| September 2021 | Roundtable marking the 50th anniversary of Sir Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic All Souls College, University of Oxford (You can find a recording of the entire event, including Sir Keith’s response, here.) |
| April 2021 | ‘The Alchemist’s Witch-Hunt: Jean d’Espagnet and the Witches of the Pays de Labourd’ Warburg Institute, University of London (You can find an abstract of this talk here.) |
| October 2020 | ‘Forcing the Papacy’s Hand: The Unlikely but Inevitable Beatification of the Martyrs of Gorkum, 1572-1675’ Online Seminar Series, British School at Rome (You can find a link to the video recording here.) |
| February 2020 | ‘Narratives versus History: Pierre de Lancre, the Pays de Labourd and the “Making” of a Witch-Hunt’ Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Exeter |
| December 2019 | ‘Anatomy of a Witch-Hunt: Fear and Terror in the French Basque Country (1600-1620)’ Early Modern History Seminar, University of Melbourne |
| May 2019 | ‘What’s in a name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c. 1500–1700′ ‘Beyond Ancients and Moderns’, All Souls College, Oxford |
| March 2019 | ‘The Catholic Defense of Monasticism’ ‘The Filologos and the Antiquarius’, Princeton University |
| August 2018 | ‘Sanctity and Scholarly Reputation in the Early Modern Catholic World: The Cases of Cesare Baronio and Roberto Bellarmino’ ‘Reputation Cultures in Early Modern Europe’, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam |
| June 2018 | ‘Cesare Baronio and Roberto Bellarmino: Developing Scholarly and Saintly Reputations in Seventeenth-Century Rome’ Erudition, Antiquity, and The Enlightenment in Rome, St John’s College, Cambridge |
| March 2018 | ‘The Sad Fate of a Real Teen Wolf: Pierre de Lancre’s Encounter with Jean Grenier (1603–1610)’ ‘Voice and Crime in Early Modern France’, Trinity College, Cambridge |
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