Spring 2020
University of Cambridge, conference organiser, chair, and convener: Cambridge International Study Day ‘Drawing in Milan before and after Leonardo’ (in preparation)
October 2019
University of Cambridge, conference organiser, ‘Leonardo Da Vinci: Art, History, Science‘ (in preparation)
28 November 2018
University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art, Research Seminar Series, invited speaker, paper: ‘Before, With, and After Leonardo. The Leonardeschi of first and second generation: rupture and continuity‘
27-28 June 2018
University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, invited speaker, two-day workshop on ‘Early Modern Visual Wit’ Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science Topic: Leonardo’s grotesque heads
24-25 May 2018
University of Cambridge, CRASSH, invited respondent, two-day workshop on ‘Artistic Representations’ – ‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University‘ –http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27698 Response: Samuel Butler on Gaudenzio Ferrari
15 May 2018
University of Cambridge, Clare Hall: conference organiser, chair, and convener: Cambridge International Study Day ‘Drawing in Seicento Milan’
23 March 2018
The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans: Session co-organiser, chair, and speaker: ‘Grotesque heads in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy’. Paper ‘Lomazzo’s Blenio heads revisited’
6 March 2018
University of Cambridge, Mill Lane Lecture Room 5, invited speaker, paper: Neoplatonism and Botticelli
16 June 2017
University of Cambridge, Clare College, invited speaker, paper: Head for Art: object-based classes at the Fitzwilliam Museum
13 June 2017
University of Cambridge, Clare Hall Colloquium: Drawn to Drawings: why study old masters today? https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare-hall-colloquium-59
5 December 2016
University of Bologna, Palazzina della Viola. Conference co-organiser and chair: ‘Clare Hall and Italy: 50th Anniversary Conference’
15 October 2016
University of Cambridge, Clare Hall: ‘A very different Cambridge College: Ralph Erskine and the invention of Clare Hall’. Chair of panel two
5 July 2016
University of Cambridge, Clare Hall: Conference organiser, convener and speaker: Cambridge International Study Day ‘Drawing in ‘500 Milan’
1 April 2016
The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston: Session co-organiser: ‘From theory to practice. Lomazzo’s aesthetic principles reflected in the art of his time’ (3 panels)
23 June 2015
Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence: Paper ‘Aurelio Luini: Bleniese Heads and Leonardesque Heads’
10 June 2015
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan: invited conference speaker. Convegno Internazionale Storia e storiografia dell’arte del Rinascimento a Milano e in Lombardia. Paper ‘On the Grotesque: Aurelio Luini and Leonardo’
27 March 2015
The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin: Session co-organiser and speaker: ‘The North Italian Renaissance 1450-1650, New Studies in Drawing and Painting’ (3 panels)
27 March 2014
The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York: invited speaker: ‘Beyond Workshop Boundaries: the Luini and the Procaccini’
Lent 2009
University of Cambridge, History of Art Graduate Centre: Organiser and convener of the ‘Renaissance Graduate Seminars’
28 September 2008
Certosa di Vigano, Vigano Certosino, Milan: invited conference speaker: ‘Aurelio Luini disegnatore’
29 May 2008
University of Cambridge, St. Edmund’s College Graduate Seminars Day, Paper ‘Drawing in the Luini workshop’
28 June 2007
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Study Center, ‘Provenance Research Workshop’