2021/22
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Previous series
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2019
30 Jan 2019
The controversy surrounding the Cambuslang revival and its reflection on 18th-century debates concerning social cohesion | Ashley Foster
Time and space at the 18th-century fair | Jessica Davidson
13 Feb 2019
The fossils of John Woodward: Defying death in the institutional museum | William Burgess
“Distinguere gli ananassi dale patate”: The transmission of botanical knowledge in Peter-Leopold’s Tuscany | Elena Romero-Passerin
27 Feb 2019
The afterlife of Clementina Sobieska, Stuart Queen in exile | Georgia Vullinghs
Healing statues of the Virgin in 18th-century Portugal | Diana Rafaela Pereira
13 March 2019
Identity, visibility and games of attention in 18th-century views of Paris: Historical, sociological and methodological questions | Jacopo Veneziani
27 March 2019
Treating the practical rules of morality: The “two useful Parts” of moral philosophy and Adam Smith’s "Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)" | Edward Wren
Studying Provincial Intellectual Life in the Enlightenment: the Lausanne Literary Society (1772–1783) | Damiano Bardelli
10 April 2019
Portrait of Spain: The image of Madrid in Antonio Rodríguez’s Colección de trages | Danielle Smith
Hue as tawny as the Moor”: Painting the margins of the 18th-century Chesapeake | Mary Zundo