“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
“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.
“Pietro Martire in the Levant: Diplomacy and Orientalism in the Spanish Renaissance‚” Princeton Renaissance Studies Colloquium, February 2010.
“Replicas of the Holy Land in Renaissance Spain,” Seminar on “Spain and its Empire,” dir. Richard Kagan (The Johns Hopkins University), April 2010.
“Believing is Seeing: Franciscan Antiquarians in the Holy Land,” to be delivered at Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins II (London, UK), June 2010.
“The Greatest Crusade that Never Was: Lope de Vega’s Jerusalén Conquistada,” to be delivered at Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Montreal, Quebec), October 2010.
“Other Antiquities: Non-Christian, Non-Roman Relics in the Iberian Renaissance,” to be delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Boston, MA), January 2011.