2023

  • Guest lecture “Tasting the Past?,” MSc course Food Culture and Customs, Gastronomy specialization, MSc in Food Technology, Wageningen University (WUR).
  • “The Dutch and their love for liquorice: a post-WWII tale of food technology and identity building,” Food History Seminar, 30 November 2023 (online)
  • Guest lecture “Tasting the Past?”, MA course Food History, University of Amsterdam, 16 October 2023.
  • “Traces of use in anatomical handbooks, 1750-1850,” Bibliographical Society Grantee Panel, London, 21 November 2023 (invited speaker)
  • “The Chemistry of Fire in the Early Modern Kitchen,” Retro Technology Transfer Network meeting, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, fall 2023 (invited speaker)
  • With Vera Eising: “Recognizing recipes: can we teach a computer what an early modern recipe is?,” Decoding Recipes Workshop, University of Sheffield, 26-28 October 2023.
  • “Practice as research, across the disciplines,” roundtable, Society for Renaissance Studies 10th Biennial Conference, Liverpool UK, 19-22 July 2023 (invited speaker)
  • “Early modern natural philosophy in porcelain and print: cross mediality in illustration practices,” DAAD research network Large Illustrated Books, Antwerp/Wolffenbüttel/Minnesota, June 2023 & January 2024 (invited participant).
  • Keynote speaker, Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) Annual Conference, 13 April 2023 (invited presentation)
  • “Understanding historical materiality through performative methods,” symposium Materials & Methods in the History of Chemistry, Utrecht University, 25 October 2022 (invited presentation)