Presentations and Exhibited Work

Invited Talks

“Simulating History: Agent-based Modeling, Machine Learning, and Spaces of Madness,” Urban Science Research Seminar Series, NYU, March 30, 2026.

“Death and Disease in Digital History,” SHIFA-ANA Workshop: Death and Disease in Anatolia, ANAMED, Istanbul, June 12, 2025.

“When the Asylum Catches Cholera: Istanbul, 1893,” Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, December 7, 2021.

“Rethinking Health and the City” (Heritage of Healing Webinar Series), Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, August 5, 2021.

“Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums,” Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment virtual lecture series, Liverpool School of Architecture, November 19, 2020.

“Experiencing Temporalities: Space and Pace in Late Ottoman Istanbul,” Centering Art History & Visual Culture in the Digital Humanities: A Symposium Celebrating 10 Years of the Wired! Lab at Duke (October 17-18, 2019).

“Crossing Paths: Medical Journeys, Imperial Surveys,” 2019 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History, UCLA, May 30-31, 2019.

“Modeling in Digital History: Inhabiting the Ottoman Insane Asylum,” Columbia University Ottoman & Turkish Studies Seminar, November 30, 2018.

“Digital Spatial and Temporal Analysis in Ottoman History,” Dissections, Fall 2018: New Directions in Research on the Middle East and North Africa at CUNY Graduate Center, October 17, 2018.

Presentations

“Opportunities for AI in Historical Research and Pedagogy,” History, AI and the Future of STEM Pedagogy (session with Louis Hamilton and Elektra Kostopoulou), AI Exploration Day, NJIT, March 26th, 2026.

“Storytelling with XR: Reconstructing Lost Histories in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul,” with Ersin Altin, 2025 MESA Annual Meeting, November 23, 2025.

“History in Extended Reality (XR): Encountering Hidden Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Rome and Istanbul,” panel with Dr. Louis Hamilton and Ersin Altin, Collegiate Art Association Annual Conference, February 2025.

“Changing Landscape of Charity: Istanbul Bezm-i Alem Hospital,” 2025 AHA Annual Meeting, NYC, NY, January 3-6, 2025.

“Simulating Spaces of Madness: The Ottoman Experience,” 2022 MESA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, December 1-4, 2022.

“Temporal Scales: Understanding Change in a Medical Institution,” Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, November 17, 2021.

NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2021, NJIT, April 23, 2021 (organizer)

“Living Beings and Movement in Historical Space: Opportunities in Agent-based Modeling,” CAA Annual Conference 2020, Chicago, February, 12-15 (with Augustus Wendell).

“When the Asylum Catches Cholera: Istanbul, 1893”, 2019 MESA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 14-17, 2019.

“Experiencing Temporalities: Space and Pace in Late Ottoman Istanbul,” (invited talk), Centering Art History & Visual Culture in the Digital Humanities: A Symposium Celebrating 10 Years of the Wired! Lab at Duke (October 17-18, 2019).

“Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – A Demonstration,” NYCDH Week 2020, Columbia University, February 5, 2020 (with Louis Hamilton and Margarita Vinnikov).

“Unity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar,” NYCDH Week 2020, NYU, February 7, 2020 (with Augustus Wendell).

“Agent-Based Modeling in Art History: Simulating an Insane Asylum,” presented at the Digital Humanities 2019 Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 9-12, 2019 (with Augustus Wendell).

“SpatioScholar for Art Historians,” workshop conducted at Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)spatial Networks Summer Institute, Venice, Italy, June 3-7, 2019.

“Crossing Paths: Medical Journeys, Imperial Surveys,” (invited talk), 2019 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies: Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History, May 30-31, 2019.

“Inventing the Ottoman Hospital as Locale for Medical Knowledge,” presented at Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop March 29-31, 2019.

NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2019 (organizer), NJIT, March 6, 2019. (Video)

“Inhabiting the Ottoman Insane Asylum: Modeling in Digital History,” (invited talk), Columbia University Ottoman & Turkish Studies Seminar, November 30, 2018.

“Digital Spatial and Temporal Analysis in Ottoman History” (invited talk), Dissections, Fall 2018: New Directions in Research on the Middle East and North Africa at CUNY Graduate Center, October 17, 2018.

“[AI]stanbul: Schooling the Machine” (with Amy Hoover, Augustus Wendell, and Ersin Altin), 4^th International Istanbul Biennial, September 22-November 4, 2018.

“SpatioScholar: Annotating Photogrammetric Models,” presented at Digital Humanities 2018 Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, June 26-29, 2018.

“Modeling Movement: Visualization of Inhabited Space,” presented at Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)spatial Networks Summer Institute, Venice, Italy, June 4-16, 2018.

“Spatio-medical Formation of the Ottoman Imperial Hospitals,” presented at 2018 Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, St. Paul, MN, April 20, 2018.

“Life of an Insane Asylum: A Temporospatial Simulation,” presented at the Digital Humanities Showcase at Rutgers-New Brunswick, NJ, March 27, 2018.

“Temporospatial Analysis in Architectural History: A Digital Approach for Research and Publication” presented at The Digital Publication of Architectural History Workshop at gta at ETH Zurich, February 8-9, 2018.

“Psychiatry, Space and Time: The Case of an Ottoman Asylum” presented at Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History, Columbia University, New York, NY, April 20, 2017. (Podcast)

“Digging the Aboveground: Visual Archeology of an Asylum,” with Augustus Wendell, presented at the Digital Humanities 2016 Conference, Kraków, Poland, July 12-16, 2016.

“The ‘Kepler System’: 10 Years of Digital Outcome Assessment in Architecture, Art and Design Schools,” with John Cays, presented at the AASL Conference, Seattle, WA, March 11, 2016.

“Visualizing Spaces of Madness: An Ottoman Asylum,” with Augustus Wendell, presented at the NYCDH Week (New York City Digital Humanities), New York, NY, February 9, 2016.

“Psychiatric Spaces of Istanbul, 1870-1930,” presented at the Health, Culture and the Human Body Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 13, 2014.

“The Visit: Toptasi Asylum, Istanbul, 1911,” presented at the 2014 Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Austin, TX, April 11, 2014.

“Bodies on the Move: Psychiatric Spaces of Istanbul, 1870-1930,” presented at the JAS-Med 2013 at Harvard University and MIT (Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine), Cambridge MA, October 25-26, 2013.

“’Madmen on Trams:’ Public Transportation and Psychiatry in Istanbul”, presented at the AAG (Association of American Geographers) Conference, New York, February 27, 2012.

“Mental Institutions in Istanbul, 1870-1927,” presented at the MEHAT (Middle East History and Theory) Conference, University of Chicago on May 13-15, 2010.

“Building Sanity: Mental Institutions in Istanbul, 1870-1927,” presented at the University of Washington Turkish and Ottoman Studies Graduate Student Conference on April 15-16, 2010.