Upcoming talks
SoFCB Book Party: Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings: Author Janelle Rebel in Conversation with Alison Fraser, March 5, 2025, @noon on Zoom, Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography.
Past talks
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings, April 10, 2024, The Philobiblon Club, Philadelphia Ethical Society, Philadelphia
Participant Presentation, April 5, 2022, Brodsky Center Getty Traveling Seminar for Curators of Contemporary Prints, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The Dear Vern web archive drove me absolutely wild, March 19, 2022, Power Positions: A Dismantling of Phallacies, Elisabeth Jones Art Center for Social & Environmental Justice (now Parallax Art Center), Portland, OR
Junior Fellow Presentation, May 26, 2021, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Meeting, University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City
Visiting Artist Lecture, March 22, 2021, Fine Arts Department, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota
Feminisms of the Upper Air, January 3, 2020, Intersections: CBAA 2020 Conference, New Orleans
About-Face: Gendered Positions in Special Collections, April 26, 2019, Feminist Fridays, Gender Studies Program, New College of Florida, Sarasota
The Play Provocation of Subject Matters, March 28–31, 2018, Visual Culture: Theories and Practices, 2018 PCA/ACA National Conference, Indianapolis
Synthetic Fabric, Neckties, Diableries, January 18, 2018, 10 × 10: Ten Slides Ten Speakers, AIA Florida Gulf Coast, Sarasota
Obstinate and Aspirational Thought Models in Publication Work, November 17–18, 2017, Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture, Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington
Surrogate Lives and Bibliographic Performances, April 17, 2016, Making Out Visual & Critical Studies Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Spaceholders, Placeholders, and Surrogates, April 8, 2016, [image here] Interdisciplinary Conference & Exhibition, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Artists’ Books and the Screen, November 22, 2016, Writing Generative Seminar in Artists’ Books, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Drawing a Blank, duo lecture with Claire Henry, October 22, 2015, VCS Graduate Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
What are you doing?: constructed path nos. 1 and 2, April 20, 2015, VCS Graduate Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago