Presentations

(In Ottawa at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities with Roberta Lexier and Steve Hewitt)

Sep 27 2008 “Psychedelic Drugs and Medical History: A Historical Look at LSD, Alcoholism, and Hospital Reforms” Kobe International University, Kobe, Japan

Sep 25 2008           “LSD and the History of Medicine:  A History of Canadian Health, Drug Experiments and Hospitals” Reitaku University, Tokyo Centre, Japan

Sep 20 2008           “Building an ‘Ideal Society’:  Mixing Politics and Medicine in Western Canadian History” keynote lecture at Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, Ise, Japan

Mar 9 2008             “Prairie Psychedelics:  A Historical Look at LSD Experiments in Psychiatry” Division of Humanities, Mount Royal College, Calgary

Nov 22 2007          “Keeping Tabs: LSD and the Politics of Psychedelic Drug Experiments,” King’s College, Dalhousie University

Sep 15 2007           “History of LSD Medical Experimentation in Canada,” Thunder Bay
Medical Society, John Augustine Lecturer

May 13 2007          “Acid Flashbacks:  Keeping Tabs on the History of LSD,” Buffalo Province History Conference, Graduate Student Conference, Watrous, SK

Mar 5 2006             “Controversy:  The Psychedelic Pioneers,” History & Classics Graduate Students Annual Colloquium, University of Alberta

Presentations:

Feb 2 2009             “Henry Sigerist, Socialized Medicine, and Disgruntled Western Canadians:  Historical reflections on Canada’s Healthcare System, Calgary Medical Society, History of Medicine Dinner, University of Calgary

Jan 28 2009            “Eugenic Frontiers”: A History of the Sexual Sterilization Act, 1920-1972, History Faculty Research Seminar

Nov 27 2008          “Hitting Highs at Rock Bottom,” Psychology Graduate Seminar, University of Saskatchewan

Nov 14 2008          “Mind-bending Moments: the history and the future of interdisciplinary collaboration,” Graduate Studies Exposition, University of Saskatchewan

Sep 21 2008           “Mental Healthcare in Crises: The Historical Origins of Deinstitutionalization”, Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, Ise, Japan

Mar 9 2008             “Prairie Psychedelics:  A Historical Look at LSD Experiments in Psychiatry” Division of Humanities, Mount Royal College, Calgary

Feb 6 2008             “Flashbacks:” A Historical Appraisal of LSD Use in Medicine, The International Institute of Qualitative Research, University of Alberta

Jan 18 2008            “Doctors, Drugs and Addictions:  An Historical Look at Drug Trials and Alcoholism,” Rehabilitative Medicine 600, Theories and Issues in Rehab Science, University of Alberta

Nov 22 2007          “Keeping Tabs: LSD and the Politics of Psychedelic Drug Experiments,” King’s College, Dalhousie University

Sep 12 2007           “History of the C-Section,” Reproductive Medicine, Academic Half Day, University of Alberta, co-presented with Lianne McTavish

Sep 7 2007             “Psychedelics and Pharmaco-politics: A History of LSD Experimentation in Medicine,” Medical Grand Rounds, University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 

Aug 30 2007 “Doctors, Drugs and Addictions: Developing LSD Treatments for
Alcoholism in the 1950s,” Department of Family Medicine Seminar Series, Royal Alex Hospital, Edmonton AB

May 3 2007           “Sigerist in Saskatchewan and the development of socialized medicine” Sigerist Circle, American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, Montreal (invited speaker)

Apr 27 2007           “Eugenic Frontiers: Sterilization in Alberta,” Public Symposium on Eugenics, Edmonton, Alberta (invited speaker)

Feb 26 2007           “Gurus and Experts:  The Politics of Authority over LSD Use,” University of Birmingham, History Seminar Series, (invited speaker)

Feb 23 2007           “Post-war Mental Health Services in Saskatchewan”, Developments in Mental Health since 1945, International and Local Perspectives, Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester, (invited speaker)

Feb 20 2007           “Keeping Tabs”:  LSD and the Politics of Psychedelic Drug Experimentation,” University of Glasgow, History of Medicine Seminar Series, (invited speaker)

Feb 15 2007           “Psychedelic Psychiatry:  1950s LSD Experimentation,” University of Exeter, History of Medicine Seminar Series, (invited speaker)

Dec 4 2006             “The introduction of ‘the pill’: feminism and reproductive medicine, University of Alberta, Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Students’ Club

Nov 15 2006          “A Bitter Pill:  LSD in Clinical Trials” McGill University, History of Medicine Seminar Series (invited speaker)

Nov 4 2006            “Land of the Living Skies with Diamonds,” University of Alberta western Canadian history and scholarship reading group

Dec 2005                “History of Medicine at the University of Alberta,” Northern Ontario School of Medicine, History of Medicine club meeting, (invited speaker)

Dec 2005                “Canadian Psychedelic Pioneers:  LSD Experimentation and the
Post-Second World War Pharmacological Revolution,” Northern Ontario School of Medical, (invited speaker)

Mar 2004                “’Do I know that I am talking to you like a madman?’ LSD, Historians and the Media,” McMaster Annual History Colloquium, The Future of the Canadian Past:  Reflections on Canadian History in the 21st Century, Hamilton, Ontario (invited speaker)

Presentations at Conferences (non-invited):

May 2009               “Eugenic Sterilization in Alberta: An Historical Examination of State and Medical Authority,” Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University

Aug 11 2007          “Just Say Know:  Criminalising LSD and the Politics of
Psychedelic Expertise,” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs,
Guelph, ON

Jun 16 2007            “Youth, LSD, and Gurus:  Acid Panic and the Cult of Personality”, New World Coming:  The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Kingston, ON

Nov 2005               “’LSD does not expand the mind, the drug shrinks it.’:  Post-WWII LSD Experimentation and the Politics of Consciousness,” History of Science Society, Minneapolis, MN

Sep 2005                “Land of the Living Sky with Diamonds:  Psychedelic Psychiatry in Saskatchewan, 1950-1970,” Saskatchewan Centennial Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan

Apr 2005                “Spaced-Out:  LSD-inspired Institutionalisation in Post-World War II Saskatchewan” invited speaker at international symposium on Insanity and its Institutions, University of Limerick, Ireland

Apr 2005                “Whose Revolution?  LSD and Medical Authority,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama

Oct 2004                “‘Too Far Out’:  LSD and the Modern Psychiatric Hospital, 1950-1970,” Society for the History of Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jun 2004                 “‘Plain Psychedelics’:  Radical Psychiatry in Small Town Saskatchewan, 1950-1970,” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Winnipeg, Manitoba

May 2004               “‘Faith, Hope and Chemotherapy’:  LSD Treatment in Alcoholism,” International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History, London, Ontario

Apr 2004                “‘Spaced-Out’:  LSD-inspired Transformations at Psychiatric Hospitals, 1950-1968,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin

Feb 2004                “Ethics in the Use of Historical Medical Data”, co-presented with David Wright at Bio-ethics Interest Group presentation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Nov 2003               “‘The Grass is staring at me.’ LSD in Psychiatric Drug Trials, 1950-1970,” History of Medicine seminar series, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

May 2003               “‘The Saskatchewan Plan’:  LSD-inspired Transformations at Psychiatric Hospitals in Saskatchewan, 1950-1965,” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, Nova Scotia

May 2003               “‘Prairie Psychiatry Pioneers’: Mental Health Research in Saskatchewan,” Canadian Historical Association, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities,       Halifax, Nova Scotia

May 2002               “Post-War Experimentation in Psychiatry:  Saskatchewan’s Influence,” Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto, Ontario

May 2002               “Disorder and Deviance:  Post-War Experimental Psychiatry in Saskatchewan, 1940-1970,” Research in Progress Seminar, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario

Apr 2002                “LSD Experimentation in the Post-Second World War Context:  Constructing Deviance,” Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York