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Postgraduate Forum

We run research seminars for postgraduate students, by postgraduate students, inviting speakers from York and from other universities. We also run social events for our members. 

All welcome! If you are interested in presenting your research on any aspect of the long eighteenth century, please contact the organisers below by emailing cecs-pgforum@york.ac.uk:

  • Hayley Griffiths
  • Alex McIntyre
  • Felix Robertson
  • Chloe Wilcox 
2026-27 forum events

CECS PG Forum 2026/7 Events 

  • PG Forum Social -Tuesday 27 October at 5:00pm in H/G09. 
    We will be learning how to play some popular eighteenth-century card games and to use some tarot cards, which rose in popularity in the C18. Come along to meet your fellow postgrad C18ists and gain the necessary card-playing skills to survive in the instance of becoming stuck in a Jane Austen novel. 

CECS PG Forum 2026/7 Reading Groups

  • Medical Humanities Reading Group - Every other Monday from 16th November at 5:30pm in H/G09
  • Celtic Literature Reading Group - Every other Monday from 23 November at 5:30pm in H/G09 
2025-26 forum events
  • 21 October: Postgraduate Fellowships and the Application Process with Nicole Bouché from the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University  
  • 18 November: 18th century "Pub Quiz" 
  • 2 December: Frankenstein Film Viewing and Discussion
  • 17 February: Group Writing/Study Session
  • 24 March: Group Writing/Study Session
  • 14 April: PhD Advice Panel and Q&A for MA students 
  • 11 June: CECS 18th Century Ball

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