Conference Presentations and lectures (recent)

  • “Emblems and Symbiosis in the Visual Culture of the Cossack Hetmanate,” 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 21, 2025.
  • “Textiles’ Materiality and the Imaginary of the 18th Century Cossack Hetmanate,” The 36th CIHA Congress, Lyon, June 26, 2024.
  • “Uncovering the Identity. The Islamic Carpet in the Eighteenth-century Portrait of St. Dmytrii Tuptalo,” Colloquium, Institut für Kunst und Baugeschichte/Lehrstuhl Jehle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). June 16, 2023 https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/jehle/2950.php
  • “The Power of Flowers: Сarpets, Nature and Genealogical Myths in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate,” Series of talks “Global Perspectives on Art and Ecology” (organized by PD Dr. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo), KIT, 3.11.2022. https://www.arch.kit.edu/english/aktuelles/487.php/event/47831; https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/3012.php
  • "Taste, Social Class, and Oriental Carpet Design in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate. December 15, 2022, Dumbarton Oaks. On-line https://www.doaks.org/events/byzantine-studies/public-lectures/taste-social-class-carpet-design
  • “Female Artist, Male Art Historian: Affective Interaction in Bohdan Horyn’s Love and Creativity of Sofia Karaffa-Korbut”, 110th CAA Annual Conference, New York, Chicago, February 16–19, 2022.
  • “Taste, Social Class, and Oriental Carpet Design in the Eighteenth-Century Cossack Hetmanate,” Eighteenth-century studies: Ukrainian and Global perspectives, Lviv/On-line, June 23-25, 2021.
  • “Is It the Rug or the “Other?” 108th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 12–15, 2020.
  • “Deconstructing Imperialism: Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Design in the Iconography of a Christian Saint,” Preconference Colloquium, CAA-Getty International Programm, New York, February 12, 2019.
  • “Deconstruction of Russian Imperialism. Intersection of Religion, Politics and Design in the Iconography of St. Dmytrii Tuptalo, 18th Century,” public lectures at Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York, February 9, 2019 and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, February 3, 2020.
  • “Chomy na portretah mytropolyta Dmytria Tuptala zobrajeni islamski molytovni kylymy?” [Why Do the Portraits of the Orthodox Bishop Dmitry Tuptalo Include Islamic Prayer Rugs?], conference “Schlahy rozvytku ukrainskoho mystectvoznavstva ta restavracii” [The Ways of Development of Ukrainian Art History and Restoration], National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, July 1–2, 2018.
  • “Ukrainian Kilim and Carpet Design between East and West,” lecture at the Department of Textile Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 17, 2017.

Events organized

  • "Weaving as Technique and Metaphor. Acculturation and Migration of Motifs in Early Modern Eastern Europe,”Workshop co-organized with Jesús Muñoz Morcillo at Institut für Kunst und Baugeschichte/Lehrstuhl Jehle, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). June 16, Friday, 2023 https://kg.ikb.kit.edu/jehle/2950.php
  • “Feminism, Consumerism, and the Politics of Representation”. The colloquium chair at 110th CAA Annual Conference, The CAA-Getty International Program, New York, Chicago, March 5 , 2022.
  • “Visuality of the Disease and the Future of the World,” session co-chair with Nazar Kozak at 109th CAA Annual Conference, New York/On-line, February 10-13, 2021.
  • Workshop “Automatism in Art: How to Write a Dadaist Poem and Create a Dadaist Collage?”, Franko Art Fest, Lviv, October 11, 2018.
  • Seminar for Visual Art Studies. Grotovski, Piotr (Poland), “Byzantine Theory of the Icon: A Case of the Comnenus Iconoclasm,” May 3, 2018. Moderator.
  • M.A.H.T. (Methods, Art, Humanities, Theory). Weekly Workshop on Theory and Methods in Humanities. Organizer and moderator (2016).
  • Seminar for Visual Art Studies. Greshlyk, Vladyslav (Slovakia), “Icons,” Lviv, September 16, 2016. Moderator.
  • Seminar for Visual Art Studies. Kruk, Miroslav Piotr (Poland), “Icons of the Fourteenth Through Sixteenth Centuries in the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow,” September 12, 2016. Moderator.