Recent and Upcoming Lectures / Talks
Fossil Knowledge and Identity: The material origins of early modern nationalism Keynote, Lorentz Workshop, “Types of Knowledge: Towards a New History of Concepts and Practices,” Leiden, March 2019
Giants and National Identity in Early Modern Europe Early Modern Medicine Seminar, Cambridge University, February 2019
The Wild Garden: Landscaping Southern California in the Early Twentieth Century Horning workshop on “Biodiversity and the History of Scientific Environments,” Oregon State University, October 2018
Giants, Fossils, and National Identity in Early Modern France Connor Lecture, University of Manitoba, September 2018
William Hunter’s Collecting Networks Plenary, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society annual meeting, Glasgow, July 2018
Giants, Fossils, and National Identity in Early Modern France Furniss Lecture, Colorado State University, April 2018
Joseph Banks and the Skull Trade American Historical Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, January 2018
Imagining Skin: Giant Bones and Giants’ Bodies
Plenary lecture, conference “The Porous Body in Early Modern Europe,” King’s College London, December 2017
A Tangled Legacy: Biodiversity and Novel Environments
History of Science Society annual meeting, Toronto, November 2017
Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY, October 2017
Joseph Banks and the Skull Trade
Northwest Romantic and Eighteenth-Century Studies Symposium, Oregon State, October 2017
The Whiteness of Bones
Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, September 2017
Joseph Banks and the Skull Trade
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology meeting, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2017
Reflecting on “Experimenting with Humans and Animals”
Research Ethics Grand Rounds, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, March 2017
How to Make a Skeleton: The Emergence of the Human Skeleton as a Commodity, 1500-1800 UNC-Duke Bullitt Club for the History of Medicine, March 2017
Reading as Doing: Anatomy Texts as How-To Manuals
History of Science Society annual meeting, Atlanta, November 2016
Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris
New York Academy of Medicine, September 2016
The Long View: History, Novelty, and Change
Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 2016
Severino, Faber e Perrault: storia naturale, anatomia comparata e descrizione degli animali
Conference, “Il contributo di Marco Aurelio Severino (1580-1656) alla storia della medicina, della scienza e della tecnica nella prima età moderna,” University of Calabria (Italy), July 2016
Giants, Fossils, and Mythology in Early Modern France
Plenary lecture, George Rudé Seminar in French History, Sydney, Australia, July 2016
Anatomistes, savants et animaux à la cour du Roi Soleil
Seminar, École normale supérieure, Paris, April 2016
They Might Be Giants: Fossils, Mythology, and National Identity in Early Modern Europe
Center for the Humanities Lecture, OSU, March 2016
Cannibals and Saints: Bones as Medicine in Early Modern Europe
Horning Lecture, OSU, January 2016
