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The Warwick Eighteenth Century Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of History of the University of Warwick. The Centre runs major research projects and provides a forum for academic staff and postgraduate students in the Humanities, including members of the departments of History, English, French and History of Art. The Centre is closely involved with the Department of History’s MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies.
News
Waddesdon: The Rothschild Collection - Leverhulme Warwick Waddesdon Project. A new online searchable trade card catalogue: Luxury goods in Europe.
Marie-Curie Fellow 2008-10: Dr. Marie Thébaud-Sorger (Paris) will be researching cultures of invention, spectacle and consumption in the eighteenth century. Dr Thébaud-Sorger has written on the hot air balloon in eighteenth century France, amongst her other research at the interface of science and culture.
2009-10 Visiting Fellows at the Centre - Professor Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA and Professor Charles Withers, FBA, Professor of Historica Geography, Edinburgh University are visiting fellows of the Institute of Advanced Study and of the Centre, and will be engaging in a range of activities, workshops and seminars, respectively, in 28 February to 8th March and 3rd -14th May. For further details follow the link below.
Recent Events
The Lure of Italy, workshop organised by Professor Jacqueline Labbe with the Clark Library, 24-25 March 2009, at the Warwick Venice Centre
Sciences and Capital Cities: Revisiting the Public Sphere of Knowledge, workshop organised by Dr Stephane Van Damme, 3-4 June 2009, European University Institute, Florence.
Earlier Activities
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Academics from the centre are also involved in a new partnership with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Victoria and Albert Museum, entitled the Contemporary Network for Early Modern Creativity and Cultural Interchange, with the aim of exploring the impact of east-west cultural interchange on creativity and innovation between the 15th and 19th centuries.
Staff at the Centre are currently working on a number of projects including:
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