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All forthcoming events in CECS

Research Seminars

Seminars begin at 4.30pm and are held in King’s Manor, Room KG07 (the Stephen Copley Room), except when otherwise indicated below.

Please note for the Spring term 2021 all events will be online.  Please see individual event listings for details on how to join.  


Tue
19
Jan

"Here we meet with characters of every stamp, of every complexation”: The London Coffee-house and print culture, 1770-1795

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Edward Hardiman (University of Keele & Cumbria Archive Services)

Fri
22
Jan

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
26
Jan

Walpole’s Book Parts

CECS Research Seminar with Luisa Calè (Birkbeck, University of London)

Fri
29
Jan

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
2
Feb

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

CECS Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York) and Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, Leicester)

Fri
5
Feb

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
9
Feb

A Language of Love?: Anxiety and the Eighteenth Century Love Letter

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Rachel Smith (Bath Spa University)

Fri
12
Feb

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Sat
13
Feb

Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall

York Georgian Society Lecture with Patrick Wildgust, Curator at Shandy Hall

Tue
16
Feb

Anne Lister’s Queer and Natural History

CECS Research Seminar with Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University, Chicago)

Fri
19
Feb

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
23
Feb

The personal network structure of urban elites in the urbanisation process of Chester: c.1750-1860

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Raku Nagamine (University of Leicester)

Fri
26
Feb

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
2
Mar

St. Martin’s Lane: Art, Design, and the Cultural Geography of the Eighteenth-Century London Art World

CECS Research Seminar with Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Fri
5
Mar

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Tue
9
Mar

Religion of the Heart and Mind: The Protestant Roots of Feeling in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Staël

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Cathleen Mair (Queen Mary University of London)

Fri
12
Mar

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Sat
13
Mar

The Rebuilding of British Towns, 1760 -1830

York Georgian Society Lecture with Geoffrey Tyack, Editor of the Georgian Group Journal

Fri
19
Mar

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Fri
26
Mar

Exploring Constellations

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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