June 2026

'Justifying the (Sexual) Violence of Conquest: The Erminfrid Penitential,' The Past, Present and Future of Conquests, 1066 and 1162, University College Dublin.

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November 2025

'The Living Book: Medieval Cartularies as Time and Place,' Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres, Universiteit Gent (Belgium).

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July 2025

'Timeless Terrains: Medieval and Modern Mental Landscapes Today,' with Ruth Luzmore, Leeds International Medieval Congress.

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November 2024

'The Living Book: An Object Biography of the Durham Cartularium Vetus,' keynote speaker, Haskins Society, Richmond University (USA).

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July 2023

'Medieval Everydays: Exploring Creative Microhistories,' Leeds International Medieval Congress.

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July 2020                     

‘The King, His Hall and a Scandal: Accounts of Eadwig in the Tenth Century,’ invited speaker, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

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June 2020                    

‘Medieval Inventories and Historical Consciousness: The Case of Post-Conquest Ely,’ invited speaker, Trinity College Dublin Medieval History Seminars

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December 2019            

‘Writing the Personae of Emma of Normandy,’ invited speaker, Univerzita Karlova, Prague

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October 2019               

‘The Descendants of the House of Wessex at War,’ Hyde900 Annual King Alfred Lecture

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July 2019                     

‘Things Forgotten: The Eleventh-Century Inventories of the Liber Eliensis,’ Leeds International Medieval Congress

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May 2019                    

‘Biographies of Buildings: Unexpected Stories from Earlier Medieval Manors,’ Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University

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March 2019                 

• ‘Things to a Small Island,’ Invited Speaker, AHRC Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries  Network, University of Chester

• ‘Buildings and Time: Earlier Medieval Households and Contexts,’ Invited speaker, Medieval Archaeology Group Seminars, Cambridge University

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July 2018                     

• ‘We can be Heroes: Material Culture and the Creation of Bryhtnoth.’ Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

• Roundtable in Honour of Pauline Stafford: ‘Gender and the Norman Conquest.’ Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

• Castles and Society Roundtable: ‘Late Anglo-Saxon Architecture and Authority.’ Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

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February 2018             

‘Men on the Watch: The Taisson Family and the Motte d’Olivet, 1040s-1050s.’ Invited speaker, Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminars, University of York

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December 2017            

‘Telling Buildings’ Stories.’ Invited speaker, AHRC Archaeologies of the Norman Conquest  Network, University of York

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May 2017                    

‘Space, Gender and Authority in the Manorial Settings of England, ca 900-1200.’ Buildings in Society International Conference III, University of Stockholm

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November 2016           

‘The Past in the Present: Memorialization and Identities at Ely Cathedral in the Twelfth Century.’ Invited speaker, Medieval Archaeology Seminars, Oxford University

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September 2016           

‘Buildings, Spaces and Societies: Manorial Sites in Normandy, ca 1050-1200.’ European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, University of Vilnius

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July 2016                     

Public History Round Table: ‘Intersections of the Past and Present.’ Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies

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July 2016                     

‘The Failed Men: Representing Gender and Conquest.’ Conquest: 1016 1066 Conference, Oxford University

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April 2015                   

‘The Afterlives of the Ealdorman Byrhtnoth.’ University of Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Annual Easter Symposium: Manhood in Anglo-Saxon England

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May 2014                    

‘Familial Identity in Curated Spaces: The Use of Textiles from Anglo-Saxon Wills.’ International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University

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June 2011                    

‘Two Women of Wessex: Landscape, Gender and Memory in the Tenth Century.’ British Federation of Women Graduates Annual Research Day