Claire Ptaschinski shared her research at the Renaissance Society of America's 2025 Annual Conference in Boston. Her paper, "The Madonna dei Miracoli: Street Art, Flooding, and the Transformation of Rome's Urban Ecosystems," was presented as a part of a series of two panels on "Street Art in Early Modern Italy." This research emerged from the third chapter of Ptaschinski's dissertation and addressed the impact of 16th- and 17th-century floods on the image and shrine of the Madonna dei Miracoli near Rome's Tiber River. While the icon's riverside location was what allowed its activation as a miracle-working image, that location also put the fresco of the Madonna under constant threat from the water's uncontrollable forces, leading its caretakers to remove it from the very place, the very occasion that granted it its status as an object worth saving.