SELECTED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Computational Procedures as Courtly Performances: Contextualizing Late Medieval Canons to Astronomical Tables,” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, January 11, 2025.

“Translating Theory into Practice: Alfonsine Canon-Making in Late Medieval France and Italy,” HPS/HHS Workshop at the Morris Fishbein Center for The History of Science & Medicine, University of Chicago, February 23, 2024.

“From the Court of Alfonso to the Court of John of Bourbon: Alfonsine Astronomy as an Actor’s Category,” at the ALFA III Conference: Trends and Nodal Points, Madrid, Spain, September 6-9, 2023.

“The Challenge of Using Precision Instruments in Alfonsine Canons,” at the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, Brussels, Belgium, September 7-10, 2022.

“Tables of Time and the Council of Florence-Ferrara,” at the Project SOW Workshop, Athens, Greece, June 21-22, 2022. 

“Strategic Choices for Dates Chosen in Worked Examples of Alfonsine Canons,” at the CHAMA Workshop, Paris, France, November 2021.

“Conrad Heingarter’s Notes on Canons for Finding Planetary Latitudes,” at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST) Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2021.

“Planetary Diagrams in Fourteenth-Century Canon Sets to the Alfonsine Tables,” at the SPHERE Workshop: History of Science, History of Text, Paris, France, February 4, 2021.

“The Role of Estimating Procedures in Canons: Tracking Planetary Cycles and their Connection to Professional and Craft Production,” at the ALFA Workshop: Putting Science into Practice, Paris, France, January 21, 2021.

“Planetary Diagrams in Erfurt MS Amp. Q 366 and Oxford MS Digby 97,” at the ALFA II Conference: Mathematical Practices, Paris, France, October 1, 2020.

“The Justificatory Role of Diagrams in an Anonymous Set of Fourteenth-Century Canons for the Alfonsine Tables (Erfurt Q366 ff. 70v-73v),” at the 9^th European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference, Bologna, Italy, September 3, 2020. 

“Ordering Language to Order the Heavens: A View of Alfonsine Canons at the Level of the Manuscript,” at the SPHERE Workshop, Paris, France, November 14, 2019.

“Time, Sense Perceptions, and Experiential Knowledge in John of Saxony’s Epochs of Nations,” at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 24, 2019. 

“Quantifying Religious Difference: A Thirteenth-Century Mathematical Treatise on the Borders between Arabic Medicine and Latin Moral Philosophy,” at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 11, 2017.

“Reading Galileo’s Theory of Comets as a Political Document,” at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 6, 2016.

Respondent to Peter Harrison, “The Neo-Harmonists: Rodney Stark, Denis Alexander, Francis Collins,” at “The Idea that Wouldn’t Die”: The Warfare between Science and Religion, Sponsored by the Issachar Fund and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, May 16, 2015.

Presented with James Barnes, “Arabic Masters: Exploring the Arabic Education of Latin Scholars in the Twelfth Century” at Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, Madison, WI, March 22, 2013.

“Maraghan World Maps in a World Context: A Comparative Study of the Influence of the Maragha School on the Development of Equipollent Maps in Latin Europe and Yuan China” at Maragha and Its Scholars: The Intellectual Culture of Medieval Maragha, ca. 1250-1550, Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2013.

WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, AND SERVICE

ERC-Funded ALFA Project Workshop: “Putting Science into Practice,” Paris Observatory, Primary Organizer, Paris, France, 2021.

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Graduate Student Organization, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Treasurer, Madison, WI, 2016.

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Graduate Student Organization, Founding Member, Madison, WI, 2015.

Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Treasurer, Madison, WI, 2014.

Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Organizer, Madison, WI, 2013.