“Q&A: The Spanish Inquisition.” Public lecture for Jewish Unity through Diversity. February 19, 2025. 

“Renaissance: Remaking of the World as a Sephardic People.” Public lecture for Jewish Unity through Diversity. February 12, 2025.

“Crypto and Converso Jews.” Public lecture for the Havurah of the Desert Palm Springs. February 8, 2025.

“The Inquisition in the Iberian World through Manuscripts and Objects.” Public lecture for Jewish Unity through Diversity. January 8, 2025.

“Sephardic Families: Between Judaism and Christianity.” Public lecture for Jewish Unity through Diversity. December 4, 2024.

“La Reimaginación de la Edad Media Global: Un enfoque de inteligencia artificial para explorar los intercambios culturales.” 50 Semana Internacional de Estudios Medievales. Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales. Estella, Spain. July 16-19, 2024.

“Traigo nuevas de las Américas. Presencia sefardita en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.” Queen Sofia Spanish Institute’s Commission for the Celebration of Spain’s Relationship with the United States 1776-2026: America&Spain250. Primeras Jornadas “America&Spain250”: Conmemorando los doscientos cincuenta años de las relaciones entre España y Estados Unidos 1776-2026. Madrid, Spain, May 23-24, 2024.

“Experiencing the Immersive Global Middle Ages: A Workshop and Digital Lab.” Panel Chair. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2024.

“Medieval Academy of America’s Panel on Digital Projects Grant Funding.” Panel member. MAA and Vanderbilt University. November 2, 2023.

“Citizen Science in the Age of the Digital Humanities: Rewarding Experiences, Uncompensated Labor, and the Ethics of Engaging the Public in Collaborative Research.” Ethics Roundtable Presentation. Daniels Ethics Fund Collegiate Program, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, College of Business, October 25, 2023.

“Teaching the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance with Immersive Technologies.” Roundtable presentation.” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 9-11, 2023.

“Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa María Family from the Mediterranean to Atlantic World.” Keynote Address. The Winter 2023 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop ““From Mediterranean to Atlantic”. Florida International University, Miami, FL. February 3-4, 2023.

“The Immersive Global Middle Ages: A NEH Digital Humanities Institute Exploring the Many Faces of the Middle Ages.” Keynote Address. The Medieval Academy of America’s Graduate Student Committee. Digital Humanities Showcase. December 1, 2022.

“L'école des Annales Électronique: 3D Analysis of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations in 15th Century Plasencia, Spain.” Invited lecture for the Religious Mobilities: Europe and the Medieval and Early Modern World Workshop. Australian Catholic University (ACU). October 3, 2022.

“I have done only what you commanded.” Roundtable presentation. Mediterranean Seminar’s Spanish Mediterranean: New Directions Workshop. University of Colorado-Boulder, CO. April 21-22, 2022.

“The Sephardim, Past and Present: Early Modern Strategies to Survive the Expulsion and the Spanish Inquisition, Modern Challenges to Securing Spanish Citizenship.” LatinX and Jewish: Identity, Migration and Citizenship in the Sephardic Diaspora Panel at the Western Jewish Studies Association Conference. University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. March 27-28, 2022.

“L'école des Annales Électronique: A New Theory and Practice for the 21st Century Making Sense of the Past, Present, and Future of Historiography.” Keynote Address. 54th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. June 16-18, 2022.

“Grant Writing Workshop.” Roundtable Member. The Medieval Academy of America’s Graduate Student Committee. February 25, 2022.

“Deciphering Secrets: Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims rediscovered through citizen science.” Citizen Science, Community Participation, and Medieval Studies Panel, Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 5-9, 2021.

“Immersive Global Middle Ages: Exploring Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Life in Medieval Plasencia (España).” Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, June 30-July 2, 2021.

"Multilingualism, Translation, Directionality in Global Medieval DH Workshop.” Participant, Vanderbilt University's Center for Digital Humanities and the Global Middle Ages Project on October 16, 2020. 

“Embracing Complicated Iberian Heritages." Keynote Speech, LatinX Employee Resource Group at Apple Computer, Inc. on October 12, 2020. 

“Medieval Spanish Manuscripts, Modern Digital Repositories: The future of scholarly-curated thematic collections supported via public engagement.” Dark Archives 20/20 Conference: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature September 8-10, 2020.

“Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals: At the frontier of global citizen science, digital paleographic collaboration, and facilitating access to manuscripts that reveal the history of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim collaboration.” Dark Archives: A Conference on the Medieval Unread & Unreadable at The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, Oxford University, Oxford (United Kingdom), September 10-12, 2019.

“Augmented Reflections.” XR Xpo - XR (Virtual / Augmented / Mixed Reality) Session, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, August 8-9, 2019.

“Medieval Manuscripts, Citizen Science, and Virtual Reality: Deciphering the Secrets of Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims.” Keynote address at Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA), April 6, 2019, 

“When Faith Wasn't Enough: Blood Purity, Genealogy, and the Spanish Inquisition during the 15th-17th Centuries.” Speakers Forum at First Congregational Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado (USA), February 9, 2019.

"Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain.” 2018 Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA), November 4, 2018.

“Global Citizen Scholars: Mobilizing the public to assist with paleographic transcription of medieval manuscripts using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).” Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD) 2017 Conference, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), January 28, 2017.

“Put down your forks, folks. MOOCs aren’t done yet!” Panel member, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) Conference, University of Colorado System, Boulder, CO, August 3, 2016. 

“Plus Ultra, Beyond Text: Digital 3D Representations of Late Medieval Spanish Inter-Religious History.” Workshop presentation at the Programme du séminaire “Épistémologie et pratiques des Humanités numériques” on May 13, 2016. Paris, France.

"Digitally Democratizing Discovery: Mobilizing Global Citizen Scholars for Manuscript Studies." Public lecture at the Behavioral Studies Colloquium at ETH-Zurich on April 5, 2016. Zurich, Switzerland.

"Global Citizen Scholars: Crowdsourcing Discovery and Manuscript Transcription Via Massive Open Online Course." Public lecture at the Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom project at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas on February 1, 2016. Madrid, Spain.

“Virtual Plasencia (Spain): Evaluating the Relationships of Jews, Christians, and Muslims Via an Interdisciplinary Geovisualization and Transcription Endeavor.” Unpublished paper presented at Session 375 “What’s New in the Digital Humanities” Roundtable, 50th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 16, 2015.

“New Research Directions: Medieval Iberia (A Roundtable in Memoriam of Olivia Remie Constable.” Session 198, 50th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 15, 2015.

“Massive Open Online Courses and Crowdsourcing Discovery.” Virtual youtube.com presentation for the University of Colorado System President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative, May 11, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weeSwrjk7SA 

“Discoveries in the Medieval Cathedral of Plasencia (Spain): Archival Secrets About Identity, Religion and Faith, and Warfare.” Invited lecture at Bea Spade Memorial Lecture Series, Colorado State University-Pueblo, March 14-15, 2015.

“Language and Technology: How Human Curiosity, Crowdsourcing, and Citizen Scholars will Save Humanity.” Invited lecture at Bea Spade Memorial Lecture Series, Colorado State University-Pueblo, March 14-15, 2015.

“Virtual Plasencia: Blending Technology and History to Reveal Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Co-Existence during the Spanish Middle Ages.” Invited lecture at Bea Spade Memorial Lecture Series, Colorado State University-Pueblo, March 14-15, 2015.

“Virtual Plasencia.” Digital Lighting Round, 129th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 3, 2015.