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Elliot Montague presented his film, "Light on a Path, Follow", as part of the Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium, presented by Barnard Center for Research on Women. This symposium featured artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. He also presented his film locally at Amherst Cinema's "Transformed" series, and at London's Institute of Contemporary Art in their "After Sex on Screen" series, focusing on reproductive justice through an international lens.
Moskowitz, A. (2026) “Harriet Wilson's Poetics of Perception.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference, Cincinnati, OH. March 2026.
Moskowitz, A. (2026) "Why Does Settler Colonization Hate History?" Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, CA. January 2026.
Moskowitz, A. (2026) “Slavery’s Affective Economies” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, CA. January 2026.
Moskowitz, A. (2024) Invited Speaker, "Literature and the Senses." Amherst College, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, October 2024.
Moskowitz, A. (2023) Invited Speaker, “Imperception,” Political Concepts: The Literature Edition, The Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University. March 2023.
Mueller, A. (2025) Invited speaker at the inaugural colloquium of the American Musicological Society Music and Disability Study Group's Community of Practice series (April 2025). Her presentation was entitled "Toward Accessible Conferences: Coordinating the 2024 Paradis Symposium."
Mueller, Adeline presented her paper “Touching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind” at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2023. She shared tactile replicas of one of the Institute's experimental notation systems, prepared by Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab).
Mueller, A. Presented “The Impossible Oratorio: Rejection, Refusal, and Blind Agency on the Eighteenth-century Stage” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis MO, March 2023).
Mueller, A. Presented “Persuasive Performance: The Rhetoric of Blind Students' Concerts in Vienna, 1808-1824” at conference “Chamber Scenes: Musical Space, Medium, and Genre c. 1800” (Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose CA, February 2023).
