Symposium programme:
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Location: Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College, 1.30–4.30pm
Keynote:
Dr Anna Maerker (King's College London): Title TBC
Presentations:
Eleanor Peebles (MPhil in Early Modern History): ‘To Know Themselves’: Touch, Vision, and the Paper Body in Johann Remmelin’s ‘Catoptrum Microcosmicum’
Hettie Marsden (PhD candidate in Art History): “A System of Minor Actions”? Recreational Embroideries, Aesthetic Affection and Female Agency in Early Victorian Britain
Mika Hyman (PhD candidate in History of Science) and Dr Stephane Crayton (Faculty of Music): Instruments of Sensation: Marin Marais’ ‘Le Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille’ and the Embodied Archive
A reminder that our Salon symposium is tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 26 November! Our theme is ‘The Senses’ and we’re taking an embodied, medical history, musical, and craft-based approach to the long eighteenth century.
25.11.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
*two weeks ago! What’s a week in the context of the loooong eighteenth century 😅
28.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Kitchen in the Cabinet
The Salon got off to a fantastic start last week when we discussed smell! This week, it’s Taste, and we’ll be meeting 12-1pm tomorrow in the Junior Parlour at Caius. We’ll discuss Robles’ chapter on ‘Squid’ in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds + the online exhibition kitcheninthecabinet.com
28.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our first session of the term takes place tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) at 12 noon! Please note the updated location in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius
14.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our workshop has a new look this term: The Salon.
Discussion group meeting alternate Wednesdays 12-1pm in the Stephen Hawking Room, Trinity Hall.
Our symposium on 26 November will feature a keynote by Dr Anna Maerker (KCL). Want to speak? Email us 18thcenturycam@gmail.com.
01.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Emily will be speaking on "Faith and Reason: Faith in Reason? Revisiting Coleridge's Romantic Epistemology" and Joseph on "Freedom of Expression in American Constitutional Thought and Practice, c. 1770-1800." If you can't join in person, drop us a line for a teams link!
16.06.2025 08:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our final workshop of term is happening this evening (Monday 16th) at 5 pm at the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius. We're excited to hear papers from Emily Maisonville and Joseph Opp!
16.06.2025 08:10 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Join us this evening for the third workshop this term, featuring our wonderful convenor @jakebransgrove.bsky.social and guest speaker Dr Beth Richards! We’ll be in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius, at 5pm. Message us for a link to join online. See you there! ✨
10.06.2025 09:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
João will be speaking on 'Enlightenment and Colonialism in São Tomé and Príncipe (1780–1800)' and Andrés on 'Conversos of Cartagena: Institutional Adaptation and Local Experience in an Afro-Caribbean context, 1610–1680'.
02.06.2025 07:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our next event of term is taking place TODAY! (Monday 2nd June) at 5.30 pm (not 5 pm!) in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College. We'll be hearing papers from João Moreira da Silva @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social and Andrés Jácome. All are welcome to join!
02.06.2025 07:35 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Our Easter term card is now live! Join us on Tuesday at 5pm, in person and online, for our first two papers from Anthony Zhang and Aelfred Hillman on Restoration comedies.
22.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Poster for the call for papers with a landscape painting top left and a bird of paradise top right. Summary of the text:
Those interested in presenting should send a 250 word abstract, accompanied by a short biography, to 18thcenturycam@gmail.com by 28 April 2025. We welcome proposals for any topic that focuses on the period c.1660–c.1840. Your paper may address any theme, including (but certainly not limited to):
Visual and material cultures
Sociability
Manners and daily interactions
Rhetoric and speech
Industry and commerce
Social and political change
Our workshop takes place in a central Cambridge location on Tuesday evenings, from 5–7pm. We will hear two twenty-minute papers, followed by a Q&A session, and we usually continue the discussion over drinks and dinner.
The proposed dates for Easter term are 27 May, 3 June, 10 June, and 17 June (to avoid coinciding with the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar). Please let us know when applying to present if you cannot make any of these dates.
Our Easter term CfP is now open! Send us your abstracts by 28 April 🌿
03.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Arrannè Rispoli (University of California, Los Angeles): The Poetics of Black Criminality
Deiara Semeco Kouto (KNUST/Leuphana University of Lüneburg): The Transcultural Concepts of Anton Wilhelm Amo in Relation to the Production of Knowledge in Exhibitions and Curatorial Programs
Our final session of Lent term is on Tuesday! We will be hosting an *online only* event featuring two exciting papers from @arrannerispoli.bsky.social and Deiara Semeco Kouto. DM us for the Teams link or subscribe to our mailing list via the link in our bio.
16.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We have two exciting papers coming up tomorrow from Tomas Brown (Cambridge) and Anita Hoffmann (York) @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
– join us at 5 pm in the Library Seminar Room at St John's! We'll listen to both papers, followed by a break for drinks and other refreshments, a Q&A, and dinner.
03.03.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
Our next session of the term is tomorrow evening at 5pm in Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School! We’re delighted to welcome Nate Catching and Tiéphaine Thomason to speak on war and peace in France and Martinique 🕊️
Join us in person or online (message for a Teams link)
24.02.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Carmontelle’s watercolour portrait of the Mozart family gathered around a piano
It’s our first session of the Lent Term today! Join us at 5pm in the Library Seminar Room, St John’s College, to hear Jonathan Salamon discussing “Moments of Absorption in Bach’s Keyboard Works”, and @zarakesterton.bsky.social talking about illusion and artifice in Carmontelle’s portraiture 🎹🎨
04.02.2025 10:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
We are delighted to announce our Lent term card!
Our first session is a big Bach event on 4 February at St John’s College Library seminar room. 🎶
For more details, subscribe to our mailing list: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
28.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
⏳ Deadline extended! ⏳ You now have until this Friday 17 January to apply to speak at our workshop. All postgraduate students and ECRs welcome. Come and join our friendly 18th century community 😊
13.01.2025 10:03 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
One day left to submit your abstracts! 🕰️
09.01.2025 11:08 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A poster describing the mission of the workshop and giving details of the theme, convenors, and format. Please visit our website www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century for a text version
The deadline for our Lent Term CfP is next week! To apply, please send a 250 word abstract and short bio to our email 18centurycam@gmail.com by 10 January. Our theme this term is ✨ Form and Function ✨
03.01.2025 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022)
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Early career historian | 18th Century Britain and America | research fellow at the University of Buckingham | visiting scholar at the Centre for Geopolitics | writing a book with Polity Press
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