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 [BSHM] Biannual Conference 2019, Bristol and 2023, Cardiff

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

• Casanova and Quarantine

• The Marseilles plague 1720 ; Parallels and differences with the Covid Pandemic

Riga,Latvia,2020

• Medical Practice in the 18th century according to Casanova,Manqué Physician

• Relationships between patients and their doctors in the mid 18th century

• .Invited speaker on Casanova : Beyond the Stereotype