Selected Presentations

Academic Conferences

  • Sisters as Maintainers of Kinship Networks in Early Modern Britain, Social History Society (scheduled for June 2020, Postponed due to COVID-19)
  • Women's Autobiography as a Method of Mothering in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Renaissance Society of America (Scheduled for April 2020, Postponed due to COVID-19).
  • Mary Whitelocke and the Anxieties of Puritan Motherhood, Maternal Influences in the Medieval and Early Modern World, QMUL, November 2019.
  • Limited Paternal Authority in a Limitless Patriarchy: The Case of Mary Evelyn, Durham Early Modern Conference, University of Durham, 2018.
  • Religion and Infertility in Post-Reformation England, Religion and the Lifecycle 1500-1800, Queen Mary University of London, 2018.
  • Female Bodies Made Material: Ivory Anatomical Dolls and the Secrets of Women, The Material Body 1500-1900, University of Birmingham, 2018.
  • The Trouble with Raising Teenagers in Early Modern England, 2nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Early Modern Studies, Hebrew University , 2018.
  • The Gendered Body and Moral Norms in Seventeenth-Century Gynecological Literature, 3rd Annual Conference of Gender Studies Programs in Israel, Ben-Gurion University , 2018.
  • Participant and Commentator, German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Conference, 2017.
  • Ivory Anatomical Models and the History of Scientific Collection in Early Modern Europe, Beyond the Written Word, Jerusalem, May 2016.
  • Adult sisters and Kinship Networks in Early Modern England, Renaissance Society of America , April 2016.
  • “To Have a Jolly Child of Mine Owne Body Borne:” The Significance of Infertility in Early Modern England, Conference on Infertility in History, Science and Culture, University of Edinburgh July 2013
  • Aristocratic Women and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Early-Modern England, American Historical Association, January 2012.
  • Infertility and Immorality: Stigmas Against Infertile Women in Early Modern England, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2011.
  • Queens, Cuckolds and Cures: Royal Infertility and Taking the Waters in Seventeenth-Century England, American Association for the History of Medicine, April 2011.
  • ‘Conceiving’ the Ideal Marriage: Guides to Conception and Ideals of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century England, Northeastern Conference on British Studies , October 2009.

Invited Lectures

  • A Historical Look at Sleep Disorders, the Israeli Sleep Research Society, 2019.
  • Why Mary Wouldn’t Marry? Exploiting the Limits of Patriarchal Authority, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 2018.
  • Childbirth, Childhood and Education in Medieval England, in the module “Women and Gender in Late Medieval England” (Virginia Davis, Queen Mary University of London ), taught as part of an Erasmus+ Staff Exchange, 2018.
  • Rape and Sexual Crime in Pre-Modern Europe, in the course “Sex Offences” (Amit Pundik, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University), 2017.
  • Family and the Patriarchy in History, in the course “History of Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Perspective” (Liat Kozma, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2017.

Public Engagement

  • A Historical Look at Children's Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital, Jerusalem , May 2016 .
  • Fertility and Infertility in Historical Perspective, IVF Department, Shaare Tzedek Hospital, Jerusalem, December 2015.