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Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London. #QMCECS

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 16d

QMCECS Seminar 30 September: John Gilmore (Warwick) on Slavery and the Poetic Imagination in the 18th Century: 5.15pm in ArtsTwo 3.20 (Mile End) or online on zoom. More info and zoom sign-up here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome.

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 27d

QMCECS seminar for Autumn 2025. Programme below and here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome, online and in-person at Mile End. Tuesdays, 5.15-7.00pm. See you there.

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Jul 16

New book: 'Bluestockings and Landscape in 18th-Century Britain: The Prospect of Improvement'.

Edited by Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, available from Boydell and Brewer.

10 essays on the Bluestockings and landscape by (amongst others) Steve Hindle, Jemima Hubberstey, Ve-Yin Tee & Millie Schurch.

Cover Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · May 27

QMCECS Seminar 3 June: Prof Colin Jones (QM/Chicago) on Robespierre's Lists. 5.15pm on campus or online. More info and online sign-up: tinyurl.com/9u8s4dnm. All welcome!

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · May 6

QMCECS Seminar 6 May: Herman L. Bennett (CUNY / QMUL) 'Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro, Venezuela'. More info and online sign-up: tinyurl.com/9u8s4dnm. Time: 17:15. In person: QMUL Mile End Francis Bancroft 1.01.1.

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Mar 18

QMCECS Seminar 25 March: Maks Del Mar (QMUL Law) on 'Lucian's Enlightenment: Moral Philosophy and the Comic Imagination' in Hume and Smith. 5.15-7.00 pm in person in FB 1.01.1 at QM's Mile End campus, or online on zoom. More info and sign up here: tinyurl.com/bbrphfzk. All welcome

QMCECS Seminar invite 25 March: Maks Del Mar on Lucian's Enlightenement

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Mar 13

QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025. An award to conduct C18 research in London (£500 for travel and living, and accommodation at QMUL's Mile End campus (£400). More info, small print, and application form here: tinyurl.com/pxxwxt3w. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.

QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025 for C18 research in London

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Feb 24

QMCECS seminar Tuesday 4 March: Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge): 'Rationality and Eccentricity in Fielding's and Collier's The Cry (1751)'. Online and in-person, 5.15-7.00pm GMT. More info and sign-up here: tinyurl.com/bdz3evje. All welcome.

Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Feb 5

QMCECS Seminar 11 February 2025
Professor James Chandler (Chicago)
'Lord Byron, Madame de Staël, and Santa Croce Romanticism'
Time: 17:15–19:00.
Place: Francis Bancroft 1.01.1, QMUL Mile End, London, E1 4NS.
Online on Zoom: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reposted by Martin van Gelderen, Markman Ellis, Séverine Sofio , and 1 more Martin van Gelderen, Markman Ellis, Séverine Sofio, Leonie Hannan

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · Feb 4

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC
wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

First page of the advert for the funded PhD at York, with the National Trust. Follow the link in the post for full info about the funding.

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Jan 28

QMCECS Seminar 28 January: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton): 'In Search of Francis Williams'. In-person only. Seminar starts 5.15pm in room 1.01.1 in Francis Bancroft building at QM's Mile End Campus. More info here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/.... All welcome.

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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · Jan 17

QMCECS Seminar Jan 28 2025: Fara Dahoiwala (Princeton), 'In Search of Francis Williams', 17.15-19.00. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4.... In-person only: at Francis Bancroft building, room 1.01.1 at QMUL's Mile End campus, London E1. All welcome. More info here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/...

QMCECS Seminar advert: Dabhoiwala In Search of Francis Williams 28 Jan 25

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