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1. Co-organizer and key-speaker: Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central-Eastern Europe between Early Modern and the Present Times: Research and Valuation, International Jewish Sepulchral Art and Architecture, Alba Iulia University, Romania, October 13–15, 2024
2. Co-organizer and lecturer: Jewish Life and Art in Prague, International Erasmus+ Workshop in Jewish Art and Culture. Prague, May 27, 2024
3. Co-organizer: Creating Art after October 7: Contemporary Israeli Art and Art Theory, Bar-Ilan University, March 6, 2024
4. Head of the Art History Division (reviewing ca. 120 proposals and planning the Jewish art sessions), The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 8-11, 2022
5. Organizer and key-speaker: Polyphony: Israeli Art by Soviet-bort Artists, round-table discussion, Bar-Ilan University, April 25, 2022
6. Co-organizer: International Symposium: Polish Art History Today, Polish and Jewish art Bar-Ilan University, March 25, 2020
7. Co-organizer: Spirit and Matter: Images of Hasidic Culture in Poland, International Conference and Exhibition, Bar-Ilan University, November 20, 2019
8. Co-organizer: Wisdom of Writing: Hebrew Script in Art, Conference, Bar-Ilan University and the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Bar-Ilan University, May 15, 2019
9. Co-organizer: Lectures and book Presentation: "Rudolf Klein, Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study" Bar-Ilan University, October 31, 2018
10. Co-organizer: Art, Patronage, and Jewish Culture, ISF International Workshop, I-Core and Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, June 25-27, 2018
11. Head of the Art History Division (reviewing ca. 140 proposals and planning the Jewish art sessions), The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017
12. Organizer: Visualizing the Mystical, mini-conference, The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017
13. Organizer: The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, “Cultural Heritage of Macedonian Jews: Research, Preservation and Social Impact of Jewish Past in Contemporary South-Eastern Europe,” Roundtable Session, Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017
14. Co-organizer: Jewish Art as Historical Document, Inter-university Conference, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, and the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Bar-Ilan University, April 19, 2017
15. Co-organizer: Synagogue Wall Paintings: Research, Preservation, Presentation, International Workshop. The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, September 13–14, 2016.
16. Organizer: Hidden Creation: Kabbalah and Art, Inter-university Conference, Department of Jewish Art Bar-Ilan University, June 1, 2016
17. Co-organizer: First Fruit, The 1st Conference of Doctoral Students, the Faculty of Jewish Studies Bar-Ilan University, May 30, 2016
18. Co-organizer: Time and Temporality in Medieval and Early Modern Art, International Conference, Imago – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages. The Open University of Israel Ra'anana, May 18–19, 2016
19. Co-organizer: Russian Language and Culture, International Conference. The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, March 31 – April 1, 2016
20. Organizer: Synagogue Art, International Colloquium. Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University; The Rosenfeld Research Project on the History of the Jews in Hungary and the Habsburg Empire, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bar-Ilan University, Session 1: December 2, 2015, Session 2: January 6, 2016.
21. Organizer: Prof. Jacob Brook’s “Jacob Shabshai and His Jewish Art Gallery,” International Colloquium and Book presentation. The Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University; Department of Art History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Maria and Michael Zetlin Museum of Russian Art in Ramat Gan. Bar-Ilan University, November 18, 2015
22. Co-organizer: Constructing and Deconstructing Jewish Art, International Conference, Bar-Ilan University, September 7–9, 2015
23. Organizer: “I Was Planted Twice”: Russia in the Eyes of Jewish Immigrants, Inter-University conference, The Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University; Maria and Michael Zetlin Museum of Russian Art, Ramat-Gan Ramat-Gan, June 9, 2015
24. Organizer: Monkey, Dog and Ostrich: Zoomorphic Allegories in Jewish Art, Inter-university Colloquium Bar-Ilan University, May 26, 2015
25. Organizer: "Allegoric Animals in Images and Texts," Inter-university Colloquium Bar-Ilan University, January 6, 2015.
26. Organizer: “Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art” by Dr. Shulamit Laderman," Inter-university Symposium and Book Presentation, Bar-Ilan University, March 18, 2014.
27. Organizer: "Synagogues in Lithuania by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Giedrė Mickūnaite, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin and Jurgita Šiauciūnaitė-Verbickienė," Inter-university symposium and book presentation. Bar-Ilan University, January 7, 2014.
28. Co-organizer: Documentation and Preservation of Synagogues in Israel: Field Work to Research, Inter-university Symposium, The Department for Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, ICOMOS (Israel), The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bar-Ilan University, November 12, 2013
29. Co-organizer: Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust, International Conference, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv); Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Polish Institute of World Art Studies (Warsaw); The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry; Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative (Toronto). Lviv, November 5–7, 2012
30. Co-organizer: Traditions and Perspectives in History of Jewish Art,” International Conference, Bar-Ilan University, September 10–12, 2012
31. Organizer: Rock-Paper-Scissors: Preservation of Israeli Wall Paintings," Inter-university Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University, January 25, 2011
32. Organizer: On the Contrary: Inverted Images in Jewish Art, Inter-university Colloquium, the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Ars Judaica, and The Center for Research of Jewish Visual Culture in Europe. Bar-Ilan University, March 23, 2010
33. Organizer: Faith, Memory, Architecture: A Colloquium on Twentieth-Century Synagogue Art, International Colloquium, The Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University; Bet Tfila – Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa, Technische Universität Braunschweig Bar-Ilan University, October 29, 2009
34. Organizer: Painting in Eastern European Synagogues, Special session at The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Jerusalem, August 3, 2009
35. Organizer, Masquerade in Stone: Synagogue Architecture in Search of Jewish Identity, International Colloquium on occasion of the publication of The Great Synagogue of Budapest, by Prof. Rudolf Klein, the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, and The Center for Research of Jewish Visual Culture in Europe. Bar-Ilan University, May 21, 2009
36. Co-organizer: The Jewish Presence in Art, International Conference, Bar-Ilan University. Bar-Ilan University, June 16–18, 2008
37. Organizer: Art and Architecture of Romanian Synagogues," International Conference, Bar-Ilan University and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv Bar-Ilan University. Tel-Aviv, February 24–28, 2008
38. Co-organizer: Jewish Culture and Russian Culture, Mutual Influences in the Twentieth Century," International Conference. Bar-Ilan University, January 9–13, 2005