Conferences and lectures

Conference Organization

• 'Textiles, techne and power in the Andes', co-convenor, International Conference, London, March 2012.
• ‘Order’s Other Histories: Revisiting South America’, One Day Symposium, with the collaboration of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the British Museum, London, November 2010.
• ‘Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850’, co-convenor, International Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, June 2009.
• ‘Modernity and the Visual Image in Latin America’, co-convenor, session for the Annual Conference, Society for Latin American Studies, April 2007.
• ‘Documentary Film and Historical Geography’, co-convenor, session for the Annual Conference, Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, August-September 2006.
• ‘Iconografia Brasileira: Imagens do Passado e Preservação do Patrimônio’, co-convenor, session for the 12o Regional Meeting of History, ANPUH, Rio de Janeiro, August 2006.
• ‘Historical Geographies of the Sea’, co-convenor, session for the Annual Conference, Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, September 2003.
• ‘Tropical Views & Visions’ Conference, co-convenor, National Maritime Museum, July 2002.

Recent Lectures and Conference Papers

• Screening of Doméstica (Housemaids) and Q&A with film director Gabriel Mascaro, panel discussant, LSE, London, January 2013.
• 'Andean Textiles and Cultural Imagery in a Digital Age', 2nd Impact Workshop, IGRS, Senate House, London, May 2012.
• 'The Life of High Rises', panel discussant, Open City Docs event, RADA, London, May 2012.
• 'Exploring weaving structures in the Andes: reflections on the creation of a digital archive', Digital Hispanisms panel, AHGBI Annual Conference, Stirling, April 2012.
• 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and Aloha Baker in Mato Grosso: Framing the Bororo', Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, November 2011; Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Manchester, February 2012; Latin America Research Group (LARG), Royal Holloway, University of London, May 2012.
• 'A Tropical Papageno: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roberto Ipureu in Mato Grosso, Brazil', Agents of Transculturation: Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens Symposium, Rostock, September 2011.
• ‘Typification, exoticism and the blurring of disciplinarity: visualizing the “Bororo”,’ Order’s other histories: revisiting South America Symposium, London, November 2010.
• ‘Geographical exploration and the moving image: the Hamilton Rice Expedition to the Amazon, 1924-25’, Meadows School’s Comini Art History Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, September 2010.
• ‘Exploração geográfica e filme documentário: a expedição Amazônica de Alexander Hamilton Rice, 1924-25’, ECA - USP, São Paulo, August 2010.
• ‘Brazil’s gift: coffee, modernity and the Brazilian image world’, College Art Association 98th Annual Meeting, Chicago, February 2010.
• ‘Humboldt’s impasse: the mapping of the Amazon’, Alexander von Humboldt and America Workshop, The British Academy, London, November 2009.
• ‘Vision, Technology and the Mapping of the Amazon’, Hidden Histories of Exploration  Workshop, Royal Geographical Society with IBG, November 2009.
• ‘Documentary Film and Photography in the Making of Historical Geographies: The Case of the Hamilton Rice Expedition to the Amazon, 1924-25’, Historical Geography Research Group Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, November 2009.
• ‘Bittersweet images: coffee, landscape and modernity in Brazil’, American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography Conference, University of Essex, July 2009 and Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, November 2009.