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2021
Three Views: Monuments, Monumentality, Anti-Monuments, lecture, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Robert Smithson's Ungraspable Architecture, panelist, UNLV School of Architecture
Think Water Utah Digital Resources for Virtual Events, Utah Humanities. "Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah reading The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place by Hikmet Loe, with the author and Jaimi Butler (Great Salt Lake Institute, Westminster College)"
Sculpting the Contemporary: From Monuments to Monumentality, lecture, West Texas A&M University 

2020
Instagram Take Over: Spiral Jetty, speaker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

2019

Maps, Lines, Paths: Insights and Art, keynote speaker, ARLIS/NA 47th Annual Conference, Salt Lake City 
Land Art Symposium, panelist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo, lecture, Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association 
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, lecture, Southern Utah University, Cedar City 

2018
The Transient West: Transportation and Movement as Gleaned from a Close Reading of Robert Smithson’s Earthwork, The
Spiral Jetty, lecture, 66th Annual Utah History Conference 
Land Art Symposium, panelist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
Utah’s Earthworks: The Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels, lecture, West Texas A&M University 
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: An Entrée to an Earthwork, lecture, Friends of the Marriott Library, Sunday Afternoon Books and Authors, Salt Lake City 

2017
Drawing from the Spiral Jetty: Robert Smithson and Art History, lecture, AP Art History Professional Speaker, Salt Lake City   
The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: An Entrée to an Earthwork, panelist, 12 Minutes Max, The City Library, Salt Lake City 
Drawing from the Spiral Jetty: Robert Smithson and Utah, lecture, Utah Humanities Book Festival, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts 
What the Hell, Rozel? lecture, Reading, conversation, and book signing at Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City  

2016
What Artists See: Views on a Lake in Crisis, panel moderator, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum

2015
The Double World: Stewardship & Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, lecture, University of California, San Diego
Art/Art History Careers: Preparing for the Future, lecture, Department of Art & Visual Communications, Utah Valley University 
Humanities Career Panel, panelist, School of Arts and Sciences, Westminster College 
Symposium in Honor of William Agee, panelist, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York City 

2014
"NONESITE," keynote speaker,  AIA Utah Young Architects Forum, Ladies Literary Club, Salt Lake City
SALT, panelist, in conjunction with the exhibition Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto, Weber State University
Elemental Ways of Seeing: The Art of Great Salt Lake, lecture, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, University of Utah
Saline Stories: An Oral History of Great Salt Lake (American West Center), panelist, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City

2013
The Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels: Utah's Earthworks, lecture, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah
Extraordinary spaces: Site-specific collections and their challenges, lecture, Western Museums Association Conference, Salt Lake City
This is Your Brain on Art – Cognitive Psychology and Art, panelist, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City    

2012    
Land Arts and Activism, lecture, Forum for Questioning Minds, Salt Lake City Public Library
"To be conscious of the actualities of perception": local/global attention and perception regarding Robert Smithson’s earthwork, the Spiral Jetty, panelist, Staging the Land: International Conference + Exposition, Avignon, France 
Sun Tunnels: Construction/Reconstruction, lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City

2011
Robert Smithson and the Spiral Jetty: The Center and the Circumference, lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City            
The Spiral Jetty Explained, lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, watch here             
The Spiral Jetty Experienced, lecture, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, watch here
Art Beyond the Gallery Walls, radio lecture, KUER.org, Radio West, listen here
Utah's Sun Tunnels, radio lecture, KUER.org, listen here
Planting the Seed: Gardens, Growing, and Agriculture in Art, keynote lecture, Evening for Educators, Salt Lake Art Center in conjunction with the             exhibition Fallen Fruit of Utah

2010     
Slide Jam: Modern Marvels, panelist, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
Earth Art: Evening for Educators, keynote speaker, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah

2009    
Feminine:Constructive, lecture, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah
Rotating through time and place: The Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point, lecture, College of Mining and Engineering, University of Utah

2008
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, lecture, International Society of Salt Lake Research and Friends of Great Salt Lake Conference, Salt Lake City
Present Tense: A Post-337 Project, panelist, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City 

2005    
On Spiral Jetty: Construction, Conditions, New Interpretations, Robert Smithson Symposium, panelist, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 

2004    
Spiral Jetty: A Visual History, lecture, Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, Salt Lake City 

2003    
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, lecture, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City 

2002     
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Evening for Educations: The Great Salt Lake, keynote speaker, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, lecture, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles 

1998   
Entropy and Evolution: Retracing the Continual Construction of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, lecture, ULA/MPLA Joint Conference, Salt Lake City 
Art in the Middle of Nowhere, Timeless Earthworks in Utah, lecture, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City 

1996
Entropy and Evolution: Retracing the Continual Construction of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, paper, 1st Regional ARLIS/Mountain West Conference, Flagstaff, AZ