Invited Lectures and Other Public Appearances
Lectures
Keynote and Plenary Presentations
2006
Nordic Society for Aesthetics, Jyväskyla, May 18-21.
Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH), 15th Annual Conference, Evanston, IL, April 26-29
Graduate Research in the Arts Today (GReAT), University of North Carolina (Greensboro), April 21- 22.
2004
Tri-State Sculpture Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, October 7-10.
Early Childhood Commission of International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference, Barcelona, July 5-10.
2003
Mathematics as Story: Symposium on Mathematics through the Lenses of Art and Technology, ," University of Western Ontario, London, June 13-15, 2003 .
Surface Design Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City Art Institute, June 5-8.
International Quilt Study Center Inaugural Symposium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 27- March 1.
2002
California Department of Education Model Art Program Network , Arts Work Conference, San Jose, CA, May 16-18.
2000
Festival-Forum 21 (Music), Stockholm, September 1-5.
International Society for the Experimental Study of Literature [IGEL], Toronto, August 1-4.
50th International Design Conference in Aspen, June 14-17.
1999
International Society of Education Through Art [InSEA] World Congress, Brisbane, Australia, September 21-26.
Fairmount Park Art Association New Land Marks Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 7.
1998
Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) annual conference, Star Island NH., July 25-August 1.
1997
International Conference of Research on Dance [ICORD], Tucson, AZ, October 31-November 3.
International Printmaking Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 1-5.
1996
Glass Art Society, Boston, June 8, 1996
1995
International Society for Education through Art [InSEA], Asian Regional Congress, Taiwan,
November 10-15.
University of South Florida Symposium: The Role and Function of Art in the 21st Century, Tampa, September 22.
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts [NCECA], Minneapolis, March 25.
American Comparative Literature Society [ACLS], Athens,GA., March 16-18.
Getty Center for Education in the Arts Fifth National Conference, Washington, D.C., January 12-14.
1994
American Art Therapy Association, Chicago, November l8.
1993
European Sociobiological Society, Amsterdam, August, 19-21.
1992
Utilitarian Clay National Conference: Celebrate the Object, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, September 9-10.
Getty Center for Education in the Arts Issues Seminar: Cultural Diversity in Arts Education, Barton Creek, TX, August 6-9.
1991
Maryland State Art Educators Association, Baltimore, November 1.
Wisconsin State Art Educators Association, Milwaukee, October 25.
Montana State Art Educators Association, Billings, October 17.
National Association of Educators in the Arts [NAEA], Atlanta, March.
1981
American Society for Aesthetics, The Second David and Marianna Mandel Lecture in Bioaesthetics, Tampa, Florida, October 29-31.
Specially-Convened Conferences and Symposia Participation
2006
Griffith University (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) Inaugural Symposium on The Human Question research program, “Art of the Animal”, November 27-28. (see http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/research/home.html
2005
Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Division 10 of the American Psychological Association) international congress on empirical and scientific approaches to the arts, Perm, Russia, June 1-5. (Sponsored by the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, the Russian Psychological Society, the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture, the Perm Institute of Mental and Sociocultural Dynamics, the Perm Regional Administration, the Perm Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education, the Department of Psychology of Moscow State University, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and the Moscow Division of the Russian Society of Psychology).
2004
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Third Cognitive Science Conference, “Adaptations, Environments, and Behaviour: Then and Now,” October 15-17.
2000
College of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, "Art Body Mind," November 2-5.
1999
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, “Music and Manipulation: The Social Use and Social Control of Music,” September 17-19.
University of Northumbria at Newcastle (UK), “The Body Politic: The Role of the Body and Contemporary Craft,” September 14.
University of California, Santa Barbara, “Imagination and the Adapted Mind: The Prehistory and Future of Poetry, Fiction, and Related Arts,” August 26-29.
1998
Theory Forum of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, “Mutual Understanding,” Rethymnon, Crete, October 1-7.
1997
The Florentine Workshops in Biomusicology, “Man, Mind and Music I, The Origins of Music,” Florence, Italy, May 29-June 3.
Other Lectures and Public Appearances
[see also Specially Convened Conferences]
2006
2005
University of Dhaka Institute of Fine Arts and Asia Society (Bangladesh), December 17
University of Dundee (Scotland), School of Design, May 5.
University of Adelaide, Australia, Department of Philosophy, Feb. 25.
University of Western Australia, Perth, Institute for Advanced Studies, February 15.
University of Western Sydney, Auditory Laboratories (MARCS), February 7
2004
Appalachian State University Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Boone, NC, Oct. 11.
Binghamton (SUNY) University, EvoS Program, September 23
Oregon Center for the Humanities Annual Cressman Lecture, University of Oregon, May 6.
2003
Detroit Institute of Arts Department of Education, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Department of Arts Education, November 10-13.
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, “The Engaged Artist” Series, March 21.
2002
University of Uppsala, Sweden, Departments of Literature and Aesthetics. June 4.
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Midwest Conference on Film, Language, and Literature,. April 4-7th.
2001
Touchstone Center, New York City Dialogue of the Imagination Project, November 6.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Three Lectures as Visiting Scholar (two Leon and Thea Koerner Memorial Lectures and one President's Lecture) February 5-9.
2000
Moorhead State University Department of Art, Moorhead MN, October 17.
South Dakota State University, Brookings, October 12.
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, March 22.
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Distinguished Speaker, Visiting Lecture Series, Halifax, March 17-18.
1999
Froebel College, Roehampton Institute, London (UK), November 30
Royal College of Art, London (UK), the 1999 Peter Dormer Memorial Lecture, November 29.
University of Western Australia (Perth), Three Public Lectures as Distinguished Visitor, September 27-30.
Ohio University School of Art, Athens. Two public lectures, April 27 and 29.
Saint Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO, April 14.
University of Missouri-St. Louis Center for the Humanities, Monday Noon Series, April 12.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 15th Annual Percy H. Taçon Memorial Lecture, April 8.
Montana State University, Billings, Distinguished Lecture Series, March 11.
Ohio University School of Art, Athens. Two public lectures, February 23 and 25.
University of Washington Department of Art, Seattle, February 17.
1998
University of Alberta (Edmonton) Four Public Lectures as Distinguished Visiting Speaker, September 24, October 15 and 29, November 26.
1997
Indiana State Art Educators Association, Indianapolis, December 6.
Herron School of Art, Indiana University Visiting Artists Series, Indianapolis, Sepember 23.
SITE (Santa Fe) II, Exhibition Symposium, Santa Fe, N.M., August 8-10.
Hillwood Museum, Art Education & Art Therapy Departments, Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus, February 11.
Touchstone Center Annual Discussion-Workshop: Learning and the Imagination, New York City, February 9.
1996
Arizona Humanities Council and Arizona State University School of Art Symposium "Science and Art: One World or Two? Evolutionary Theory and the Arts," Phoenix, November 20.
University of Arizona Department of Art, Tucson, November 14
University of Arizona Department of Psychology, Tucson, March 8.
1995
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 10.
University of Oregon Department of Art, Eugene, October 3.
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, the first William Jamison Memorial Lecture, Portland, September 29.
Hokkaido University Department of Developmental Psychology, Sapporo, Japan, September 1-2.
Pilchuck Glass School Trustees Retreat, Stanwood, Washington, May l9-20.
Massachusetts General Hospital Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Boston, April 13.
Texas A&M University, March 31.
University of Texas at Dallas, March 29.
Edinburgh [Scotland] College of Art, February 24.
University of East Anglia Department of World Art and Museology, Norwich (UK), February 8.
1994
University of Edinburgh Centre for Human Ecology Autumn Lecture Series, November 1.
American Craft Association Regional Conference, Detroit, October 15.
University of Colorado Visiting Artists Series, Boulder, March 7-11.
1993
Simon Fraser University Department of Archaeology, Burnaby, B.C. (Canada), November 18.
University of British Columbia Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Education, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada), November 17.
American Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Inaugural lecture in new building), July 1.
Institute for Aesthetic Studies and Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, "What's Happened to Art? And What Is Art Anyway?" Colombo, Sri Lanka, Four lectures, May-June,
1. "Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: From the World to the Picture"
2. "Modernism: From Picture to Surface"
3. "Post-Modernism: From Surface to Representation"
4. "So What! So What Is Art Anyway?"
University of Peradeniya Faculty of Arts, Sri Lanka, Above series repeated at June-July.
Institute for Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka, April 22.
1992
Teachers College, Columbia University Lecture Series: "America's Cultures and Their Implications for Art Education,” June 8.
New School for Social Research, Sustaining Democracy Series: "Undiscussed Realities: Taboos as Content of Art," New York, April 21.
New School for Social Research Public Lecture Series: Issues and Ideas in Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, Coordinator, New York, February 3-March 11.
1991
Utah State University Department of Art, Logan, November 8.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, April 22.
1990
Rutgers University Symposium: “Art History and Medicine: A Conference on Creativity & Mental Health,” October 12.
Anchorage (Alaska) Museum of History and Art, October 5.
1989
Touchstone Center 20th Anniversary Seminar: "Seeing Inwardly: Teaching and the Artistry of the Imagination,", New York City, 1989
1988
New School for Social Research Lecture Series, “New Perspectives on Contemporary Art,” New York.
1987
New School for Social Research Lecture Series, “New Perspectives on Art,” New York.
1983
New School for Social Research Public Symposium "What Is Art For?,” New York.
Conference Presentations and Participation
Human Behavior and Evolution Society [HBES]
“Of What Is Art A Costly Signal?” Berlin, July 21-25, 2004
"Beyond Sexual Selection," (session discussant), Rutgers University, June 19-23, 2002
"Is Mother-Infant Interaction a Ritualized Behavior?" Rutgers University, June 19-23, 2002
"The Poetics of Babytalk I: Macro-Poetics," University of Utah, Salt Lake City, June 2-6, 1999
BioAesthetics Group of HBES, “Making Special: A Signal of Fitness for What?" University of California, Davis, July 12-13, 1998
"Is Darwinian Aesthetics Relevant to Understanding Human Art Making and Experience?" University of California. Davis, July 8-12, 1998
"Protocultural Aptitudes in Early Mother-Infant Interaction,"
Northwestern University, June 26-30, 1996
'Making Special': An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, July 23-26, 1992
"Biobehavioral Contribution to the Multicultural Curriculum Debate in Western Humanities Education," McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, August 22-25, 1991
"Music as a Human Behavior: An Hypothesis of Evolutionary Origin and Function," University of California at Los Angeles, August 16-19, 1990
College Art Association [CAA]
Are We Experienced?, "Aesthetic Incunabula." 89th Annual Conference, Chicago, Feb. 28-March 3, 2001
Examining the Theoretical and Art Historical Possibilities of Everyday Aesthetics, "Darwin and Everyday Aesthetics," 85th Annual Conference, New York, February 12-15, 1997
International Society for Human Ethology Biennial Conference [ISHE]
“Art and Anxiety,” Ghent, Belgium, July 27-30, 2004
"Ritualized Features in Mother-Infant Interactions as Antecedents of Adult Affiliative Behaviors," Vancouver, Canada, August 19-23, 1998
Other Annual Conferences, invited participant
2006 European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Bologna, August 22-26.
National Art Educators’ Association [NAEA] Chicago, March 26.
2004 American Educational Research Association. San Diego, April 12-16.
2002 American Anthropological Association Invited Session in Visual Anthropology, New Orleans, November 20-24.
South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX October 31-November 2.
International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August 1-7.
2000 International Society for the Experimental Study of Literature, Toronto, August 1-4.
1997 21st International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, for Committee VI: Biological Foundations of Aesthetics, Washington, D.C., November 23-30.
1995 20th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, for Committee VI: In Pursuit of Beauty: Biological Foundations of Aesthetics, Seoul, Korea, August 21-27.