18th Century Centre events Back to 'Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre' EventsRSS FeedAtom Feed Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today Date05/10/2022DescriptionA roundtable discussion on the place of the eighteenth-century Midlands in wider global and imperial histories, and how we explore and interpret those connections in our local heritage today. How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? Date15/03/2023DescriptionOn Wednesday 15 March Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Peter Hill (Northumbria) will be joining us to discuss the extent to which the Age of Revolutions might be understood as 'global'. Displaying 1 to 2 of 2 Previous Centre events 2021 25th November - Unhomely Empire Reading Group (2)18th November - Unhomely Empire Reading Group (1) 2020 10th December - Women's Material and Intellectual Lives2nd December - Q&A with Lynn Festa (Rutgers)27th November - Postgraduate event on Loneliness18th November - Reading Group: Lynn Festa, Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (2019).20th October - Dror Wahrman - The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object15th October - Swift in Print6th October - Postgraduate welcome event19th March - Postgraduate Research workshop with Professor Dror Wahrman19th March - The Prince, the Jeweller and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object5th February - Writing Eighteenth-Century Women's Biography: A Roundtable 2019 21st November - Eighteenth-Century Letters: A Workshop27th March - Money, Marketplace and Material Culture6th March - Applying for Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library6th March - Eighteenth-Century Pleasures28th February - BECC PGR Lightning Talks30th January - Meet the Sharp Family: Family Dynamics, Conversation Pieces and Humour in Johan Zoffany's portrait of the Sharp family, c1779 2018 12th December - Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing14th November - The Lessons of Dispossession: Lost Property in the Long Eighteenth Century11th October - Children of Empire: Care and Crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries4th-5th July - The Material Body, 1500-1900: A Conference of Archaeologists and Historians27th June - Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work13th June - A Workshop on Guns23rd May - Nature, Print and Production:A Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Sources in the Cadbury Research Library17th May - Annual BECC - Warwick-Birmingham Symposium 201825th April - Seeds of Enlightenment: Maria Zytaruk and Sarah Easterby-Smith7th February - Rabbits, whigs and hunters: women and protest in Mary Toft's rabbit births of 1726 2017 22nd November - Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre Salon10th May - M3C Eighteenth-Century Research Workshop 2014 10th May - Conference: dissent and the Hanoverian succession 17th March - Working with eighteenth-century museum collections 20th January - Postgraduate panel on eighteenth-century art history 2013 29th May - Collecting cultures: the eighteenth century 2012 28th May - Book Collecting in the Eighteenth-Century 17th May - Eighteenth Century Clubs and Societies 12th March - Birmingham Eighteenth-Century seminars 20th February - Birmingham Eighteenth-Century seminars