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“Workshop: Doing Things with Monuments,” American University, Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, September 21, 2026.

Panelist for a discussion of Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World, Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, September 29, 2026.

“Toppled, Stolen, Shattered: Art After Destruction,” University of Vermont, Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visual Arts Speaker Series, October 28, 2026.

“A Market for Proof: Provenance Fraud on the Antiquities Market,” Western Michigan University Department of History Paul Maier & Burnham Macmillan Ancient & Public History Speaker Series, November 3, 2026.

Speaker on art theft, forgery, and trafficking for University of California, Berkeley, Intensive Seminar in Art Law, November 30–December 3, 2026.

Speaker for "Guantánamo, 25 Years On," a symposium at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, February 5-6, 2027. 

Video

Comedy Central (The Opposition with Jordan Klepper), discussing artwork made by Guantánamo detainees, January 18, 2018.

I have also appeared onscreen for many other outlets, including PBS NewsHour, Fox News, CBS Sunday Morning, Al Jazeera, TVNZ Breakfast, NY1, HuffPo, and Newsy.

TEDx

“Terrorists and Archeologists: How the Past Belongs to the Present,” TEDxCUNY, November 20, 2015.

“What Color is Guantánamo?” TEDxColumbiaUniversity, April 22, 2018.

Audio

The Ishtar Diaries Podcast, from the Columbia University Global Centers, discussing the looting and illicit trafficking of antiquities (2021).

I have done radio interviews about protests about monuments (ABC News, Channel Q, Behind the News with Doug Henwood on KPFA (Berkeley), MPR News), the ethics of digital preservation of antiquities (All Things Considered), art from Guantánamo (All Things Considered, PRI's The World, CBC Radio's As It Happens, the BBC World Service's World Update and BBC Radio 4's The Art of Now), and the destruction of antiquities by ISIS (WNYC's The Takeaway in 2014 and 2015; KCRW’s Press Play; and WAMC's Ideas Matter).

Other Past Talks and Appearances

I have also given talks at venues including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, University of Chicago, McGill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Georgetown, UC Irvine, Carnegie Mellon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the Global Mayors Conference, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, Royal Ontario Museum, National Arts Club, ABA Section of International Law Annual Meeting, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (Heritage in War Project), and the Max-Planck-Institut at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.