Eighteenth Century Research Seminar Series (Programme 2015-2016)

Eighteenth Century Research Seminars 2016 Monday 11th January 2016 Martha McGill, University of Edinburgh ‘Women and the Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’ Dr Tim Stuart-Buttle, University of Cambridge ‘Hume, Locke…and Cicero? Debating the Moral Consequences of Religion’ Monday 18th January 2016 Yuanyuan Liu, University of Edinburgh ‘Garden, City and Visuality: The Twenty-Four Views of Yangzhou in Yangzhou huafang lu (1797)’ Carlos Portales, University of Edinburgh ‘Unity in Multiplicity towards the Eighteenth-Century: The Objective Formula of Beauty and its Transition to Subjectivity’ Monday 8th February 2016 Jessica Patterson, University of Manchester ‘The East India Company and Asian Despotism: Alexander Dow’s Civil Religion of India’ Dr Sundar Henny, University of Cambridge ‘(In)dependent Thinking: Isaak Iselin and the Scots’ Monday 22nd February 2016 Elisabeth Gernerd, University of Edinburgh ‘“Thrusts her arms into a muff”: The Sensory Position of Silk Muffs’ William Tullett, King’s College London ‘From Womb to Nose: Smell and the Performance of Gender in Eighteenth-Century England’ Monday 29th February 2016 Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh ‘Thomas Jefferson and the Habsburg Monarchy: A Tale of Intrigue and Statecraft, 1783-1787’ Aurore Chéry, University of Lyon 3 ‘Redefining the Image of the King of France after the Seven Years War’

Eighteenth Century Research Seminars 2016 Monday 21st March 2016 Kang-Po Chen, University of Edinburgh ‘The Archetypological Antithesis in William Blake’s America: A Prophecy (1793)’ Josh Dight, University of York ‘“Let sound morality, and genuine Christianity be goals from which you commence your political career”: Religion in the Courtroom and Trial of Thomas Muir’ Monday 11th April 2016 Heather Carroll, University of Edinburgh ‘“What a fat nasty B—”: Satirical Prints of Female Political Rivals’ Rosanne Waine, Bath Spa University ‘Eighteenth-Century Sartorial Culture: Politically Dressing the Body and Home’ Monday 25th April 2016 Alastair Noble, University of Edinburgh ‘“The Power of the Highlands”: Rivalries within the Whig Government and the Response to the ’45’ Dr Philip Loft, University College London ‘Making and Judging Law in a Composite State: Scottish Appeals to the House of Lords during the Eighteenth Century’ Monday 9th May 2016 Emily Knight, University of Oxford ‘The Death of a Child: Posthumous Portraits of Children in Eighteenth-Century Britain’ Sarah Burdett, University of York ‘“Weeping Mothers Shall Applaud”: Sarah Yates as Margaret of Anjou on the London Stage, 1797’ Monday 23rd May 2016 Dr Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh ‘“To preserve remembrance of having approached it”: Souvenirs at A la Ronde, Devon’ Dr Sally Holloway, Richmond, The American International University in London ‘Manufacturing Romance: The Economy of Courtship in Georgian England’