Conferences

INVITED LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

2019:

  • ‘Portus Romae: Discovering the Ports of Rome’, 32nd Annual UASBC Shipwrecks Conference: Vancouver, Canada

2018:

  • ‘Using ABM to Model Ritual Practices’, DySoC: Critical Workshop on Modelling Complex Systems in Archaeology: Knoxville, USA
  • ‘Visualizing the Invisible: Rethinking Urban Processional Movement at Ostia Antica’, Moving through time: procession from the classical past to Byzantium:ICS – London, UK
  • ‘Ritual Movement in a Port Context: The Case of Ostia’, Portus-Limen Workshop: BSR – Rome, Italy

2017:

  • ‘Walking Between Gods and Mortals: Visualizing religious movement at Ostia’, Roman Discussion Forum: Oxford, UK
  • ‘In the Footsteps of the Gods: network approach to modelling Roman processions’, Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin: DAI – Berlin, Germany

Video: https://youtu.be/797tPL6YVr8

2013:

  • ‘Cults, Gods, and Temples: Egyptian Religion in Roman Macedonia’, University of British Columbia Archaeology Day: Vancouver, Canada
  • ‘Sacred Cities of Ancient Macedonia: Amphipolis, Dion, and Philippi’, The Canadian-Hellenic Cultural Society: Vancouver, Canada

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2019:

  • ‘To Move as One: Simulating Crowd Movement Dynamics in the Ancient City’, Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Krakow, Poland
  • ‘Street Mobility and Urban Development’, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Canterbury, UK

2018:

  • ‘From Moving Rituals to Ritual Space: A new computational approach’, Digital Humanities and Ritual Space: Crete, Greece
  • A Landscape of Gods? Reassessing the Study of Processional Movement at Ostia’, 19thInternational Congress of Classical Archaeology:Cologne, Germany’
  • How Do I Model Urban Movement?’, European Association of Archaeologists: Barcelona, Spain’
  • ‘How Does a City Structure Moving Rituals? A complexity approach to processional movement at Ostia’, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Edinburgh, UK
  • ‘From Urban Data to Urban Movement: The application of computational approaches for studying ritual movement at Ostia’, Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Tübingen, Germany

2017:

  • ‘Religious Movement within the Cityscape: the potential of applying network methods’, The Connected Past 2017: The Future of Past Networks?: Bournemouth, UK
  • ‘Unravelling Urban Religious Landscapes: modelling processions at Ostia’, Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Atlanta, USA
  • ‘Visualizing the Invisible: How can we model Roman religious processions?’, Society for American Archaeology: Vancouver, Canada
  • ‘Walking between Gods and Mortals: reconsidering the movement of Roman religious processions’, Finding the limits of the limes: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Video: https://youtu.be/OhV_gdkdtmk

  • ‘Beyond the Temple: Urban Integration of Ostia’s Serapeum’, Archaeological Institute of America: Toronto, Canada

2016:

  • ‘Human and Divine Interactions: visualizing religious activity at Ostia’, Theoretical Archaeology Group: Southampton, UK
  • ‘Choreographing Religious Spectacle: Processional Movement at Ostia’, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Rome, Italy
  • ‘The Cityscape and Religious Activity: New Insights into Processions at Ostia’, Archaeological Institute of America: San Francisco, USA

2015:

  • ‘Invisible Movements of the Past: Modelling Roman Urban Processions’, VIII Young Researchers in Archaeology Conference: Lisbon, Portugal
  • ‘Executioners, Priests, and Entrails: Viewer Response to Animal Sacrifice’,Archaeological Institute of America: New Orleans, USA

2012:               

  • ‘Comprehending Death in Antiquity: a spatial study of Isiac Temples and EarlyChristian Basilicas in Ancient Macedonia’, CNERS Graduate Student Conference: Vancouver, Canada
  • ‘Senatorial Decrees Against the Cult of Isis 58 –28 BC’, HGCSA Graduate Conference: Alberta, Canada