Invited Lectures & Responses (selected)

• "'Sleeping Sexy': Jonah and the Sea Monster on Roman Sarcophagi"
  Department of Classics and the Archaeological Institute of America, Urbana-Champaign, 27 March 2020
  --> deferred because of coronavirus
  

• "Death Divine: Portraits in the Guise of Gods and Heroes on Roman Sarcophagi"
  Depicting the Dead: From Ancient Syria to Social Media, Getty Villa, Malibu, 16 March 2019

• "Pressing the Purple: Vintage, Vats, and the Christianization of Imperial Porphyry Sarcophagi"
  Colored Stone Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean: Quarries, Workshops, Uses, and Meanings, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 28 November - 1 December 2017

 

• "Strutting Your Stuff: Finger Struts on Roman Sarcophagi"
  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, 9 June 2017

 

• ​​"The Lycian Sarcophagus of Sidon"
  Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, 21 April 2017​

 

• "Baring Arms, Not Bearing Arms: Sea Nymphs and the Absent Arms of Achilles on Marine Sarcophagi"
  Department of Classics and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 7 April 2017

 

• "When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi"
  Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Urbana-Champaign, 12 October 2014

 

• "The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi"
  Kolloquium des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 11 November 2013

 

• "A Season for Grieving? Life and Death on a Roman Season Sarcophagus in the Legion of Honor"
  California History-Social Sciences Project, San Francisco, 19 July 2011

 

• "Stone Dead? Visions of the Afterlife on Roman Sarcophagi"
  The I.F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classical Studies, Concordia College, 10 March 2010

 

• Critical Response to papers by R.R.R. Smith and Björn Ewald
  ​Flesh Eaters: An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi, Berkeley, 18-19 September 2009