Academic History Conferences

Leo McCarthy prize in History of Medicine Research 2018

  • Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) and the Pox: Insights from his Memoirs regarding sufferers’ experiences of symptoms, treatments and stigma

Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference

  • Specialist session on History of Psychiatry. 2009.

    Thomas Bakewell: Madhouse Keeper, Moral Therapist and Man of the Enlightenment

The North East American Society of 18th c Studies

  • Suicide and Frenzied Madness in the 18th century

    • [Massachusetts University, Amherst, MA, USA in 2016]

The Association for Medical Humanities Annual Conference

  • The Body,Health and Illness in the 18th century: Insights from Casanova’s Memoirs

    • [University of Greenwich , London in 2016 ]

  • Were Doctors Ethical in the 18th century ?

    • [Sofia University, Bulgaria. June 2018];

The British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies at St Hughs, Oxford University

  • Casanova and the Pox [2016]

  • Truth and Lies : the relationship between doctors and their patients in mid eighteenth century Europe [2018]

  • Islands of Despair : suicide and melancholy in Casanova’s world [ 2019]

The British Society for the History of Medicine Biannual Conference 2019, Bristol.

  • Suicide, Melancholy and Madness: Insights from Giacomo Casanova’s Memoirs

International Society for the History of Medicine . Antwerp. 1987

  • Physical Parameters Contributing to the Diagnosis of Emotional Disorder

Royal Society of Medicine: On -line talk for first module of History, Art and Medicine course October 6th 2021. Invited talk.

Exploring the History of Medicine: Why Bother?

Royal College of Physicians, History of Medicine Section October 30th 2021. Invited talk on :

Tales of medical incompetence and ethical laxity ? Insights into 18th century medical ‘ethics’ from Casanova’s memoirs

Relationships between Doctors and their Patients in the Mid 18th century:insights from Casanova’s Memoirs ( key note address)

Levantine Sociabilities in Europe in Giacomo Casanova’s time. University Of Gabriele d’Annunzio Sep. 23 2022

Crime Writers Association 2017

A Psychiatrist’s View of the Neuro Novel ( key note address )

I have given pro bono talks to local groups such as Probus and Ladies Lunch groups