Recent conference papers and invited talks:

BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 2012, ‘Romantic Connections: Networks of Influence c.1760-1835’. Keynote address: ‘“If any thing can be called a man’s property it is the produce of his mind’: The Literary Fund and Claims of Literature (1802)”

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, San Antonion, Texas, April 2012: “Written on the Atlantic Ocean: Citizen Lee and the Dispersal of Radical London”

Huntington Library, January 2012, California, USA, 'Sociable Places: Locating Enlightenment & Romantic Culture': “‘Bread & cheese & porter only being allowed’: Radical Conversazione in the 1790s”

Open University at Senate House, University of London, October, 2011, Romantic Period Seminar, 'Key Voices of the 1790s': 'The Use of Conversation': William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Hays'

University of Glasgow, July 2011: I arranged a panel on London's Popular Radical Culture in London in the 1790s for the British Association of Romantic Studies conference in Glasgow: 'Charles "Louse" Pigott'

May 2011 addressed the 'Flows of Modernity' seminar at the University of Toulouse on 'Romantisme.

Huntington Library, California, USA, February 2011, 'USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Seminar': "The Most Garrulous Female Commentator": Piozzi, Boswell and the Fate of the "Literary"'

University of York, January 2011, 'Marginal Lives'. Paper: '"Louse' Pigott"

University of York, December 2010, 'London Scenes.' Paper: “‘Mutual intercourse’ and ‘licentious discussion’ in The Microcosm of London, 1808-1811”

University of Glasgow, October 2010, 'Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment.' Paper: 'The Buzz about The Bee' 

University of Oxford, July 2010, ‘The Godwin Diary: Reconstructing London's Culture 1788-1836.’ Paper: ‘Robert Merry’

Australian National University, July 2010, ‘Rethinking the Human.’ Paper : ‘Turning Things Around Together: Conversation and Enlightenment ‘

Sydney University, July 2010, 'Cross-cultural currents in the Age of Jane Austen.' Paper:: ‘Jane Austen in Space’

University of Oxford, January 2010, ‘Restoration to Reform Seminar.’ January 2010, Paper: 'Jane Austen and the "hazard" of Conversation.’

California Institute of Technology, February 2009, HSS Seminar. Paper: ‘Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century’.

University of Glasgow, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, January 2009, Plenary Paper: 'Robert Burns 1759 to 2009'. Plenary Paper: ‘Why the English had to Invent Robert Burns’