McMordie Hall, Music Building, University Square

Dr Robert Kenny, 'The "inimitable Monsieur Francisque" (François Moylin); an extraordinary actor-manager in the early eighteenth-century theatre world of England and France.’

Friday 28 March 2025, 3-5pm

Music Seminar Room, Music Building, University Square

Dr Daniel Roberts, 'Imagining China in British Periodicals: The Amherst Embassy'

Seamus Heaney Centre, Wolfson Room

Professor Moyra Haslett (QUB), ‘Printed Song in Eighteenth-Century Ireland'

Friday 22 November 2024, 4pm

MS Teams

Dr Nik Ribianszky (QUB), '“The Irish Turned Out Pret[t]y Strong Today”: African Americans and the Irish in Natchez, Mississippi’

Wednesday 23 October 2024, 1-2pm

Old McMordie Hall (Music, AEL)

Dr Yiyun Liu (QUB), ‘The Appropriateness of Music: French Highlights in Handel’s Covent Garden Debut’

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 3:00pm

'The Irish Turned out Pret[t]y Strong Today': African Americans and the Irish in Natchez, Mississippi

Talk by Nik Ribianszky (QUB) - Contact l.hannan@qub.ac.uk for link

Friday 17 May 2024, 3:00pm

Professor Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University), ‘The Unnatural Trade: An Ecopoetics of British Abolitionism’

This event will take place in 27 University Square, 01/003.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 1-2:30pm

A film screening and talk at the Ulster Museum Lecture Theatre: Casta: the Origins of Caste (free, no booking needed). Explore the research carried out to reinterpret the Casta Paintings at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery with Tara Munroe. This event is jointly hosted with National Museums NI and Queen’s School of Arts, English and Languages.

Dr Jack Talty (UCC), a traditional musician, composer, producer, academic, and educator, will present a lecture-recital  'Exploring the traditional arts through the disciplinary lens of Artistic Research'. Venue: Lecture Room, first floor, Music.

‘Book Launch: for Leonie Hannan and Nuala Johnson’s new volumes on material and spatial histories of science at 3pm, Thursday 2 November in 27 University Square, room 01/03. See Eventbrite for further details and registration’ to the current Events part at the top.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.