“The Confederate Flag in the Capitol and the Future of American Expression,” panel discussion, Reframing the Legacy of the Capitol, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Art at Noon (January 26, 2021)
Author: Amy Werbel
Recent Presentation on Art Censorship and Social Media at the York Festival of Ideas
“Off Limits: Art, Social Media and Censorship,” with Michael White and Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, York Festival of Ideas (June 9, 2020)
Just published: “The Influence of Art Censorship on New York Collectors in the Gilded Age”
My latest article in the Journal of the History of Collections. February 2021
New article on John Haberle’s ‘A Bachelor’s Drawer’ in the Metropolitan Museum Journal
John Haberle’s A Bachelor’s Drawer: Censorship, Geologic Time, and Truth
My Fulbright Lecture at the Benjamin Franklin House is Online. What would BF think about Facebook?
May 28, 2020. 10 a.m. EST
Praise in the American Historical Review
” Amy Werbel finds a way to tell a redemptive story of one of America’s most reviled and lampooned figures—the man who peeked into bedrooms and sought to take all the fun out of the sex Americans had there. . . . Perhaps nothing brings to life better the late nineteenth-century crisis in masculinity than a bunch of lawmakers panicking that they would be replaced by dildos. Amy Werbel’s new study turns up other surprises that will make the work of interest to students of art history as well as readers with an interest in gender and LGBTQ history.” – Judith Giesberg, American Historical Review (December, 2019)
Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Appreciative Review in the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
First Amendment Salon with Nadine Strossen at Ballard Spahr LLC is Now Live
A wide-ranging conversation with Nadine Strossen and First Amendment attorneys and activists, led by Lee Levine, Esq. at Ballard Spahr LLP (December 4, 2018). Watch on YouTube
Mary Campbell reviews Lust on Trial in Panorama
