ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS and POSTERS
Interview, Ben Denzer & Amanda Clark, Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA), Lunchtime Conversations With Book Artists: Ben Denzer, March 9, 2023.
Interview, Steve Miller & Amanda Clark, Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA), virtual annual meeting, January 13, 2023.
Interview, Tim Ely & Amanda Clark, Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA), virtual annual meeting, January 10, 2022.
Lecture, “Lost Archives and Forgotten Voices: The Xikai Archive in Tianjin, China,” Book Club of Washington online presentation, November 14, 2021
Contributor, Canto 29, Dante’s Inferno, “100 Days of Dante,” Baylor University, November 11, 2021
Poster, “Book Collection as Curatorial Dialogue: An Analysis of the Private Library of Virginia Woolf,” ACL annual conference, virtual, June 7-10.
Poster, “The Sistine Chapel and the Panama Canal: Energy and Memory in Handmade Artists’ Books,” 2021 ARLIS/NA annual conference, virtual, May 11–13, 2021.
Paper, “Industrial Oregon: Cultural Impressions of Rural Historic Resources,” Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) annual conference, virtual, May 2021.
Moderator (virtual), Poster Session, 2021 Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) annual conference, virtual, May 2021.
Introductory Remarks, Sino-Christian Architecture: Scholars Respond to Adelbert Gresnigt, OSB (1877-1965) Symposium, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, live streamed, 19 April 2021.
Invited Lecture, “Commodity, Firmness, and Delight: A Theology of Beauty in Architecture,” Bruner-Welch Lecture, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, in-person and live streamed 2 November 2020
Poster, “Leading from a Distance: Library Leadership During a Pandemic,” co-presented by Amanda C. R. Clark (Whitworth) & Sophia Du Val (Pratt Institute), Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA), Virtual Poster Session 2020, August 4-7, 2020.
Lecture (virtual), “Looking through the Lens of the Life of Charles McCarthy: A Lecture on Rev. Charles J. McCarthy, S.J. and the Jesuit Mission in Shanghai,” Ricci Institute for Chinese- Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, CA, July 2, 2020.
Moderator (virtual), Poster Session, 2020 Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) virtual conference (annual, national conference postponed due to COVID-19), May 9, 2020.
Workshop Leader, “Constructing Washington State: SAH Archipedia Library Workshop,” limited to 12 participants, Center for the Arts and Humanities and the School of Design and Construction (SDC), Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 28 January 2020.
Discussion Leader, Women’s Leadership Network: Dare to Lead Book Group, Spokane, WA, 12 November 2019.
Lecture, “Apologies & Why I Don't Use Them,” Helix Winery, Spokane, WA, 31 July 2019.
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Panel Co-Chair, Society of Architectural Historians Marion Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter (SAH MDR) annual conference, Coeur d’Alene, ID, June 21-23, 2019
“How to Read Catholic Church Architecture,” Bishop White Seminary, Spokane, WA, 30 April 2019
“Reading Pain: Artists’ Books and the Aesthetics of Women in Anguish” by Amanda C. R. Clark & Sophia Du Val, 47th Annual Conference, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) , Salt Lake City, Utah, March 26-30, 2019
"A Selection of Digital Library Resources for Studies on Christianity in China." 60-minute special session held in the library. ASPAC regional conference, Pullman, WA 8-10 June 2018
“Charles J. McCarthy, the Jesuit Mission, and War-torn Catholic Shanghai.” Paper presentation. ASPAC regional conference, Pullman, WA 8-10 June 2018
"New/old online resources for scholarly research," China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG), Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference, Washington, DC, 23 March 2018
Invited lecture, "China's Last Jesuit: Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Catholic Mission in Shanghai" Catholic Studies, Gonzaga University, 20 November 2017
Panel Chair, Society of Architectural Historians Marion Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter (SAH MDR) annual conference, Victoria, BC, June 16-18, 2017
Invited lecture, "With Flourish and Faith: The Catholic Reformation, Trent, and the Baroque Style," Core 150 course, Whitworth University, November 2016
Paper, "Words in Dust and Literary Fireworks: Contemporary Chinese Book Arts." Invited lecture, Collins Library, University of Puget Sound, October 24, 2016
Panel Co-Chair, "Artists' Books: Vehicles for Social Change," Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 11, 2016
Paper, “Adjustment & Advocacy: Charles McCarthy, SJ, & China’s Jesuit Mission in Transition,” Scholarly Symposium & Colloquies, China’s Christianity: Constructing a Christian Identity—from Mission to Indigenous Church, 6 November 2015.
Moderator, paper panel, Marion Dean Ross Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH/MDR), Annual Regional Conference, Ashland, Oregon, Saturday, 24 October 2015
Paper, “Fr. Charles J. McCarthy, SJ: China, America, and a Mission of Friendship,” United States Catholic China Bureau (US CCB), Biennial Conference, Burlingame, California, 11 October 2015.
Respondent, to Chen Yufang's (University of Macau) presentation "What was Tolerated? Reinterpretation of the Edict of Toleration in 1692," at the Text and History: Encounters with Western Missionaries in China conference, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, CA, 13 August 2015.
Poster, "Sprouted Books: Artists’ Books and Sustainability," Association of College and Research Libraries, Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, Thursday, March 26, 2015
Poster, "The Man Who Dies Rich, Dies Disgraced: The Carnegie Vision of Library as Place," Society of Architectural Historians Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter, Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 3‐5, 2014
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Paper, “Lost Archives, Forgotten Voices, and Stories from Different Lands: Book Art As Narrative,” Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, 19-22 March 2014
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Paper, "Producing a Culture of Artists' Book Collection in Academic Libraries," College Book Art Association (CBAA) annual conference, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 3 January 2014
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Paper, "Library as Place for Multi Modal Composition," Inland InfoLit annual conference, Gonzaga University Bozarth Mansion, Spokane, Washington, 1 November 2013
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Chair, panel titled: "China, Japan, and the Confluence of Christianity," Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) annual conference, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, June 17, 2012
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Moderator, "Language Evolution and Cultural Significance," Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference (SIRC) annual conference, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 2012
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Poster, "Book Burning, Illegal Reading, and Life-Changing Literature: Book History During China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)," 11th Annual GSA Research and Thesis Conference, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 8, 2008
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Paper, "Archiving the Middle Kingdom: Tracing Print Record in China," Society of Alabama Archivists (SALA) annual conference, Dothan, Alabama, October 26, 2007
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Paper, "Challenging Notions of Western Parallelism: Analogies of Hierarchy in Chinese Monumental Landscape Painting," Portland Art Museum Undergraduate Student Symposium, Portland, Oregon, April 21, 2001
Washington SAH Archipedia launch presentation, January 2020.