@oxford18thc.bsky.social
Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
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Tomorrow Tuesday 3 June at 5.30 pm Professor Tom Jones (St Andrews) will be talking about Phillis Wheatley Peters’ poetry @Mansfield College.
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We're delighted to announced our programme for the term.
We kick off on Tuesday with Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi).
All welcome, as always!
In a change to our originally advertised schedule, we'll be hosting a double header on Tuesday 11th March. All welcome!
05.03.2025 23:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Don't miss @juliepark.bsky.social - today at 5.30pm in the Massey Room, Balliol College. All welcome!
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Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
Poster for Susanna Centlivre's The Busy Body, showing a masked eighteenth-century woman.
This Tuesday we'll be hearing @gabriellabird.bsky.social & @davidftaylor.bsky.social talk about reviving Centlivre's The Busy Body in a collab between @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social @creationtheatre.bsky.social & Oxford's Cultural Programme.
5.30 @ Seminar Room East, Mansfield College. All welcome!
Week 4: Tues. 11 Feb., 5.30-7pm DAVID TAYLOR (Oxford) and director GABRIELLA BIRD Reviving Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body for the 21st-century Stage Week 6: Tues. 25 Feb., 5.30-7pm KATHARINA BOEHM (University of Passau, Germany) Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Week 7: Tues. 4 March., 5.30-7pm JULIE PARK (Penn State University) Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing * Joint event with the Romanticism Seminar* Week 8: Tues. 11 March, 12.30-1.45pm PETER SABOR (McGill University) “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen * Sandwich lunch provided* Weeks 4, 6, 8: Seminar Room East, Mansfield College Week 7: Massey Room, Balliol College All welcome. SEMINAR LEADERS: Ros Ballaster, Christine Gerrard, Nicole Pohl, Tess Somervell, David Taylor, Carly Watson, Abigail Williams.
We're excited to reveal our programme for the term, featuring @davidftaylor.bsky.social, Gabriella Bird Katharine Boehm,
@juliepark.bsky.social, and Peter Sabor.
As always, all welcome!
Good question.
Think: how we are and should be digitizing the 18th century archive, along with the possibilities and difficulties of such projects.
Do check out www.e-enlightenment.com for a sense of what we'll be discussing.
We're excited to be talking the digital #18thcentury with Nicole Pohl and @jarona7.bsky.social of the @eenlightenment.bsky.social tomorrow (19th) from 12.30-1.45pm.
Do join us in Seminar Room East at Mansfield College. A sandwich lunch will be provided.
Hello! Hope we're not late to the party over here.
Here's our list of speakers for this term. Do join us next week for what promises to be a fascinating session from by Electronic Enlightenment team.
