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Research interests

History of psychoanalysis

Twentieth-century 'psy' disciplines

Cultural history of the British welfare state

History and theory of childhood

Trauma studies

Feminism and psychoanalysis

Conferences and presentations

Revising the notion of Inner Life: The 'Maternal' as a Site of Hidden Emotions

Invited presentation, London Modernism Seminar, The School of Advanced Study, University of London, 12/10/2024

The Emotional Community of the Pariah

The Biennial Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), 30/8/2024

Trauma and its Discontents: From the Age of Testimony to the Age of Trigger Warnings

Invited presentation, UCL Health Humanities Centre Seminar, 21/3/2024

In Defense of the Notion of Inner Life'

Invited presentation, Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar., Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 19/4/2023

The Language of the 鈥業nward鈥�: On Hidden Emotions in History

Invited presentation, Open Research Seminar at the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, 30/6/2022

Revising trauma: The origins of the new trigger culture

Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, 1/9/2021

The Oedipal Riddle: Between Family Secrecy and Political Utopia in Twentieth-Century Psychoanalysis

Invited presentation, The Politics of Family Secrecy, University of Copenhagen (online), 27/1/2021

THE MATERNAL AS A SITE OF INVISIBLE EMOTIONS IN 1930S BRITAIN

Invited presentation, Columbia University Affect Studies Seminar, Affect Studies Seminar, New York, United States, 30/9/2019

Psychoanalysis and the historian: why historians of emotion dismiss Freud (and how is he still so important for them)

Keynote presentation, Psychoanalysis, Art, and Culture Summer University, Budapest, Hungary, 9/8/2019

Modernity as a crisis of motherhood: the 鈥榤aternalizing movement鈥� in interwar Britain

Thinking Sex After the Great War, Brussels, Belgium, 19/10/2018

The psychoanalytic languages: On the intimate rivalry of Michael Balint and D. W. Winnicott

Invited presentation, Sándor Ferenczi 鈥� Interdisciplinary Approaches, Munich, Germany, 13/9/2018

What historians of emotions can (still) learn from psychoanalysis

History of Emotion, Fairfax, United States, 2/6/2018

The good enough State: on the maternalizing movement in Britain, 1920-1953

Departmental seminar, Beersheba, Israel, 19/12/2017

Beyond the 鈥榮phincter-morality鈥�: the concept of childhood in interwar psychoanalysis

Invited presentation, Open departmental seminar, Colchester, United Kingdom, 15/11/2017

Lyotard and the Dream Work

ACLA Seminar: Psychoanalysis and its Objects, Utrecht, Netherlands, 8/7/2017

The Maternal Bond as a Model for State-Citizens Relationship

Society for the History of Children and Youth Ninth Biennial Conference, Camden, United States, 22/6/2017

The impossibility of the child's voice: A micro-history of a Czech girl in the 1953 coronation events

Speaking when they're spoken to? Re-integrating the experiences and perspectives of children into historical research, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 6/6/2017

Psychoanalysis and political replacement: A micro-history of a Czech girl in the 1953 coronation events

Replacement, London, United Kingdom, 8/12/2016

The Correspondence of Michael Balint and Donald Winnicott in the 1950s

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, United Kingdom, 27/4/2016

Some notes on the history of waiting in the age of the NHS

The Chronic: Temporality, Care and Health Research, London, United Kingdom, 17/3/2016

The Apostolic Function: Michael Balint and the Postwar GP', UCL / BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar (February, 2016)

London, United Kingdom, 2016

Liberal Utopias: Revisiting the Hegemonic Dimensions of Welfare State Ideologies in Britain, 1945-1979'. Conference: Imaginarios ut贸picos: pasado, presente y future, Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid y de la International Nineteenth-Century Hispanists Network, Madrid

Madrid, Spain, 1/10/2015

'Revisiting the Post?Colonial Critique of Psychoanalysis: G茅za R贸heim and the Primitive'. Conference: Psycho?Politics: The Cross?Sections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy?Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (October, 2015).

Budapest, Hungary, 2015

Totalitarianism, Anthropology, and the Primitive Child: The Case of Geza R贸heim. Workshop: Re-imagining Childhood Images, Objects and the Voice of the Child鈥�, University of Greenwich (May, 2015).

London, United Kingdom, 2015

Geza R贸heim and the Maternal Morality of the Primitive. The Annual Symposia on Psychoanalysis and Politics, Budapest (May, 2014).

Budapest, Hungary, 2014

Motherhood and the Emergence of the Regressed Patient. Conference: Made Up People: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Labelling and the Construction of People in Post-War History, University of Warwick (October, 2013).

Coventry, United Kingdom, 2013

Infants do not love; they must be loved: Omnipotence, Dependency and the Ferenczian Notion of Childhood'. Conference: Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis, Freud Museum, London (October, 2013).

London, United Kingdom, 2013

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