EVENTS

Paris shares her research and perspectives through lectures, panel discussions, interviews, and conversations around books, exhibitions, and film. She has been invited to give talks at numerous intuitions, including the National Gallery (London), the J. Paul Getty Museum, Harvard University, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and The Clark. She regularly participates in academic events, panels, and other conversations that explore new approaches to studying the past, considering the ways our cultural institutions have come to tell stories about art and its makers and finding ways to reinsert women’s stories.

Find upcoming events as well as a selection of past talks and appearances below.

Harvard Art Museums lecture poster for “Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art,” featuring an attributed painting of three women and a blurred version of the artwork.

  • 10.02.26
    The Clark
    New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Aso O. Tavitian Collection Symposium “Revolutionary Women: Angelica Kauffmann and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Artists of Their Times”

    09.18.26
    EXPERT MEETING / Online
    “How Can We Even the Playing Field? The Challenges of Integrating Women into Art History,” A Shift in Perspective: Critically Rethinking Women Artists’ Biography in the Early Modern Period, NIKI Florence

    03.24.26
    Harvard University
    “Early Modern Art and Identities: Writing Women In,”  Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History

    03.13.26
    Courtauld Instiute of Art
    Rediscovering and Re-presenting the Work of Women Artists

    05.04.25
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    “Breaking Barriers: Sophie Fremiet and the Rise of Women Artists in Europe”

    04.25
    Jamestown Art Center, RI
    “Women Artists in the Age of Revolution,” Mark Steinberg Weil Memorial Lecture Series

    04.25
    National Gallery London
    “‘The Spirit of a Particular Age’: Women Artists and the Challenges of an Integrated Art History,” Anna Jameson Lecture

    06.24
    National Gallery London
    In Conversation with Eliza Goodpasture, Women and the Arts Forum Conference

    04.23.24
    Harvard University
    “Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art,” Annual Henri Zerner Lecture, Harvard University Department of Art and Architecture and Harvard Art Museums

    05.03.23
    In Conversation with Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art, hosted by the Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Friends of NMWA, UK and Les Amis du NMWA

    10.2022
    Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
    “Establishing a Female Lineage at the Royal Academy’s Show: Eliza Trotter, Angelica Kauffman, and the Intrigues of Lady Caroline Lamb,” Public Lecture Course

    08.2022
    Brookline Booksmith
    “Book talk: Conversation with Joseph Koerner”

    04.2022
    Erlangen
    “Reframing the Canon: Myths and Makings of the Premodern Woman Artist,” keynote address for “Tender hands and rough stone:” Sculpture’s Stereotypes of Gender and Making (1550–2021)

    03.2022
    National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
    “Studio Business: Women Artists and Professionalism,” panel discussion

    02.2021
    Boston College
    “Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Revisiting the Archive and Practices of Gender Art/History” 

    11.2019
    Harvard University
    “Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin,” The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University History Workshop

    04.2019
    Harvard University
    “‘Only a woman by her clothing’: Becoming a Woman Artist in Revolutionary-era Britain and France,” Visual Representation, Materiality and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

    11.2018
    Princeton University
    “‘A way to independence’: The Rise of Women Artists in Revolutionary-era Britain and France, 1760-1830,” Eighteenth-Century Seminar lecture series, Princeton University, Department of History and Humanities Council

    10.2017
    Harn Museum of Art
    “Exceptional, but not Exceptions: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions,” Thinking Women: Art and Representation in the Eighteenth Century. A Symposium in Honor of Mary D. Sheriff, University of Florida

    10.2016
    Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
    “‘[T]he study and genius of an artist’: Mary Linwood and the Artistic Self-Fashioning of the British Needle-Painter,” Embroidery: The Language of Art. A Winterthur Needlework Conference

    04.2016
    J. Paul Getty Museum
    “Expanding Material Conventions: How Women Artists Navigated the Revolutionary Era,” Getty Research Institute Scholar Talk

Header image: Sophie Fremiet (later Rude), Portrait of a Woman, 1818, J. Paul Getty Museum