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CECS 25 Anniversary Celebration

Saturday 10 June 2023

Celebrate the 25 anniversary of CECS with us in King's Manor.

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Awaiting further details.

Cancelled: International Perspectives on Opera, Ballet and Theatre c1790-1930

Friday 12 May 2023

Event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a different date.

Ralph Thoresby’s Museum: Indigenous Objects and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire

Wednesday 3 May 2023

Professor Robbie Richardson (Princeton University) presents this keynote lecture looking at the collecting career of Thoresby, and his interaction with Indigenous objects and cultures to reflect on the broader dynamic of coercion and exchange between Indigenous North American nations and Britain.

A Littoral Imperium: Wartime and the Flow of Worldmaking

Monday 24 April 2023

Awaiting further details

Cornelia's Comeback: Politics at home in Revolutionary France

Monday 17 April 2023

Awaiting further details.

Continuity, Stability and Prosperity: Eighteenth Century British Historiography in Journal Literature in the 2010s

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Join Trevor Burnard as he discusses continuity, stability and prosperity in eighteenth century Britain in journal literature in the 2010s.

Talks by winners of the YGS Nuttgens award

Monday 23 January 2023

Join us as Rachel Feldberg and Dr Roseanna Kettle present their YGS Nuttgens award winning talks.

Neil Ramsey

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Details to be confirmed.

Roxanne Eberle, "My nationality decreases every day": Amelia Opie's "Recollections of a Visit to Paris in 1802."

Tuesday 15 November 2022

Join us for Roxanne Eberle's insightful talks on nationality and Amelia Opie's visit to Paris in 1802.

Launch of Jennie Batchelor's The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History

Tuesday 1 November 2022

Join our online event to launch Jennie Batchelor's The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History.

'Slavery Shall Cease': The Millennial Mission of British Abolitionists, 1780-1840

Thursday 20 October 2022

Join us for this illuminating talk from John Coffey

Institutions of Literature and Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: Introduction and launch

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Jon Mee and Chloe Wigston Smith discuss institutions of literature and small things in the eighteenth century.

Reproducing Race across the Black/White Atlantic: England and Jamaica in the mid-C18

Thursday 30 June 2022

Professor Catherine Hall presents this lecture which explores the reproduction of racial and gender hierarchies in the mid-C18.

Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and Beyond

Saturday 18 June 2022

We're holding a conference day to mark the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Charles Lamb's Elia essays in the London Magazine.

London in 1810: Spanish American Independence at 27 Grafton Street

Tuesday 7 June 2022

The year 1810 marked a watershed moment in the history of Latin America. During these months, several independent juntas, a set of provisional governments created during the French occupation of Spain, were established across the continent from Mexico to Argentina

The Natural History of Poetry

Tuesday 24 May 2022

Dr Thomas H. Ford joins us to discuss the speculative concept of the natural history of poetry, devised by August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel between 1795 and 1805.

The long 18th century on screen: A Q&A about working as a historian behind the scenes with film & TV

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Hannah Greig leads a discussion on the benefits and pitfalls of academics collaborating with film and TV companies to create period dramas.

Gout shoes and the material culture of disability in Georgian Britain

Tuesday 15 March 2022

Professor Matthew McCormack presents the fourth research seminar looking into disability in Georgian Britain.

Continuity, Stability and Prosperity: Eighteenth-Century British Historiography in Journal Literature in the 2010s

Tuesday 1 March 2022

Please note this event has been CANCELLED Trevor Burnard presents the third research seminar of the term.

Fractured Stories and Fragmented Archives: Women’s Paper Traces and the Eighteenth-Century House & Commemorating Imperialism in Westminster Abbey after 1660

Tuesday 15 February 2022

Katie Crowther and Gemma Shearwood present a joint event with the York Georgian Society

Friday's Accidental Blackness: Interpreting Race in Robinson Crusoe

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Katie Crowther and Gemma Shearwood examine the texts and contexts of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Pantheon Redux: Situating Opera in the Regency Development of London's West End, 1811-12

Tuesday 16 November 2021

Pantheon Redux: Situating Opera in the Regency Development of London's West End, 1811-12

Letitia Landon: The Poetics and Politics of the Page

Tuesday 2 November 2021

Letitia Landon: The Poetics and Politics of the Page

Cutting-and-Pasting Anecdotal History: scrapbooks and ephemeral print culture

Tuesday 19 October 2021

Cutting-and-Pasting Anecdotal History: scrapbooks and ephemeral print culture

Defining a transnational colonial picturesque?- Ireland, Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti)

Thursday 17 June 2021

The annual Copley lecture is in commemoration of Stephen Copley, one of the Centre's founding members.

Julio Cortázar and Lord Houghton’s “Everyman” Keats: Vida y Cartas, or Biography in Translation

Tuesday 8 June 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Olivia Loksing Moy (Lehman College, CUNY)

'About the World in every bodies pocket': Bluestockings in Ladies' Memorandum Books

Tuesday 1 June 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Holly Day (University of York)

Celebrity Pornographic Characters and Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies

Tuesday 25 May 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Amelia Dale (SUIBE, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics)

Melancholy and Despair Among Early Modern English Women: A Case Study of Hannah Allen's Satan's Methods and Malic Baffled (1683)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Daniel Beaumont (University of Auckland)

Decolonising Research

Tuesday 11 May 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Joanna de Groot (University of York)

Entering the "Temple of Apollo": James Oswald and Musical "Branding" in Eighteenth-Century London

Tuesday 4 May 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Mary-Jannet Leith (University of Southampton)

Unlocking the Digital Archive

Tuesday 27 April 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Sophie Coulombeau and Katie Crowther (University of York)

Merchants and Crises: The Bristol Sugar Market during the French Revolutionary Wars

Tuesday 20 April 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Peter Buckles (University of Liverpool)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 26 March 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Exploring Constellations

Friday 19 March 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Wednesday 17 March 2021

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

The Rebuilding of British Towns, 1760 -1830

Saturday 13 March 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 12 March 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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

Tuesday 9 March 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 5 March 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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

Tuesday 2 March 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 26 February 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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

Tuesday 23 February 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Raku Nagamine (University of Leicester)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 19 February 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Anne Lister’s Queer and Natural History

Tuesday 16 February 2021

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

Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall

Saturday 13 February 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 12 February 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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

Tuesday 9 February 2021

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Rachel Smith (Bath Spa University)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 5 February 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Exploring Constellations

Friday 29 January 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Walpole’s Book Parts

Tuesday 26 January 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 22 January 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

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

Tuesday 19 January 2021

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

Exploring Constellations

Friday 15 January 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

William Kent's Gothic at the Minster: Its influence on Georgian Gothic Design

Saturday 9 January 2021

York Georgian Society Lecture with Peter Lindfield (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 8 January 2021

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Exploring Constellations

Friday 11 December 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World

Thursday 10 December 2020

Registration is now open for this online colloquium

Exploring Constellations

Friday 4 December 2020

A William Black Virtual "Reading" Group

Q&A with Lynn Festa (Rutgers)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

Join us for a Q&A with the author of Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (2019).

Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London

Tuesday 1 December 2020

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 27 November 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Transformation of Royal Progresses and Royal Image in Britain, 1760-1830

Tuesday 24 November 2020

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Paige Emerick (University of Leicester)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 20 November 2020

A William Black Virtual "Reading" Group

Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (2019)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

A reading group with Lynn Festa, Rutgers

"Republican Countess”: Lady Londonderry and the Irish Rebellion of 1798

Saturday 14 November 2020

York Georgian Society lecture with Dr. Catriona Kennedy

Exploring Constellations

Friday 13 November 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Alexander Walker, Historical Knowledge and Service in British India, 1791-1831

Tuesday 10 November 2020

CECS PG Forum with Hannah Kelly (University of Liverpool)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 6 November 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Colonialism and the idea of 'sex' in eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

Tuesday 3 November 2020

CECS Research Seminar with Onni Gust, University of Nottingham

Queens at the Spa: Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena at Bath and Tunbridge Wells

Tuesday 3 November 2020

CECS PG Forum with Susannah Whaley (University of Auckland)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 30 October 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Lewis Todd, Fossil Talk: Coleridge, Hutton, and the Geo-logic of Language

Tuesday 27 October 2020

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Lewis Todd (University of Cambridge)

Exploring Constellations

Friday 23 October 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

‘Sublime Archimedean Art’: Shelley’s Steam Engine

Wednesday 21 October 2020

CECS Research Seminar with John Gardner, Anglia Ruskin University

Exploring Constellations

Friday 16 October 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

The Heroines of Harris' List: Narratives of Rape, Seduction and Debauchery in London's 1790s Bawdy Pamphlets

Tuesday 13 October 2020

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Francesca Killoran (University of York)

New Insights into the Restoration of Fairfax House

Saturday 10 October 2020

York Georgian Society Lecture with Dr. Ralph Harrington

Exploring Constellations

Friday 9 October 2020

A William Black Virtual "Reading" Group

William Godwin and Capacity

Tuesday 6 October 2020

CECS Research Seminar with Essaka Joshua, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Exploring Constellations

Friday 2 October 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Exploring Constellations

Friday 25 September 2020

A William Blake Virtual "Reading" Group

Distance Conference 2020

Monday 3 August 2020

The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York presents their inaugural postgraduate conference on 'Distance' from 3-14 August 2020.

#CANCELLED# Plantation Islands? Landscape Design in Eighteenth-century Ireland, Jamaica and San Domingue

Thursday 11 June 2020

CECS Annual Stephen Copley Lecture with Finola O’Kane (University College Dublin)

Approaches to Researching Material Culture

Tuesday 2 June 2020

CECS Online Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (York)

'From "pleasant Remedy" to "odious Practice": Female Masturbation in the works of John Marten'

Tuesday 26 May 2020

CECS online PG Forum with Ellie Schlappa (Newcastle University)

Hannah Greg in the Age of Manufactures: Gender, Politics, and Class

Tuesday 19 May 2020

CECS Online Research Seminar with Jon Mee (York)

Women on the margins: Blended families and legal practices in the courts of early modern Scotland

Monday 18 May 2020

CREMS Cabinet of Curiosities online seminar with Rebecca Mason (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Using news: newsletter writers and readers in early modern England

Thursday 14 May 2020

CREMS Online Research Seminar with Lena Liapi (University of Keele and CREMS Research Associate)

'Oeconomizing Matter and Mind: Mining and the "Psychological Policy" behind Alexander von Humboldt's Sustainability'

Tuesday 12 May 2020

CECS online PG Forum with Patrick Anthony, Vanderbilt University

Reading and Researching a Correspondence: Reflections on Martha McTier

Tuesday 5 May 2020

CECS research discussion with Catriona Kennedy and Gillian Russell (York)

'Linton had a very bad night': The Sleep of the Heir of Traquair, 1783

Tuesday 28 April 2020

CECS PG Forum with Frances Long (York)

#CANCELLED# Cordial Spirits: Drinking and Sociability in the very long eighteenth century

Saturday 4 April 2020

This conference has been CANCELLED. We hope to run it on a future date.

High Hair: From the Duchess of Devonshire to Amy Winehouse

Thursday 12 March 2020

In support of York International Women's Week 2020, York Mansion House is delighted to welcome Professor Gillian Russell, who will be exploring the enduring power of the high hairstyle.

Wren, beauty, and Trinity College Library

Monday 9 March 2020

Anthony Geraghty (University of York)

Attack and Capture: Aspects of Space-time and the Threshold in 18th-century Indian Captivity Narratives

Tuesday 3 March 2020

*CHANGE OF VENUE* CECS PG Forum with Eva-Maria Mosser (University of Manchester)

The Art and Mystery of Horse-Drawn Carriages: What Can They Tell Us About Georgian Society and Culture?

Thursday 20 February 2020

York Georgian Society Patrick Nuttgens Lecture Speaker: Gabriella Barnard-Edmunds (University of York) Please note the change in venue!

New Contexts for Remarks on Clarissa: Dialogues, Book Reviewing, and 'Scenes of Criticism'

Tuesday 18 February 2020

CECS PG Forum with Crystal Biggins (University of Leicester)

The Libraries and Reading Habits of British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France and Mauritius

Tuesday 11 February 2020

Elodie Duché (York St John University)

“Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740

Wednesday 5 February 2020

Department of History Research Seminar Speaker: Tim Riding (University of York)

'The True State of Our Condition,’ Or, Where are Robinson Crusoe’s Insect Companions?

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace (Boston College)

The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Thomas Campbell

Tuesday 4 February 2020

CECS PG Forum with Amy Wilcockson (University of Nottingham)

'Queen of the Needle': Miss Linwood and her Embroidered Pictures

Tuesday 21 January 2020

CECS PG Forum with Samantha Scott (University of York)

Towards a Theatre of the Aesthetic

Tuesday 14 January 2020

David Taylor (University of Oxford)

Riley in Cairo: British art and Egypt in the 1980s

Monday 13 January 2020

Richard Johns (University of York)

Artists or Craftsmen? Carving a new interpretation of British sculptural history

Tuesday 3 December 2019

Charlotte Davis (University of York)

En route to a historico-literary methodology for 18th Century Travel Writing: The Grand Tourists of the academy of Lunéville

Tuesday 26 November 2019

Jérémy Filet (Université de Lorraine/Manchester Metropolitan University)

Bankruptcy in the court of Chancery, 1650-1750

Wednesday 20 November 2019

Aidan Collins (University of York)

Identity in the Library: Elizabeth Thomas, Poetic Separates, and Intellectual Patronage

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbill (University of Oxford)

Reading it Wrong: Misunderstanding in Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Professor Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)

Filling the Scott Void: Catherine Gore Reimagines Early Nineteenth Century Writers

Tuesday 29 October 2019

Samantha Belcher (University of Durham)

The society of prisoners: Anglo-French wars and incarceration in the eighteenth century

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Dr Renaud Morieux presents a talk on the detention of prisoners of war in the eighteenth century.

Humanities Research Centre Tenth Anniversary Celebration

Friday 18 October 2019

An event to provoke, inspire and open new conversations and connections.

From Past to Present at the King's Manor

Saturday 21 September 2019

A Heritage Open Day led by Kate Giles

A Contemporary Robinsonade

Thursday 11 July 2019

Peter Robinson (University of Reading) reads from The Constitutionals: A Fiction (2019) and discusses the praxis of adaptation

Crusoe at 300: Adaptations, Afterlives & Futures

Wednesday 10 July 2019

The sixth biennial meeting of the Defoe Society

Prudence or Pathology? The Figure of the Miser in the Eighteenth-Century Money It-Narrative

Tuesday 18 June 2019

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Charmaine Falzon (Queen Mary University of London)

Art as Commodities / Commodities as Art: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Friday 14 June 2019

This conference will demonstrate the centrality of markets to art’s modern cultural ascendancy, while also recasting art objects as bodies of knowledge and vehicles of cultural exchange through networks of global trade.

The Aesthetics of Autonomy

Tuesday 11 June 2019

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Marte Stinis (University of York)

Festival Film Screening: Peterloo

Sunday 9 June 2019

Join us for a special Festival screening of Mike Leigh’s epic film Peterloo.

Peterloo: Mike Leigh in conversation

Sunday 9 June 2019

Join Mike as he discusses the film and its making.

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

Thursday 6 June 2019

A British Academy funded conference

Beer and Ballads

Wednesday 5 June 2019

Join us at a local tavern as we recreate the convivial atmosphere of the radical meetings of the early 19th century

City of Beasts: How animals shaped Georgian London

Tuesday 4 June 2019

CECS Research Seminar with Thomas Almeroth-Williams (University of Cambridge)

Living amidst the ruins: A social geography of eighteenth-century Whitehall

Tuesday 28 May 2019

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Juliet Learmouth (Birkbeck University of London)

Making Harewood and the Modern World

Wednesday 22 May 2019

Department of Archaeology 40th Anniversary Open Lectures Series

Reviving the Credibility of the Criminal Law: Robert Peel’s reform and resistance to Jeremy Bentham’s radicalism

Tuesday 14 May 2019

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Cheng Li (University of York)

Wordsworth’s Anglo-French Pamphlet: Public and Private Codes in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Professor David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London) will be giving the CECS Annual Stephen Copley lecture

The Spouting Club: A Workship

Tuesday 30 April 2019

CECS Postgraduate Forum with Ellen Brewster (University of Oxford)

Poverty, Prisons, Death and Disease (PPDD) in 1840s York

Tuesday 16 April 2019

This "PPDD" event is organised jointly by York Museums Trust and "York and All That".

Writing a philosopher’s life: The case of George Berkeley

Monday 1 April 2019

Dr Tom Jones, University of St Andrews

Peterloo at 200

Friday 15 March 2019

Two days of public events to commemorate and understand the Peterloo massacre.

York 1844 and all that: Ideas and themes 175 years on

Tuesday 12 March 2019

A York Unconference Join us on March 12th for a gathering of enthusiasts focussing on a unique period in York's history!

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Thomas Keymer (University of Toronto)

'A work of time' The material decay and notional permanence of the Cotton Library

Tuesday 19 February 2019

Will Burgess (Queen Mary University of London)

Intoxicants and the Invention of ‘Consumption’

Wednesday 13 February 2019

Phil Withington (University of Sheffield)

Clarissa Repurposed; or, How the Fictional Corpse Became Gothic

Tuesday 29 January 2019

Yael Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)

'On Thin Ice': The launch of Thin Ice Press

Thursday 24 January 2019

Join the Department of English and Related Literature to celebrate the launch of Thin Ice Press, our newly-built in-house printing studio.

Disrememberance of Things Past, or: À la recherche de l'histoire perdue

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University)

Mary Guyatt on Careers in the Heritage Industry

Monday 14 January 2019

Dr Mary Guyatt, Director of the Jane Austen's House Museum

Style Wars: Fashioning Hair in Early Modernity

Thursday 22 November 2018

Dr Sue Vincent (York)

Three Eighteenth-Century Lives: Challenges in Biography and Imperial History

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Dr. Kate Fullagar (Macquarie University, Australia)

Women, Accounting, and Intertextuality in Eighteenth-Century England

Wednesday 14 November 2018

Lizzie Spencer (York)

Agency, Resistance, and Popular Protest during the 1819 West Riding Miners' Strike

Tuesday 13 November 2018

Joe Stanley (Sheffield Hallam University)

Peterloo: A Conversation with Jacqueline Riding

Friday 2 November 2018

Dr. Riding will discuss her work in relation to Peterloo in conversation with Prof. Jon Mee

The Theo-aesthetics of the Early British Gothic: Rejoice or Tremble?

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Holly Hirst (Manchester Metropolitan University)

An End to War? Visions of Peace, Perpetual and Otherwise, During the Long Eighteenth Century

Tuesday 23 October 2018

Dr. Andrea Haslanger (University of Sussex)

Rethinking the Genius of Grinling Gibbons

Friday 19 October 2018

The sixth Fairfax House Symposium in Georgian Studies

“In the Blood of Our Brothers.” The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Dr Jesús Sanjurjo (University of York)

Criticism and Truth, on the Epistemology of Literary Studies

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Professor Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University)

Empiricism, Epistolarity and Landscape in Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence

Tuesday 9 October 2018

Millie Schurch (University of York)

‘Forgive Me Awful Poet:’ The Redemption and Rewriting of Paradise Lost

Thursday 4 October 2018

Professor David Harper (West Point)

Augustus Earle’s Pedestrian Tour in New Zealand: or, Get off the Beach

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Dr. Ingrid Horrocks (Massey University)

Unfortunate Princes: The Stuarts in Exile and the Jacobite Rebellions

Thursday 27 September 2018

Dr Jacqueline Riding (Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London)

Greek Matters

Thursday 19 July 2018

This one-day workshop will consider the intersection of Hellenism and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800).

The Worlds of Maria Edgeworth: Networks, Influence and Reception

Friday 29 June 2018

CECS is proud to host a conference commemorating Maria Edgeworth 250. Registration closes 15 June!

New Directions in the History of Political Thought, 1500-1800: Dialogues at Disciplinary Thresholds

Thursday 14 June 2018

York Early Career Workshop Department of Politics with sponsorship from CREMS

‘My Dearest Tussy’: Coping with Separation during the Napoleonic Wars

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Elaine Chalus (University of Liverpool)

Laurence Sterne: A sentimental picture

Friday 8 June 2018

Jon Mee, Patrick Wildgust, Nick Thurston and Caleb Klaces

Frankenstein at 200: The science of the novel

Thursday 7 June 2018

Mary Fairclough discusses the science of the novel

Frankenstein: A night at the movies

Wednesday 6 June 2018

Celebrating 200 years of Mary's Shelley's Modern Prometheus

Toleration, Interfaith Marriage, and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Tuesday 8 May 2018

Alison Conway (University of British Columbia)

The Art of Conversation

Thursday 3 May 2018

Learn from experts Jon Mee and Chloe Wigston Smith about what made conversation tick in the eighteenth century.

Celebrating Women in Print

Tuesday 1 May 2018

CECS Postgraduate forum

Seeing Black Women in Georgian London

Tuesday 17 April 2018

Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College and Fulbright Scholar at University of York)

A Sentimental Journey to the past: Sites of Memory in Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil

Tuesday 6 March 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum Lilian Tabois (University of York)

Looking backward at eighteenth-century English pornography

Tuesday 27 February 2018

CECS Research Seminar Kathleen Lubey (St. John's University)

Piranesi in the Valley of Uncanny

Monday 26 February 2018

Department of History of Art Research Seminar Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge)

Dangerous Eruptions’: Helen Maria Williams, the Terror and Eighteenth-Century Representations of Natural Disaster

Tuesday 20 February 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum James Lesslie (University of Birkbeck)

Mapping piracy in Defoe

Tuesday 13 February 2018

CECS Research Seminar Manushag Powell (Purdue University)

Pictured Together? Constructions of Gender, Race, & Social Rank in The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle & Lady Elizabeth Murray

Monday 12 February 2018

Department of History of Art Research Seminar Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College)

William Shield's Favourite Songs, 1775: A Snapshot of Songs, Shows and Subscribers from the Borders to the Humber

Tuesday 6 February 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum Amelie Addison (University of Leeds)

Authoring the Museum: Mary Hamilton and Bluestocking Antiquarianism

Tuesday 23 January 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum Maddy Pelling (University of York)

The end of Enlightenment

Tuesday 16 January 2018

CECS Research Seminar Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)

Institutions as Actors

Friday 1 December 2017

The third workshop of the AHRC-funded 'Institutions of Literatures, 1700-1900' research network

Living in the (Eighteenth Century) Material World: Female Collectors, Enlightenment Education and the Country House

Tuesday 28 November 2017

Postgraduate Forum Lizzie Rogers (University of Hull)

Erasmus Darwin's Speaking Machine

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Alice Rhodes (University of York

How Novels Begin: Some Nineteenth-Century Test-Cases

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London)

Authentic Dross: Irish Poetry and Song - Moore, Mangan and (Jack) Yeats

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Matthew Campbell (University of York)

Fibres and Fashion in the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1800

Tuesday 7 November 2017

John Styles (University of Hertfordshire)

Contested Inheritances, 1750-1830

Saturday 28 October 2017

A one-day conference hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Reform Debates of 1830-32: A 'Four Nations' Approach

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Postgraduate Forum James Smith (University of York)

Gender and Things in Pope and Austen

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Barbara Benedict (Trinity College)

How Turner Walked to Class

Monday 16 October 2017

Martin Myrone (Tate) Part of the History of Art research seminar series

The Influence of the Epic Genre in Eighteenth-Century History Writing

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Postgraduate Forum Alexandra Anderson (University of Leeds)

So You Want to Submit a Journal Article! Strategies for Navigating Peer Review

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University)

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 6 June 2017

‘The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment’

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2017

'Dangerous Spectacles: the Convulsionnaires and the Anti-Philosophical Movement in 1760s Paris'

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 9 May 2017

‘The Magdalens and the Performance of Virtue: Kelly, Sterne and Crebillon’

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2017

‘Are you talking to me? Questions of audience in Voltaire’s Letters Concerning the English Nation or Philosophical Letters?’

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Confronting Loss in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2017

The Army of Joseph II and the Coming of the French Revolutionary Wars

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Adam Budd - Publishing, Patronage, and the Library of Liberty: Andrew Millar and Thomas Hollis in 1765

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Crafting the Past in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall

Being Citizens 1775-1832

Saturday 3 December 2016

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

'On this Day in 1816': The Bicentenary of Frankenstein's Composition - A public reading of Romantic poetry and prose

Thursday 14 July 2016

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the creation of Frankenstein

Sheridan, theatre and public opinion workshop and conference

Friday 17 June 2016

Join us booing, hissing and clapping at the Theatre Royal Richmond

‘Laurence Sterne's Textual Commerce’

Tuesday 7 June 2016

CECS PG Forum

'Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide'

Tuesday 3 May 2016

CECS research seminar

Inside Empire Looking Out: The view from Dent's veranda

Tuesday 19 April 2016

East India Company, Art and Opium

'Thomas Holcroft’s Diary'

Tuesday 9 February 2016

Amy Garnai (Tel Aviv University)

Difficult Women 1680-1830

Friday 27 November 2015

CECS day conference: Difficult Women

‘The Garden as Plenty: Multi-Sensory Experience and Feminine Craft in the Eighteenth-Century Flower Garden’

Tuesday 24 November 2015

All PG students interested in the 18th century welcome

‘Smell and the Eighteenth-Century 'Perceptual Revolution’'

Tuesday 24 November 2015

All PG students interested in the 18th century welcome

‘The Garden as Plenty: Multi-Sensory Experience and Feminine Craft in the Eighteenth-Century Flower Garden’

Tuesday 17 November 2015

All PG students interested in the 18th century welcome

'The Radicalism of Female Rule in Enlightenment Britain'

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Arianne Chernock (Boston University)

‘Military orientalism and the Soldier-Traveller in Egypt, 1801’

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Free. All PG Students interested in the 18th Century

'Lord Byron's Preposterous Liberalism'

Tuesday 3 November 2015

Clare Tuite (University of Melbourne)

The Yorkshire Election of 1807

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Ted Royle (University of York)

Slavery in Small Things

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Jim Walvin (University of York)

Fifth Anglo-Italian Eighteenth-Century conference

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Anglo-Italian politics in the 18th Century

THREE-DAY CONFERENCE Waterloo: Representation and Memory, 1815-2015

Friday 26 June 2015

3-day International Conference to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

A changing Magna Carta: Past, present and futures

Thursday 11 June 2015

A changing Magna Carta: Past, present and futures

Disseminating Dress: Britain and the Fashion World

Thursday 28 May 2015

Three-day conference on fashion

Waterloo 200 public lecture series

Tuesday 26 May 2015

The fifth of a series of 5 public lectures to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

Waterloo 200 public lecture series

Tuesday 19 May 2015

The fourth in the series of 5 public lectures to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

Waterloo 200 public lecture series

Tuesday 5 May 2015

The third of 5 public lectures to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

Waterloo 200 public lecture series

Tuesday 28 April 2015

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Waterloo 200 Public lecture series

Tuesday 14 April 2015

The first of 5 public lectures to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

Networks of Improvement: British Literary Clubs and Societies 1760-1840

Friday 13 March 2015

Major 18th-century conference on British Literary Clubs and Societies

'The sacred and the profane: European oriental scholars and the interpretations of religious rituals

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Jan Loop (Kent) 'The sacred and the profane: European oriental Scholars and the interpretations of religious rituals

'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and objectivity in 18th-century historical writing'

Tuesday 3 March 2015

James Davey ( National Maritime Museum) 'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and objectivity in 18th-century historical writing'

'Sublime tourism, Neapolitan science and counter-revolution: Vesuvius and Pompeii in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century'

Tuesday 24 February 2015

'Sublime tourism, Neapolitan science and counter-revolution: Vesuvius and Pompeii in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century'

'Travel and family strategy in the late seventeenth century: The Percevals of Co. Cork'

Tuesday 17 February 2015

'Travel and family strategy in the late seventeenth century: The Percevals of Co. Cork'

'A "small invisible man": Putting Nevil Maskelyne on display in Greenwich'

Tuesday 13 January 2015

'A "small invisible man": Putting Nevil Maskelyne on display in Greenwich'

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2014

'Pandemonium: soundscapes of radicalism in the Romantic period' All Welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 25 November 2014

All students interested in the 18th century welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 18 November 2014

All students interested in the 18th Century welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 11 November 2014

All students interested in the long 18th century welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 4 November 2014

All students interested on the long 18th century welcome

Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Eighteenth Century

Saturday 1 November 2014

CECS Day Conference

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 October 2014

'...Women, politics and the 1723 oaths to George I' All Welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 28 October 2014

All students interested in the 18th century welcome

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 October 2014

'Rethinking Religion in 18th-century Paris', - all welcome

CECS Day Conference

Saturday 28 June 2014

Portraiture: Exchanges, debates and performances 1700-1840. CECS Summer Conference

'Electrick communication everywhere': Order and Chaos in the Arts and Sciences 1740-1840 II

Friday 20 June 2014

The second of a pair of lectures offered by CECS for the Festival of Ideas 2014

‘The Return of the Mummy: Napoleon’s Funeral, History and the July Monarchy’

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Open to all students and staff interested in the long eighteenth century

‘Captain Morris in Full Glee, Or, The Poetics of Conviviality’

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Open to all staff and students interested in the long eighteenth century

CECS Colloquium

Saturday 17 May 2014

CECS Colloquium to celebrate the work of Harriet Guest

‘Rational Marriage and Erotic Love: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Holcroft, and Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de Lichtfield’

Tuesday 13 May 2014

Open to all students and staff interested in the long eighteenth century

'The Sea Triumph of Charles II'

Tuesday 29 April 2014

Open to all staff and students interested in the long eighteenth century

CECS Day Conference

Saturday 8 March 2014

CECS Day conference at the King' Manor

Annual Stephen Copley Lecture

Wednesday 5 March 2014

Paper title: 'Border Trouble: Scottish Balladry, Mediality and World Literature'

PG Forum

Tuesday 4 March 2014

'Eighteenth-century Funerary Sculpture', Rebecca Senior, University of York. All PG Students welcome

Michael Eaton and the Good Humour Club

Wednesday 26 February 2014

All welcome.

TBC

Tuesday 25 February 2014

'Painting the Bourgeosie: Chardin and the Domestic Woman',Emma Barker, Art Historian, Open University. All welcome

PG Forum

Tuesday 18 February 2014

'Cook and Scurvy', Duncan Robertson, University of York. All PG students welcome

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2014

'Discovering frauds: Corruption, informing and print culture in late 17th and early 18th century England' Natasha Glaisyer, University of York.All Welcome

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2014

'Pursuing and Publishing Frances Burney d'Arblay's Journals and Letters, 1768-1840' Peter Sabor, McGill University. All Welcome

PG forum

Tuesday 21 January 2014

'Transpennine Enlightenment: literary and philosophical societies as regional network, 1780-1800' Jennifer Wilkes, University of York. All PG Students Welcome

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 January 2014

'Forgetting 1798: the struggle over 'living memory' in Ulster' Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University. All Welcome

CECS Research Seminar week 9 Autumn Term 2013

Tuesday 26 November 2013

The speaker this week will be Donald William Stewart from the University of Edinburgh

CECS Research Seminar week 7 Autumn Term

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Professor Mee, University of York, will be giving the paper, 'Thomas Hardy, Politics, Religion, and 'public'discourse in the 1790s'

CECS Day Conference

Saturday 9 November 2013

Sociability and Print Culture

CECS Research Seminar Week 6 Autumn Term

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Greg Dart, from UCL, will be giving the paper 'The Romantic Essay and the City'

CECS Research Seminar Week 4 Autumn Term

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Professor Fiona Stafford, from University of Oxford, will be giving a paper 'Lyrical Ballads and the Poetry of Place'

CECS Research Seminar Week 3 Autumn Term

Tuesday 15 October 2013

James Chandler, University of Chicago, will be the first of our Autumn term speakers

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2013

Emma Clery (University of Southampton) "Anna Barbauld's Stoic Politics and The Question of Patriotism"

CECS Day Conference: Medical Matters

Saturday 9 March 2013

All welcome

‘Ulster Truism: Francis Hutcheson and William Hazlitt’

Tuesday 5 March 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

‘New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96’

Tuesday 19 February 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

‘New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96’

Tuesday 19 February 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

‘Domesticating Wonder: Late-Eighteenth-Century Children’s Writing and the Home’

Tuesday 5 February 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

'John Bull Meets Uncle Sam: British attitudes towards the United States from Independence to the War of 1812'

Tuesday 29 January 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

Robespierre: Authenticity and Terror in Revolutionary Politics

Tuesday 15 January 2013

For staff and students interested in the Eighteenth Century

Yorkshire Tourism in the Eighteenth Century

Saturday 8 December 2012

All welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 20 November 2012

All postgraduates interested in the eighteenth century welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 13 November 2012

All postgraduates interested in the eighteenth century welcome

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 6 November 2012

All postgraduates interested in the eighteenth century welcome

John Barrell Symposium

Saturday 3 November 2012

A day conference to celebrate John's contribution to the university and to scholarship in the humanities

CECS Postgraduate Forum

Tuesday 23 October 2012

All postgraduates interested in the eighteenth century welcome

Welcome Party

Thursday 11 October 2012

A chance for you to get to know other students and staff at the Centre.

CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 23 June 2012

This day conference brings together academic and curatorial work on the desire to dress fashionably in the eighteenth century.

Landscape and the Local: A Workshop

Saturday 9 June 2012

The workshop pursues an argument between Barrell and Clark...

CECS Day Conference: Cultures of Collection

Saturday 10 March 2012

Convened by Jim Watt, CECS

CECS Autumn Workshop: the Grand Tour in Britain and Ireland

Saturday 3 December 2011

One-day CECS conference

Stephen Copley Annual Lecture

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Professor Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow): ‘”To see oursels as others see us!”: How did Burns read Adam Smith?'