CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2023

BrANCH 2023 at Queen’s College, University of Oxford - September 22-24, 2023:

  • Paper title: ‘From Sinner to Statistic: Investigations into Suicide in Gilded Age New York’


2022

UNC-KCL Transatlantic Conference 2022 at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill - September 19-20, 2022:

  • Paper title: ‘Medicine, Manipulation and the Anonymous Dead: Exploring the uses of the body at the morgues of Paris and New York’

HOTCUS Annual Conference 2022 at the University of Edinburgh - June 20-22, 2022:

  • Paper title: ‘The invention of immortality: photography at the New York City Morgue’

  • Keynote Panel Presentation: ‘Beyond the Back-Alley Butcher: Constructing Abortion’s Criminality through NYPD Crime Scene Photography, c.1928-1945’

UNC-KCL Transatlantic Conference 2022 at King’s College London - May 11-12, 2022: "

  •  Paper title: ‘Medical Authority and Manipulated Bodies at the Morgues of Paris and New York’

BrANCH 2022: Nineteenth-Century America in Atlantic Context at the Kinder Institute, University of Missouri - April 7-9, 2022:

  • Paper title: Death Across the Pond: Managing the Unclaimed Dead at the Nineteenth-Century Morgues of Paris and New York’

Imagining The Dead: Capturing The Dead in Art and Culture as part of the Grave Matters Online Seminar Series - April 4, 2022:

  • Paper title: ‘Photographing the Dead at the Paris Morgue’


2021

HOTCUS PGR/ECR Conference : Medicine, Disease, and Disability in the Twentieth Century United States (Online) - September 5-6, 2021:

  • Paper title: ‘Policing the dead in the modern metropolis: the case of Hart Island, New York.’

AMPS: CITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD: QUESTIONS OF CULTURE, CLIMATE AND DESIGN at City Tech, CUNY, New York / Online- 16-18 June, 2021:

  • Paper title: ‘Managing New York’s Unclaimed Dead, 1868 – Present Day’

Until Death Do Us Part: Historical Perspectives on Death and Those Left Behind, c.1300-c.1900 at Royal Holloway, University of London / Online - 15-16 April, 2021:

  • Paper title: ‘“The gathering place of sin and death”: social order and public perception at the Paris morgue’