RECENT Talks

“American Economy/Italian Ecology: Making and Unmaking the Lung Block,” Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries Conference, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY. With Stefano Morello (2022)

      “Poy Gum Lee & The Politics of Self-Orientalism in New York’s Chinatown, 1946-1960.”  In the session "Chinoiserie: Imagining Self and Other in Architectural Culture." Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting (2021)

 “Rehabilitation of a Lower East Side Landmark: The Jarmulowsky Bank.” Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, New York, NY (2021) 

“From the ‘Lung Block’ to the ‘China Virus’: Public Health, Xenophobia, and US Identity Formation over the American Century.” Conference paper presented at Public Health and Disease in the American Century, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg, NL (2021) 

“Precarity and Potential: You Don't Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone.” Paper presented at the PhD Research Projects 2021 Annual Conference, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2021)

“Designing for Chinatown.” Panel Discussion. Think!Chinatown.Chinatown Arts Week (2019)          

“Putting the Lung Block on the Map.” Mapping Contagion: Representing Contagious Disease in New York City, New York Public Library. Symposium for Contagious Cities international cultural project supported by the Wellcome Foundation (2019)

 “The Italian Community of the Lung Block.” Departments of Modern Languages, Urban Studies, and Labor Studies.  Manhattan College. New York, NY (2019)

“The Chinatown Building Project: Architecture of Identity in New York’s Chinatown, 1945-1965.” Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Architectural History Workshop, London, UK (2019)

    “Defining Cultural Significance,” Beyond Bricks & Mortar: Rethinking Sites of Cultural History. NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, Historic Districts Council, New York Preservation Archive Conference (2018)

Is Preservation Elitist? (panelist) Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with the exhibition Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks. New York, NY (2015) 

Rediscovering the Hybrid Modernism of Poy Gum Lee 1900-1968 (invited speaker) World Congress on Art Deco, Shanghai, China (October 2015) 

Community Driven Design at the Lower East Side Waterfront (panelist) Partnering for Impact: Innovative Collaborations for Effective Organizing Conference. New School, New York, NY (2014). 

Beyond the Grid: Creating a Resilient Community Microgrid in Two Bridges (invited speaker) Transportation Research Board Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures Workshop, New York, NY (2014) 

The Future of Zone A: New York Neighborhoods on the Frontline of Climate Change (keynote speaker). Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design & The Architectural League, New York, NY (2013) 

Nothing Worth Saving? Landmarking & the Midtown East Rezoning Proposal (invited speaker) Preservation Now! Historic Districts Council 19th Annual Conference (2013)

Equity and Resilience in Waterfront Design (invited speaker) American Planning Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (2013)