Workshop Archives - Eighteenth-Century and Enlightenment Studies Network

The seminar series seeks to provide a regular inter-disciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career researchers working on the eighteenth century to meet and discuss their research.

All seminars will be held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, from 4:30-6pm.

Wednesday 25th January

Ben Rogers, University of Edinburgh
‘‘An Unexpected Solution or a Political Imposition?’: Scottish Episcopalian Toleration, 1702-1712’

Carys Brown, University of Cambridge

‘‘A dissembling Harlot for a leacherous wolf’: sexual reputation and religious coexistence in England, c.1689-1750′

Wednesday 8th February

Nicola Martin, University of Stirling
‘Improvement, Stadial Theory, and the Pacification of the Highlands in
the mid-Eighteenth Century’

Thomas Archambaud, Independent
‘‘The Highland Bard and the Prime Minister: James Macpherson, Lord Bute and the politics of Scottish patronage in the age of Enlightenment”’

Wednesday 22nd February

Sydney Ayers, University of Edinburgh
‘Representing Robert Adam: Biography, Portraiture & Memory’

Nel Whiting, University of Dundee
‘‘if they hang not in proper Places, they will not have a good Effect’:
Portraiture, Place and Position’

Wednesday 1st March

Elizabeth Ford, University of Glasgow
‘“I can think of nothing but that flute”: General John Reid (1721-1807)’

Alice Little, University of Oxford
‘Categorising ‘national music’ in eighteenth-century Oxford’

Wednesday 15th March

William Swain, University of Edinburgh
‘Adam Ferguson, Freidrich von Gentz, and the decline of the Martial Spirit’

John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona)
‘The Cultural Work of the Royal Scots College (Valladolid), 1770-1808: Cosmopolitanism, Diaspora, the ‘National Feeling’ and Library Formation’

Wednesday 22nd March

Catherine Ellis, Durham University
‘How to understand the sex worker at the table: gastrocritical approaches to eighteenth-century French prostitution’

Jessica Hamel-Akré, University of Montreal
‘“Oh, when shall I be holy?”: Reading and Writing Women’s Eighteenth-Century Self-Starvation’

Wednesday 12th April

Hannah Lund, University of Edinburgh
‘Enthroned: The Sitter’s Chair of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1760-1879’

Suchitra Choudhury, University of Glasgow
‘Fashion and Textiles: A Postcolonial Reading of Sir Walter Scott’

Wednesday 26th April

Charlotte Bassett, University of Edinburgh
‘Lady Margaret Hamilton: Patroness of Hopetoun’

Amy Boyington, University of Cambridge
‘Elite wives and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain’

ECRS is supported by the Eighteenth-Century and Enlightenment Studies Network (ECENS) of the University of Edinburgh.

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