Invited talks and conferences
- I have given papers at many national and international conferences and institutions including:
Harvard University, Duke University, University of Leicester, CAA, AAH, Universities of Essex, Courtauld Institute, Warwick, Reading, Oxford, Manchester, Sussex, MMU, (Renaissance Research Seminar); Cambridge; Leeds (early modern Research seminar); Liverpool; Clark Institute, USA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UCL-Courtauld Early Modern Research Seminar; University of Valenciennes; University of Stockholm; University of Santiago Chile; Palazzone Cortona (Harvard, Scuola Normale Pisa & EPHE, Paris); Universität der Künste, Berlin; V & A; National Gallery; British School in Rome; Queen’s University, Canada; SE College Art Conference USA; Centro Internazionale di Studi sul barocco in Sicilia; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; Istituto Portugues do Patrimonio Arquitectonico; Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Pittsburgh); Universita degli Studi, Palermo; Conference of Urban Historians, Berlin; Villa Le Balze (Georgetown University), Florence; Roma Tre University; Ecole Francaise de Rome; Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome; Universita degli Studi, Bologna; La Sapienza, Rome; Antwerp University;Fondazione Valerio per la storia delle donne, Naples.
Conferences Organised:
- In May 2012 Helen organized an event 'Art History: What next after the "Old Europe"? White Bull & Blue Skies" with external and internal speakers. Poster (PDF
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, 165kb). - 'Exoticizing Vesuvius? Formations of Naples, c.1500-present'
3 AHRC Workshops in 2009: Principal Investigator with Dr M Calaresu, Cambridge: The historical and intellectual formation of Neapolitan historiography;Topography and Piety: Naples Afflicted; Objects of Collecting in Naples and Naples as Object of Collecting, 1708-2008. - 'Rethinking the Baroque'
International interdisciplinary Conference: University of York and Castle Howard 5-7 July 2006. Selected papers published as Rethinking the Baroque (Ashgate 2011). - 'Representing Emotions: evidence, arousal, analysis'
An international, interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Manchester in the Department of Art History, co-organized with Penelope Gouk. Sponsored by the British Academy, Wellcome Trust and the University of Manchester. - Study Days on ‘Monument’, ‘Space’, 'Architecture & Holiness beyond Liturgy’, ‘Precious Stones & Other Materials’, ‘Niche’-2005-2010 as Director of the Architectural History & Theory Research School 2005-2010 I organized these study days with visiting and internal speakers.
- 'Urban Memory in Manchester' University of Manchester. September 2002
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