Kirstin Ringelberg

“'Inverts', 'Friends', & Silences: The French Case." The First Homosexuals Symposium, as part of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939 exhibition, Wrightwood 659 Chicago, IL, May 10, 2025.

"If a trans person walks into the room and no one recognizes them, do they make a sound?" College Art Association, New York, NY, February 13, 2025.

"No Art History on a Dead Planet." College Art Association, New York, NY, February 13, 2025.

“A Less Binary Art History is Possible.” Clark Art Institute, Research and Academic Program Lecture Series, March 12, 2024.

“Not Ideal: Madeleine Lemaire’s Public/Private Passages.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Baltimore, MD, November 9, 2023.

Panelist, “The Politics of French History in Times of Crisis.” Western Society for French History Roundtable (w/Corinne Gressang, Terry Peterson, & Jacqueline Couti) on Zoom, October 21, 2023.

Respondent, “Queering/Queer in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.” AHNCA Sponsored panel, College Art Association Conference, New York, February 16, 2023.

“Reframing Relationships: Madeleine Lemaire’s Usable Past”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 25, 2022.

“’Tout ce qu’elle peint a de la moustache!’ (Re)Gendering Madeleine Lemaire.” Society for French Historical Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 26, 2022.

Discussant, “Enchanted by Nature: Picturing Gendered Plants and Female Agency in Europe and China (17th - 19th Century).” College Art Association Conference, February 17, 2022.

Co-organizer, “Transgender Art & Visual Culture Studies”, special session in honor of 20th anniversary of Journal of Visual Culture, November 20, 2021.

“ReProduction, PolliNation: The Flora and Fauna of Madeleine Lemaire.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington, D.C., October 28, 2021.

Panelist, “Andy Warhol: Ladies & Gentleman.” Art Gallery of Ontario, August 19, 2021. https://youtu.be/mLbvFNGQG48

Interlocutor/Discussant, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Ninteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch; in series “NCFS in Captivity," October 23, 2020. https://h-france.net/h-france-salon-volume-12-2020/#1211

“’The flower that thinks, the flower that suffers’: Anthropomorphization as Art and Science in the Belle Époque.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA., March 7, 2020.

"Why It Might Be Better to Be a Generalist." College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL, February 15, 2020.

"Speaking Loute Language": Queer Differences in Art's Histories. Invited lecture, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, February 26, 2019.

“Notorious, Minor, Queer?: Madeleine Lemaire Obfuscated and Outed.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Riverside, CA, October 25-27, 2018.

“This Woman Artist Who Is Not One.” Feminist Art History Conference, Washington, D.C., September 28-30, 2018.

Panel co-chair, “Keeping Up Appearances: Historicizing Trans and Gender Variance in and across Art History.” College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 21-24, 2018.

“Representing the Parisienne: Madeleine Lemaire In and Out of Style.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, November 9-11, 2017.

“’The requirements and limitations of illustrative art’: Madeleine Lemaire’s Modernity.” SECAC National Conference, Columbus College of Art & Design, October 25-28, 2017.

“The Court of Lilacs, The Studio of Roses, The Garden of Réveillon: Madeleine Lemaire’s Empire of Flowers.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 29, 2016.

“Having it Both Ways: Tabaimo as Third-Wave Feminist.” College Art Association Conference, Washington, D.C., February 4, 2016.

"The Success of Her Soirées Surpassed That of Any Other Fête: Parties as Art in the Salon of Madeleine Lemaire." SECAC Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. October 24, 2015.

“’Being Fair to Both Sides’: Neoliberal Lies and Waffle Fries” (presenter) in the panel “Managed Education: Queer and Transgender ‘Inclusion’ in the Neoliberal University" (co-chair). Cultural Studies Association Conference, Riverside, California. May 22, 2015.

“Little Sister, Big Girl: Tabaimo and the Gendering of Japanese Contemporary Art.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada. March 18, 2012. Re-presented at Asian Studies Conference Japan, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, June 30, 2012.

“Cel-Culture: The Hybrid Intersections of Art, Video Games, and Manga.”  Panel co-chair, College Art Association Conference. New York, New York. February 2011.

“A Floating World Indeed: Ukiyo-e in Contemporary Culture.”  Southeastern College Art Conference. Richmond, VA. October 2010.

“Global But Not Binary: Questions of Pedagogy in Cultural Histories.” Globalisms Division panel, Cultural Studies Association Conference. New York, NY. May 24, 2008.

Panel moderator, “Feminist Art”, Visual Culture Division panel, Cultural Studies Association Conference (by invitation). New York, NY. May 24, 2008.

“Henry James and the Beautiful Collector.” Long Island University, March 27, 2008. 

“Not So Cute: Kawaii as Critique in the Art of Chinatsu Ban, Yoshitomo Nara, and Tabaimo.” College Art Association Conference, Dallas, TX. February 21, 2008.

“Architecture’s Narratives: Spaces and the Stories They Tell.”  Panel coordinator, Southeastern College Art Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. October 26, 2006.

“Factory/Memory/Spectacle: Why the Avant Garde Can’t Give Up.” Cultural Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC. April 20, 2006.

“Reframing the Shot: Yasumasa Morimura's Slaughter Cabinet II and Eddie Adams’ General Loan Executing Nguyen Van Lem.”  College Art Association Conference, Seattle, WA. February 19, 2004.

"Rendering Invisible by Display: Obfuscation and Misdirection in Representations of Late Nineteenth-Century American Women."  American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association, Toronto, Canada. March 13-16, 2002.

"Commodifying Frida Kahlo: Appropriative Myths in Popular Culture and Identity Politics."  Congress of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.  October 20, 2001.

"Gendered Attributions: Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low's Dans la Nursery."  Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois. September 25, 2001.

“The Artist’s Home Work: Class Constructions in the Late Nineteenth-Century Studio.”  Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 17, 1998.

“The Artist’s Studio as a Domestic Interior in Late Nineteenth-Century Painting.” College Art Association Conference, New York. February 11, 1997.

“Venus/Vamp: Gender Tropes in Twin Peaks.”  Delivered January 26, 1995 at Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee.