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Conference Papers

“Pioneering Minds: Womens’ Path to Psy- and Neuroscience in Unified Italy, 1875-1921” – Paper presented at the International Society for the History of Neurosciences 28th Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, June 25-27, 2024

“A Path to Modernity: Interdisciplinary and International Networks of the Mind and Brain Sciences in Italy, 1901-1939” – Paper presented at the American Historical Association 133rd Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019

“The ‘Sale’ of the Archivio and the Destruction of Public Neuroscience in Fascist Italy” – Paper presented at the International Society for the History of Neurosciences 20th Meeting, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., June 1-6, 2015

“‘Invisible Wounds’ and Italy’s New Medicine of the Mind” – Paper presented at the American Historical Association 129th Meeting, New York, NY, January 2-5, 2015

“From ‘Lifetime Psychosis’ to ‘Wartime Neurosis’: How Italian Mind and Brain Sciences Escaped the Asylum during World War I” – Paper presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 6-9, 2014

“The Snuffbox: Why It Took an Empire to Build a Device Made Redundant by Human Anatomy” – Paper presented at the Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, November 3-6, 2011

“Neurology and Psychiatry in Austro-Hungarian and Interwar Trieste, 1876-1936” – Paper presented at the 23rd Nordic Medical History Congress, Oslo, Norway, May 25-27, 2011

“Italian Neurologists and Psychiatrists in World War I” – Poster presented at the International Society for the History of Neurosciences 15th Meeting, Paris, France, June 15-19, 2010

“From the Chain Reaction to the Cambrian: Franco Rasetti’s Fusion of Nuclear Physics and Photographic Paleontology” – Paper presented at Connecting Disciplines: 6th Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society: Keble College: Oxford, UK, July 4-6, 2008

“From the Freudian Dream to the Pirandellian Scene: On-Stage Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy in Italy” – Paper presented at the Psychoanalysis and/as Theater Interdisciplinary Conference: Emory University: Atlanta, GA, March 28-29, 2008

“The Vicar of Via Panisperna: Franco Rasetti’s Century-Long Journey from Physics to Paleontology, 1901-2001” – Paper presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting: Arlington, VA, November 1-4, 2007

“A Baltic Noblewoman and Italian Psychoanalysis” – Paper presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting: Vancouver, BC, November 2-5, 2006

“Princess Lampedusa, Italy’s Pioneer Psychoanalyst” – Paper presented at the First Annual Italian Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, NJ, March 4, 2006