Lectures, Papers & Conferences
Collecting and Knowledge Production Through Travel
Co-organised with Sophia Quach McCabe (University of California, Santa Barbara) with The Society for The History of Collecting, Renaissance Society of America, annual conference, Chicago, 21-23 March, 2024.
‘Early Modern Royal Women Collectors’
for Christie’s Education, London, March 1, 2024.
‘Celebrating the Bicentenary of Prince Albert and his role as a collector’
A seminar part of The Society for the History of Collecting, with speakers such as Julius Bryant (V&A), Olivier Walton (Royal Collection Trust), Jana Riedel (Queen Mary University of London), Senate House, London December 4, 2019.
‘Halls of Wonder – Kunst- and Wunderkammer Collections’ of the course Hands on History. Material Cultures of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Digital Age
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, October 5, 2021.
‘Kunstkammer Objects’
in The History of Museums: 1550-2020, V&A Academy, Victoria and Albert Museum, January 8, 2021.
‘Opening the Cabinet of Curiosities’
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, April 16, 2018.
‘Queen Hedwig Eleanora—A Liebhaberin of the arts: Political culture and Northern German Court Culture’
at Enlightened Princesses – Britain & Europe 1700-1820, Hampton Court, Historic Royal Palaces in collaboration with Yale Centre for British Art, October 29-30, 2017.
‘The Kunstkammer and the Early Modern Consort – scientific instruments’
History of Art Department, University of Edinburgh, February 4, 2016.
‘Building up your Research and Funding Profile’
at Making Money: The Collaborative Doctorial Programme Seminar, National Gallery, Research Department, 22 February, 2016.
‘The Mine as a Subterranean Kunstkammer’
Oriel College, University of Oxford, February 24, 2016.
For the Happiness of the Fatherland: Political Economy, Science, Medicine, and the Market in 17th- and 18th - Century Europe
co-organised with Claudia Stein (University of Warwick) and Alix Cooper (Stony Brook University, New York) at the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, 31 March-2 April, 2016.
A Collector of Secrets
Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) in cultural diplomacy and the arts, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, June 4-5, 2015. Funded by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, University of Oregon and the Dutch Embassy to London.
Material Culture of the Mines in Early Modern Europe
Co-organised with Dr Tina Assmusen (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) and Dr Henrike Haug (Technische Universität, Berlin/Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz ), Renaissance Society of America, Humboldt Universität, Berlin 25-28 March, 2015.
Concluding remarks, the Collections in Use
King’s College London, 6 June, 2015.
‘Alexander McQueen and his Cabinet of Curiosities’
Sabotage and Tradition. Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 5-6 June, 2015.
‘The mine as a Subterranean Kunstkammer – Saxony & Sweden’
At the Cabinet of Natural History, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University.
‘Hedwig Eleonora as a collector and patron’
Royal Palace, Stockholm 14 November, 2015.
‘The Kunstkammer and the Early Modern Consort: Knowledge, Networks and Influences’
History of Art Department, Birkbeck, University of London, Dec, 11, 2015.
‘Material Worlds. Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the Arts’
AGM of The Friends of the Swedish Royal Armoury and acceptance of the Award of Friends of the Swedish Royal Armoury, 20 March, 2014.
The Varied Role of the Amateur
Co-organised with Professor Vera Keller (Univ. of Oregon), Renaissance Society of America, New York, 27-29 March, 2014.
A Queen Emerges. Hedwig Eleonora of Sweden and Baroque Court Culture around the Baltic
Co-organised with Dr Merit Laine (Royal Collections), Dr Stefan Fogelberg-Rota (La Sapienza, Rome), and Professor Mårten Snickare (Stockholm University), 1-4 October, 2013. International conference.
‘Amateurship, Patronage and the Consort. Luxury and Knowledge in the Early Modern German Princely Context’
The Production of Luxury: Skills, Materials, and Networks, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 4-5 July, 2013.
‘Books owned by Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715), Queen of Sweden’
Sammeln, Lesen, Fürstinnen, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 25-27 Sept, 2008.
