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The restorative power of gardening collectives in post-earthquake Pompeii, AD 62-79, Roman Archaeology Conference/TRAC (April 2024).

The Feminine Touch: The Gardens Created and Cultivated by Women in Early Imperial Rome and Pompeii. Women & Gardens Conference, English Heritage (March 2023).

There’s No Face Like Home: The Social Role of the Domestic Rustic hortus in First Century CE Pompeii. Space in the Ancient House (Panel), AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 5-8 2022.

The Gardens of Pompeii with Jessica Venner - Ancient History Hound podcast (April 2021) - see player above.

Urban Gardens and Resiliency in Post-Earthquake Pompeii 62-79 CE, (co-authored) K. Gleason, M. Palmer, C. Barrett, A. Marzano, K. Tally-Schumacher and J. Venner, CELA (March 2021).

Nature as Nurturer: The sensory effect of light and shade in the Roman garden, Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (March 2021).

Founder and Chair of the CAHA WIP Seminar Series (2021) - Opening Address.

Supply and Demand: Rise of the Opportunistic Garden in First Century AD Pompeii, TRAC Webinar Series, 1st December 2020.

Rise of the Opportunistic Garden in First Century AD Pompeii, CAHA Colloquium 2020, 26th June 2020.

'Rus 'becomes' urbs: The epistemes of spatial definition and identity in the hortus urbanus' - Meaning, Memory and Movement: Ancient and Medieval Spaces conference, University of Birmingham, 23rd-24th November 2019.

'The Mimesis of 'Human Nature' in the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii', short paper and Chair of discussion group/round table - Classical Marvels conference, University of St Andrews, 9th-10th May 2019.

Editor of Vesuvian Sites for the world-first Gardens of the Roman Empire Online Corpus - visit the site here.

Founder and Chair of the CAHA WIP Seminar Series - 2021.

Chair and lead-organiser of the Annual Postgraduate CAHA Colloquium with PGR Development Fund funding - Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, 16th May 2019.

Publicity Officer and Copy/Specialist Editor of the Rosetta Journal (2018-2019)

AHRC Visit Poster Presentation. Presentation of research poster to Professor Edward Harcourt, Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation for AHRC (by invitation from Professor Michaela Mahlberg, College of Arts and Law Director of Research) (January 2019)

Chair and Lead Organiser of the Annual Postgraduate CAHA Colloquium (May 2019)

Co-founder of Heads Down, Phones Off! PGR working group, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham (October 2018 - August 2019)

Lead Events Planner of BSR Members Tour of the London Mithraeum. In association with MOLA at Bloomberg SPACE for British School at Rome (May 2018)

Lead Events Planner of 'Glass: Archaeology, History and Practice' at the British Museum. Study workshops and public lectures in association with the British Museum for British School at Rome (November 2017)