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
