‘Sailors and their things: material culture of ship life in the 18th century’, paper on Prize Papers Panel, 9th International Maritime History Conference, Busan, South Korea, 19–25 August 2024.
‘Seeleute und ihre Dinge: Die materielle Kultur des Schiffslebens im 18. Jahrhundert‘, paper, annual conference Jahrestagung Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte, Bremen, 6–8 June 2024.
‘Schiffe, Säcke, Seeleute. Akteure, Objekte, Beziehungen und die Erfassung von Materialität in der Prize Papers Datenbank‘, paper (by invitation) for the workshop organized by the BMBF project Naturforschung und protestantische Mission (Halle, Saale/Dresden), Methoden und Praktiken der digitalen Netzwerks- und Sammlungsanalyse – Botanik und Herrenhuter Brüdergemeine, Dresden, 30–31 May 2024.
‘The Prize Papers: Tracing slavery and the slave trade in a “hidden” archive of state’, paper, symposium Hidden Archives of Capitalism and Slavery in the Indian Ocean: State, Business, and Personal Collections, Rice University, Global Paris Center, Paris, April 22–23 2024.
‘Food, drink and bodies in-between in the colonial space: culinary (re-)encounters at the Pietist Protestant Mission in Tranquebar, c.1700–1730’, paper given to the Early Science and Medicine Seminar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPSS), University of Cambridge, 30/01/2024.
‘Hooked on retail: How colonial production of intoxicants altered the urban retail landscape in eighteenth-century Hamburg’, workshop paper, Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future, Institute of Sustainable Food / Department of History, University of Sheffield, 27–28/06/2023.
‘The Great Leap Outwards: Intoxicant Consumption Practices, Space, and the Expansion of Urbanness in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg’, conference paper, Zwischen Ancien Régime und Moderne. Transformationen der Stadt im langen 18. Jahrhundert, Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem/Technical University Dresden, 24–6/05/2023.
‘Old foods, new places: How Europeans re-negotiated food and drink from the Old World in colonial contexts’, workshop paper, Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-Modern Times, 1600–1900, Historisches Seminar LMU / IOS Universität Regensburg, 4–6/05/2023.
With Dagmar Freist, ‘Imaginations de la mer comme espace redoutable : des monstres marins’, paper for the Nocturnes, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, 29/03/2023.
With James Brown, ‘History goes data. Perspectives on working with databases from the HERA Intoxicating Spaces Project’, paper, Love Data Week, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 17/02/2023.
‘Drinking Alone: Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Consumption as a Solitary Pursuit in Eighteenth-Century Europe’, conference paper, Gefährlicher Genuss? Getränke und Trinkpraktiken seit der Frühen Neuzeit, FernUni Hagen, 29/09/2022.
‘Food Heritage and Memory-Making: Insights from the Intoxicating Spaces Project’, conference paper, HERA JRP Conference: Crisis in Humanities/Humanities in Crisis , Wrocław, Poland, 09/09/2022.
‘Material Culture by Mail: The Circulation of Coffee and Tea in Pietist Networks in the Early Eighteenth Century’, paper for the Research Colloquium of the Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship Programm, Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle an der Saale, 15/06/2022.
‘Mapping Tea and Coffee-Selling in late eighteenth-century Hamburg’, conference paper, The Spatial 18th Century. Rethinking Urban Networks and Maps, 1650–1850, Symposium, University of York, Online, 04/11/2021.
With James Brown, ‘Plague, Intoxicants, and Space in Early Modern Port Cities’, RSA Virtual 2021, Online, 15/04/2021.
‘Und jenseits des Kaffeehauses? Eine Suche nach der “anderen” Räumlichkeit von Kaffee und Tee in Hamburg, 1700–1850’, paper, Prize Papers Lunchtime Talk Series, Universität Oldenburg, Online, 15/05/2020.
‘Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850’, poster, HERA JRP Uses of the Past & Public Spaces Conference, Danzig, 11/09/2019.
‘Beyond the “Office” of Midwife: Midwifery Practice and Occupational Identity in Early Modern Germany’, workshop paper, The Nineteenth Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society—Gender, Vocation, and Career, Institute of Historical Research, London, 11/2008.
‘Accoucheur—City Council—Midwives—Mothers: Choosing midwives in Early Modern Leipzig’, conference paper, Civil Society and Public Services in Early Modern Europe—International Conference, Universiteit Leiden, 12/2007.