2020

“Making Bodies, Making Taste: Diet, Health and Identity in the Dutch Golden Age”, part of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies panel sessions Whose Body Politic? Negotiating Political Agency in Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Society of America 2020 annual meeting, Philadelphia, 2-4 April 2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19

“Can we Taste the Past? An Exploration of Methodological Issues”, Workshop L’histoire d’expérience et l’expérience de l’historien. Etude pratique de reconstitution. Université de Liège, 24 April 2020 (Invited speaker) Postponed due to Covid-19

“A Working Model of Boerhaave’s Little Furnace” with Ruben Verwaal, Sourcing the History of Science, The North British History of Science Symposium, Hatfield College, Durham University, UK, 20-21 June 2020 Postponed due to Covid-19

“Taste identities: how a cough medicine became interwoven with national identity”, part of the panel Neither “Lowly,” nor “Soft”: How Taste Produces Knowledge, Makes Expertise, and Forms Identities, 9th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Bologna, Italy, 31 August – 2 September 2020

TBA, Publiekslezing Chemie Historische Kring Zwolle, 20 December 2020 (Invited speaker)

“Taste Makers: Reworking Early Modern Diet, Health and Identity”, invited lecture, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, NYC, 22 Spring 2021 (Invited speaker)

“Be Careful of the Tastes and You Will Grow Old: Taste, health and identity in the Dutch Golden Age”, Conference Experiencing the material body in early modern Europe, Stockholm University, 16-18 June 2021