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Enlightenment and Peasant Life: Representations, Intellectual Debates, Cultural Conflicts, Socio-economic Transitions Sofia, Bulgaria June 26-30 2016 The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) invites applications from scholars in all fields of eighteenth-century studies within the context of a one-week International Seminar for Early Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars. Formerly the East-West Seminar, this event brings together young…

http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/14820 University of Oxford  24th-25th of June 2016  Keynote Speaker: Professor David Luebke (University of Oregon) Space has established itself as a useful analytical category for understanding early modern mentalities. ‘Space’ can be real or imagined. It can denote a physical location, such as a church or a home, or embody an abstract geographical or political…

Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney Abstracts and Registration (Free) at: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/research/conferences.shtml Wednesday, 30 March, to Friday, 1 April 2016. CCANESA Boardroom (Rm 480), Madsen Building F09, The University of Sydney

Keynote speaker: Nikki Hessell, Victoria University of Wellington. The bicentenary of the ‘Year without a Summer’ is our vantage point from which to reconsider both how the people we call the Romantics responded to the climates of their day – whether political or meteorological – and what the climate for Romantic studies might look like…

Incurably curious? Interested in the history of medicine? Know a bit about Wikipedia? Would you like to work with us on a fantastic new project and be our Wikimedian in Residence? Building on our previous projects with Wikimedia UK and our commitment to share our fantastic collections as widely as possible, we’re now looking for…

This two day workshop will be hosted in the Library of the Liverpool Athenaeum and introduced by a public lecture delivered by Dr. Gregory Lynall (English, University of Liverpool). This year’s topic is ‘Trivial Pursuits’, as 2016 marks the tercentenary of John Gay’s Trivia, Or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). Case…

Two exciting new positions in digital humanities, literary studies and book history are available at Western Sydney University on the Australian Research Council funded project ‘Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment’. The original advertisements, along with further details on the application process and links to the position descriptions, can be found at http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/employment/home/current_vacancies Ref 2227/15 Research Associate…

Deadline: 31 October 2015 “Flavours of the Eighteenth Century” Brussels, 10-11 March 2016 Confirmed keynote-speakers: Viktoria von Hoffmann (Université de Liège) & Mark Jenner (University of York) In this year’s upcoming annual conference, The Dutch-Belgian Society for 18th century studies will be focusing on the role played by taste and smell, in a century when…

Date: 11 March 2016 Venue: The University of Melbourne Contact: Katie Barclay (katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au) or Bronwyn Reddan (b.reddan@student.unimelb.edu.au) Katie Barclay and Bronwyn Reddan The significance of the heart across time in Western culture is hard to underestimate. It is a beating heart that haunts Edgar Allan Poe’s murderous narrator; his guilt embodied as another’s heart. The…

The category of the Speculative Sciences has a long pedigree going all the way back to Aristotle. However, in the seventeenth century the status and classification of the speculative sciences underwent significant change. Natural philosophy, for example, moved from being a speculative science to an experimental or practical science. Furthermore, in some quarters there was…

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…

Science and Satire in Early Modern England Professor Mordechai Feingold, History at the California Institute of Technology Co-presented by the Sydney Intellectual History Network and the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney The Royal Society was founded in 1660s London to discuss promoting knowledge of the natural world through observation…