Here is a list of my talks since 2015 (invited talks are indicated with the symbol *):

2026

1. “At the Margins of the Enlightenment: Challenging Scientific Authority in Late Eighteenth-Century France.” Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques, EPFL Lausanne (11/05).*

2. “Ai margini dell’Illuminismo: Scienza e autorità nel secondo Settecento.” SISS biannual conference, University of L’Aquila (27-29/05).

2025

3. “Provincializing Monads: The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Matter Theory Seen from the Margins of the French Republic of Letters.” Conference Personae, Practices, and Spaces of Experimentalism (17th–18th Centuries), University of Milan (06/10).*

4. “Antimathématisme et antinewtonisme en France après 1740.” Septièmes journées suisses d’histoire, University of Lucerne  (09/07).

5. “L’autorité savante contestée: antimathématisme et antinewtonisme en France après 1740.” Conference Crises et recompositions de l’autorité au XVIIIe siècle, University of Toulouse (12/06).*

6. “Antimathématisme et antinewtonisme en France après 1740.” SFHST biannual congress (09/04).

2024

7. “Governare il corpo: quantificazione e tecnica tra Sei e Settecento.” Conference Misurare il corpo in età moderna: radici filosofiche e tecnico-scientifiche, implicazioni politiche e morali, University of Turin (21/11).*

8. “Optics, Cosmology, and the Scope of Teleological Explanations: Maupertuis’s Principle of Least Action Reconsidered.” HOPOS 2024, University of Vienna (12/07).

9. “Provincializing Knowledge; Or, Being a Cartesian in a Newtonian France, 1760s-1770s.” Scientiae 2024, VUB Brussels (14/06).

10. “Provincialising Monads: Atomism and Anti-Leibnizianism at the Académie des Belles-Lettres de Caen in the 1750s.” Conference Cosmological Debates from Leibniz to Kant, ULB Brussels (12/06).*

11. “Être distillateur en France au XVIIIe siècle : le cas d’Ami Argand (1750-1803).” CIHCA 2024, University of Tours (06/06).

12. “L’iconografia del digester di Denis Papin (ca. 1680-1880).” SISS biannual conference, University of Bari (30/05).

13. “Maupertuis’s Discours sur les différentes figures des astres (1732), Its European Circulation, and Its First German Review.” Conference Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (07/03).*

14. “L’animalità nel pensiero di Maupertuis: dalla fisiologia alla morale.” Conference Etica della simpatia fra Sei e Settecento. Fisiologia, estetica, politica, Roma Tre University (25/01).*

2023

15. “Beyond Descartes: The Principles of Demonstration in Late French Cartesianism (1730s-1770s).” Conference Axioms, Hypotheses, and Common Notions. Foundational Principles of Experimental and Natural Science in the Newtonian Controversies, Maison Française d’Oxford (10/11).*

16. “Denis Papin’s Digester and the Introduction of Technology in the Culinary Arts.” SHOT Annual Meeting, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (28/10).

17. “Digesting Nature: Denis Papin’s Digester between Chemistry and Oeconomy.” Conference Chemical Transformations of Medical Relevance, Freie Universität Berlin (29/06).*

18. “Beyond Descartes: The principles of demonstration in late French Cartesianism (1730s-1770s).” Conference Les principes de la démonstration à l’époque moderne, laboratoire SPHère-University of Paris (12/06).*

19. “Reassessing Early Modern Quantification.” Scientiae 2023, University of Prague (08/06). 

20. “Le digesteur de Denis Papin et sa circulation européenne au XVIIIe siècle.” CIHCA 2023, University of Tours (31/05).

21. “Beyond Descartes: Research Notes on Eighteenth-Century French Cartesianism.” Harvard History Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet, Paderborn University (19/05). ↓VIDEO BELOW↓

22. “Le ‘savoir technique’ de la chaleur au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle.” 14th Congress of the SFHST, University of Bordeaux (20/04).

23. “Maupertuis e i suoi critici: prospettive di ricerca sulle controversie nel Settecento francese.” Seminar Vita e organismo: Teorie e ricerche sperimentali nel Settecento, University of Rome 3 (18/04).*

24. “Mesure, chiffrage et quantification de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie.” Modern philosophy seminar, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (23/01).*

25. “Quantifying Usefulness in Eighteenth-Century France: Time Thrift in the Reports of the Paris Academy of Sciences.” Conference Time and Machines, 1700-1850, University of Neuchâtel (20/01).*

2022

26. “Man a Machine? John Floyer, the Pocket Watch, and the Quantification of the Pulse.” ESEMP 6th International Conference, University of Copenhagen (14/09).

27. “Time Thrift in Eighteenth-Century Chemical Manufacturing.” Sixièmes journées suisses d’histoire, University of Geneva (29/06).

2021

28. “Thermometerless: The Codification of a Technology of Heat in the Early Modern Age.” Conference Fire Management in the Early Modern Age: Knowledge, Technology, Economy, University of Neuchâtel (16/09). 

29. (with Virgil Wibaut-Le Pallac) “Métrologie et pseudoscience: réflexions sur la mesure des émotions au XVIIIe et au XIXe siècles .” 8th Congress of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences, University of Mons (10/09). 

30. “Denis Papin’s Digester: A European History.” 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prague (26/07). 

31. “The Social Value of Technology: The Case of Denis Papin’s Digester.” The Society for Philosophy and Technology Annual Conference, Catholic University of Lille (29/06). 

32. “The Debate on the Earth’s Shape in the Paris Academy: Natural Philosophy and Cartography.” Scientiae 2020, University of Amsterdam (10/06). 

2020

33. “The Map of France and the Shape of the Earth: The Eighteenth-Century Debate over Cartography, Mathematical Practices and Cosmology in the Paris Academy.” Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice 5th International Meeting, ETH Zürich (18/01). 

2019

34. “Du Châtelet on Newtonian Attraction.” Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Queensland at Brisbane (27/11). 

35. “Autonomy and Patronage: Science, Academy and Monarchy between Paris and Berlin.” Scientific Academies Workshop, University of Sydney (22/11).*

36. “Timekeeping in Early Modern Chemistry.” 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Tallinn University (29/06). 

37. “Early Eighteenth-Century Cartesian Epistemologies.” Conference Responses to Newton: The Impact of the Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm on Natural Philosophy, Epistemology and Metaphysics (1687-1800), KU Leuven (05/06). 

38. “Early Eighteenth-Century Cartesian Epistemologies.” Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VI, University of Groningen (30/05). 

39. “Mécanisme, matière et force chez Maupertuis: les usages de Descartes et de Newton dans la Vénus physique.” Conference Les usages de la métaphysique classique chez les matérialistes français du XVIIIe siècle, ENS de Lyon (11/04).*

40. “Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Medicine in Early Modern Germany: the Gotha Manuscripts.” Netzwerk Alchemie, Gotha Research Centre (20/03).*

2018

41. “From Natural History to Speculative Biology: Maupertuis and the Life Sciences.” Conference From Natural History to the Metaphysics of Nature, University of Arad (18/09).*

42. “Early Eighteenth-Century Cartesian Epistemologies.” Franco-American Workshop, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (15/06).*

2017

43. “La mathématisation de la morale chez Maupertuis.” Early modern philosophy workshop, University of Montréal (28/11).*

44. “Il sistema della scienza nella tradizione cartesiana primo-settecentesca.” Conference Teoria e critica dei sistemi nel Settecento, University of Bologna (13/09).*

45. “L’épistémologie de la physique cartésienne dans les années 1730.” Workshop on Cartesianism, University of Montréal (18/08).*

46. “Du Châtelet on Newtonian Attraction.” Conference Époque Émilienne: Philosophy and Science from 1700-1750, Paderborn University (06/04).*

47. “Maupertuis on Metaphysical Experiences.” Conference Conceptions of Experience in the German Enlightenment between Wolff and Kant, KU Leuven (24/02). 

2016

48. “La pensée de Maupertuis est-elle incohérente ?” Doctoriales of the ED540, ENS of Paris (22/10). 

49. “Mathématisme philosophique et langage algébrique entre Wolff et Maupertuis.” Conference Philosophie et mathématiques au tournant du XVIIIe siècle: perspectives nouvelles, ENS of Paris (30/09).*

50. “Newton in France: The Controversy over the Earth’s Shape.” Conference “Feeding on the Nectar of the Gods”: Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Thought, ca. 1700-1750, VUB Brussels (05/07). 

51. “Mathématisme philosophique et langage algébrique entre Wolff et Maupertuis.” Conference Philosophie du langage et langage de la philosophie, ENS of Paris (03/06).*

52. “Newton versus Descartes: The Controversy over the Earth’s Shape.” Franco-American Workshop, Princeton University (19/05).*

2015

53. “Systematic Thought and the Early French Enlightenment.” Conference Histories of failed synthesis, University of Turin (13/11). 

54. “Maupertuis’s Argument for Newtonianism.” Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science, University of Bucharest (07/11). 

55. “Maupertuis’s Argument for Newtonianism: Between Logic and Rhetoric.” Conference Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy and Physics, VUB Brussels (16/09).*

56. “La stratégie rhétorique de Maupertuis dans la controverse sur la forme de la Terre.” Conference Désordres, débats et discordances à l’époque moderne (XVe-XVIIIe siècles), University of Sherbrooke (15/05).