“Jerusalén reflejada: Palestine in Early Modern Spain,” Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, October 2006.
“A Holy Land for the Catholic Monarchy: Spanish Reconstructions of Palestine, 1469–1598,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Salt Lake City, UT), October 2006. | abstract
“SS. Francis and Dominic in Renaissance Spain,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI), May 2007. | abstract
“Believing is Seeing: The Holy Land among the Antiquarians,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (Villanova University), October 2007. | abstract
“Gerusalemme storiata: The Holy Land among the Antiquarians,” Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins, c. 1450–1650 (Calvin College), October 2008. | abstract
“Pietro Martire in the Levant: Diplomacy and Orientalism in the Spanish Renaissance,” Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, December 2008. | some thoughts
“Nihil sub sole novum? Renaissance Approaches to the Holy Land,” Holy Land as Homeland (Oslo, Norway), March 2009.
“Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Spain as a Second Promised Land in Renaissance Historiography,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Los Angeles, CA), March 2009. | abstract