Talks

Recent and Upcoming Lectures / Talks

*From the Library to the Field: Peiresc Encounters Giants
Journeé d’étude on Sites of Observation, Université de Bordeaux, (online) May 2021

*Galileo Among the Giants
Stillman Drake Lecture, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (online), May 2021

The Giant, Siegfried
Renaissance Society of America annual meeting (online), April 2021

Giants, Fossils, and National Identity in Early Modern France
Consortium in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Early Modern Science group (online), March 2021

*Revisiting Human and Animal Experimentation
Cedars-Sinai History of Medicine Seminar (online), March 2021  
     

Giants, Fossils, and the Origins of Nationalism
Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies, Boise State University, February 2020

Of Mammoths and Men (and Elephants): Explaining Fossils in the Eighteenth Century
Department of History, Boise State University, February 2020

Re-engineering Rats
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Seattle, February 2020

Extinction and the American Mastodon
History of Science seminar, Colby College, January 2020

Panelist for Roundtable Writing History with Scientific Data,
AHA Annual Meeting, New York, January 2020

The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris     
Historia Medica Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, October 2019

Artisans of the (Prehistoric) Body: Anatomy, Craft, and the “American incognitum
History of Science Society annual meeting, Utrecht, July 2019

When we were giants: Fossils and the material origins of early modern nationalism
Descartes Centre colloquium, University of Utrecht, May 2019

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