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Book Brandy to Speak

Brandy Schillace is a dynamic speaker and television presenter who has appeared on the Travel Channel, History Channel, The Great Courses, TEDx Talks and more. She has delivered keynote addresses in the US and abroad, from Dublin and London to Oslo and Moscow. As a historian of medicine and science with multiple books and articles, she can speak to the general public as well as university audiences. As a fiction writer, she addresses the nuts and bolts of genre work and writing practice. As an autistic editor and medical humanities professional, Brandy speaks about disability, vulnerable populations, and issues of social justice.

Topics:

  • Surgical innovation
  • The brain (in history and now)
  • Technology (in history and now)
  • Organ transplant
  • Death and dying/grief
  • Diseases and Vaccination
  • Forensic Science
  • Hormone history
  • Medical Humanities
  • LGBTQIA
  • Transgender rights
  • Autism awareness
  • Social Justice
  • Writing Praxis

Selected Talks:

Weimar Under the Shadow of the Third Reich, The Forgotten Story of the World’s First Center for Homosexual and Transgender Rights NEPA Trans Health Conference on April 21st, 2025

Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Speech, The University of Scranton’s Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024

When Science Turns Evil: Medicine, Justice, and the Humanities. University of Lynchburg, Spring 2023

Our Strange, Uncertain History: Organ Transplant, Ethics, and the Future of Care. Western Michigan University, 2022

TED talk: “Steampunk Science: True Tales of Innovation in a Steam powered Age.” TEDxCLE, Cleveland Museum of Art. June 5th, 2015

Naissance Macabre: Birth, Death, and Female Anatomy. Vesalius 500. New York Academy of Medicine, October 18th, 2014.

Draw Nigh: Approaching Death in a Culture of Immortality. Dirge Lecture Series: The End, Reconsidered: A Lecture Series on Mortality. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, April 4, 2014.