Conferences

2024, January 17, “Unveiling The Chirograms: Four Methods to Study Hand Gestures in Painting”, Round Table “Show Me Your Hand”, Instituto Svizzero, Rome.

2023, June 7, “When The Hands Make Sense: Translation of Chirograms in Early Modern Painting”, Brownbag Sessions, Vienna CogSci Hub, University of Vienna.

2023, March 30 : « Vasari Diagram Exploring the Wikipedia Quotations of Old and Modern Masters », invited talk, KuWiki Tip & Tools, online.

2021, March 25: « Sémiologie de la main dans la peinture moderne : comment interpréter chaque signe gestuel et ses variations », invited talk, GRHAM, Group of Research in History of Early Modern Art, INHA, online conference.

2020, December 5, « D’une main à l’autre. Transcription et paramètres des accords chirographiques dans la peinture moderne», (talk), Conference [im] Postures. Modélisations et interprétations du langage corporel dans l’art de l’époque moderne, Université de Rouen-Normandie, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

2017, March 28-31, « Beyond the Peasant Hands. Le Nain and the Gesture Language in the 17th century », (talk), Conference Regard interdisciplinaire sur l’exposition « Les frères Le Nain », Musée de Louvre-Lens, University of Lille.

2017, February 2-3, « Memory of Grace and Silence: The Iconographic Language of the Hand in the Last Supper », (talk), Conference iGesto’17 – International Conference on Gesture and Multimodality, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto.

2016, July 18-22, « The Thumb Up Gesture: Hypotheses about its Rarity in the Painting from the Middle Ages to the 19th century», (talk), Seventh Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture – Creativity – Multimodality, University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.

2016, March 18, « Le langage des mains dans les arts figurés au XVIIIe siècle », (talk), 18th century Studies day: Work in progress, University of Strasbourg.

2015, April 9, « Chirologie et langage palpable des mains », (talk), Studies day Le geste a la parole, Haute École des Arts du Rhin, Strasbourg.

2014, November 8, « The comput digitis : Arithmetic of fingers in 17th and 18th century French Painting », (talk), Sixth Early Modern Symposium The Intelligent Hand 1500-1800, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

2014, June 12-13, « Quand les mains se souviennent. Usages mnémoniques de la main dans l’Art de la mémoire du XVe au XVIIe siècle», (talk), Conference Mémoire et oublie, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier.

2014, May 12-16, « Жестът на скръстените пръсти според хирологията във френската живопис през XVII и XVIII век» (talk), Conference Arts Readings 2014, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.

2014, May 8-9, « Une anamorphose révélée par le langage des doigts. À propos d’un dessin de Simon Vouet », (talk), Conference Image, imaginaire, représentation, University Vasile Alecsandri, Bacâu.