Spring 2026

Book talk on "The Study," Medici Archive Project, January 16

Three-Part Online Series on "The Emperor’s Western Maze and the Making of a Global Garden in China" for the Garden Conservancy:

Part I: The Summer Palace: Beijing and its Creators, Jan 29

Part II: The Maze: Jesuits, Emperors, and the Invention of the 

Western Style Gardens in China, Feb 26

Part III: From Beijing to Europe: Chinese Gardens and the Rise of Chinoiserie, March 19

Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 19-21

"The Chinese Labyrinth," presenter

Asia in the Renaissance: East and Southeast Asia in the Global Literary Imagination, discussant

Living and Thinking with Antiquities Beyond the Library and the Artist's Workshop, discussant

Fall 2025

Foo Hai Seminar in Buddhist Studies  – The Monk, the Monkey, and the Menu: Cuisine and the Self-Cultivation in “Journey to the West,” September 17

Summer 2025

International Comparative Association Conference, panel on Global Renaissance, Seoul, South Korea, July 28 - August 1

Visiting Fellow, LMU Munich, Center for Advanced Studies, June 23-July 2

Book Talk: "The Soul and the Studiolo," LMU Munich, June 30

Conference: "Moral Education between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics," June 19-20

Book Talk: Bodleian Library, Oxford, June 19

Book Talk: Warburg Insitute, London, June 16

Ghent University, conference on metaphilology, June 4 - 6

Spring 2025

92NY Roundtable: online class, "Secrets of the Renaissance Library," 

May 8: Between Bibliophilia and Bibliomania

May 15: A Room of One's Own

May 22: The World as Text

May 29: "I'll burn my books"

Bard College Berlin, online talk on Jesuit science in China, April 8

Book Talk: Queens Public Library, online, April 3

Renaissance Society of America, roundtable on Asia in the Making of the Global Renaissance, Boston, March  20- 24

Book Talk: NYU, Medieval and Renaissance Center, March 17

Brown University, Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, March 13

Chinese University of Hong Kong, World History Seminar, March 10

Fall 2024

Book Talk: Smithsonian Associates, December 12

Book Launch: Grolier Club, New York City, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries, December 3

Book Launch: Yale University, Spanish and Portuguese Department, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries, December 5

NYU Shanghai, Center for Global Asia, September 23