Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar Series

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

All seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 4:30pm - 6:00pm at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square, EH8 9NW.

Please contact Anna Myers if you have any questions or access requirements: s1533631@sms.ed.ac.uk

2020

22 Jan 2020
“Oh had I been a more useful sex!” Jacobite women and acts of loyalty | Georgia Vullinghs (Edinburgh)
“A fair and just light”: the understanding and use of history in the post-Culloden Highlands | Alastair Noble (Edinburgh)
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5 Feb 2020
‘Sick Body, selfhood and the temporal experience in Dream of the Red Chamber’ | Eileen Zhao (Edinburgh)
‘Azure Blue, Verdigris Green, Sulphur Yellow: The mineralogical origins of Patrick Syme Wener’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)’ | Joyce Dixon (Edinburgh)
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19 Feb 2020
‘“Hung up for monuments”: the material legacy of Shakespeare’s Richard III’ | Anna Myers (Edinburgh)
'Patterns of skill: narrative and material forms of practical knowledge in early eighteenth-century adventure fiction’ | Robert Stearn (Birkbeck)
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18 Mar 2020
‘The West Indian Interest at the time of Abolition (1783–1803): The significance of William and James Chisholme’ | Alastair Learmont (Edinburgh)
‘Against Despotism: approaching the republican Atlantic, c.1769–1791’ | Regis Coursin (Montreal)
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1 Apr 2020
‘Natural theology in Scotland: the place of Scottish common-sense realism in reformed theology’ | Zachary Seals and Sergio Melgar (Edinburgh)
‘Polaris in Ursa Minor? Friedrich August Wolf, the Halle Seminar, and the history of philology’ | Kristine Palmieri (Chicago)
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8 Apr 2020 (Rescheduled)
'A temple to the muses: reimagining antiquity during the grand tour in Kenneth Mackenzie’s classical apartments, 1771’ | Alley Jordan (Edinburgh)
‘“A most handsome method of introducing me”: James Playfair and Scottish architectural patronage in eighteenth-century London’ | Rory Lamb (Edinburgh)
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