2015

December 3	Lecture: ‘Shut your Eyes and Drown the Body’ at the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen.
November 18	Lecture: ‘The sensory experience’ at the Continuum, Kerkrade.
May 11	Lecture: ‘A Museum for the Senses’ at Nationaal Militair Museum Soesterberg.

2014

June 6

Presentation: ‘About video and exhibitions’ at Loop Festival, Barcelona.

2012

October 2	Moderator public discussion about Games and Heritage, with Monobanda, studio Hubbub and Tempeest, Pausdam, Utrecht.
June 6	Lecture: ‘Ideologie en intimiteit in fotografie’ (Ideology and Intimacy in Photography) at the Dutch Doc Award ceremony at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.
April 19	Lectures, ArtPlay, Moskou, Symposium ‘Action in Culture’ and Tedx: The Museum as Halfway Station: Products, Objects and Souvenirs The One Room Museum Cultural Navigation through Moscow The National Vending Machine (Tedx)
April 2	Presentation: ‘Opkomst en Ondergang van het NHM’ (Rise and Fall of the Museum of National History), Dept. of Cultural Studies, Universiteit of Amsterdam.
January 10	Presentation: ‘Geschiedenis op televisie’ (History on Television), Rode Hoed, Amsterdam.

2011

2009-2011	Numerous presentations on the Museum of National History, history and identity.
December 7	Presentation: ‘Het ideale Museum’ (The Ideal Museum), Lakenhal, Leiden.
October 6	Lecture: ‘De Stiltemetropool’ (The Quiet Metropole), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.
June 27	Lecture: ‘The Museum of the 21st century’, Pierogi Sretenka, Moskou.
June 25	Lecture: ‘Museums, Objects and Souvenirs’, Kulikovo Field, Russia.
June 24	Lecture: ‘Tussen ornithologen en twitteraars’ (Between Tweeters and Ornithologists), Hendrik Muller Summer seminar, Leusden.
May 3	Panel debate: ‘Hapklare geschiedenismusea’ (Attractive History Museums), DeBuren, Beursschouwburg, Brussels.

2010

November 20	Lecture: ‘Exhibiting the Nation’, NIAS, Wassenaar.
September 21	Lecture: ‘Nationale geschiedenis en openbaarheid’ (National History and the Public Sphere), Atana, Amsterdam.
August 25	Panel debate with Juergen Kocka about history museums, International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam.
June 23	Lecture: ‘De schatkamer en de espressobar’ (The Treasure Chest and the Espressobar), Hogeschool Zeeland, Vlissingen.
May 21	Lecture: ‘Politiek en geschiedenis’ (Politics and History), Dept. of History, Leiden University.
April 14	Panel debate (with Jan Marijnissen en Paul Scheffer), about the Museum of National History, Spui 25, Amsterdam.
March 22	Lecture: ‘Archeologie en publiek: over goudschatten en tandenborstels’ (Archeology and the Public: About Gold Treasures and Tooth Brushes), Museum van Oudheden, Leiden.

2009

November 13	Lecture: ‘Skaters op de trap’ (Skaters on the Steps), Pietje Bell Lecture, Kunsthal Rotterdam.
November 9	Lecture: ‘Nationale geschiedenis en netwerkmusea’ (National History and the Network Museum, Museumconference Drenthe, Hoogeveen.
November 9	Lecture: ‘Het Nationaal Historisch Museum en de 18e eeuw: mobiele kabinetten’ (The National Museum and the 18th Century: Mobile Cabinets), Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
November 2	Lecture: ‘National Narratives’, Symposium Prato, Italy.
October 30	Panel Debate: ‘De Stad als Laboratorium: de kunst van het verheffen’ (The City as Laboratory: Art and Emancipation), RKS, Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam.
October 13	Moderator Symposium ‘Alles voor de Kunst: over de rol en positie van bemiddelaars in de beeldende kunst’ (Everything for the Arts: About the Role and Position of Curators and Writers in the Visual Arts), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, Studio/K, Amsterdam.
October 9	Moderator Symposium ‘Expanding Identities: de beeldende kunst voorbij’, Artez, Arnhem.
June 26	Panel Debate about the Museum of National History, Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch genootschap (Royal Historical Society), Royal Library, The Hague.
June 16	Panel debate ‘Sire: er zijn geen Nederlanders?’ (Sire, are there no Belgians?), DeBuren, Beursschouwburg, Brussels.
May 7	Keynote lecture: ‘Zien is geloven’ (Seeing is Believing) on John Calvin, Grote Kerk, Dordrecht.
April 28	Key note: ‘Regionalism and Museums’, Lviv, Oekraine.

2008 and before

2002-2008	Numerous presentations about the renovation of the Zeeuws Museum, regionalism, culture and museums.
October 20, 2008	Panel Debate about collectioning, Mondriaan Stichting, Conservatorium, Amsterdam.
February 19, 2008	Panel Debate about cultural diversity and heritage, Erfgoed Nederland and Mondriaan Foundation, Utrecht.
September 24, 2007	Moderator, debate about National Funding for the Arts, Arnhem.
December 8, 2006	Moderator banking interview Zeeland Business, Goes.
May 8, 2006	Lecture: ‘Ethnic fashion’, Academy, Fashion Dept., Ghent, Belgium.
November 20, 2005	Lecture: ‘Local Secrets, Global Messages’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
July 1, 2005	Chair, panel Industrial Heritage, Scheldeterrein, Vlissingen.
June 20, 2005	Panel Round Table about Cultural Policy, Mondriaan Stichting, SICA, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam.
January 21, 2005	Moderator Symposium Dutch Eyes, Foundation for Photography in the Netherlands and the Huizinga Instituut, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
2003-2005	Initiator and Moderator Zeeuws Museum Culture Debates (14 debates).
2003-2004	Talkshow host Film by the Sea, Vlissingen (8 shows).
October 21, 2004	Moderator TRACER –“Go for Soft Institutions”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tent. Rotterdam.
October 15, 2004	Moderator “Define Yourself”, a program about industrial heritage and the visual arts, Centre for the Visual Arts, Deventer.
September 10, 2004	Moderator TRACER – “Rhizomatic Cities”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tent. Rotterdam.
June 22, 2004	Presentation and chair Regional History Multimedia Program meeting, ERNACT, London.
October 9, 2003	Moderator (with Jeroen Boomgaard) ‘Why do we do it in the Road? (no one will be watching us)’, debate on social art in public space, Rietveld academie, SKOR, UvA, in: Galerie Ellen de Bruyne Projects, Amsterdam.
May 23, 2003	Lecture: ‘Gescheiden paden van wetenschap en museum’, (Separate Paths of Scholarship and Museums), Research School Art History, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
May 16, 2003	Moderator debate about art and the Internet, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussel.
October 10, 2002	Initiator and moderator debate ‘Fotografie in de museumwereld’ (Photography in Museums), Dutch Museum Association, Noorderlicht Festival, Leeuwarden.
September 12, 2002	Moderator debate ‘Critici en de Documenta 11’ (Critics and the Documenta 11), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
2001-2002	Initiator and moderator debates Witte de With (8).
November 8-10, 2001	Lecture: ‘National Identity and the Visual Arts’, Zagreb, Rijeka en Sisak, Kroatië.
November 3, 2000	Lecture: ‘Heroes among Burghers: Portrait Galleries in 19th-century New York’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
June 2, 2000	Initiator and moderator debate about company collections, galeries and museums, Nederlandse Museumvereniging, KunstRai, Amsterdam.
October 18, 2000	Presentation on thematic exhibitions, Curatorial Training Programme, De Appel, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Amsterdam.
May 22, 1997	Lecture: ‘The Death of the Public Full-Length: John Neagle’s Henry Clay’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
October 25, 1996	Lecture: ‘Portrait Politics in Antebellum Philadelphia’, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware.
August 27, 1996	Lecture: ‘Public, Private and Printed Galleries’, Smithsonian Institution: Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
February 14, 1996	Lecture: ‘The Washington Portraits’, The Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia.
November 11, 1995	Lecture: ‘The Jackson Figurehead: Making National Faces’, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh.