Talking
Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan, Newstalk Radio (2024)
In October 2024, I appeared on the long-running Irish radio show Talking History, hosted by Patrick Geoghegan on Newstalk. Along with a panel of experts, I discusssed the history of US presidential debates from 1960 to the present.
Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast, 2019-2020 (2022-)
In 2019 I founded the Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast. I hosted and produced a series of interviews with presenters at the Cambridge American History seminar across two academic years, asking them about their current and previous works as well as their favourite albums. While the podcast was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am delighted to say that it was revived in November 2022 by PhD students at Cambridge, who have injected new life into the project. I was fortunate enough to be able to return to be interviewed about my own research on the podcast when I presented at the Cambridge American History Seminar podcast in October 2023.
p.s. my very talented younger brother Sam designed the logo. You can find out more about his work here
Flashback: American Historians on the Movies, 2022.
I appeared as a guest 'expert' on the Flashback podcast to discuss the James Cameron movie Titanic (1998). I The whole podcast series is great— I would highly recommend exploring the back-catalogue!
Selected Conference and Workshop Papers
Hitched to a Hyphen: Returning Naturalized Citizens to the US During World War 1, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS), annual conference, University of Southampton, 20 June 2024
‘American Methods’ of Event Promotion in Victorian Britain, Cultural History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 24 April 2024
‘Revisiting the “Victorian internet”’, Selwyn College Historical Society, 12 March 2024
Neutrality by Absence: Overseas Americans at the Beginning of the First World War, SHAFR UK and Ireland online workshop, 22 February 2024
Cable Ties: The Transatlantic Telegraph and American Culture in Britain, 1866-1914:, American History Research Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 6 February 2024
Workshop on Military Humanitarianism, City University London, 15-16 January 2024
Neutrality by Absence: Overseas Americans at the Beginning of the First World War, Cambridge American History Seminar, 16 October 2023
‘“Merrily Yours”: Marshall P. Wilder Returns the Gaze’, Love and Lenses symposium, University of Oxford, 12 October 2023
Organizer and participant, ‘Uneven Globalization(s) and New Histories of US Power’, roundtable at Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference, Arlington, 16 June 2023
‘The African Routes of War: The United States and Liberia, August-December 1914’, British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Annual Conference, Keele, 12 April, 2023
‘The August 1914 Civilian Exodus from Europe and the Limits of Anglo-Americanism’, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, New Orleans, 18 June, 2022
“The Newspapers, the Telegraph Wires, the Cables”: Race, Infrastructure and the Global Production of American Culture, 1865-1914’ Maynooth University History Department Research Seminar, 10 February 2022
Roundtable participant, ‘Transnational Histories of the United States in the Nineteenth Century’, British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) online event, 28 January 2022
War and Peace and Performance: the 1914 Anglo-American Exposition in London, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Winter Symposium, online event 20 February 2021
‘Reflections Across Oceans’, American History Workshop, Cambridge University, 18 February 2020
‘Steam and Hot Air’, American History Workshop, Cambridge University, 11 June 2019
‘Formulating African-Americanism on the Transatlantic stage: Three case studies from the turn of the 20th century’, African American Intellectual History Society Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 March 2019
“Historical Perspectives on the Performance of National Identities in Foreign Contexts”: University of Cambridge Nationalisms and Identities Research Group, 22 October 2018
'Marking the "National" Game: American Baseball Tours to Britain, 1874 and 1889', Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group, 30 October 2018
“Making Race in the Metropole: Association Football Tours from Britain’s Colonies to England, 1949-1959”, International Society of Cultural History Conference, New York City, September 2018
“Signifying the Nation: American Performance and Reflection in Britain 1865-1900”, History Lab Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, June 2018