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