Thursday, February 19, 2026
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Heritage Room, Maxwell Library
Event Type
Lecture
Department
Canadian Studies Program
Link
https://bridgew.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=77241
The Distinguished Canadian Annual Address—Dr. James Moran,
University of Prince Edward Island--Slow Motion Scourge: Syphilis in 18th
Century North America—Thursday, February 19, 2-4pm, Heritage Room, Maxwell
Library.
Dr. James Moran is a History professor at the
University of Prince Edward Island. He teaches courses in Canadian History,
historiography, and the history of health, science and medicine. His academic
work focuses on researching and publishing about the history of mental health,
a topic he feels is as important today as it has been at any point in the past.
Dr.
Moran’s publications include: Committed to the State Asylum: Insanity
and Society in Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario (2000); with
David Wright (eds.) Mental Health in Canadian Society: Historical
Perspectives (2006); with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews (eds.)
Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in
Historical Context(2007); and Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History
of English Civil Law and Lunacy, (2018).
The
Distinguished Canadian Annual Address is open to BSU faculty, staff, students,
and the public.