Professor Coats presented the following lectures:
- “Collecting Asian Arts for Claremont,” to open the exhibition “Text and Image: East Asian Rare Books and Art Works at the Claremont Colleges” as part of the lecture series “Engaging Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library,” Honnold Library, Claremont, February 2018;
- “Less of myself and more of my Lord: the Christian printmaker Watanabe Sadao,” to open the exhibition “Expressions of Faith: The Religious Works of Watanabe Sadao,” at the Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art, Pilgrim Place, Claremont, February 2018.