• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford) , Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English) , Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford) , Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford) , Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford) , Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford) , Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8. Tuesdays, 5.30pm
• Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 17:30 - Black Lives Matter and Studies in 18th-Century Literature and Culture at Oxford: Questions, Methods, Sources
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 17:30 - Black Lives Matter and Studies in 18th-Century Literature and Culture at Oxford: Questions, Methods, Sources (Rescheduled from 20/10/20)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 17:30 - Spying on London: Ned Ward and Commercial Satire
  Dr Kate Davison (University of Sheffield)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 13:15 - Pulteney, Patriots and Plunderers: Jonathan Swift and a 'Lost' Political Pamphlet of 1730
  Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnball (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 17:30 - Screening and discussion of Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon (R/18 Collective)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 17:30 - Roundtable in memory of Richard Terry (Northumbria)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 12:30 - Jakob Bogdani’s Balding Bullfinch: Still Life Paintings and their Global Stories
  Lucy Powell

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 12:30 - ‘Mock Histories: Chronicle Fictions of the Mid-Eighteenth Century’ and ‘ "It baffles all arrogant pretences to learning": The Mithraic Altar at Wrest Park'
  Zachary Garber (University of Oxford), Jemima Hubberstey (LMH, Oxford)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 17:30 - ‘Slavery and Freedom in the Two Indies’
  Professor Ashley Cohen (University of Southern California)

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 17:30 - ‘Easy Transitions and Amazing Transitions: Garrick, Hume, and Dramatic Character’
  Dr James Harriman-Smith (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 17:30 - ‘ “Drawn in the darkest colour”’: Whiteness, women, and fictional celebrity, 1780-1806’
  Dr Ruth Scobie (Early Career Research Fellow, TORCH)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 13:00 - WHERE DO WE KNOW FROM?
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 17:30 - 'Charles Brockden Brown's Gothic Citizens'
  Hannah Murray (University of Liverpool)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 17:30 - 'Accounting for Taste: The Business of Georgian Theatre'
  David O'Shaughnessy (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:30 - A professional script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley's 1779 farce Who's the Dupe? Produced by The R/18 Collective and Creation Theatre.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 12:30 - ‘Gulliver’s Afterlives’
  Dr Daniel Cook (University of Dundee)

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Jesting Cultures and Masculinity’
  Dr Tim Somers (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 14 June 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Before Barrie: Eighteenth-Century Fairies in Kensington Gardens' & ‘Mediation in the Mind: Prints and Performance’.
  Alice Huxley, Katie Noble

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:30 - 'Sancho’s Britain'
  Paterson Joseph

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Gothic images: Illustration in the Gothic novel, 1764-1840’
  David Wiggins (Uppsala University)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 12:30 - Workshop for all those who teach FHS Paper 4 (Literature in English 1660-1760) at University of Oxford.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 17:30 - ‘The History of Free Indirect Discourse’
  Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - Creating Cosmopolitanisms: 18thc Women Travel Writers and the Re-imagination of Identity
  Dr Shirley F. Tung (Associate Professor of English Literature, Kansas State University. Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Visiting Scholar (2022-2023))

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - Women and Regional Theatre in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
  Dr Fiona Ritchie (Associate Professor Drama & Theatre Department of English McGill University.)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 17:30 - CANCELLED - Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - 'Eighteenth-Century Delaniana: Mary Hamilton's Collage-Biography of Mary Delany on Mary Delany and Mary Hamilton
  Dr Nataliia Voloshkova (Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 17:30 - CANCELLED: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: 'Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Please note that this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances
  Dr Matthew Craske (Brookes)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Edward Gibbon and the limits of knowledge’
  Prof Jenny Davidson (Columbia)

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Child's play: staging 'The Woodcutter', Elizabeth Countess of Hardwicke's 1797 family theatrical’
  Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Jemima Hubberstey (LMH, Oxford), Dr. Natasha Simonova, Eleanor Housden, Sylvie Knight

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars’
  Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:30 - Annual Marilyn Butler Memorial lecture. ‘Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-First Century’
  Professor Emma Clery (University of Uppsala)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘ Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Dr Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘Unearthly Objects’
  Dr James Metcalf (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 17:30 - Blake’s Plow
  Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:30 - 'The Haunted Closet: Closet(ed) Plays and the Drama of the Body's Absence,' and ‘Moving Parts: Circum-national emotions in Dublin Shakespeare’
  Helen Dallas (University of Oxford), Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:30 - 'Crowded elegies: Phillis Wheatley Peters' critique of identity'
  Dr Katarina Stenke (Greenwich University)

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 12:30 - From Corpus to Canon. Editing and Translating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literatures in the British Long Eighteenth Century
  Dr Claire Gallien (Associate Professor English Department University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 17:30 - Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
  Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 12:30 - Lent to Copy”: Art Rentals in the Age of Jane Austen
  Prof Janine Barchas (University of Texas)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 17:30 - Talkee Amy and Robert Wedderburn: Verbal Abuse, Smuggling, Obeah and Enslaved Grandmothers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
  Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:30 - Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
  Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 12:30 - In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
  Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:30 - Susanna Centlivre ‘The Busy Body’ (1709) revived for the 21st century stage
  Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford, Creation Theatre and others)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:30 - Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Katharina Boehm (University of Passau, Germany)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
  Prof. Julie Park (PPennsylvania State University)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen
  Peter Sabor (McGill)