2024
- “Lost in Translation: Misread Arabic and other misadventures in the modern histories of medieval silk,” Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic + Ancient Art Invited Lecture, Portland State University
- “Making the Medieval Modern: The colonial past and digital future of the Cathedral of Mogadishu,” Invited lecture, Grambling State University
- “A Global Mediterranean? Tracing the fragmented histories of silk in medieval Sicily,” Conference paper, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame
- “Expanding Mare Nostrum to the Indian Ocean: Antonio Vandone’s arabo-normanna Cathedral of Mogadishu,” Conference paper, The Red Corridor and the Wider Mediterranean: Histories of Global Commercial Desires and Image Making, I Tatti - Harvard University; Columbia University
- “Power Play: Manipulating the Medieval Mediterranean in the Colonial Cathedral of Mogadishu,” Conference Paper, International Society for the Study of Medievalism Conference, Montclair State University; Seton Hall University
2023
- “Norman Rule in a Transcultural Mediterranean: Medieval multiculturalism and southern Italian craftsmanship,” Studienkurs lecture, Two Lands/Two Seas: Calabrian-Sicilian art and architecture in an environmental perspective, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
- “Searching for Sicilian Silks: A study in medieval Mediterranean motifs and migration,” Conference paper, Research Out Loud, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York