- 2008
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago
“The Sweetest Temptations; The Sensual Life of Isabella de’ Medici’s Baroncelli Villa”.
- 2008
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
“Renaissance Art in the North” (for ARTH 101).
- 2007
Pintoras del Barroco conference, University of Granada, Spain
“The Economics of the Woman Artist”.
- 2007
“Lavinia Fontana and the Passion of Private Devotion”, El Paso Museum of Art.
- 2007
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Miami, FLA
“Fratello et Sorella; Social, Financial and Cultural Transactions Between Agostino Chigi and Felice della Rovere”.
- 2007
Department of History, University of New Hampshire
“At Home with Isabella de’ Medici”.
- 2007
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
“Women, Art and Money”.
- 2007
The Orsini; A Family of Roman Baroni in Context conference, UCLA.
“Women, property and possessions in UCLA’s Orsini archive”.
- 2006
Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, University of Maryland.
“Mediated Masculinity; Paolo Giordano Orsini between a Medici Princess and a White Devil”.
- 2006
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Francisco
“That Blessed Stable; The Equine Follies of a Roman Duke”.
- 2005
Revisioning High Renaissance Rome. University of Edinburgh, Scotland
“Between Bureaucrats and Barons; Felice della Rovere Orsini and the Visual Arts”.
- 2004
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, New York City
“Women, Family and Ritual at the Court of Julius II”.
- 2004
College Art Association of America, Italian Art Society Session, Seattle, WA
“Gender, Acquisition and Identity in Renaissance Italy; The Case of the Pope’s Daughter”.
- 2003
University of Maryland, College Park, Attending to Early Modern Women triennial conference.
Co-director of workshop, Publicizing Private Space in Early Modern Europe.
- 2003
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
“Felice della Rovere and the Castello of Palo”.
- 2003
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City
“Locating Lavinia Fontana”.
- 2001
University of Warwick, Venice program
“Felice della Rovere; ‘Patrona et Benefatrix’ “.
- 2001
Design History Society Annual Conference,Victoria and Albert Museum, London
“Felice della Rovere and the Furnishing of a Renaissance Fortress”.
- 2001
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
“Decor, Decorum and the Ritual of Sociability in the Palaces of Renaissance Bologna”.
- 2001
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago
“Furnishing the Fortress, Felice della Rovere and the Castello at Bracciano”.
- 2001
College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago
“From Jerusalem to Bologna via Mantua; Lavinia Fontana’s ‘Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon’ “.
- 2000
Centro di Documentazione e Ricerca delle Donne di Bologna.
Three day conference, Female Monasteries as Centers of Culture Between Renaissance and Baroque. Paper Title, “Restoration and Decoration of the Convent in Post-Tridentine Bologna”.
- 2000
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
One day symposium, The Virgin Mary and the Visual Arts
“Lavinia Fontana’s Virgins”.
- 2000
Southeastern College Art Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky
“Lavinia Fontana and Her Seventeenth-Century Biographers”.
- 2000
Syracuse and Georgetown University in Florence
Interdisciplinary 3 day conference, The Art Market in Italy (15th-17th C.)
“The Market for Pictures in Post-Tridentine Bologna”.
- 2000
University of Bologna, Dept. of History Participant at seminar,
Civic Self-Fashioning in Renaissance Bologna.
- 2000
Freedom of Expression in the Renaissance, conference UCSB.
- 2000
“Laudomia Gozzadini; Self-Expression and Familial Repression”.
- 1999
European University Institute, Florence
Workshop on: Communications, Representation and Identity in Early Modern Europe
“Public Altarpieces and the Penitent’s New Clothes in Post-Tridentine Bologna”.
- 1998
Center for Italian Women’s Studies, University of Reading One day workshop, Women in Religious Communities
“Suor Plautilla Nelli. A Painter’s Career in Cinquecento Florence”.
- 1998
Georgetown University in Florence
Symposium: Suor Plautilla Nelli, 1522-1588. The First Woman Painter of Florence
“Plautilla Nelli between Cloister and Client. A Study in Negotiation”.
- 1998
University of Florence, Italy
Symposium, Commitenza femminile e patronage muliebre in Italia all’epoca moderna
“Patronage and Bolognese Noblewomen in the Late Sixteenth-Century”.
- 1998
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Symposium, Lavinia Fontana; Forging a Career in Renaissance Bologna
“Lavinia Fontana; Painting the Ladies of Bologna”.
- 1997
Syracuse University in Florence
One day symposium, il destino delle donne tra rinascimento e contra-riforma
“Representations of female life-cycle experience”.
- 1996
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
The Art of Widowhood in Sixteenth-Century Bologna.
- 1996
Syracuse University in Florence
Researching the woman artist: Methodology and Approach.
- 1996
University of Sussex, UK
Guest Lecturer in Department of the History of Art
Lavinia Fontana and Laudomia Gozzadini: A Painter and her Patron in Sixteenth-Century Bologna.
- 1996
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK
Laudomia Gozzadini and Lavinia Fontana; Patron, Painter and Patrimonial Dispute in Sixteenth Century Bologna.
- 1994
Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK.
Lavinia Fontana and Female Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Bologna.
- 1993
Teylersmusem, Haarlem, Netherlands Women of the Golden Age conference
“Lavinia Fontana; The Making of a Woman Artist”.
