• "Sexuality"
             Political Lexicon Conference, The New School, New York, December 2010 (invited speaker)

  • "A Tergo: Taking History From Behind."
              Colloque Michel Foucault, European Network in Contemporary French Philosophy, University of Pisa (Italy), April 2010
              (invited speaker)

  • "A History of Violence: Sadism and the Emergence of Sexuality."
Columbia University, November 2009.

  • “‘Une certaine manière de traiter ce qu’on appelle le temps’: Historical and Existential Ruptures in the Early Foucault.” 
International Colloquium, 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies, University of Minnesota, March 2009.

  • “Sadism at the Limits: Crime, Violence, and the Historical Boundaries of Sexuality.” 
American Historical Association, New York, January 2009.

  • “The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading, and Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot’s Avis au peuple sur sa santé.” 
Columbia University, November 2008; 
Book History Colloquium, Columbia University, April 2009; 
Institut Universitaire d’Histoire de la Médecine, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2009;
      Queens College, NY, December 2009.

  • “What Is Historical Epistemology?” 
International Conference on Historical Epistemology, Columbia University, October 2008.

  • “Understanding Not Understanding: Remarks on Michel Foucault’s Historico-Critical Attitude.” 
Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism lecture series, Columbia University, April 2008.

  •  “Seeing and Looking: Medical Observation and the Epistemological Status of Details, 1750-1850.” 
Columbia University, October 2007.

  • “Writing History with a Saw: Reflections on the Concept of Rupture in the Historiography of Science.” 
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, July 2007 (invited speaker).

  • “Seeing through the Eyes of Others: Bodies and Words in Eighteenth-century Medicine.” 
Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress, Montpellier, France, July 2007.

  • “Morbid Details: Perception and the Emergence of Modern Medicine.” 
Cornell University, November 2006 (invited speaker); 
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, December 2006 (invited speaker).

  • “Huber’s Eyes: Historicizing the Eighteenth-Century Observer.” 
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Meeting, Paris, France, June 2006.

  • “Between Literature and Science: The Marquis de Sade as Psychiatric Case.” 
Haverford College, March 2006 (invited speaker).

  • “The Case of ‘Sade’: Constructing the Sadistic Individual in the Nineteenth Century.” 
The Klopsteg seminar series in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University, February 2006; 
Union College, January 2007.

  • “Perception and Percussion: Rethinking the Emergence of Modern Medicine.” 
The Klopsteg seminar series in Science in Human Culture, Northwestern University, January 2005; 
History of Science Society Meeting, Minneapolis, November 2005.

  • “Seeing Bodies: Michel Foucault and the History of the Medical Gaze.” 
Union College, May 2005 (invited speaker).

  • “Using Women and Abusing Oneself: Experiencing Sex in the Eighteenth Century.” 
Northwestern University, April 2005.

  • Invited respondent for Symposium, “Scientific Projections: Science and the Moving Image,” 
Northwestern University, March 2005.

  • “Le sujet, l’objet, et la logique du réel dans Naissance de la clinique.” 
Colloque International Foucault: Nouveaux Déploiements, Paris, France, June 2004 (invited speaker).

  • “‘The Will Present in Vision’: M.F.R. Buisson’s Concept of the Gaze and Its Significance for Medical Practice.” 
American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, April 2004.

  • “Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Medical Practice and the Art of Observation, 1750-1850.” 
Brandeis University, February 2004 (invited speaker).

  • “Usage des femmes et abus de soi: discours et expérience au dix-huitième siècle.” 
Conference Maladies en lettres/Krankheit in Briefen, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2003.

  • “Seeing the Invisible, Sensing the Elusive: Structures of Perception in Medical Practice, 1750-1850.” 
The Social Life of Body and Mind, Human Sciences Workshop Graduate Meeting, University of Chicago, May 2003.

  • “Le principe de dispersion des éléments dans Naissance de la clinique.” 
Journée d’étude Michel Foucault, Université Paris XII, Paris, France, March 2003 (invited speaker).

  • “Tissot’s Avis au peuple sur sa santé: A Medical Book for Nobles, the People, and Horses.” 
History of Science Society Meeting, Milwaukee, November 2002.

  • “‘L’usage des femmes’: Experience of the Flesh and Experience of Sex in the Eighteenth Century.” 
Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2002.

  • “‘Here Is the Story of My Disease’: Eighteenth-Century Sufferers and their Relationship to the Physician Samuel Auguste Tissot.” 
Lecture Series “Art, History and Medicine,” International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL, May 2002 (invited speaker).

  • “‘Friction of the Genitals’ and Secularization of Morality: A New Perspective on the History of Masturbation.” 
History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2002.

  • “A Historical Study of the Power of Rationality: The Case of Tissot’s L’Onanisme.” 
History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, March 2000.



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