Session co-chair of “Making Inroads, Paving the Way: Post-war Architecture, Design and teh Formation of Jewish-American Identity,” College Art Associat (CAA) conference, New York, Feb. 2013.

“Building Shelter" Design-Build as Sustainabilty Pedagogy,” paper at National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), Mar. 2012.

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

“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.