TALKS

2024

Ethics and Philosophy of Extreme Fasting, University of Bern, Switzerland, 31 May-1 June 2024
HSTM Network Ireland annual conference, Carlow College, 27-28 April 2024

2023

Pandemics, Famines and Industrial Disasters of the 20th Century: Discourses of Remembering and Forgetting, Warsaw, 24-25 November 2023
'Dietary Change in Post-Famine Ireland’. At: Feeding Ireland since the Famine: Sustainability, Production and the State', Dublin City University, 21 October 2023 (*keynote)
How to Take Patients' Histories: Doing Medical History from Below in Practice, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 28-29 September 2023
CHOICE Project Workshop, Ulster University, 20 July 2023
British Society for History of Science: Digital Festival for the History of Science (online), 3-7 July 2023 (*keynote)
Precarity in the Academy: Issues and Solutions for the History of Medicine, Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, 26-29 June 2023
Rethinking Gastro-Nationalism: Food, Political Environment and Embodiment, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès and International Consortium of Critical Theory (UC-Berkeley), 15 June 2023
Food Poverty across Ireland: Past, Current and Future Perspectives, Ulster University, Derry, 5 May 2023
Modernity and the Gut, University of Glasgow, 27-28 April 2023
HSTM Ireland Annual Conference, Dublin City University, 20-21 April 2023
European Social Science History Conference 2023, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 12-15 April 2023
Healing through Photography Conference, The MAC, Belfast, 3-4 April 2023 (*keynote panel member)
Collective Experiences in History, Tampere University, Finland, 13-15 March 2023
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon (ABC) Council Online Lecture Series, 2 February 2023

2022

HSTM Network Ireland Seminar Series, 7 December 2022
From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Literature, and Culture, Universität Wien (University of Vienna), Austria, 16-18 November 2022
HEX Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience Seminar Series, Tampere University, Finland, 15 November 2022
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 28-31 October 2022
Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Seminar Series, University of York, 26 September 2022
European Association for the History of Human Sciences conference, Sigmund Freud Private University, (former) Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 30 August - 2 September 2022
Féile an Phobail Festival, Belfast, 8 August 2022
Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference: 'Purity and Contamination in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture', Loughborough University, 13-15 July 2022
School of Psychology Seminar Series, Ulster University, 30 March 2022

2021

Families and Health: Historical Perspectives, University of Wolverhampton, 9 November 2021
Belfast's Hidden Medical History, ESRC Festival, Sunflower Public House, Belfast, 5 November 2021
Life and Death in the Asylum, c.1840-1970, Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, 27 October 2021
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Joint Meeting, Virtual, 1-2 June 2021
Weapons, Wounds and Warfare Seminar Series, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 5 May 2021
Medical Humanities (In)Visibility: Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress, Durham University, 21-23 April 2021
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Annual Conference, Emory University, Georgia, USA, 11-13 March 2021
Science Society & Hibernian Society Joint Lecture, Harrow School, 15 January 2021

2020

Centring Race in History: Antiquity to the Present, European University Institute, Florence/Liverpool Hope University, 23-25 November 2020

2019

History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ireland Network: Annual Conference, Ulster University, 18-20 October 2019
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (annual conference): Sense and Nonsense, University of Birmingham, 27-30 August 2019

2018

‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Birkbeck, University of London, 26 October 2018
The Gut/Brain Axis: Cultural and Historical Perspectives, University of Glasgow, 4-5 May 2018

2017

Gut Health Workshop, University of Glasgow, 3 November 2017
Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Seminar Series, University of Strathclyde, 1 November 2017
Stendahl Festival of Art Limavady, Northern Ireland, 12-13 August 2017
Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare, Queen's University Belfast, 11 May 2017
Diet and Nutrition in Institutions of Care, University of Warwick, 20-21 April 2017
The Maze Prison Hunger Strikes: 35th Anniversary, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester, 25 January 2017

2016

Incarcerated Bodies, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 13 October 2016
Rethinking the 1981 Long Kesh/Maze Hunger Strike: 35 Years On, University of Notre Dame Global Gateway, London Campus, 27 June 2016
Balancing the Self in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, 22-23 June 2016
Dietary Innovation and Disease in the 19th and 20th Centuries, San Servolo Island, Venice, 8-10 June 2016
Hunger Striking and Conflict Resolution, Ulster University, 30 May 2016
Prisoner Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland and Palestine: Examining the Long-Term Effects Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, Queen’s University Belfast, 9 May 2016
Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Birkbeck, University of London, 15-16 April 2016
Suffragettes: One Hundred Years On, Black Box, Belfast, 14 March 2016

2015

Training Day in Medical Humanities, Queen's University Belfast, 2 December 2015
HSTM Network Ireland Inaugural Conference, Maynooth University, 10-12 November 2015
Suffragette Legacies, People's History Museum, Manchester, 7 November 2015
Gruelling Ordeals: Diets of the Irish Urban Poor 1845-1950, Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast, 12 October 2015
Medical Ethics and Hunger Strike Management: Historical and Modern Perspectives, Ulster University, 20 January 2015
Food, Hunger and Conflict: Second Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 16-17 January 2015

2014

Understanding Institutional and Residential Welfare and Public Health in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Britain, Queen’s University Belfast, 28 November 2014
Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference: Disease, Health and the State, University of Oxford, 10-12 July 2014
Irish Urban Spaces in the Nineteenth Century: Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast, 26-27 June 2014
History of Irish Childhood Conference St Patrick’s College, Dublin, 9-10 June 2014
Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine Seminar Series, Universität Zürich, 29 April 2014
Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin, 1500-2000, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 12 April 2014
Edwardian Premonitions and Echoes: Second Annual Conference of the Edwardian Culture, Network University of Liverpool, 10-11 April 2014
Food and the First World War Workshop, Liverpool Hope University, 2 April 2014
History of Medicine in Practice, Uppsala Universitet, 26-28 March 2014
Galls and Guts: Entrails and Digestion in the Long Eighteenth Century Workshop, Université Paris Diderot, 21-22 March 2014
The Suffragette Legacy in Manchester, People’s History Museum, Manchester, 8 March 2014
Women on the Edge: International Women’s Day Research Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 7 March 2014
School of English and History Seminar Series, Ulster University, 27 February 2014
Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series, Trinity College, Dublin, 12 February 2014
Ireland and the First World War: In Defence of Right, of Freedom and of Religion?, University College Cork, 24-25 January 2014

2013

Inaugural Conference of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class: Class, Conflict and Culture National University of Ireland, Galway, 21-22 November 2013
Training Day in Medical Humanities, Queen's University Belfast, 7 November 2013
Memory and Trauma: The Body in Pain in Irish Culture Boston College, Dublin, 12-13 September 2013
Food in History: Anglo-American Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 11-13 July 2013
Institutions: History Lab Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 12-13 June 2013

2012

Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of War, 1914-45, University College Dublin, 6-7 September 2012
1912: Irish Women before the Revolution, Mater Dei Institute of Education (Dublin City University), 25 May 2012
Deviance in Modern Irish History, University of Limerick, 31 March 2012
International Women’s Day Lecture, Dublin Central Library, 7 March 2012
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, 2 February 2012

2011

St Luke’s Day Symposium, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 3 November 2011
Consumption and Standards of Living since the Eighteenth Century: Economic History Society and Social History Society Joint Autumn Workshop, University of Huddersfield, 15 September 2011
Health in History: The Eightieth Anglo-American Conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 29 June-1 July 2011
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Conference, Ulster University, 26-27 May 2011

2010

Women’s History Association of Ireland Seminar Series, Queen’s University Belfast, 3 December 2010
Whither the History of Nineteenth-Century Medicine?, University of Manchester, 21 May 2010

2009

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 2 June 2009
Exploring the Somato-Psychic Workshop, University College London, 15 May 2009
Social History of Medicine Postgraduate Conference, University College Dublin, 16-18 April 2009
Perspectives on the Past: History and Classics Conference, University of Manchester, 26-27 March 2009

2008

Northern Centre for the History of Medicine Seminar Series, University of Durham, 25 November 2008
Workshop on the Relationship between History of Medicine and Epidemiology Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine, Oslo, 18 November 2008
Bardhan Research and Education Trust Research Day, Rotherham General Hospital, 30 October 2008
Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, University of Glasgow, 3-5 September 2008
British History of Science “Three Societies” Conference Keble College, University of Oxford, 4-6 July 2008
History of Medicine Research Student Conference, University College London, 19-20 June 2008
Health and Welfare Symposium: Classification, Identification and the Body, University of Cambridge, 13 June 2008
Royal Irish Academy History of Science in Ireland Workshop, Trinity College, Dublin, 14 March 2008
British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, University of Leeds, 3-5 January 2008

2007

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 5 June 2007
Second Meeting of Postgraduate Students in History of Science, Universitat de Barcelona, 31 May-2 June 2007