SELECTED SLIDE LECTURES

Art Fakes and Forgeries
Pound Ridge Library, September 2023

Learning in Retirement, Stamford, CT, September 2023

Collegium - WCC, January 2023

Bronxville Adult School, 2019, 2020

Art Restoration: Gain and Loss

Bronxville Adult School, 2019, 2023

The White Lie: Polychrome in Antiquity
Collegium - WCC, October 2023

Bronxville Adult School, 2020, 2022

Manet - Degas at the MET

Bronxville Adult School, October 2023

Looted Art: Who Gets to Keep It?
Bronxville Adult School, 2021

Looted Art: How Napoleon Changed Museums
Bronxville Adult School, 2021 

Sight and Sense: Exploring Perception Through the Language of Art

SUNY-College of Optometry, Schurnmacher Institute for Vision Research, NYC, 2022

"Gaze" and Perspective

Bronxville Adult School, 2022

Art of the Islamic Worlds,
Learning in Retirement, Stamford, CT, March 2023

Bronxville Adult School, Spring 2018, 2021
Mamaroneck Arts Council, March 2018
UCONN-Political Science Department, CT, November 2018
Purchase College, SUNY, Political Science Board of Study, Purchase, NY, bi-annually, 1999-2012

Discoveries and Mysteries in Art - Series

Bronxville Adult School, 2021, 2022, 2023

Vermeer or Daughter?

Bronxville Adult School, 2022

Shock Art
Bronxville Adult School, 2021
Hands in Art
Bronxville Adult School, 2021
Modern Art from Leonardo to Picasso
Bronxville Adult School, 2020
Price and Value In the Art World
Bronxville Adult School, 2019, 2021
New MoMA, New Modernism
Bronxville Adult School, 2019, 2020
Art Across Two Worlds
OSilas Gallery, Concordia College-New York, April 2018
Murray State University, KY, November 2018
Kaca-Kime-Nasil-Niye: Sanat Dunyasi
SPOT, Istanbul, May 9, 2017
Cihangir Akademi, Istanbul, April 21, 2017
The Russian Soul in Art
Bronxville Adult School, November 2018
Iona College, Liric Program, November 18, 2016
TEDx Talk: The Basket Case; Art and Memory
Edgemont School, June 11, 2016
Art and Ideology
UCONN-Political Science Department, 2017, 2019

Bronxville Adult School, April 2018, 2021
Okan Unıversıty, Istanbul: April 25, 2017
Simya Galeri, Istanbul: April 27, 2017
Lasell Village, Lasell College, April 14, March 31 2011
Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI, September 29, 2005
Purchase College, SUNY, Dept. of Political Science, Purchase, NY, annually 1995-2012

Sirens, Vents, and Shadows
Lasell College Faculty Spotlight Lecture, April 19, 2011
New York by Istanbul: Art in the Midst of Two Irrepressible Cities
Lasell Village, Lasell College, November 23, 2010
Art, Life, & NYCity
Bilgi University, Istanbul, March 3, 2007
Cu Arts, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI, March 23, 2006
Bronxville Public Library, Bronxville, NY, April 8, 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, March 21, 1997
Identity and Creativity
Sabanci University, Istanbul, March 2, 2007
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, September 23, 1999
Bilkent University, Ankara, April 21, 2005
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, September 21, 2005
Images of Women in Western Art, Concordia Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, April 22, and April 30, 1997
From 1984 to Date: Serdar Arat, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL, October 14, 1995
Ways of Seeing - John Berger, Book review and slide lecture, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, October 26, 1994

SELECTED INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURES

Voices of War, interdisciplinary lecture with Dr. Mandana Nakhai, and Dr. Gerald Coleman,
Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, April 14, 2005;
Krieger Lecture Hall, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, April 28, 2005.
Two Wings of the Soul: the Romantic Aura of Berlioz’s Music, interdisciplinary lecture with Dr. Mandana Nakhai, and Dr. Gerald Coleman, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, November 13, 2003.
Footprints in the Snow: Literature, Art, and Music of the Impressionists, interdisciplinary lecture with Dr. Mandana Nakhai, and Dr. John Klibonoff, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, April 13, 2000.
Images of Nature in the Art, Literature, and Music of the Romantic Era, interdisciplinary lecture with Dr. Mandana Nakhai, and Dr. John Cheek, Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, April 21, 1998.

SELECTED PANELS

Value of the Liberal Arts, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College-New York, January 14, 2012
Why the Arts Matter, Lasell College, Newton MA, September 22, 2011.
Artists' Submissions Review Panel, Art in General, New York City, March 1993.
American Immigrant Experience in Art, Westchester Consortium for International Studies Panel, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, April 14, 1992.