onliNeolithic: Reading the Western Asian Neolithic Through Differences – Dedicated to the memory of Ofer Bar-Yosef at (Title of paper: "A Prelude to Agriculture? Palaeolithic and Early Aceramic Neolithic Plant Exploitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent"), by Invitation (Istanbul, 2022)
Neolithic Plant Management Strategies in Southwest Asia 17–19 September 2021 (Discussant), by Invitation (University of Oxford, 2021)
Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (Title of paper: "Environment and subsistence in the Zarzian: New evidence from Palegawra cave"), by Invitation (University of Copenhagen, 2021)
5th International ANAMED Annual Symposium: Winds of Change: Environment and Society in Anatolia (Title of paper: "Early to Mid-Holocene Vegetation History and Human Settlement in Anatolia"), by Invitation (Koç University, 2021)
Archaeology Research Seminars Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Title of paper: "A prelude to agriculture? Palaeolithic and early aceramic Neolithic plant exploitation in the Eastern Fertile Crescent"), by Invitation (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2021)
anthraco2019 - 7th International Anthracology Meeting "Charcoal Science in Archaeology and Palaeoecology" (Presentation title: "Foraging behaviours and fuel wood selection: insights from pre-agricultural habitations in the Eastern Mediterranean") (University of Liverpool Central Teaching Hub, 2019)
53o Corso di Cultura in Ecologia - "Tecnologia del Legno: verso il Futuro con Radici nel Passato" ("Wood science: looking to the future with the roots in the past" - Lecture title: "The study of dendroecological features in archaeological wood charcoals: potential and limits"), by Invitation (Centro Studi Ambiente Alpino, San Vito di Cadore (Italy), 2017)
“The Long Revolution: Becoming Neolithic in Southwest Asia” (Presentation title: "From harvesting to cultivation – from cultivation to farming"), by Invitation (John Templeton Foundation & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, 2016)
“Late Glacial to Early Holocene socio-ecological responses to climatic instability within the Mediterranean Basin” (Keynote lecture title: "The palaeoecology of low-level food production in early Holocene Southwest Asia"), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 2016)
6th International Anthracology Meeting - "Local to Global Significance of Charcoal Science" (Presentation title: "Franchthi Cave: integrated analysis of late Pleistocene and early Holocene charcoal and archaeobotanical data") (University of Freiburg, Germany, 2015)
"Prehistoric Networks in the longue durée: Palaeolithic Innovations enabling the Neolithic Revolution” (Presentation title: "Woodland management before the Neolithic revolution"), by Invitation (Freie Universität Berlin, 2015)
New Perspectives on Agricultural Origins at 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) (Presentation title: "The nature of cultural niche construction in early PPN SW Asia"), by Invitation (San Francisco, California, 2015)
S4 - Reconstructing Ancient Ecosystems at 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) (Presentation title: "Subsistence Change and Environmental Patterns at Aceramic Chogha Golan (Ilam Province/Iran) )" (Basel, Switzerland, 2014)
"The Anthropocene in the Longue Durée" (Presentation title: "Early Holocene human impacts on vegetation in Southwest Asia: an archaeobiological view on an old problem"), by Invitation (University of Texas at Austin, 2014)
"Do foragers adopt agriculture? The expansion of farming in East Asia, Sunda & Sahul" (Presentation title: "Climate instability and information exchange as agents of socioeconomic change: the view from SW Asia"), by Invitation (University of Queensland, School of Social Science, Australia, 2014)
"Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes III" (Presentation title: "Hunter-Gatherer Knowledge Transmission and Environmental Change in Epipalaeolithic/Neolithic Southwest Asia"), by Invitation (Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, 2013)
Research Seminar, Institute of Prehistory and Early History, University of Tübingen (Presentation title: "Evolution, history and the origin of agriculture in Southwest Asia"), by Invitation (Tubingen, Germany, 2012)
Neolithic stereotypes: has Southwest Asian archaeology outlived the Neolithic? at 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) (Presentation title: "Concepts of subsistence economy in the Neolithic archaeology of Southwest Asia: a critical overview"), by Invitation (Memphis, Tennessee, 2012)
Baylor University, Department of Anthropology Seminar Series (Presentation title: "A contextual approach to the Neolithic (plant) economies of Southwest Asia"), by Invitation (Waco, Texas, 2012)
University College Dublin: School of Archaeology Seminar Series (Presentation title: "The unoriginal origins of agriculture: food production and social life in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Middle East"), by Invitation (Dublin, Ireland, 2011)
5th International Meeting of Anthracology - "Charcoal as Cultural and Biological Heritage" (Presentation title: "Rethinking human impact on the prehistoric vegetation of SW Asia: socioeconomics and long-term fuel/timber acquisition strategies at Çatalhöyük") (Valencia, Spain, 2011)
2009 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting (Presentation title: "The End Of 'Centres of Origin': domestication and community interactions in SW Asia"), by Invitation (New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009)
Research workshop "Prehistoric Economies of Anatolia: Subsistence Practices and Exchange" (Presentation title: "Ecology and socioeconomics of woodland exploitation practices in prehistoric Anatolia"), by Invitation (Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW), 2009)
"15th International Neolithic Seminar: Climate Anomalies, Population and Culture Dynamics in Prehistory" (Presentation title: "Early Holocene settlement and environmental change in Central Anatolia"), by Invitation (Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 2008)
"Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean" - Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (Presentation title: "Community identities, interactions and archaeological cultures in the PPN of the Middle East") (Cairo, Egypt, 2008)
6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) (Presentation title: "Beyond the 'Origins of Agriculture'") (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy, 2008)
"Landscapes in Transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant" - CBRL (Presentation title: "Farmers, gatherers or horticulturalists? Reconstructing landscapes of practice in the Neolithic"), by Invitation (RSCN Eco-lodge, Wadi Faynan, Jordan, 2007)
17th International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists (Presentation title: "Vegetation context and wood exploitation in the Southern Neolithic") (Bonn, Germany, 2003)
10th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Presentation title: "Tradition and power: reinterpreting building decoration at Çatalhöyük") (Lyon, France, 2004)
International CANeW Table Ronde, Istanbul (Presentation title: "Subsistence economy in Central Anatolia during the Neolithic"), by Invitation (Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001)
2nd International Meeting of Anthracology - "Charcoal Analysis: Environmental History and Use of Wood in Prehistoric Times" (Presentation title: "Charcoal analysis and the reconstruction of ancient woodland vegetation in the Konya plain, Turkey") (Paris, France, 2000)
Editorships
Quaternary International (Guest Editor, 2019 - 2021)
PLOS ONE (Academic Editor, 2018 - present)
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Invited Associate Editor, 2010 - 2019)