Upcoming Events and Conferences
Thursday 15th September - Friday 16th September 2022, Centre for Public History Conference: 'Telling stories,: History, Narractive and Fiction'. Queens University Belfast.
Friday 19 May 2023, 4pm |
Dr Ruth Thorpe (Castletown Foundation) will be speaking about her public-facing research on Castletown and the people who lived there. A joint seminar held by the Centre for Public History and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies. |
Wednesday 29 March 2023, 12pm |
Afternoon Workshop at Clifton House, Belfast on ‘Charity and Improvement in the Eighteenth Century: Regional, National and Transnational Perspectives’, speakers include: Dr Ciarán McCabe (Queen’s University), Lauren Smyth (Queen’s University) and Professor Pramod Nayar (University of Hyderabad). Lunch and refreshments provided, to attend please contact Dr Leonie Hannan at l.hannan@qub.ac.uk
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Friday 10 March 2023, 3pm (MS Teams) |
Dr John Stone (Universitat Barcelona), ‘The Metropole, the Diaspora, their Books, their Circuits: Reading English Drama in Spain, 1640-1808’ a joint event held with the Modern Languages CDRG. Contact: g.sanchez@qub.ac.uk for details. |
Monday 6 March 2023, 4pm |
A visit to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society at the Old Museum building, 6 College Square North, Belfast. Professor Alun Evans and Professor Emeritus Brian Walker will offer two brief lectures. A joint event with Queen’s Arts, English and Languages. Contact: d.s.roberts@qub.ac.uk for full details and to join, numbers are limited |
Past Centre Events
Friday 2 December 2022, 3pm |
Simon Davies, (former Director of CECS): ‘Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and celebrity culture’, the seminar room in the Music Building, for details contact: l.hannan@qub.ac.uk |
Friday 14 October 2022, 3pm |
Dr Daniel Roberts (Queen's University Belfast), 'Thomas De Quiney and David Hartley', the seminar room in the Music Building, for details contact: l.hannan@qub.ac.uk |
Friday 10 June 2022 |
Correspondence and the Digital Humanities Workshop with Dr Emma Major (University of York) and Dr Anne Senkiw (Oxford Brookes) of the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online project: on MS Teams, contact Dr Leonie Hannan l.hannan@qub.ac.uk for joining details. From Quill to Web: Creating and using the Elizabeth Montagu Collection Workshop Recording |
Friday 27 May 2022 |
Legacies of the Eighteenth Century in India Round Table with Sutapa Dutta (Gargi College, University of Delhi), Pramod K. Nayar (University of Hyderabad), and Prayag Ray (St Xavier's University, Kolkata) |
Friday 4 Feburary |
Dr Deborah Russell (English, University of York), ‘Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature’, at 1:30pm. |
Friday 10 December 2021 |
Dr Fiona Clark (Spanish and Portuguese, QUB), ‘From Scotland to Mexico via Ireland: the transmission of medical ideas in the 18th century’ hosted by Queen’s Modern Languages, contact Dr Gabriel Sanchez Espinosa g.sanchez@qub.ac.uk for joining details. |
Friday 5 November 2021 |
Dr Amy Prendergast (English, QUB), ‘Irish women's diary writing as a tool for individual improvement and better mental health, 1770-1810’ at 3pm on MS Teams, contact Dr Leonie Hannan l.hannan@qub.ac.uk for joining details. |
Friday 15 October 2021 |
Dr Joe Lines, ‘A New Book in Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies: The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790’ at 3pm on MS Teams, contact Dr Leonie Hannan l.hannan@qub.ac.uk for joining details. |
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