December 2022 Digital Cartography and the Visual Language of Political Indeterminacy, Conference “Spaces of Rule and their Medialization”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
October 2022 Geleitrecht und Mobilitätskontrolle an Flüssen im Alten Reich, Conference “Naturgrenzen/Limites naturelles”, University of Leipzig, Germany
September 2022 The Enclosure of Movement: An Early Modern Perspective, Opening Keynote to the 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility, University of Padua, Italy
May 2022 The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
May 2022 Envisioning Shared Dominion in the Holy Roman Empire, Conference “Re-Mapping Sovereignty: Representing Geopolitical Complexity”, Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
May 2022 A Distant Reading of Law Dissertations, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA
2021
December 2021 The Atmosphere in (Digital) Spatial History, Research Seminar Pre-Modern History, University of Basel, Switzerland (virtual)
November 2021 Grenze und Bewegungsfreiheit im Alten Reich: Archiv und GIS, Research Seminar Early Modern History, University of Leipzig, Germany (virtual)
October 2021 Visuelle Komplexität und Raumordnung im Alten Reich, Workshop “Temporalités et changements de Border Complexities/ Zeitlichkeiten und Wandel von Border Complexities”, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy
September 2021 Environmental Data in Spatial History, Conference “Spatial Humanities”, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (virtual)
August 2021 Violent Skies: The Atmosphere in Spatial History, Conference “Launching the Atmospheric Humanities”, Syros, Greece (virtual)
2020
December 2020 Mit Daten denken: Digitale Methoden zur Erforschung der Vormoderne, Research Seminar Early Modern History, Free University of Berlin, Germany (virtual)
November 2020 Old Regimes of Movement. Borders and Passports in the Holy Roman Empire, European History 1500 – 1800 Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, United Kingdom (virtual)
September 2020 Violent Skies: Mapping the History of Weather Modification, European History Workshop, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (virtual)
May 2020 Battling the Sky: A Spatial History of the Hail Cannon, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA (virtual)
March 2020 Contending with the Sky. Towards a Vertical Spatial History of Weather Modification, Digital Humanities Seminar Series, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, Ghent University, Belgium, and Universidade Nova Lisbon, Portugal (virtual)
February 2020 Border Talk and Freedom of Movement in German History, Colloquium “Migration and Movement in the Medieval World”, London Medieval Society, United Kingdom
2019
December 2019 Geschichte als Beruf, Deutsch-französisches Atelier, Historisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
November 2019 Das Alte Reich als Herausforderung für historische Kartographie und GIS, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Germany
October 2019 New Developments in Digital History, Keynote at the “Manchester Methods Fair”, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
October 2019 Spatial History: Mapping the Past, Seminar in Digital Humanities, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
July 2019 Verticality and Digital History, Conference “Connected Histories”, University of Verona, Italy
June 2019 Too Good to Be True. Geospatial Data Models and the Old Reich, Conference “Time in Space”, University of Pisa, Italy
May 2019 Deceptive Contiguity. The Polygon in Spatial History, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA
February 2019 Mapping Airspace. On the Visual Imagination of the Atmosphere, Conference “Mapping the Global Imaginary”, Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
February 2019 Contested Skies. Aerial Disputes in Early Modern Europe, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA
January 2019 Verticality in Spatial History, Archaeology Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
2018
December 2018 Mappe nuove per l’antico regime. Cartografia digitale e storia moderna, Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, Trento, Italy
November 2018 Contending with Uncertainty. Mapping the Unknown in Early Modern Spatial History, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA
May 2018 The Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellows Program: Past, Present, Future, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA
March 2018 Mapping Disputes in the Old Reich, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, LA, USA
March 2018 Troop Passages and Territorial Boundaries in the Old Reich, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
February 2018 Movement and the Geography of the State in the Old Reich, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA
January 2018 Historicizing Freedom of Movement: The Case of the Old Reich, Stanford Center for Law and History, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, CA, USA
2017
December 2017 Spatial History. Neue Perspektiven auf die Vormoderne?, Research seminar in early modern history, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
November 2017 Géographies de la fraude dans une société d’Ancien Régime: le cas du Saint- Empire, Conference “Fraudes, frontières et territoires”, French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, Paris, France
November 2017 Sharing and Exploring Cultural Heritage Data: The Mapping Old Regimes of Movement project, Conference “Linked Pasts. New Voices, Old Places”, Stanford University, CA, USA
June 2017 Movement. Some Thoughts on the Uses and Abuses of an Analytic Concept, Conference “Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”, University of Oxford, UK
April 2017 The Ordering of Movement: Channeling Mobility in the Old Reich, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago, IL, USA
February 2017 Mapping Old Regimes of Movement, Research workshop of the Spatial History project, Stanford University, CA, USA
January 2017 Borders Without States: Safe-Conduct and the Politics of Mobility in the Old Reich, Research workshop of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA
2016
December 2016 Handel und Wandel. Vormoderne Staatlichkeit als Mobilitätsregime, Research seminar for history of science, medieval and early modern history, University of Konstanz, Germany
July 2016 Grenzen ohne Staaten. Bewegungsfreiheit und Geleit im Alten Reich, Research seminar for early modern history, Free University of Berlin, Germany
June 2016 The Procession and its Discontents. Sharing Thoroughfares in the Holy Roman Empire, Conference “Sharing Space in the Early Modern World 1450-1750”, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
May 2016 La route interdite. Canaliser la circulation dans le Saint-Empire à l’époque moderne, Workshop “Routes, institutions et territoire à l’époque moderne”, EHESS, Paris, France
April 2016 Protection and the Ordering of Movement: Safe Conduct in the Holy Roman Empire, Conference “Protection and Empire”, co-sponsored by Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and Monash University, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
March 2016 Rights of Passage. Safe-Conduct and the Enclosure of Movement in the Old Reich, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston, MA, USA
February 2016 Compétition territoriale et coûts de transport dans le Saint-Empire du XVIIe siècle, Conference “Prix et coûts de transport dans l’Europe préindustrielle. Perspectives compares”, Université Paris 1, Panthéon – Sorbonne, France
January 2016 Leviathan’s Skin. Borders and the Ordering of Movement in the Old Reich, Seminar of the Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2015
November 2015 Beyond Borders. Rethinking the Spaces of Negotiated Mobility in the Old Reich, Conference “Barriers and borders in and beyond Habsburg Europe”, KU Leuven, Belgium
September 2015 The Bounds of Free Movement. Conduct, Borders and the Enclosure of Movement in the Early Modern Old Reich, Annual conference of the German History Society, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
May 2015 The Enclosure of Movement. How Travelers, Officials and Jurists Negotiated Rights of Passage in the Old Reich, Center for International History (Discussant: Prof. Carl Wennerlind), Columbia University, New York City, United States
2014
November 2014 Rituals and Rights of Passage. Negotiating Freedom of Movement between the Alps and the North Sea (1580-1690), Early Modern and Modern History Postgraduate Forum, University of Saint Andrews, United Kingdom
October 2014 Arterien der Menschheit? Zum Gebrauch der Straßen und Flüsse des Alten Reichs im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Conference “L’historiographie du Saint-Empire à l’époque moderne : approches croisées franco-allemandes”, EHESS, Paris, France
August 2014 De la liberté des routes et des fleuves. Gouverner la circulation dans le Saint- Empire aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Summer school in economic and social history “Bien(s) commun(s) et biens collectifs aux époques médiévale et moderne”, Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy
June 2014 Bewegte Hoheit. Grenzen, Geleit und die Sicherheit des ‚reisenden Manns‘ im Alten Reich, Research seminar in early modern history, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
May 2014 Geleit, Sicherheit und Grenze im Alten Reich (ca. 1550 – 1700), Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Germany
April 2014 The Enclosure of Movement. Safe Conduct, Borders, and Security in Early Modern German Lands, Annual conference of the Social History Society, Newcastle, United Kingdom
March 2014 Safe Conduct? Borders, Movement and Security on the Roads and Rivers of Early Modern ‘Germany’ (1550–1700), Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York City, USA
2013
December 2013 Passages dangereux. Sauf-conduit, passeport et frontière dans le Saint Empire des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Seminar of Christophe Duhamelle and Falk Bretschneider at the EHESS, Paris, France
June 2013 Geleit, Sicherheit und Grenze im Alten Reich der Frühen Neuzeit, French-German workshop on the Holy Roman Empire, University of Münster, Germany
March 2013 Leibeigenschaft in der Polemik. Professoren, Vögte und Bauern im Wildfangstreit (1650–1669), Conference on the dynamics of polemics, University of Erfurt, Germany
Conferences Organized
May 2021 Early Modern Mobility, Stanford University, CA, USA
November 2014 Borders Past and Present. Materiality, Practices and Concepts, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
