino della Meridiana, Villa Borghese, Rome, April 28, 2005.