Schmit, D.T. (2020) Mind Cure and Mental Therapeutics in the Late 19th century United States. History of Medicine Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Feb. 3, 2020.
Schmit, D. T. & Petit, M. (2014). The Mesmerists’ Itinerary; The Geography of Public Psychology in the United States, 1835-1850. The joint annual meeting of the American Psychological Association and Society for the History of Psychology, Washington, DC. (August 9)
Schmit, D. T. (2012) Mesmerism and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century “Modern” Self. The 43nd Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 20th).
(2010). LaRoy Sunderland’s 1840s Mesmerism Experiments: An Early Social Psychology? York University’s History and Theory Colloquium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (January 28).
(2010). Early American Mesmerism (1784-1810). The 42nd Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, La Moyne University, Syracuse, New York. (June 25).
(2009). Sympathetic Contagions and Investment Scheme Crazes: Mesmerism and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Social Influence. The History of Science and Technology Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (February 13).
(2009) Mind and Body in the Nineteenth- Century Healing Philosophy of Warren Felt Evans. The American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 23-26, 2009.
(2009). The Boundaries of the Mesmeric Body, Circa 1840s. The 41st Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA (June 26).
(2008). Mesmerism and Its Legacy. Bakken Museum of Electricity and Life. Minneapolis, MN (May 13).
(2008). Mind, Body, and the Scientific Study of Meditation; An Historical Approach. The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. (June 2).
(2008). Conversations and Cures; The Sunderlands’ Consulting Rooms, Boston, 1850. The joint meeting of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the History Of Psychology, Boston, MA, (Aug. 17).
(2008). Mesmeric Science in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century. History of Science Society Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. (Nov. 9).
(2006). The Metamorphosis of a Victorian Empiric: LaRoy Sunderland (1804- 1885), Revivalist, Abolitionist, Mesmerist, Spiritualist,…Atheist. The 38th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (June 29).
(2005). The Physician John Kearsley Mitchell’s 1840s Mesmerism Experiments. The 37th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Berkeley, California, (June 25).
(2004). The Nineteenth Century Mesmerist P. P. Quimby Discovers the Rudiments of Mental Healing. The Sarah D. Wangensteen Memorial Lecture Series of the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, University of Minnesota (March)
(2004). The Nineteenth Century American Mesmerists Inquire About Asian Mind Powers. The 36th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Akron, Ohio. (June).
