Commentator on a panel, “Building Family Legacies in France and in New France,” Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Philadelphia, March 6, 2026
“Habitation et taxation des Nîmois : le compoix de 1544,” Les Nîmois et leur ville de l’antiquité à nos jours, conference in Nîmes, France, November 21-22, 2025.
“Religious Resistance: The Jews of Bordeaux in the Eighteenth Century,” Résister, the conference of the Global Consortium for French Historical Studies (Society for French Historical Studies, Society for the Study of French History, Western Society for French History) in Paris July 15-19, 2025.
“Calculating Wealth Inequality Using Dowries from Marriage Contracts in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux,” World Economic History Conference, Paris, July 2022.
“Mapping Enlightenment Bordeaux,” Western Society for French History Conference, Bozeman, MT, October 4, 2019.
Commentator on a panel, “Confused Identities in Early Modern France,” at the conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017.
“Googling Eighteenth-Century News: The Affiches de Bordeaux, 1758-1865,” Western Society for French History Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, November 4, 2016. This talk can be viewed on the web at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9Su-SIkvw
“Enlightenment in an Unexpected Place: The Affiches de Bordeaux, 1758-1765.” Washington, DC area Seminar on Ancien Regime France, March 2016.
Commentator on a panel, “Urban Conflict and Identity during the Wars of Religion,” Western Society for French History conference, San Antonio, TX, November 13-15, 2014. This comment can be viewed on the web at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0WUaNbdloE
“Making Peace in the Wars of Religion,” Western Society for French History conference, Banff, October 12, 2012.
Seminaire of Prof. Denis Crouzet, Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne, March 28, 2012. I will be giving an overview of my Nîmes research.
Commentator on a panel on “History, Memory and Identity in Religious War France” at the conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February 11, 2011.
“The Causes of Religious Massacre During the French Wars of Religion,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Venice, April 2010 (based on the article referenced above).
“‘This Joining in Marriage Surpasses All Other Delights and Kindnesses of Love’: Dowry and Marriage Choice in Early Modern France,” Washington, DC area Seminar on Ancien Regime France, March 2010 (based on the article referenced above).
“The Reformation in Nîmes in Comparative Perspective,” Washington, DC area Seminar on Ancien Regime France, November 2008.
Commentator on a panel on “French History” as part of a conference held at the University of Chicago, May 31, 2008. I proposed this conference, which honored Prof. William H. Sewell, Jr. on his retirement.
“Séminaire de Master sur le notariat français du XVIe siècle,” workshop at the Univ. of Avignon, November 30, 2007. I spoke about research strategies with students of Prof. Françoise Moreil.
Commentator on a panel on “The Politics of the French Revolution” at the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe conference, Arlington VA, March 1, 2007.
“Catholic Behavior Under Protestant Rule in Nîmes, 1569-1598,” Western Society for French History, Colorado Springs, October 28, 2005.
Commentator at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, on a panel of papers ANew Research in Early Modern British History,” April 8. 2005.
“Conflict and Compromise Within the Nîmes Protestant Movement,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 29, 2004.
“The Reformation in Nîmes,” Columbia Univ. Seminar on the Renaissance, March 25, 2003.
“Geneva by the Sea,” given at “Religion, Conflict, and Popular Culture,” a conference given at the Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, February 1, 2003. The conference was part of a series on “The Mediterranean After Braudel.” The paper eventually became the book chapter referenced above.
“Lawyers and the Reformation in France: The Case of Nîmes,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 27, 2001.
“Databases and the French Reformation,” a paper in a panel I organized, entitled “Databases and the Future of French History,” Western Society for French History, November 9, 2000.
“The Role of Factions in Religious Riot: The Michelade in Nîmes, 1567,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 2, 2000.
“Popular Protestant Political Theory: The Nîmes Cahier de Doléances, 1561,” Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora, College of Charleston, May 15, 1997.
“Nîmes from Catholicism to the Reformation: A Change of Identity,” Crucibles of Conflict: Confrontation and Compromise in Early Modern Europe, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University, March 23, 1996. (An abridged version of the following.)
“Nîmes du Catholicisme à la Réforme: un changement d’identité?” (Talk delivered at a conference on “Religion et Identité” at the University of Provence, March 22 , 1995.)