Here is a selection of the conferences and workshops I have been fortunate enough to have presented my research at during my academic career. Click on the link in red to see the abstract, further information about the conference, and in some cases, to see video footage of the presentation.
[Invited Speaker] Why are we Still Waiting for a National Care Service? Lessons from the History of Health and Social Care, History and Policy Seminar Series, Nottingham Trent University, May 2025
[Invited Speaker] The Table of the Forms of Insanity, Department of History Research Seminar Series, University of Nottingham, September 2024.
[Speaker] Diagnosis and the Forms of Insanity: Assessing psychiatrists’ responses to Victorian popular fiction, Psychiatry and the Arts in Historical Perspective Symposium, Sept 2023.
[Speaker] Potentials for Accessions Data for Public History, Digital Humanities Congress Sheffield, Sept 2022.
[Speaker] Potentials and Limitations of National Accessions to Repositories Data, Data Spotlight, The National Archives and Turing Institute.
[Invited Speaker] ‘How to Publish a Book: Reflections on the Past, the Present, the Future of the History of Science’: British Society for the History of Science, July 2020.
[Speaker] ‘The Scottish Classification of the Forms of Insanity 1860 – 1880’: Scotland’s Historians of Science, June 2020.
[Speaker] ‘The “Table of the Forms of Insanity”: The History and Philosophy of the Standardised Psychiatric Nosology of the Medico-Psychological Association 1845 – 1948’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science: University of Leeds, November 2019 (pictured).
– ‘Forms of insanity: The development of the British psychiatric classification system 1870–1950’ at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology: Oslo, July 2019.
– ‘HPS at the Boundaries: Philosophical Issues within the Practice of Conceptual History in the Human Sciences’ at the Seventh International Conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: The Evolution of Knowledge, in Hanover, July 2018. [Poster.]
– ‘The Introduction of the Language of the Psychiatric Clinic in 1950s Anglophone Cinema’ at Madness in Popular Culture, University of Edinburgh, April 2018.
– ‘Mental Illness on the Home Front: The Role of the Mental Health Emergency Committee and Social Services During World War Two’ at the Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the University of York, July 2017.
– Co-organiser – The Past, the Present and the Future of Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, Jan 2017
– ‘Making Sense of Simulated Illness: Conceptual Change and Malingering’ at History of Science, Technology, & Medicine (HSTM) Network of Ireland, Dublin City University, November 2016
– ‘Conceptual Change in the Human Sciences – the Case of Mental Disorder: 1800 – 1930’ at Conceptual Change in History Conference, University of Helsinki, September 2016.
‘Shifting Conceptualisations of Mental Disorder 1930 – 1960’ (Lancaster University Philosophy of Psychiatry Work-in-Progress Day)
Kevin Matthew Jones 