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PUBLIC SPEAKING
(& other Presentations)

Conference Papers (Invited Speaker)

  • ’Eugenics then and now: can modern questions find answers in the past?’ Centre for Health Law and Society Research Seminar Series, La Trobe University, 7 August 2018

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  • ‘Hunting Tuberculosis Through History: disease in the archives or diseased archives?’ 2018 Redmond Barry Fellowship public lecture, University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library, 23 May 2018, 6 pm

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  • ’Eugenics in British Colonial Contexts: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa’ St Margaret’s College, on 7-8 February 2015 at the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture: Rethinking Colonialism and its Legacies, University of Otago, New Zealand

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  • ‘A Body of Knowledge Symposium’, 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Melbourne University Medical School, Elizabeth Murdoch Building, The University of Melbourne, September 15, 2012, ‘Cadavers, Medicalization and the Social Dimension of Dissection at the University of Melbourne in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’

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  • Isolated Cases? 100 years of Australian medical research, RPA Hospital, Sydney, 21 February 2010, ‘An Australian Anatomy? Anthropology and Race in Imperial Settings’ Royal Australian College of Physicians, Sydney, Library Lecture Series, 7 November 2011, ‘Humanity’s Mirror: 150 Years of Anatomy in Melbourne’

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  • Indigenous Cultures Department 2010 Public Seminar Series, Museum Victoria, 10 November 2010, ‘Australian Anatomists and the development of 20th Century Race Theory’

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  • Dealing with the Dead: History, Medicine, Ethics and Law, 15 November 2007, University of Melbourne, ‘Dissection: Its Protagonists and Subjects at the University of Melbourne during the Nineteenth Century’

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  • History of the University Unit Seminar, University of Melbourne, 24 October 2007, ‘Cadavers at the University of Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century’

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  • Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Melbourne, 2001 Seminar Series, 27 July, ‘“No neurons, no mind”: Richard Berry, Professor of Anatomy 1906-1929 — His influence on the education system in Victoria

Other Presentations

  • Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, Melbourne 11 – 15 July 2017, ‘Tuberculosis and tuberculin in Melbourne in the nineteenth century: lies, damn lies, and statistics.’

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  • State, Society, and Stigma: Rethinking Disease in the Global Age, LaTrobe University 26 – 27 June 2014, ‘Rethinking Australia in Asia: the role of Australian Universities in the Bukittingi Medical School fiasco 1956-1958’

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  • Brownbag Seminar Series, History Department, University of Melbourne, 12 September 2013, ‘The creation of British race theory in the inter-war period: Australian anatomists in the Imperial anthropological world’

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  • American Association for the History of Medicine Conference, Baltimore, 26 – 29 April 2012, ‘Wandering Anatomists and Itinerant Anthropologists: the Antipodean Sciences of Race in Britain between the Wars’ (with Warwick H Anderson)

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  • Artifacts, Aesthetics, and Authority workshop, Philadelphia Area Centre for History of Science, Philadelphia, 6 – 7 September 2012 (with Lisa O’Sullivan)

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  • American Association for the History of Medicine Conference, Philadelphia, 2011 April 28 – May 1, “No interest in human anatomy as such”: Frederic Wood Jones dissects anatomical investigation in the United States in the 1920's

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  • Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Tokyo, 2010 August 25 – 29 with Lisa O’Sullivan ‘A veritable cornucopia: anatomical exchange in the British Empire.’

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  • Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, Brisbane 12 – 15 July 2011, ‘Macaws, elephants, and mahouts: Frederic Wood Jones, the Rockefeller Foundation and the demise of the Human Biology project in the British Empire.’

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  • Australian Historical Association Conference, 8 July 2008, ‘“I was laying on a table in a lofty lighted room”: the nineteenth-century dissecting room as a place of power and poverty.’

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  • Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, Canberra, 3 – 6 July 2007 ‘With my corpus half dissected, and my joints well-nigh bisected’: Dissection poetry at the University of Melbourne in the 19th century

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  • Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of History of Medicine, University of Auckland, 16 – 19 February 2005, ‘Whatever happened to Irish Molly’s head? An episode in the history of the teaching of anatomy in the University of Melbourne in the 19th Century.’

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  • Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Thursday 21 – 24 April 2003, ‘Removing Some of the Dust From the Wheels of Civilization: William Ernest Jones and the 1928 Commonwealth Survey of Mental Deficiency.’

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  • Australian Association for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSS) Conference 2003, June 30 – July 3, Whitley College, University of Melbourne. ‘What’s in a name? The proposed renaming of the R. J. A. Berry Building at the University of Melbourne: an episode in the history of Eugenics in Victoria, 1900 to 2003’

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