Queen Mary, University of London, Vanderbilt University and University of York Postgraduate Conference
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Studies
11.00–5.00pm on 31 May, 2013
Lock-keeper’s Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E14NS
Attendance: Free, followed by drinks
For further details, contact megankitching@gmail.com
Programme
11.00–12.30 Session 1: Envisaging Nature Chair: Markman Ellis
Welcome: Markman Ellis
Nydia Pineda, Queen Mary, University of London
Observing, Inventing and Engraving Moonscapes: Hooke’s Lunar Vale in Micrographia
Megan Kitching, Queen Mary, University of London
Nature’s Volume: the Poem as Encyclopaedia
Killian Quigley, Vanderbilt University
Picturesque Scaffolding: Spectacle, Violence, and the Construction of the English Countryside
12.30–1.30 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Session 2 Self, Mind and Community Chair: Tessa Whitehouse
Tom Williams, Queen Mary, University of London
Imagining the Nation: John Clare and It-Narratives
Joanna Wharton, University of York
Materialising the Mind: Barbauld’s ‘Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study’
Richard Stern, Queen Mary, University of London
Cowper’s Stay at Doctor Cotton’s Collegium Insanorum
3.00–3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30–5.00 Session 3 Objects and Fictions of the Sea Chair: TBC
Miranda Stanyon, Queen Mary, University of London
Fictions of Transport: Translating the Sublime in Psalm 19
Adam Miller, Vanderbilt University
Pocket-Watches and Chronometers: Rethinking the Utilitarian Motives behind Technological Innovation in Eighteenth-Century England
Ruth Scobie, University of York
‘My latest discoveries’: Eighteenth-century circumnavigation and The Last Man.
5.00 Closing Remarks and Drinks
QMCECS Seminar: Tony LaVopa: 13 March 2013
Queen Mary Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar
Wed 13 March 2013
Prof Tony LaVopa (North Carolina State University)
‘David Hume in Paris: Reading a Friendship’
The paper explores the intimate (and unlikely) friendship between David Hume and the Comtesse de Boufflers in Paris in 1763-65. It asks what Hume’s imagined life with the Countess might tell us about the strains between his efforts to articulate a new ethos for the Scottish “Middle Station” and his very un-Scottish (and un-English) fondness for the culture of politeness and gallantry in le monde in Paris. Such an inquiry, the paper argues, provides a new angle of approach to one of Hume’s central concerns: the relationship between Nature and social artifice.
Time: 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lock-Keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS
Convenors: Prof Markman Ellis, English (m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Colin Jones, History (c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Miles Ogborn, Geography (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Barbara Taylor, English and History (b.g.taylor@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Amanda Vickery, History (a.vickery@qmul.ac.uk).
[Travel instructions: Central Line or District Line to Mile End. Exit tube station, turn left down Mile End Road, cross Burdett Road, go under the Mile End Green Bridge (a large yellow bridge), over the canal, and the college is on the left. Enter East Gate, and the Lock-Keepers Cottage is the second building on the right].
QMCECS Seminar: Naomi Tadmor: 27 February
Queen Mary Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar 2012-2013
Wed 27 February 2013
Prof Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster)
The nuclear hardship hypothesis: an eighteenth-century case study
Time: 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lock-Keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS
This is a regular work-in-progress seminar and there is no pre-circulated paper.
QMCECS Seminar 13 February: John Barrell
All are welcome to attend:
QM Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar 2012-2013
Wed 13 February 2013
Prof John Barrell (Queen Mary University of London)
“I know where that is”: the place of Edward Pugh
John Barrell has completed a book on the Welsh artist and writer Edward Pugh, to be published by the University of Wales Press in spring 2013. He has published widely on the literature, history and art of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain, focusing on language, landscape, law, empire, theories of society and progress, and the theory of painting. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the English Association, and has recently joined Queen Mary as Professor of English.
Time: 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lock-Keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS
For updates and more information, see our blog: http://qmcecs.wordpress.com/
Convenors: Prof Markman Ellis, English (m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Colin Jones, History (c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Miles Ogborn, Geography (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Barbara Taylor, English and History (b.g.taylor@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Amanda Vickery, History (a.vickery@qmul.ac.uk).
[Travel instructions: Central Line or District Line to Mile End. Exit tube station, turn left down Mile End Road, cross Burdett Road, go under the Mile End Green Bridge (a large yellow bridge), over the canal, and the college is on the left. Enter East Gate, and the Lock-Keepers Cottage is the second building on the right].
QMCECS Seminar: Malcolm Baker (UC Riverside), 30 Jan 2013
All are welcome to the next Queen Mary Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar.
Wed 30 January 2013
Prof Malcolm Baker (University of California, Riverside)
Celebrating the Illustrious: Roubiliac, Newton, Handel and Pope
Malcolm Baker will be talking about the issues raised in one chapter of his forthcoming
book, The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century
Britain. His discussion will concentrate on the third section, dealing with Pope, and
will look forward to a future research project about Pope, authorship and images of
literary celebrity being planned with the Yale Center for British Art.
This paper is pre-circulated: the speaker will present a short introduction to the paper,
followed by general discussion. If you are short of time, read section VII.iii, about
Pope, preceded by the Introduction to the Chapter. The paper can be downloaded from:
<http://bit.ly/10cbEcW>
Time: 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lock-Keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of
London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS
For updates and more information, see our blog: http://qmcecs.wordpress.com/
Convenors: Prof Markman Ellis, English (m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Colin Jones, History
(c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Miles Ogborn, Geography (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk); Prof
Barbara Taylor (English and History); Prof Amanda Vickery, History (a.vickery@qmul.ac.uk).
[Travel instructions: Central Line or District Line to Mile End. Exit tube station, turn
left down Mile End Road, cross Burdett Road, go under the Mile End Green Bridge (a large
yellow bridge), over the canal, and the college is on the left. Enter East Gate, and the
Lock-Keepers Cottage is the second building on the right].
QM / BSECS early-career short-term Visiting Fellowship
The Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased offer a short term VISITING FELLOWSHIP for early career researchers. The award consists of two parts: from BSECS £400 towards travel and living expenses, and from QMCECS seven nights accommodation in Queen Mary fellows housing on campus at Mile End (equivalent to £300). It will normally involve the FELLOW in research in libraries and archives in London, and also in making contacts with QM researchers.
The FELLOWSHIP is open to scholars of the ‘long’ eighteenth century (or any part of it) in any discipline. This award is open to early career researchers: any doctoral student at a British university in their second year of study and above, and any post-doctoral researcher normally resident in Britain, within five years of the award of their PhD. Anyone interested is invited to submit a letter of application, specifying the proposed research, using the form available on the website: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/eighteenthcentury. (Although the form available there is dated 2011, it is fine to use it).
Deadline for applications: 17 January 2012. The award must be taken up in the period February 1 to June 30 (subject to availability of accommodation).
QMCECS Seminar: Charles Walton (Yale) 21 November 2012
All are welcome to the next QMCECS seminar
Wed 21 November 2012
Prof Charles Walton (Yale University)
‘The Fall from Eden: The Free-Trade Origins of the French Revolution’
This paper is precirculated: the speaker will present a short introduction to the paper, followed by general discussion. The paper can be downloaded from: <http://bit.ly/UGiKih>
Time: 5.00-7.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Lock-Keepers Cottage Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS
Convenors: Prof Markman Ellis, English (m.ellis@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Colin Jones, History (c.d.h.jones@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Miles Ogborn, Geography (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk); Prof Barbara Taylor (English and History) Prof Amanda Vickery, History (a.vickery@qmul.ac.uk).
[Travel instructions: Central Line or District Line to Mile End. Exit tube station, turn left down Mile End Road, cross Burdett Road, go under the Mile End Green Bridge (a large yellow bridge), over the canal, and the college is on the left. Enter East Gate, and the Lock-Keepers Cottage is the second building on the right].
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