Conference Papers

  • August 2020, The Ivory in the Portrait: the Reproduction of Late Antique and Byzantine Ivories in the nineteenth-century.  International Workshop on the history of Reproductions, The Lutheran Central Museum in Budapest.
  • Sept 2011, Casts of Thousands: the Rise and Fall of the Fictile Ivory. Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh Plaster Cast Conference.
  • April 2011, Disfigured Objects and ‘Scattered Fragments’: experiencing Byzantine ivories in the early nineteenth-century. 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Newcastle University.
  • March 2011, Typecasting Byzantium: the Fictile Ivory. Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Warwick.
  • March 2010, Casts of Thousands: The reproduction of Late Antique and Byzantine ivories in the nineteenth-century. 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. University of Birmingham.
  • October 2009, Collecting Byzantium: nineteenth-century responses to Joseph Mayer’s Late Antique and Byzantine ivories. The Society of Antiquaries of London.
  • March 2009, Representing the decline and fall: nineteenth-century responses to the Asclepius Hygieia and Clementinus ivory diptychs. Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Related to the Royal Academy Byzantium Exhibition. Paper published in an edited volume entitled Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art, August 2013.
  • June 2009, Portrait of an Ivory: Joseph Mayer (1803-1886) and his Late Antique and Byzantine Ivory Collection. Seminars in the History of collecting, Wallace Collection, London.
  • April 2008, A Portrait of an Ivory, 41st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
  • April 2008, Drooping into Decadence: Ambivalent Victorian Responses to Byzantine Ivories, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.