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Panel Co-chair, “Living In and Off Others: Parasitic and Entangled Lives in Art, Nature, and Society,” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February, 2026

Panel Chair, “Renaissance Intarsia,” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, February, 2026

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“Rethinking the Renaissance in the Encyclopedic Museum,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Orange, CA, November 1, 2025

Panelist, “Curators on Curators,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 30, 2025.

“Gods, Flames and Butterfly Wings: Ovid in Renaissance Art,” Gallery Talk with Mary Beard, National Gallery of Art, Washington, April 22, 2025.

“Ligneous Illusions? Italian Intarsia’s Relationship to Visual Deception,” Renaissance Society of America, Boston, MA, March 22, 2025.

“Toward a Nonhuman History of Renaissance Art (Worms),” CASVA Shoptalk, The Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, December 4, 2024.

“Harvest, Rot, Blood: Rethinking the Tree Stump in Italian Painting,” Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Lyon, France, June 24, 2024.

“From Rot to Revelation: Generative Decay in Italian Intarsia, 1450-1540,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2024.

Grains, Worms and Stains: Designing from Wood in Early Modern Italy. Symposium, Making Green Worlds, École de Printemps in Art History, Los Angeles, CA, June 13, 2022.

Arboreal Formations: Ecological Dimensions of Italian Intarsia. Symposium, The Surrounding Forest: Trees in the Medieval Imaginary, Birkbeck College, University of London, June 22, 2019.