Research Seminars
Seminars begin at 8.00 p.m. and are held in King’s Manor, Room KG07 (the Stephen Copley Room), except when otherwise indicated below.
Summer Term 2013
Tuesday 30 April
Emma Clery (University of Southampton)
"Anna Barbauld's Stoic Politics and the Question of Patriotism"
Tuesday 14 May
Elizabeth Eger (King's College London)
'Quills and other feathers: Elizabeth Montagu and the matter of life writing'
Tuesday 21 May
Willa Murphy (University of Ulster)
"The Oral Bishop: The Epicurean theology of Earl-Bishop Frederick Hervey (1730-1803)
Spring Term 2013
Tuesday 15 January
Marisa Linton (University of Kingston)
‘Robespierre: Authenticity and Terror in Revolutionary Politics’
Tuesday 29 January
Emma Macleod (University of Stirling)
‘John Bull Meets Uncle Sam: British attitudes towards the United States from Independence to the War of 1812’
Tuesday 5 February
Richard De Ritter (University of Leeds)
‘Domesticating Wonder: Late-Eighteenth-Century Children’s Writing and the Home’
Tuesday 19 February
Stephen Burley (Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies)
‘New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96’
Tuesday 5 March
Terry Eagleton (University of Lancaster)
‘Ulster Truism: Francis Hutcheson and William Hazlitt’
Autumn Term 2012
Tuesday 16 October 2012
Speaker: Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck)
'Anna Letitia Barbauld and Joanna Baillie: Can we speak of a Unitarian Poetics?'
Tuesday 30 October
Ruth Scobie (York)
‘Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers’
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Speaker: Joanna Innes (Oxford)
'Who were the casual poor?'
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Speaker: Bruce Buchan (Griffith University)
The Warrior’s Sentiments: Savagery and Civilization in
Scottish Enlightenment Discourse on War’
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Natasha Eaton (UCL)
‘Colour and Colonialism’
Tuesday 11 December 2012
David Porter (University of Michigan)
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Contact: Mary Fairclough mary.fairclough@york.ac.uk or Joanna Wharton jw597@york.ac.uk
CECS Research Seminar Archives