Digital Humanities
“Reading Rooms in The Edison Papers,” Digital Humanities Conference and Colloquium Online Edition, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 10 June 2022
“Digital Cultural Heritage: Medieval Padua Art in the UNESCO World Heritage List” for the panel “Teaching the Middle Ages Using Digital Mapping” sponsored by TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) and Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 12 May 2022 (online)
A roundtable on Dati’s La Sfera, the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 3-5 March 2022
“A Geospatial La Sfera: Navigating the Renaissance in the Mediterranean” with Carrie Beneš, 5th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 in Beijing, China, 2 November 2021 (online)
“Digital Cultural Heritage: Medieval Padua Art in the UNESCO World Heritage List” for the panel “Teaching the Middle Ages Using Digital Mapping,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022
Organizer and instructor for “Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF),” a professional workshop for pedagogy and interdisciplinary humanities at the NeMLA convention, 10 March 2022, Baltimore, MD
Organizer and instructor for Mapping with Digital Humanities Tools, a professional workshop for pedagogy and interdisciplinary humanities at the NeMLA convention, 10 March 2021 (online)
Introduction to IIIF, the International Image Interoperability Framework, New York City Digital Humanities (NYCDH) Week, 9 February 2022 and 12 February 2021 (online)
Mapping with Palladio, NYCDH Week, 10 February 2022 and 10 February 2021 (online)
“Textual Analysis and Teaching with Digital Humanities Tools” for the roundtable “Teaching with Technology or Technology with Teaching?” NeMLA convention, Boston, 7 March 2020
“Scientific Thinking and Narrative Discourse in Early Modern Italy,” PHAROS pilot project meeting, The Frick Collection, New York City, 28 February 2020
Poster presentation and digital demonstration of “Art in the Time of Syphilis: A Medical Narrative in Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita,” Digital Humanities Conference and Colloquium, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 7 June 2019
Pedagogy
“Primary Sources in the Classroom,” Rutgers Online Learning Conference, 15-16 March 2021
“Using Scalar for Italian Research Projects” for the panel “Digital Italian,” NeMLA convention, Washington, DC, 21 March 2019
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
“Women’s Contributions in Early Modern Italy: Exploring Cultural Production in Art and Printing,” with Daniela Rovida, Symposium “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World,” Birmingham Museum of Art, 2 March 2024
“Censored and Persistent Editing, abroad: Galileo and Two New Sciences” for the panel “Interpretation and Expression under Duress in the Italian 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries,” MLA, San Francisco, 5-8 January 2023
“Textual and Geospatial Knowledge: Dati’s La Sfera and Mediterranean Portolan Charts” for the panel “The Mediterranean World and Italian Literature, 1200-1600,” MLA, San Francisco, 5-8 January 2023
“Tradizioni umanistiche per idee della scienza tra Rinascimento e periodo moderno” for the panel “L’italiano e la scienza tra Medioevo e Rinascimento: le vie della lingua, della letteratura, dell’arte,” Associazione Internazionale Professori d’Italiano conference “Scienza, arte e letteratura: lingue, narrazioni, culture che si incrociano,” Geneva, 28-30 June 2021
“Early Modern Discussions on Public Health: the 1630 Plague” for the seminar “Plagues and Diseases in Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention, 11 March 2021 (online)
Poster presentation “Dear Galileo: Letters on Astronomy,” Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, 8 January 2021 (online)
“At the Table of the Scientist: An Unusual Galileo” for the panel “Food Is Culture: Taste and Italy,” NeMLA convention, Washington, DC, 22 March 2019
“Seeing and Believing? Natural, Unnatural, and Astronomical Rhetoric in Primo Levi’s Sidereus Nuncius,” Carolina Conference of Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1 April 2017
History of Science and Medical Humanities
“Interpreting Certainty and Uncertainty: Galileo’s Scientific Treatises and Influence” for the panel “Uncertainty in Italian Texts” of the MLA Division of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century Italian literature, MLA convention, 8 January 2021 (online)
“Diet, Weight, and the Authority of Books: Santorio’s Medical Method,” Medical Heritage Library Conference, 13 November 2020 (online)
“The Syphilis Case Study and Narrative Medicine in Early Modern Italy” for the panel “Diseases and Remedies: Late Medieval and Early Modern Narratives,” Chiasmi Brown and Harvard Graduate Student Conference “Medicine and the Arts: Co-relazioni,” 23 October 2020 (online)
“Narrating Syphilis in 16th-century Italy” for the seminar “Medical Humanities: Literature, Medicine and the Arts,” NeMLA convention, Boston, 8 March 2020
“Art in the Time of Syphilis: A Medical Narrative in Benvenuto Cellini’s Works” for the panel “Disease and Disability in the Renaissance,” RSA annual meeting, Toronto, 18 March 2019
“Art in the Time of Syphilis: A First-Person Medical Narrative in Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita,” a poster presentation, “Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy” conference, Monash University, Prato, Italy, 13-15 December 2017
“A Doctor-Patient Relationship Unveiled in Poems: Francesco Petrarca’s Reasons for Disliking Medicine Practitioners,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11 May 2017