Dissemination Activities
The results and methodology of NETDIS have been presented at several international conferences and workshops. Click on the titles for more details.
Heretical Physicians and Their Networks: from the Republic of Venice, to Italy and Beyond
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) workshop, October 2017, Stanford.
The Secret Social Network of a Heretical Physician in 16th-century Italy: the Case of Girolamo Donzellini (1513-1587)
Renaissance conference of Southern California, March 2018, Huntington Library, Pasadena (LA).
A Network of Dissident Physicians in the Confessional Age
Renaissance Society of America, 64th Annual Meeting, March 2018, New Orleans.
Facing the Plague in an Inquisition Prison: the Case of the Heretical Physician Girolamo Donzellini
The Worlds that Plague Made: Cultures of Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, Medieval and Renaissance Center, NYU, April 2018, New York.
“Venice Homeland of Freedom, Where Everybody Can Live in His Own Way”
Syracuse University, History Department, invited lecture, April 2018.
The Physiognomic Theory of a Calvinist Physician: Guglielmo Grataroli's De predictione morum naturarumque hominum (Basel, 1554)
Panel organizer, along with Dr. Mackenzie Cooley, of a panel on Physiognomy and Natural Temperament in the Renaissance. Scientiae 2018, University of Minnesota, May 2018, Minneapolis.
Understanding Social Networks Historically: Research Perspectives and Methodological Challenges in One Early Modern Case Study
DH Fellows Symposium, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), June 2018, Stanford.
Exploring Heretical Networks in Sixteenth-Century Italy through a Digital Perspective
University of California, Berkeley, Department of History, invited lecture, September 2018.
A network of dissident physicians in the confessional age. Research perspectives and methodological challenges
Reconstructing Historical Networks Digitally, New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Social Network Analysis, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 2018
A Network of Sixteenth-Century Heretical Physicians: Between Every-day Life and Historical Transformations
Connected Past. People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History, University of Oxford, December 2018, Oxford
Exploring the Existential Dimension of Heresy: Between INquisition, Repression, and a "Secret Sociability"
Renaissance Society of America, 65th Annual Meeting, March 2019, Toronto.