Eighteenth Century Seminars
2011-2012

Thursdays 5pm-7pm

Room Humanities H3.03

All Welcome

For previous seminars please see our archive

For more details of the Eighteenth Century Centre please see the Centre website

Term 1

Thursday 13 October 2011

Richard Whatmore (Sussex) - 'Enlightenment and Empire'

Jointly held with the Global History and Culture Centre

Thursday 22 November 2011

(IAS Corruption network but of relevance): Mark Philp (Oxford), Defining Corruption

This meeting will be in Milburn House, IAS seminar room at 5pm

Thursday 24 November 2011

Susan Whyman - 'A Tale of an Upstart: William Hutton of Birmingham 1723-1815'

Thursday 1 December 2011

Marion Pluskota (Leicester) - 'The Money I had, I got some of it by work and some by gentlemen that gave it to me': Provincial prostitution and casual employment in port cities in the Eighteenth Century'

Thursday 19 January 2012

Steve Shapiro (Warwick) - 'Are Americans paranoid?: Global Conspiracy (1797-98) and the Crisis of the Cultural Capital'

Wed 1 Feb 2012

4.00-6.30 pm- H303- Humanities Building

Visual cultures workshop with Dror Wahrman, Hanneke Grootenboer, Rosie Dias

Thursday 9 Feb 2012

David O'Shaughnessy (Warwick), 'Paddy in London: Staging the Irish in the 18th Century'

Thursday 23 February 2012

William Rupp (Warwick) - 'Friendship and Forgery in Georgian Britain: The Role of Relationships in the Ireland Shakespeare Scandal of 1795/6'

Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances of our speaker, William Rupp, Thursday's Eighteenth Century seminar has had to be cancelled. We shall try to reschedule the paper for next academic year.

Thursday 1 March - Joint meeting with Global Seminar

Brian Cowan (McGill), 'Café or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee and Sociability'

Thursday 6-9 March 2012,

Gillian Russell (Australian National University)- visting IAS Fellow, sponsored by the C18th Centre

• ‘Botany Bay Theatricals: Theatre History and the Imagining of Australia, 1796-2011’ [6 March, public lecture, 5 for 5.30, Capital Centre, Milburn House]
• Colloquium for Warwick staff, PhD students and postdocs in the Wolfson Research Exchange 'Revolutionary Drama' [8 March] Wolfson Research Exchange, Seminar Room 1, Library, 1-4pm.
• 'Romantic Public Cultures' workshop [9 March] Please register with Jon Mee

13-14 April 2012

The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830) Workshop organised by David O'Shaughnessy - for details click here

Saturday 28 April 2012

Spaces of Work 1770 – 1830: 'HRC One-day Interdisciplinary Conference' , sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre and organised by Kate Scarth [K dot A dot Scarth at warwick dot ac dot uk] and Joe Morrissey

8 May 2012

David Lambert (Warwick) title tbc

May 2012 (exact date TBA)

Workshop on Clubs and Societies

Jointly held with Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre