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Travelling Trifles: The Souvenirs of Late Eighteenth-Century Female British Tourists Friday 5 August 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Emma Gleadhill.

“A Cultivated Mind”: Early Posthumous Writing on Mary Wollstonecraft Friday 8 July 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Shane Greentree.

Digitizing Enlightenment Symposium EA.G.38, Parramatta South Campus, Western Sydney University 12-13 July 2016 A pre-conference Symposium attached to the George Rudé seminar, and sponsored by the WSU Digital Humanities Research Group; ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research; and the Australian Research Council Convenors: Simon Burrows (WSU) and Glenn Roe (ANU)  Symposium abstract Scholars of the…

The content and meaning of British botanical diplomacy 1770-1820 Friday 3 June 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Katja Abramova.

Lessons in Feeling: Quixotic Mothering in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing Friday 6 May 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Amelia Dale.

Getting Intimate with George Cheyne: Passions, Diets, and Self-Help in the Eighteenth Century Friday 8 April 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Jessica Hamel-Akré.

Samuel Richardson’s passionate heroines-reexamining emotion in the eighteenth-century novel Friday 18 March 2016 3-5pm Rogers Room John Woolley Building University of Sydney Led by Olivia Murphy.

All welcome. All meetings are 3-5pm on Fridays, in the Rogers Room, John Woolley Building A20, The University of Sydney. Readings are posted at: http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/long-eighteenth-century-reading-group.shtml Reminders will be posted here closer to each event: 18 March – Olivia Murphy, ‘Samuel Richardson’s passionate heroines—reexamining emotion in the eighteenth-century novel’ 8 April – Jessica Hamel-Akré, ‘Getting Intimate with George Cheyne: Passions, Diets,…

The 13th Annual Wenshan International Conference National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan 18-19 November 2016 Conference website: http://rl2016.netai.net/Call/ Keynote Speakers: Prof Rachel Bowlby, FBA (Comparative Literature, Princeton University/English, University College, London) Prof Arthur Versluis (Religious Studies, Michigan State University) In his seminal book The Roots of Romanticism (1999), Isaiah Berlin regards Romanticism as “the largest recent movement to…

Organised by The Division of English, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Venue: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU, Singapore Dates: 10-12 June 2016 Keynote Speakers Dr Stephen Bending (University of Southampton) Dr Elizabeth Cook (Poet and Novelist, UK) Dr Stanislaus Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Dr Nigel Taylor (Director, Singapore Botanic Gardens) Call…

Transatlanticism’s Influence on British Literary Study Transatlanticism is often credited with enriching, and sometimes even correcting, the study of American literature. By de-emphasising the nation and its perceived coherence and uncovering crosscurrents from the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, transatlanticism seems the opposite of American exceptionalism. How, though, has transatlanticism enriched or challenged the study…

For more info see the conference website at: https://anzamems2017.wordpress.com/ We invite delegates from around the world to join us for the 11th Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 7-10 February 2017. Mobility and Exchange Our theme for ANZAMEMS 2017 is mobility and exchange. We encourage proposals for papers or panels addressing any…