“Globalizing the Early Survey: Dilemmas, Challenges, Rewards,” The Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 37th Annual Conference, December 17-19, 2018.
“Material Memory: Pilgrim Tattoos, Skin, and Identity,” Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, LA, March 22-25, 2018.
“Skin, Paper, and Parchment: Healing Words in Early Modern Europe,” invited colloquium on “The Legible Body: Skin, Paper and Parchment in Early Modern Europe,” King’s College, London, November 29, 2017 preceding the “Porous Bodies” Conference, King’s College, London, November 30-December 1, 2017.
“A Science of Specters: Demonology’s Ghosts,” The Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 36th Annual Conference, Oakland and Palo Alto, CA, November 2-4, 2017.
“Physical Graffiti: Engraving Bark, Stone, and Skin in the Pastorale,” The Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 35th Annual Conference, Hanover, NH, November 10-13, 2016.
“Material Memory: Holy Land Pilgrimage as Embodied Experience,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, Bruges, Belgium, August 18-20, 2016.
“Entertaining Ideas: Scientific Spectacle and the Transmission of Knowledge,” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Winter Park and Orlando, FL, June 1-3, 2016.
“The Ephemerides of Love: Cosmographical Satire of Gender Relations in Seventeenth-Century France,” 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 31-April 2, 2016. Presentation as part of a session I organized on “Between Science and Fiction: Cosmology and Society in the Grand Siècle.”
“Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern Europe,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016. Presentation as part of an interdisciplinary seminar on “Signs, Symptoms, Stigmata: Early Modern Techniques of Inscribing the Body and Their Contemporary Relevance” that I a co-organized and led with Peter Erickson.
“The Well-Traveled Tattoo: Hybrid Identities in New France,” The Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 34th Annual Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, November 5-7, 2015.
“Shooting the Moon: Women Astronomers in Seventeenth-Century France,” Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Symposium, “Science Before Science,” Bowdoin College, February 27-28, 2015.
"The Pilgrim's Body: Holy Land Pilgrimage as Embodied Experience," Modern Languages Association, Vancouver, BC, January 8-11, 2015.
“Shooting the Moon: Women Astronomers in Early Modern France,” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Durham, NC, May 15-17. 2014.
“Signs of a Cure: Corporeal Marking and Popular Healing in Early Modern Europe,” Popular Culture Association, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2014.
“Signes de vie: Marks on Skin and Identity in Early Modern France.” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, May 25-27, 2012.
“Marks of Identity: Passports and Tattoos for the Cosmopolitan Traveler.” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century Studies 30th Annual Conference, Lexington, KY, November 3-5, 2011.
“Stigma: Imprinting the Criminal Body in Early Modern France.” Écritures du corps/Writing the Body, International conference organized by the CENEL and the University of Sussex, Université Paris 13, November 18-20, 2010.
“New France Encounters, Old World Practices: Rewriting the Early Modern History of the Tattoo.” Session on “Relating New France in the Seventeenth Century” (presenter and session organizer), Western Society for French History Annual Conference, The University of Laval, Québec, Canada, November 6-9, 2008.
“The Wanderings of the Worn Word.” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century Studies 27th Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 23-23, 2008.
“Plagued by Love: Tales of Infectious Affections.” Session on “Disease and Contagion.” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 12-14, 2006.
“Prêt à porter: The Rhetoric of the Worn Word.” Session on “Rhetoric and the Body,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20-22, 2006.
“Shaping the Woods, (In)Forming the City: Pastoral and Urban Graffiti in Seventeenth-Century France.” Session on “Forms and Shapes / Formes Concrètes,” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Annual Conference: “Formes et Formations au XVIIe siècle,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, April 14-16, 2005.
“Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Teaching the Occult Early Modern.” Session on “Teaching the Seventeenth Century,” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 28-30, 2004.
“Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body.” Session on “Print and Performance,” North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Annual Conference: “Intersections,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-10, 2003.
“Gendered Impressions: Marking the Body in Early Modern France.” Session on “Gender and Philosophy,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 24-26, 2003.
“Stigma: The Criminal Body as a Site of Memory.” Organized and chaired session on “Inscribing Memory on the Body,” The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, November 15-17, 2002.
“Demonic Signatures, Divine Stigmata: The Female Body Inscribed.” Session on “Early Modern Women and Gender,” Western Society for French History Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 3-5, 2002.
“Gossip and Gossipers in the Court of Louis the XIVth.” Presentation and post-play discussion leader on Molière’s Misanthrope in Portland Stage Company’s “Scholars on Stage” series, October, 2001.
“Femmes lunatiques: Women and the Moon in Early Modern France.” Session on “Reading Signs: Astrology and Superstition,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 19-21, 2001.
“The Possessed Body, Inside Out: Reading, Writing, and Authority in Cases of Demonic Possession.” Session on “Bodies/Borders: Constructing the Corporeal in the Early Modern,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 27-28, 2000.
“Fleshy Thresholds and Paratextual Prescriptions: Writing the Body in Cases of Demonic Possession.” Session on “Paratexts and Thresholds / Paratextes et seuils,” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, November 11-13, 1999.
“Writing Violence in Women’s Memoirs of Possession.” Organized and chaired session on “Writing Violence,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 22-24, 1999.
“Signing the Body: Demonic Wounds and Sacred Scars in Early Modern Possession Narratives.” Session on “Written on the Body,” MLA Convention, San Francisco, California, December 27-30, 1998.
“Medicine at the Margin: Demonic Possession and the Limits of the Natural.” Session on “Science and Frontiers / Science et frontières,” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Orange, California, October 8-10, 1998.
“Médiations, figures et expériences de l’autre vie: Jean-Joseph Surin à la rencontre du démoniaque.” Session on “Religion et mysticisme,” Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIème Siècle, “L’Autre au Dix-Septième Siècle,” Miami, Florida, April 23-25, 1998.
“Voices of Authority: Transgression and Truth-Telling in Seventeenth-Century Cases of Demonic Possession.” Session on “Authority and Transgression / L’autorité et la transgression,” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, New Bern, North Carolina, October 16-18, 1997.
“(Un)veiling the Demonic.” Workshop on “Catholicism Reads Veiled Bodies,” The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)Veiling in Early Modern Europe Conference, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 3-5, 1997.
“Écriture possédée et reprise de possession: Les mémoires de Sœur Jeanne des Anges (1644).” Colloque “Littératures,” Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, June 1-2, 1997.
“Bodily Fluids and Gender Fluidity: Writing Excess in Sixteenth-Century Medical Discourse.” The Fifth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium, The University of Miami, Miami, Florida, February 22-24, 1996.
“Translating Texts, Translating Bodies: The Life of Saint Alexis and the Medieval Cult of Relics.” The Second Annual Forum for Graduate Students of French and Francophone Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 7, 1994.
