Talks

Invited Conference Papers

2025

‘Reconstructing the medieval wax workshop: a Florentine case study’ – Monash Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies seminar, online, 15 August 2025.

‘Material metamorphosis in late fifteenth-century Florentine sculpture’ – Intermediality, Working Renaissance Working Group Meeting online, 7 March 2025.

‘Mapping wax in Renaissance Florence: a case study’ – Digital Humanities at the Warburg: Current Research and Future Directions, Warburg Institute, 13 February 2025.

2023

‘Mapping Wax: locations, contexts and networks of wax workshops in quattrocento Florence’ – Artists’ Workshop Practice in the Renaissance, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’ Arte, Florence, 20 – 21 September 2023.

‘Squeezing out any roughness from the wax’’: reappraising wax as a sculptural material in Renaissance Florence’ – College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, 15 February 2023. [Unable to attend due to travel costs]. 

2022

‘Making yourself in wax: the metamorphic potential of the wax ex-voto’ – Transformative Bodies in the Premodern World: Experiences and Materials, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 27 June 2022. 


Conference Papers

2023

​‘Re-materialising the Florentine wax ex-voto’ – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Juan, 11 March 2023. [Unable to attend due to travel costs]. 

2022

‘Waxing on: new approaches to wax as a votive material in Renaissance Florence’ –Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Virtual, 1 December 2022. 

2021

‘Schism, obedience and genealogy in Neri di Bicci’s San Giovanni Gualberto Enthroned’ – Neue Tendenzen der Italienforschung zu Mittelalter und Renaissance conference, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome/online, 29 November 2021.

‘Legislating materiality: wax in Florentine guild statutes 1300-1500’ – 4th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval: (In)Materiality in Medieval Art, Complutense University of Madrid (online), 12 November 2021. 

‘The Florentine wax workshop: location and organisation’ – The Working Renaissance working group meeting, online, 18 June 2021.  

‘Mapping production: wax workshops in Renaissance Florence’ – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Virtual, 13 April 2021.


Seminars

2022

‘The life cycle of a wax ex-voto in late medieval and Renaissance Florence’ – Work in Progress seminar, the Warburg Institute, 4 May 2022. 

2021​

‘What is my research trajectory’ – ReSkIN (Research Skills Intercollegiate Network) Spring Event, University College London (online), 13 March 2021.