Author Archives: Emily Knight

Long Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar

  N.B. The first seminar is in Week 0

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RECSO Conference CFP: Imagining Apocalypse

  Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held at Oxford University on 18 June 2021 on the subject of ‘Imagining Apocalypse’. A plenary lecture will be given by Professor Fiona Stafford (Professor … Continue reading

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Seminar: The German Enlightenment in Philosophy and Literature. Ideas, Aporias, Legacy

Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study (SAS)/University of London (Senate House, Room 234, Malet Street, London) 4 February, 18 February, 3 March, 28 April, 26 May 2021 17:00-19:00 In the last decades, scholarship on the German Enlightenment … Continue reading

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Reading Images Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Reading Blake’s Baptism(s) - Naomi Billingsley (PhD Religions and Theology, University of Manchester) Tuesday 1 December (Week 8), 14:00-15:00, New Douce Room, Ashmolean Museum Our final seminar will be taken by Naomi Billingsley who will discuss Blake’s watercolour, The Baptism of … Continue reading

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Reading Images Seminar Series

Pick-Pockets and Pocket-Books: Representations of privacy and propriety in eighteenth-century Britain - Hazel Tubman (DPhil History, University of Oxford) Tuesday 17 November (Week 6), 12:45-13:45, New Douce Room, Ashmolean Museum N.B. Change in time. Pocket books were carried by both men … Continue reading

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Job opportunity: Oxford University and the National Trust

Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate - History Faculty, George Street, Oxford Grade 5: £24,057 p.a. The Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and the National Trust (London & South East) are pleased to invite applications for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership … Continue reading

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Reading Images Seminar Series

The Sublime Meets the Grotesque: Caleb Williams and Frankenstein - Lesley Thulin (Mst English Literature, University of Oxford) Tuesday 3 November (Week 4), 14:00-15:00, New Douce Room, Ashmolean Museum See here from further information on the workshop programme or contact [email protected]. We look forward … Continue reading

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Unencompassing the Archipelago

Saturday, November 14, 2021 - Somerville College, Oxford Where is the South West? The North? The East or the North East? The far West?   Perspectives from participants working within different fields and coastlines will offer contrasting and mutually illuminating views … Continue reading

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Long Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar

Tomorrow we will be hosting our first Long Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar at 5.15pm in Seminar Room 3 at St Anne’s College. Crystal Biggin will be giving a paper entitled ‘Lady Bradshaigh’s Grandison Letter: Fiction-Writing, Criticism and Correspondence in … Continue reading

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Long Eighteenth-Century Research in Progress Seminar

Thursdays of odd weeks, 5.15pm, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College © Trustees of the British Museum. Michaelmas 2015 29th October (week 3) Crystal Biggin (English, University of Leicester): ‘Lady Bradshaigh’s Grandison Letter: Fiction-Writing, Criticism and Correspondence in the Richardson … Continue reading

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