Papers

‘the most beautiful, the whitest, best-formed people on the whole of the earth’: White Marbles, White Britons, and the imperial desire to collect the ancient world

16th Congress for the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, A piece of Rome: ancient marbles and copies in Roman Eighteenth- century art market, Rome, Italy, 3-7 July 2023

The Age of Hunters to the Age of Commerce: a Racial Reading of James Barry’s The Progress of Human Culture and Knowledge

Classical Association Annual Conference 2023, (De)/(Re)-Constructing Race in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Perspectives from the Margins of ‘Classics’, University of Cambridge, 19-23 April 2023

‘Strange and Uncouth’: The Discovery of Pompei and its Comparisons to Indian and Chinese Art

Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2023, Dreaming of the Silk Road: Narrative Conversations, 5-8 January 2023

In With the Old: The Evolution of San Giovanni in Laterano and the Reclamation of a Roman Past

Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies ECR Forum, King’s College London, 15 March 2022

Classics and the Museum

Classics: The Next Frontier?, University of Cambridge, 7 March 2022

Negative Hallucinations: Combatting the False Narratives of the White Classical Body in Contemporary Artistic Practice

Association for Art History Annual Conference 2022, 6-8 April 2022

The Whiteness and Politeness of Classics in John James Baker’s The Whig Junto (1710)

Classics Department Seminar Series, King’s College London, 13 December 2021

How Can Historians Apply Contemporary Ideas on Whiteness as a Visual Label to Earlier Periods of Time?

Reading the Label: Periodisation, Style, and the Humanities, University of York, 15 October 2021

Codifying Whiteness from the Glorious Revolution to the Seven Years’ War (1688-1756)

London Classicists of Colour Summer Symposium, 15 August 2021

(Mis)Labelling the Other: Cultural Erasure in Non-Western Object Museum Labels

Global Britain: Decolonising Art’s Histories, Association for Art History Summer Symposium 2021, 22 June 2021

A White Lie: Renaissance Italian Identity in the Reception of Vergil’s Aeneid

Symposium Cumanum 2021: Identity in Vergil: Ancient Representations, Global Receptions, Villia Vergiliana, Cuma, 23-26 June 2021

Panelist Discussion: Museum Workers of Colour

Decolonising ‘the Museum’, Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, 4 May 2021

What can Triumph of the Thames (James Barry, 1777-1801) Tell Us About British Ideas of Western Civilization and Empire?

Now & Then: (In)equit and Marginalization in Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges SPEAC Conference, 12-13 March 2021

Postcolonial Pedagogies and the Reframing of the Classical World

University of Edinburgh Classics Society BAME Series, Online, 30 September 2020

The Nightmare of Rome: Remnants of Colonial Thought in Boris Johnson’s The Dream of Rome

British Association for Victorian Studies Symposium – Black Lives Matter: Race, Imperialism, and Victorian Studies, Online, 21 July 2020

Classics and Whiteness in Pompeo Batoni’s Grand Tour Portraits (cancelled due to Covid-19)

Decolonial Intersections: Race, Art, Poetry, and Memory Institutions, The British School at Rome, 23 April 2020

Colourless Narratives: the Whitewashing of Classics and the Formation of a White British Identity (cancelled due to Covid-19)

Association for Art History Annual Conference, Newcastle and Northumbria Universities, 1-3 April 2020

What Studying Classics Taught Me About My Relationship With Western Civilisation

Classics and Race: Research and Pedagogy, University of St Andrews, 14 October 2019

African Bodies in Italian Renaissance Art: Diana and Actaeon

National Galleries Scotland, 16 September 2019

New Town, New Money: Towards a Decolonised Edinburgh

Sculpture in Scotland Symposium, Scottish Society for Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, 8-9 February 2019

The Architecture of Conflict: Examining the Parallels between ISIL’s Destruction of Palmyra and Alexander the Great’s Burning of Persepolis

New Voices 2018: Art and Conflict, Association for Art History, Edinburgh College of Art, 9 November 2018