Presentations

• “How ‘New Meaning [Was] Put Into Ancient Records’: Excavating the History of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, 1882-1930.” Racism and Repair in the Academy Conference, Johns Hopkins University. October 2023.

• Invited panelist for “What Our Future Holds: Preservation for All,” a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the conservation department at the National Gallery of Art (US). Contributed the prepared talk “Whose Future?”. December 2022.

• Featured in the “Brains On!” podcast “How Were People Mummified?” (November 29, 2022). Brains On! is an award winning podcast about science for children that receives over 1 million downloads per month.

• Respondent for “Thoughts on Discomfort,” for the conference “Reshaping the Collectible: Learning Through Change,” Tate, London. September 2022.

• “An Unknown.” Invited talk for the Art Gallery of York Unversity “Uncontainable Collections Research Project” and part of a roundtable discussion. April 2022. Talk transcript here.

• “Getting to know the makers of an Ancient Greek Drinking Cup.” Getty Museum Art Break with David Saunders. March 2022.

• “Recovering the Ephemeral with Sanchita Balachandran.” Interview by Allison Chu for “The Order of Multitudes,” the 2020-21 Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Yale University.

• “The Future of Conservation.” Instagram Live with the Legion of Honor/Fine Art Museums of San Francisco’s associate paintings conservator Sarah Kleiner. November 2021.

• “A Self-Help Guide to Transformation.” Invited talk for the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas Regional Conference. November 2021. Full text of remarks here.

• “Marked in Clay: Interdisciplinary Methods to Re-imagine Ancient Greek Potters at Work.” The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture, Bard Graduate Center. April 2021. Full text of remarks here.

• “Making the University Museum More Inclusive: Lessons from the Classroom.” Invited speaker for the “Week of the Classics 2021: The Inclusive Classics” sponsored by the Allard Pierson Museum, The Netherlands. April 2021. Talk transcript here.

• “Turning Points: An Inclusive Ethics for Cultural Heritage.” University Art Gallery. University of Pittsburgh. February 2021.

• “Thrown Together: Potters, Painters, and Ceramic Production with Sanchita Balachandran.” Guest on the “Peopling the Past” Podcast. December 2020.

• “Thinking Work: What Can Ancient Drawings Tell Us About the People Who Made them?” Presentation for the 2020 Thinking Through Drawing Symposium.

• Panelist for the webinar “Becoming Better Accomplices and Instructors: Justice, Activism and Reflexivity in Teaching Museums and Cultural Heritage,” organized by the Archaeological Institute of America. August 2020. Remarks begin at 20:43. Full text of remarks here.

• Panelist for “Your Mummies, Their Ancestors? Caring for and About Ancient Egyptian human remains,” co-organized by Charlotte Parent and Heba Abdel Gawad in collaboration with the Egypt Exploration Society, Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project, and Everyday Orientalism. August 2020. Full text of remarks here.

• “Lessons from the ‘American Museum of Unnatural History.’ Keynote for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries conference. June 2020.

• “Sanchita Balachandran Shifts the Framework of Conservation With Untold Stories.” A conversation with Ian Elsner of the podcast Museum Archipelago, December 2019.

• “The ‘Peculiar Problems’ of Preservation: Life, Death and the Afterlife in the Museum.” M. Victor Leventritt Lecture, Harvard Art Museums, April 30, 2019.

• “Divine and Ghostly Things: Debating the Care of Religious Relics at the Madras Government Museum.” Wolf Humanities Forum on Stuff, University of Pennsylvania, February 27, 2019.

• "Conservation in the 21st Century." An interview with Ian Elsner and the podcast Museum Archipelago, March 19th, 2018.

• “Mysteries of the Kylix.” A short film produced through the 2015 course “Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics.” 2018.