Selected Conference Papers and Talks

“The Origins of Misogynist Ochlophobia? Crowds, Women, and Superstition in Early Medieval Europe,” Department of Comparative Literature Annual Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 5–7, 2018.

“Montfaucon’s Byzantium,” at conference “The Invention of Byzantine Studies in Early Modern Europe,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 26–27, 2017.

“A Mid-Ninth-Century Peasant Massacre: The Rise of ‘Feudalism’ or Charlemagne’s Ghost?” at the 44th annual New England Medieval Conference, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, October 7, 2017.

“Photios the Document Tamperer: Lies, Genre, and Shared Standards of Truth and Legitimacy Between Italy and Byzantium,” 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session “New Voices in Medieval History,” Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–14, 2017.

“Crowds and Critics in Early Medieval Rome,” at workshop “Rome and its Critics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York, NY, May 8, 2017.

“Plus quam civile bellum in Isidore of Seville,” Spring Collations, Harvard Medieval Studies Workshop, Cambridge, MA, March 27, 2017.

"Material Girls? Exuberant Religiosity, Material Motivations, and Gendered Critique in Ninth-Century Dijon," at conference "Material World of the Early Middle Ages," Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 7-9 October, 2016.

"Worse Than Civil War: The Strange Life and Death of a Medieval Category," invited public lecture, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nev., 5 October, 2016.

“‘Don’t let the small number of subscribers scandalize you’: Number and Legitimacy in Later Carolingian Councils,” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA), Boston, Ma., 25-27 February, 2016.

“Demographic Decline in the Early Middle Ages? The Perspective from the Crowd,” New Research Forum, Haskins Society Conference, Northfield, Min., 6-8 November, 2015.

“Crowd Venues in the Early Middle Ages,” Medieval History Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 20 October, 2015.

“The Peasant and the Crowd in the Early Middle Ages,” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Session “Peasants and Texts,” Kalamazoo, Mich., 17 May, 2015.

 “La compétition et la foule entre Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge,” at conference “Rivaliser, coopérer : vivre en compétition dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge,” Venice, 19-21 March 2015.

“The Incapacity Clause: Making Excuses For Bad Handwriting in Early Medieval Italy,” Harvard-Yale Medieval Conference, Cambridge, MA, 18 January, 2015.

“La folla nell’Altomedioevo,” at conference “La Folla: definizioni, comportamenti, storiografie,” invited hourlong lecture, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy, 17 June, 2014.

“The Crowd as Historical Subject,” at conference “La Folla: definizioni, comportamenti, storiografie,” invited hourlong lecture, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy, 16 June, 2014.

 “Early Medieval Crowds: The Venues (c. 500-1000),” Harvard-Yale Medieval Conference, New Haven, Conn., 25 January, 2014.

“A Hypothetical Slave in Constantinople: Amalarius’s Liber Officialis and the Mediterranean Slave Trade,” Haskins Society Conference, Boston, Ma. (Boston College), October 25-27, 2013.

“Gangs and Bands in Late Carolingian West Francia,” at conference “Politics and Texts in Late Carolingian Europe, c. 870-1000,” University of St Andrews, July 8-9, 2013.

“Bad Crowds in Carolingian Sources,” at conference “Texts & Identities,” Session XVI, Vienna, Austria (Institut für Mittelalterforschung), January 26, 2013.

“La foule au haut Moyen Âge : vers une définition du sujet,” Atelier du haut Moyen Âge, Paris, France (Université de Paris-1, Panthéon-Sorbonne), December 6, 2012.

“Hincmar and Anastasius: Lying, Treacherous Villains,” Haskins Society Conference, Boston, Ma. (Boston College), November 4, 2011.

“The Contio from Antiquity to the Middle Ages,” New England Historical Association Conference, Boston, MA (Emmanuel College), October 29, 2011.

“Urban Crowds from the City of Man to the City of God, c. 250 BCE - c. 1200 CE,” at conference “Cities in History: Urban Identities Reconsidered,” Fordham University, September 17, 2011.

“Proof and Rhetoric in Einhard’s Translatio SS Marcellini et Petri,” Heidelberg-Cambridge Medieval History Seminar, Heidelberg, Germany (Universität Heidelberg), January 10-11, 2009.

“Royal consecration ordines from a new perspective,” at conference “Texts & Identities,” Session XII, Auxerre, France (Centre d’études médiévales), October 17-19, 2008.

“Breaking tradition with poetry: Æthelstan, Abd-ar-Rahman III, Berengar I, and their panegyrists,” at conference “Every Inch a King,” Cambridge, UK, September 22-24, 2008.