• February 2026The Empire on Maps: Analog Conventions and Computational Permutations, Conference “The Holy Roman Empire in Modern Historiography”, University of Basel, Switzerland
• January 2026Die Atmosphäre in der digitalen Raumgeschichte, Transmare Institut, University of Trier, Germany

• October 2025Mapping Anthropogenic Weather, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography, Stanford University, USA
• October 2025Weather Modification in the Longue Durée, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, USA
• September 2025Mapping as Method, Keynote to “Madness in Method”, University of Melbourne, Australia
• August 2025Weather’s Counterdata: Environmental Knowledge Production and Weather Modification, 1750-1910, European Society for Environmental History Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden
• August 2025‘Atmosfear’ and Maps, European Society for Environmental History Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden
• July 2025Spatial History and Geospatial Methods, DH Summer School for Ancient to Early Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore, Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles, San Miniato, Italy
• May 2025Mapping the Old Reich: Density and Dilution, Keynote to “Layers of Empire: Romanov Imperial Thematic Cartography”, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• March 2025Landlocked Skies: Mapping the History of Weather Modification in Alpine Europe, Spatial History & Historical GIS Seminar Series (virtual)
• March 2025Digital Methods for an Emic History of Climate, Digital Humanities Initiative Talk Series, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (virtual)

• November 2024Envisioning the Spatial Imaginaries of Weather Modification, Atmospheric Humanities Conference II “Insular Weather, Global Atmosphere”, Aegina, Greece
• July 2024Mapping Climate Crises, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• May 2024Digital Methods for the Study of Early Modern Law Dissertations, Conference “Ephemeral Media of Knowledge: Perspectives From Intellectual History and the Digital Humanities”, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France
• May 2024Cartografia digitale e ricerca storica, Laboratorio di Risorse Digitali per la Ricerca, Università “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy (virtual)
• April 2024Re-Mapping Past Climate and Weather, Lunchtime Seminar Series, John Rylands Library, Manchester, United Kingdom
• February 2024Kartographisches Argumentieren und digitale Geschichtswissenschaft, French-German workshop “Karten-Arbeit / Travailler avec des cartes”, Institute for European History Mainz, Germany

• July 2023Retrospective Digital Cartography: Beyond the Visual Language of Political Self-Containment, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• June 2023Roundtable on Digital History, Workshop “Books in Motion and Digital History”, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
• April 2023Re-Mapping Climate. Spatial Data Visualisation and Experience of Past Weather, Digital Humanities Postgraduate Roundtable 2023, King’s College London, United Kingdom

• December 2022Digital Cartography and the Visual Language of Political Indeterminacy, Conference “Spaces of Rule and their Medialization”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• October 2022Geleitrecht und Mobilitätskontrolle an Flüssen im Alten Reich, Conference “Naturgrenzen/Limites naturelles”, University of Leipzig, Germany
• September 2022The 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 2022The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
• May 2022Envisioning Shared Dominion in the Holy Roman Empire, Conference “Re-Mapping Sovereignty: Representing Geopolitical Complexity”, Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
• May 2022A Distant Reading of Law Dissertations, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA

• December 2021The Atmosphere in (Digital) Spatial History, Research Seminar Pre-Modern History, University of Basel, Switzerland (virtual)
• November 2021Grenze und Bewegungsfreiheit im Alten Reich: Archiv und GIS, Research Seminar Early Modern History, University of Leipzig, Germany (virtual)
• October 2021Visuelle Komplexität und Raumordnung im Alten Reich, Workshop “Temporalités et changements de Border Complexities/ Zeitlichkeiten und Wandel von Border Complexities”, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy
• September 2021Environmental Data in Spatial History, Conference “Spatial Humanities”, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (virtual)
• August 2021Violent Skies: The Atmosphere in Spatial History, Conference “Launching the Atmospheric Humanities”, Syros, Greece (virtual)

• December 2020Mit Daten denken: Digitale Methoden zur Erforschung der Vormoderne, Research Seminar Early Modern History, Free University of Berlin, Germany (virtual)
• November 2020Old 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 2020Violent Skies: Mapping the History of Weather Modification, European History Workshop, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (virtual)
• May 2020Battling the Sky: A Spatial History of the Hail Cannon, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA (virtual)
• March 2020Contending 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 2020Border Talk and Freedom of Movement in German History, Colloquium “Migration and Movement in the Medieval World”, London Medieval Society, United Kingdom

• December 2019Geschichte als Beruf, Deutsch-französisches Atelier, Historisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• November 2019Das Alte Reich als Herausforderung für historische Kartographie und GIS, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Germany
• October 2019New Developments in Digital History, Keynote for the “Manchester Methods Fair”, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• October 2019Spatial History: Mapping the Past, Seminar in Digital Humanities, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• July 2019Verticality and Digital History, Conference “Connected Histories”, University of Verona, Italy
• June 2019Too Good to Be True. Geospatial Data Models and the Old Reich, Conference “Time in Space”, University of Pisa, Italy
• May 2019Deceptive Contiguity. The Polygon in Spatial History, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA
• February 2019Mapping Airspace. On the Visual Imagination of the Atmosphere, Conference “Mapping the Global Imaginary”, Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
• February 2019Contested Skies. Aerial Disputes in Early Modern Europe, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA
• January 2019Verticality in Spatial History, Archaeology Center, Stanford University, CA, USA

• December 2018Mappe nuove per l’antico regime. Cartografia digitale e storia moderna, Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, Trento, Italy
• November 2018Contending with Uncertainty. Mapping the Unknown in Early Modern Spatial History, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA
• May 2018The Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellows Program: Past, Present, Future, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, CA, USA
• March 2018Mapping Disputes in the Old Reich, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, LA, USA
• March 2018Troop Passages and Territorial Boundaries in the Old Reich, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
• February 2018Movement and the Geography of the State in the Old Reich, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, USA
• January 2018Historicizing Freedom of Movement: The Case of the Old Reich, Stanford Center for Law and History, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, CA, USA

• December 2017Spatial History. Neue Perspektiven auf die Vormoderne?, Research seminar in early modern history, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
• November 2017Géographies 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 2017Sharing and Exploring Cultural Heritage Data: The Mapping Old Regimes of Movement project, Conference “Linked Pasts. New Voices, Old Places”, Stanford University, CA, USA
• June 2017Movement. 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 2017The Ordering of Movement: Channeling Mobility in the Old Reich, Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago, IL, USA
• February 2017Mapping Old Regimes of Movement, Research workshop of the Spatial History project, Stanford University, CA, USA
• January 2017Borders 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

• December 2016Handel und Wandel. Vormoderne Staatlichkeit als Mobilitätsregime, Research seminar for history of science, medieval and early modern history, University of Konstanz, Germany
• July 2016Grenzen ohne Staaten. Bewegungsfreiheit und Geleit im Alten Reich, Research seminar for early modern history, Free University of Berlin, Germany
• June 2016The 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 2016La 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 2016Protection 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 2016Rights 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 2016Compétition 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 2016Leviathan’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

• November 2015Beyond Borders. Rethinking the Spaces of Negotiated Mobility in the Old Reich, Conference “Barriers and borders in and beyond Habsburg Europe”, KU Leuven, Belgium
• September 2015The 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 2015The 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

• November 2014Rituals 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 2014Arterien 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 2014De 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 2014Bewegte Hoheit. Grenzen, Geleit und die Sicherheit des ‚reisenden Manns‘ im Alten Reich, Research seminar in early modern history, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
• May 2014Geleit, Sicherheit und Grenze im Alten Reich (ca. 1550 – 1700), Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Germany
• April 2014The Enclosure of Movement. Safe Conduct, Borders, and Security in Early Modern German Lands, Annual conference of the Social History Society, Newcastle, United Kingdom
• March 2014Safe 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

• December 2013Passages 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 2013Geleit, Sicherheit und Grenze im Alten Reich der Frühen Neuzeit, French-German workshop on the Holy Roman Empire, University of Münster, Germany
• March 2013Leibeigenschaft in der Polemik. Professoren, Vögte und Bauern im Wildfangstreit (1650–1669), Conference on the dynamics of polemics, University of Erfurt, Germany

Events Organized

• February 2026Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities, Lancaster University, UK
• January 2025Environmental Digital Humanities, University of Manchester, UK
• Since 2024Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar Series, University of Manchester and Lancaster University, UK
• May 2021Early Modern Mobility, Stanford University, CA, USA
• November 2014Borders Past and Present. Materiality, Practices and Concepts, European University Institute, Florence, Italy