“What Happened to Spanish Hebraism?” to be delivered at The Spanish Inquisition: New Readings and New Questions (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 4–5 November 2011).
“Pietro Martire in the Levant: Orientalism in the Age of Spanish Empire,” The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, 1492–1700 (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL), 7–8 October 2011.
“From Pharaohs to Moros: Egypt in Renaissance Spain,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (Lisbon, Portgual), 30 June–2 July 2011.
“Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Arias Montano and Spain’s Hebraic Origins,” Benito Arias Montano (1527–1598): Biblical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance (Princeton, NJ, 13–14 May 2011).
“Other Antiquities: Non-Christian, Non-Roman Relics in the Iberian Renaissance,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Boston, MA), January 2011.
“The Greatest Crusade that Never Was: Lope de Vega’s Jerusalén Conquistada,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Montreal, Quebec), October 2010.
“Believing is Seeing: Franciscan Antiquarians in the Holy Land,” Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins II (London, UK), June 2010.
“Replicas of the Holy Land in Renaissance Spain,” Seminar on “Spain and its Empire,” dir. Richard Kagan (The Johns Hopkins University), April 2010.
“Pietro Martire in the Levant: Diplomacy and Orientalism in the Spanish Renaissance‚” Princeton Renaissance Studies Colloquium, February 2010.
“The Greatest Crusade that Never Was: Lope de Vega’s Reinvention of the Middle Ages in Early Modern Spain,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (Villanova University), October 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.
“Nihil sub sole novum? Renaissance Approaches to the Holy Land,” Holy Land as Homeland (Oslo, Norway), March 2009.
“Pietro Martire in the Levant: Diplomacy and Orientalism in the Spanish Renaissance‚” Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, December 2008.
“Gerusalemme storiata: The Holy Land among the Antiquarians‚” Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins, c. 1450–1650 (Calvin College), October 2008.
“Believing is Seeing: The Holy Land among the Antiquarians‚” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference (Villanova University), October 2007.
“SS. Francis and Dominic in Renaissance Spain‚” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI), May 2007.
“A Holy Land for the Catholic Monarchy: Spanish Reconstructions of Palestine, 1469–1598‚” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Salt Lake City, UT), October 2006.
“Jerusalén reflejada: Palestine in Early Modern Spain,” Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, October 2006.