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Research Seminar

 

QMCECS offers a programme of early evening seminars with speakers from a range of disciplines. We have six seminars a year, and recent speakers have included Sophie Gee (Princeton), Chloe Wigston-Smith (York), Karen Harvey (Birmingham), and Suvir Kaul (Penn). For a list of speakers in the last five years see the seminar archive.

2024/2025 Seminar Programme

*Seminars will be available both digitally and in-person: sign up links are available here and on the mailing list a fortnight before each event* 

All seminars Tuesdays 17:15–19:00 unless otherwise stated.

Location: QMUL Mile End Campus, Francis Bancroft Building 1. 01. 1.

15 October: Rebecca Anne Barr (Cambridge), Eliza Haywood's She-Comedies

12 November: Gemma Shearwood (York), Tropical Places and Displaced Tropics in the Westminster Abbey Pantheon c.1763 – 1842.

26 November: Nigel Leask (Glasgow). ‘’S mì-chàirdeil am fearann’: Dugald MacNicol’s ‘Barbados Journal’ and Poetry (1809-1816) and the Gaelic Caribbean.

28 January: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), ‘In Search of Francis Williams'  

11 February: James K. Chandler (Chicago), 'Lord Byron, Madame de Staël, and Santa Croce Romanticism'.

4 March: Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge), 'Rationality and Eccentricity in Sarah Fielding’s and Jane Collier’s The Cry (1751)'.

25 March: Maks del Mar (QMUL Law), 'Lucian's Enlightenment: Moral Philosophy and the Comic Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Scotland'

8 April: Montaz Marché (Birmingham): "By the Name of Mary": Black Women, Service and Freedom in Long-Eighteenth Century London.

6 May: Herman L. Bennett (CUNY) 'Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro, Venezuela'.

3 June: Colin Jones (QMUL/Chicago) 'Maximilien Robespierre and the Making of Lists'

Investigators found in Robespierre’s papers after his fall in 1794, lists of what he called ‘patriots having talent’, and which appear to have served as a guideline for his making appointments in government. These lists, which have never been fully analysed before, provide an invaluable and unusual insight into only into the way Robespierre operated as a politician but also how politics worked during the period of the Terror.

In-Person: QMUL Mile End Campus, Francis Bancroft Building 1. 01. 1.

Online:        https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/ThvSFAHpRZaSwV8nUDQtgA     

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