2022 Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence,

“Copper and tin: proposals for the bronze alloy used for the portrait heads of Michelangelo,” study day to accompany the exhibition, Michelangelo: l’effigie in bronzo di Daniele da Volterra, 15 February–19 June

2016 AAD Meeting, Vitra, Weil am Rhein

2014 Nanjing, China

Conference on collaboration between Chinese and American museums

2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles

Art History Open Session: “Renaissance Art. Form and Function: Art or Design?” February, 2012. Session chair and moderator

2012 Detroit Institute of Arts

Seminar for the Visiting Committee for European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts:  “William Valentiner in Detroit and Los Angeles. Connections and reflections”;  Public Lecture: “Medieval to Modern: New Reinstallations at the J. Paul Getty Museum,” February, 2012

2011 Association of Art Museums, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles

'“Art Museums Three Ways.” Presentation at session chaired by Merritt Price

2003 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

“Kinship and art: the artistic patronage of the Ridolfi and Soderini families in Florence and Rome“

Symposium for the exhibition “il nostro bel Cinquecento” (see Publications, 2012)

2003 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

“’Degli abellimenti di statuaria’: Giovan Vettorio Soderini, a rebellious Florentine patrician’s writings on garden design.” Organizer and speaker: “With and Without the Medici (2): I. The Medici, their Courtiers, and the Florentine "Opposition in Exile;"  II. Art and Culture at the Courts of Europe between 1530 and 1630”

2000 Conference, Historical Monuments Association, National Trust and V&A Museum

“Gallery or Garden? Challenges in the care of outdoor sculpture." Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Cliveden, UK 

1999 Conference, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

“Ludovico Lombardo and the Taste for the all’ Antica Bust in Mid–Sixteenth Century Rome and Florence,” at conference for “Large Bronzes in the Renaissance” (see Publications, 2003) 

1999 Mid–West Art Historians’ Conference, Detroit Institute of Arts

Sculpture workshop

1997 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

“The Embriachi workshop: mass production in 15th–century casket design”

1996 Henry Moore Foundation seminars, University College, London

“Daniele da Volterra and the Henry II Equestrian Monument” 

1996 Dutch Art Historical Institute, Florence

“Daniele da Volterra and the Henry II Equestrian Monument” 

1996 Institute of Historical Research, London University

“‘Degli abellimenti dei giardini': Giovan Vettorio Soderini's Treatises and Sculpture in the Garden”