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Colloquium lecture, “Blinded by ‘Nature’: Walter Young’s Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790)” University of Glasgow Music Department, RMA Research Colloquia in Music Series, November 10, 2021

Colloquium lecture, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618/1650),” Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, June 7, 2021

Colloquium lecture, “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination,” Tel-Aviv University Music Department, Musicology Colloquium, April 12, 2021

Conference paper, “Blinded by ‘Nature’: Walter Young’s Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790),” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, November 8, 2020

Invited discussant, responding to Leendert van Der Miesen's paper, “The Octave Pleases Everybody”: Marin Mersenne and the Universality of Harmony,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III's Colloquium, November 3, 2020

Colloquium lecture, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618/1650),” CLaME NYU, October 23, 2020

Colloquium lecture, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618/1650),” Eastman Theory Colloquium, September 25, 2020

Colloquium lecture, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618/1650),” Music Department, University of Amsterdam, May 2020 (postponed)

Invited talk, “Attending to Attention in René Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618/1650),” plenary session in honour of Patrick McCreless's retirement, Yale University, April 2020 (postponed)

Workshop, “Walter Young's Essay on Rythmical Measures (1790),” Workshop on Histories of Musical and Poetic Meter, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, March 2019

Conference paper, “Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Psychology of Pythagorean Aesthetics,” as part of a special session on “Unity, Geometry, and Aesthetics: Revivals of Pythagoreanism in 18th- and 19th-Century Music Theory,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, San Antonio, November 2018

Colloquium lecture, “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination,” Colloquium Series, Music Department and Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, October 2018

Colloquium lecture, “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination,” Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia Music Department, Vancouver, September 2018

Workshop, “How the Sheng became a Harp,” Workshop on Sound Objects in Flux, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, September 2018

Workshop, “Listening and Attention in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music Theory,” Workshop on Future Histories of Theory, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, July 2018

Invited talk, “How the Sheng became a Harp,” Workshop on Sound Objects in Transnational Contexts, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, July 2018

Invited talk, “Talking to the Hand: The ‘Hysterical Epistemology’ of the Migrating Sensorium,” Conference on “‘Altered States’: Mind, Embodiment, Aesthetics,” Sorbonne, Paris, June 2018

Invited talk, “Neuroscience's Vibratory Histories,” Neurohumanities Study Day at the Longroom Hub, Trinity College Dublin, May 2018

Workshop, “Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Psychology of Pythagorean Aesthetics,” Conference on Music and Aesthetics in 19th-Century Britain, King’s College London, December 2017

Invited talk, “Listening and Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” Columbia Society of Fellows Thursday Lecture Series, November 30, 2017

Conference paper, “Talking to the Hand: Madness, Mesmerism, and the Movable Organ of Hearing,” evening panel on “Music and Forms of Attention in the Long 19th Century,” annual meeting, the American Musicological Society, Rochester, November 2017.

Conference paper, “Operatic Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,” annual meeting, American Musicological Society, Rochester, November 2017

Invited talk, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” Longroom Hub, Trinity College Dublin, March 21, 2017

Reading group presentation, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” Music in London, 1800-1851 Project (dir. Roger Parker), Kings College London, March 16, 2017

Conference paper, “Cognition in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory,” Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Conference, the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, March 11, 2017

Invited talk, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” Research hearing of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Feb 15, 2017

Colloquium lecture, “Operatic Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,” Bar Ilan University Departmental Colloquium Series, January 3, 2017

Invited Talk, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, November 21, 2016

Invited talk, “Operatic Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,” Columbia Society of Fellows Thursday Lecture Series, November 10, 2016

Conference paper, “Anne Young’s ‘Musical Games’ (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design,” special session sponsored by the Ludomusicology Study Group, annual meeting, American Musicological Society, Vancouver, November 2016

Colloquium lecture, “Embodiment and Spectatorship: Theorizing an Ideal Romantic Listener,” La Société d’Histoire du Théâtre, Université Paris 8, October 19, 2016

Workshop, “Music, Theater, and the Moral Treatment: the Casi Dei Matti of Aversa and Palermo,” Workshop on Italian Music and the Medical Sciences in the Nineteenth-Century, Maison de l’Italie, Cité internationale, Paris, October 21, 2016

Conference paper, “Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry,” 19th Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music, University of Oxford, July 13, 2016

Invited talk, “From Baboons to Automata: Some Historical Approaches to Music and Embodied Cognition,” The Center for Science and Society, Columbia University, February 11, 2016

Conference paper, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,”annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Louisville, Kentucky, November 2015

Conference paper, “Attention and Perception in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory," annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2015

Invited talk, “Hector Berlioz's Neurophysiological Imagination,” Columbia Society of Fellows Thursday Lecture Series, October 22, 2015

Conference paper, “The Keyboard of Ideas: Musical Performance in Enlightenment Accounts of the Self,” Forte/Piano Festival, Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, Cornell University, August 8, 2015

Conference paper, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” annual meeting of the International Society for the History of Neurosciences, Washington, DC, June 3, 2015

Conference paper, “Attention and Perception in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory,” Annual Conference, Royal Music Association’s Music & Philosophy Study Group, King’s College, London, July 17, 2015

Conference paper, “Attention and Perception in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory” 10th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, July 8, 2015

Conference paper, “Cognition in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory, 1770-1801,” 30th Annual Meeting, New England Conference of Music Theorists, Boston University, April 2015

Conference paper, “Cognition in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory, 1770-1801,” 13th Annual Meeting, Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Princeton, March 2015

Workshop, “Séances and Self-Playing Accordions: Musical Instruments in Victorian Spiritualism.” Workshop on Sonic Spaces: Music and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century London, Yale / King’s College London “Music in London” Research Project, March 2015

Conference paper, “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us:’ Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” Annual Conference, History of Science Society, Chicago, November 9, 2014

Conference paper, Invited presentation, “Hector Berlioz’s Neurophysiological Imagination,” Holmes Workshop Series, Department of the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, October 27, 2014

Conference paper, “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us:’ Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” Annual Conference, International Society for the History of Neurosciences, Palais des Académies, Brussels, July 2, 2014

Conference paper, “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us:’ Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” Annual Conference, 18th Biennial International Conference on 19th-Century Music, University of Toronto, June 20, 2014

Conference paper, “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us:’ Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” Bone Flute to Auto-Tune: A Conference on Music & Technology in History, Theory and Practice, University of California, Berkeley, April 24, 2014

Departmental talk, “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us:’ Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” Yale Music Department's Works in Progress series, April 14, 2014

Invited keynote, “Process Polyphony, Drum Rudiments, and Philippe Leroux’s De La Texture,” Contemporary Encounters Festival, Tel-Aviv, January, 2014

Conference paper, “Hector Berlioz und die musikästethischen Implikationen romantischer Neurowissenschaft,” 13. Jahreskongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Rostock, October 6, 2013

Colloquium lecture, Israel Composer’s Association Colloquium, “Between Composition and Improvisation,” Haifa University, November 2013

Departmental talk,“Hector Berlioz and Some Music-Aesthetic Implications of Neuroscience in the Romantic Era,” Yale Music Department's Works in Progress series, September 26, 2013

Conference paper,“Hector Berlioz and Some Music-Aesthetic Implications of Neuroscience in the Romantic Era,” Conference on Cognition and Poetics, Universität Osnabrück, April 2013

Conference paper, “Hector Berlioz and Some Music-Aesthetic Implications of Neuroscience in the Romantic Era,” Conference on Imagining Sound in the Early Nineteenth Century, Cornell University, April 6, 2012

Conference paper, “From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Toch’s Geographical Fugue” Conference on Music: Cognition, Technology, Society, Cornell University, May 12, 2012

Conference paper,“Songs of a Land: Arrangements of Shirei Eretz Israel as Expressions of the Shifting Politics of Israeli Identity,” Art Musics of Israel: Identities, Ideologies, Influences, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, March 30, 2011